1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Hello! 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Welcome back to another episode of diagnosing a killer. 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,000 The mental breakdown. 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000 The mental breakdown. 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,000 I'm Kena. 6 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:10,000 The mental breakdown. 7 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,000 I'm Koelle. 8 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 She was not finished singing and I just totally started. 9 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:38,000 It's cold. 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 How is it going? 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,000 It's going. 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,000 It's fucking cold. 13 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,000 You're right. 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,000 This is like, oh my gosh, a school is like going to be a thing. 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Or is a thing full swing now? 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Yeah, it's been very busy, but I think we're doing a good job of preparing ourselves content-wise 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,000 so that you guys aren't missing out on anything and we're just getting it done. 18 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 New year, new us. 19 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,000 It feels nice. 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,000 It does feel nice to be prepared. 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,000 To not have to worry for sure. 22 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Do you have any business before we get into this mental breakdown? 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 I don't think so. 24 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I think by now we have caught up on all of our merch orders and all that stuff, so just 25 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 looking forward to more orders. 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Yes, which is great. 27 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 To continue to do you guys that merch and just keep looking at that. 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 We're going to have new designs come out every once in a while when we have them and just 29 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 keep updating yourselves on that to see if there's anything that catches your eye. 30 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Yeah. 31 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Do you want to give everyone our handles before we begin? 32 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Sure. 33 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 We're going to be out on any social media platform at Diagnosing a Killer, other than 34 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,000 X formerly known as Twitter, which is at Killer Diagnosis. 35 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 We currently have a cash-up of Venmo, a PayPal. 36 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 I think there's another one in there. 37 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Something. 38 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,000 We have our Patreon as well, which you can also do a one-time custom donation if you would 39 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,000 like. 40 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 All those are going to be at Diagnosing a Killer dot com, or Diagnosing a Killer. 41 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,000 And we also have Diagnosing a Killer dot com. 42 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 And then if you want access to ad-free exclusive content on Patreon, if you join Patreon in 43 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,000 general, you get ad-free. 44 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000 If you join to your two or three, you get access to an extra bonus episode on the 29th 45 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 of each month. 46 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 That's going to be content warning free, just a super gory, crazy, in-your-face episode, 47 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 no banter, nothing like this in the beginning. 48 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Unabhorrent. 49 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Yeah, exactly. 50 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Well, I think we are ready to go. 51 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Are you ready for this one? 52 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 I'm ready. 53 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Okay. 54 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Content warning. 55 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Content warning also contains talk of negative idealizations of certain groups of people, 56 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 suicide and assault. 57 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 If this episode is not for you, we encourage you to find another one of our episodes. 58 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Remember, your mental health is extremely important and we love you. 59 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 We love you. 60 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Bye. 61 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 So usually I say the topic and then I get the content warning. 62 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,000 So you still don't know. 63 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I'm really excited about this one. 64 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,800 It's not necessarily, I mean, it is definitely a true crime related. 65 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,000 Not so much psychology, but definitely kind of like, I like to use mental breakdowns sometimes. 66 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 It's like a loophole to talk about something I think is super interesting. 67 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Right. 68 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 So that I did this week. 69 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Okay. 70 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 And today we are going to be talking about Alcatraz escapees. 71 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Yeah. 72 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Oh my God, I'm so excited for this. 73 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 So I'm going to first go into the history of Alcatraz. 74 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,800 Of course, if you are not familiar with it, I will let you know it is a small island off 75 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,400 the coast of California, San Francisco, which is the east coast, I'm sorry, west coast of 76 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:23,400 the United States. 77 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:24,400 Wow, I'm already botched. 