Three Men, a Raincoat Raft and a Cold Bay: The Night Alcatraz Was Beaten

2026-09-25 · True Mysteries Editorial Desk · Vanished Without a Trace · 8 min read

The last time anyone in authority saw Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin, the three men were lying in their bunks on B Block with the lights going out. It was the evening of Monday 11 June 1962. What the guard walking the tier actually saw, at some point in the hours that followed, was three heads on three pillows. The heads were made of soap, toothpaste, concrete dust and toilet paper, tinted with paint from the prison art kits and finished with real hair swept up off the floor of the barbershop.

The men themselves were already in a dark utility corridor behind the wall, climbing.

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