00:00 This section of the podcast is an advertisement for Ferguson and AutoTrader, followed by a discussion about the movie "Escape from Alcatraz" and the host's fascination with prison escape movies.

05:42 Frank Morris, along with the Anglin brothers, were hardened criminals who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 and were never heard from again.

10:55 The Anglin brothers and Frank Morris were sent to Alcatraz because they were known escape artists, and the administration of Alcatraz believed that the prison was inescapable.

15:41 Alcatraz was a highly fortified prison with thick concrete walls and reinforced iron bars, and although Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers were not the first to escape from the prison, their complex and well-executed plan made them folk heroes and raised the possibility that they may have genuinely survived and escaped.

21:16 The escape from Alcatraz required months of planning, during which the escapees collected tools and materials, including stolen electric clippers and motors repurposed from a vacuum cleaner, to create an extensive toolkit and build a life raft and life vests.

26:17 The escapees collected various materials and tools, including hair and paint, to create a way out of their prison cells, and they managed to dig holes in the ventilation shafts to crawl through with the help of makeshift tools and by taking turns chipping away at the walls, and they potentially used cardboard false walls to hide their escape, and they also had a workshop in a utility corridor where they built their rafts and stored their tools, and they eventually figured out how to cut through the bolts holding the iron grate that covered the ventilation shaft, and they used raincoats to create a raft for their escape.

31:08 The escapees created an inflatable life raft using raincoats and rubber cement, and they used a concertina to quickly inflate the raft, while also creating paper mache busts to deceive the guards into thinking they were still in their cells.

36:08 The escapees successfully made their way through the ventilation shaft and out onto the roof, leaving behind Allen West who was unable to escape due to the presence of a guard.

41:17 The plan was for the escapees to paddle a raft to Angel Island, rest, swim to the mainland, and then immediately commit crimes to get away before the word got out.

46:12 The FBI believed that the escapees drowned and their bodies were lost at sea, but there were some sightings and evidence that suggested they may have survived.

51:08 The possibility that the escapees survived is still open, as the U.S. Marshals Office has kept the case open, even though they believe the escapees are likely dead.

56:06 The prison was shut down in March following the escape, as the Bureau of Prisons deemed it too expensive to maintain.