78 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,000 I know, way to piss off Snoop Dogg. 79 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,400 But we will be talking about a little bit of history so that if you're not familiar with 80 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,000 it, you can get familiar before we start talking about the people that attempted to escape. 81 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Okay. 82 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,000 I'm excited. 83 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Alcatraz Island is a small island about 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco, California 84 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,640 and the United States. 85 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:48,720 The first European to document the island's existence was Spanish naval officer and explorer 86 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:54,000 Juan Manuel de Ayala during the Spanish rule of California in 1775. 87 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Okay. 88 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Wow. 89 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,440 He would name the island La Isla de los Alcatraz, which translates to the island of the Gannets, 90 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,000 which is the type of seabird. 91 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Okay. 92 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,560 Although this is the official translation, it's commonly believed that La Isla de los 93 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,600 Alcatraz actually translates to the island of the Pelicans. 94 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:11,600 Okay. 95 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,160 Even though the modern Spanish translation of pelican is pelicano, however, the archaic 96 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,000 Spanish word alcatraz directly translates to pelican. 97 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Yeah. 98 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,920 So it's kind of like, it's just like a, because it's been so long and then like translation, 99 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:25,440 you know, a loss in translation kind of thing. 100 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,000 Well an alcatraz is also a type of bird. 101 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Yes. 102 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 I think so. 103 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,480 It's also now known that there were no Gannets native to the Pacific coast, making the older 104 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,160 Spanish word translation, or translation most likely, so pelican. 105 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:38,160 That makes sense. 106 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:39,160 Yeah. 107 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,840 Especially if that's the only word that he used to describe that type of bird, right? 108 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:42,840 Well, yeah. 109 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:45,960 It might have been like, I don't know the word for this, so I'm going to say this because 110 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,440 they're really similar, right? 111 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,840 Because the Gannet, I actually looked it up, it's more similarly related to like a blue 112 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:52,840 footed booby. 113 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:53,840 Okay. 114 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:54,840 So the Gannet is a word that's used in the English language, or the English language 115 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:55,840 is a short word, like the really big ones. 116 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:56,840 Right. 117 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:02,160 So over the years, the name alcatraz became popular and is now widely used. 118 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:08,960 In August of 1827, French captain Augusta Bernard de Hautselie wrote, quote, running 119 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,120 past Alcatraz's island covered with a countless number of these birds, a gun fired over the 120 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:19,080 feathered lesions causing them to fly up in a great cloud with a noise like a hurricane, 121 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:20,080 end quote. 122 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,000 Gosh, so they just like popularized this island like really quickly and massively. 123 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Yes, exactly. 124 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,920 But this makes me also think that they were pelicans because Gannets are again much smaller 125 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:30,880 birds compared to pelicans. 126 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,520 And pelicans wings are so big that it would make a lot of noise if they all took flight 127 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:35,520 at the same time. 128 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:36,520 Yeah. 129 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:41,960 The California brown pelican is not known to inhabit the island today as Spanish explorers 130 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,080 built several small buildings on the island following the discovery of it, kind of like 131 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,640 making them want to go elsewhere. 132 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:54,400 In June of 1846, Mexican governor Pio Pico was known to have given Julian workmen the 133 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,640 rights to the island with the understanding that he would build a lighthouse on it. 134 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:04,960 Julian was the co-owner of Rancho La Puente and a personal friend of Governor Pico. 135 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:10,120 Later that year, military governor of California, John C. Fremont would buy the island for $5,000 136 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,040 US dollars, which would be the equivalent to almost $200,000 today. 137 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,040 Whoa. 138 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,040 And put it in the name of the United States government. 139 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:23,120 In 1850, President Millard Fillmore ordered that Alcatraz Island be set aside specifically 140 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:28,280 as a US military reservation for military purposes following the Mexican-American war. 141 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:29,280 Okay. 142 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:33,720 John Fremont had expected a large compensation for his initiative in purchasing originally 143 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,720 and securing Alcatraz Island as a US government-owned land, but the government later invalidated 144 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,160 the sale and Fremont gained nothing monetarily. 145 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,680 They were just like in Tsar's Now. 146 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:44,680 Exactly. 147 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:45,680 Snooze you lose. 148 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:46,680 Right. 149 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,920 And his heirs eventually sued for compensation in a battle that would go on for nearly 40 150 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,320 years, but was ultimately unsuccessful. 151 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:57,000 So like his children, his children's children, and his children's children's children were 152 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,720 like, hey, not really that far. 153 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,760 I was going to say it was only 40 years. 154 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,240 But still they were like, yeah, sorry. 155 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,280 He was just old at that point. 156 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:05,280 Yeah. 157 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:06,280 Sucks to suck. 158 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:07,280 Yeah. 159 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:08,280 That's awful. 160 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:09,280 And again, how big is it? 161 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:10,280 Because you're saying that it's for military barracks, right? 162 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,760 Or originally it was supposed to be its purpose. 163 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,640 So pretending like I just know this off the top of my head. 164 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:21,800 It was about, what did I say, 22 acres, which equals about 16 American football fields, 165 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,840 and about 89,000 meters for our listeners outside of America. 166 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,640 That sounds like so many meters. 167 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,200 Is there nothing bigger than a meter? 168 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,840 I'm sure there is, but we don't go by the metric system. 169 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,000 Wait, let's pause and look it up again. 170 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Okay. 171 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,360 LOL, the word meters is in kilometers. 172 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,360 89 kilometers. 173 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:40,360 Thank you. 174 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,280 And we say kilometers, not kilometers. 175 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:43,280 Kilometers. 176 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:44,280 Yeah. 177 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:45,280 I like aluminium. 178 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:46,280 I also like urinal. 179 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:47,280 Do you see that? 180 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Is it a urinal? 181 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:49,280 Oh, man. 182 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,360 I've heard Lisa Vanderpump say urinal. 183 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,360 Urinal. 184 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,360 Urinal. 185 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,080 It sounds so nice when she says it. 186 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,080 Sounds pretty. 187 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:58,080 Urinal. 188 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:07,280 So going back just one year in 1849, the US Army began studying the suitability of Alcatraz 189 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:12,360 Island for the positioning of coastal barriers to protect the approaches to San Francisco 190 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:17,920 Bay by enemies following the Treaty of Guadalupe Heldago, which ended the Mexican-American War. 191 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,080 But they were still like, fuck, we got to prepare ourselves. 192 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:22,960 It already had a lighthouse too at this point, right? 193 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:23,960 No, not yet. 194 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:24,960 Oh, okay. 195 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:26,680 I think this is that guy who built a lighthouse. 196 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:27,680 He was supposed to. 197 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:28,680 Oh, okay. 198 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:29,680 I'm pretty sure. 199 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:30,680 And I don't think he either he did. 200 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:31,680 I'm sorry. 201 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:32,680 There's a lighthouse that comes in later. 202 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:35,760 So I'm pretty sure he was planning on it and it just didn't get around to it. 203 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:36,760 At some point there's a lighthouse. 204 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,280 There's a lighthouse at some point, yes. 205 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:42,120 But I think following the Mexican-American War ending, they were still like, okay, we're 206 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:48,600 going to use this land to protect our military arsenal essentially and we just need protection 207 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:49,600 around the coast. 208 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:50,600 Right. 209 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:55,280 It makes sense because if it's further from the coast, they're able to see enemies coming 210 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:56,880 in and alert the shore. 211 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,040 Yes, okay. 212 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:03,520 In 1853, under the direction of Zellis B. Tower, the US Army Corps of Engineers began 213 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:08,360 fortifying the island, which would continue until 1858 when the initial version of Fort 214 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,520 Alcatraz was completed. 215 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,000 So they made a fourth there as well. 216 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,360 About 200 soldiers would arrive there later that year to set up a protection location. 217 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:22,520 When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, the island mounted 85 cannons around its 218 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:27,720 perimeter and the island also served as a San Francisco arsenal for storage of firearms 219 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,840 to prevent them from falling into the hands of enemies. 220 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:37,200 Alcatraz, built as a, quote, heavily fortified military site on the west coast, end quote, 221 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:42,680 was to form a, quote, triangle of defense, end quote, with fort point and lime point. 222 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:46,480 But the contemplated work on lime point was never built, paving the way for a lighthouse 223 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:47,680 to be built on Alcatraz. 224 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:48,680 I see. 225 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:51,280 Because they don't have vision of all three now. 226 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:52,280 They only have two. 227 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:56,880 So they're like, we need something to show us what's going on out there. 228 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:01,480 During the war, fort Alcatraz was used to imprison Confederate sympathizers and privateers 229 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,000 on the west coast. 230 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,840 But the guns on the island were never fired at enemies. 231 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,840 It was just as like a warning, like you said. 232 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,800 And as an incarceration unit. 233 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:16,960 Starting in 1863, the military also held private citizens accused of treason and hundreds of 234 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:22,040 troops were trained on the island with more than 350 military personnel in place by April 235 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,040 of 1861. 236 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,680 So now it's like a base. 237 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:25,680 Yeah. 238 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:30,760 It's kind of incredible though, because even if they were holding, you know, prisoners 239 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,400 of war, that they would have to boat their asses out there. 240 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,720 And then, you know, I mean, I guess you just get left there, but then you're stuck on 241 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,560 an island with prisoners of war. 242 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:44,000 And I'll get into how unsafe it would be to try to leave that island, even if you could 243 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,080 get to the shore. 244 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,160 As new enlistees were assigned to units, new troops reported back for training. 245 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:56,760 And early by 1865, the number of soldiers on the island reached about 433. 246 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:01,120 During the Civil War, modernization efforts, including a plan to level the entire island 247 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,080 and construct shell-proof underground magazines and tunnels were being talked about. 248 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:06,080 What? 249 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:07,080 Like, dope, right? 250 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:08,080 That's insane! 251 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:09,080 That's so much! 252 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:10,080 I know. 253 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,760 However, this would not be completed ever, and instead, the army switched back its focus 254 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,880 for Alcatraz to be for detention rather than for defense. 255 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:16,880 Okay. 256 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:18,280 Because it's like banished them. 257 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,280 I mean, like, obviously. 258 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:20,280 Yeah, seriously. 259 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,080 I mean, it's Australia all over again. 260 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,280 Just really diming. 261 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:30,040 In 1867, a brick jailhouse was built, and in 1868, Alcatraz was officially designated 262 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:35,040 as a long-term detention facility for military prisoners. 263 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,680 Although the people incarcerated at Alcatraz were Confederates caught on the West Coast 264 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:43,520 and some Native American men in the 1870s who refused orders to send their children away 265 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:48,760 from their families to, quote, Indian boarding schools, which are pretty much like they sound 266 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:53,080 they were utilized to convert Native children into a more white way of living, quote unquote, 267 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,080 which is terrible. 268 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:58,120 Of course, families would not comply, and then they would be taken prisoner, which is 269 00:11:58,120 --> 00:11:59,120 fucked up. 270 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:05,120 In 1989, due to the Spanish-American War, the prison population rose from 26 to over 271 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,680 450. 272 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:13,720 From 1905 to 1907, the prison was commanded by US Army General George W. McLeiver, and 273 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:18,720 after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, civilian prisoners were transferred to Alcatraz for 274 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:19,720 safe confinement. 275 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:21,480 Because the prison got fucked on the mainland. 276 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,480 Yeah. 277 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,480 So they were like, just ship them over there. 278 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:24,480 Just ship them over there. 279 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:25,480 Put them on a boat. 280 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:31,440 On March 21, 1907, Alcatraz was officially designated as the Western US Military Prison, 281 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:36,520 later Pacific Branch, US Disciplinary Barracks, 1915. 282 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:42,080 In 1909, construction began on the huge concrete main cell block, designed by Major Rubin Turner, 283 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,280 which remains the island's dominant feature. 284 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:45,280 Still? 285 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:46,280 Yes. 286 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,600 It was completed in 1912, and to accommodate the new cell block, the three-story barracks 287 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,760 was demolished down to the first floor. 288 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,120 They actually had a basement level as well, which was considered the first floor. 289 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,120 In the island? 290 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:58,120 Yes. 291 00:12:58,120 --> 00:12:59,120 That's so strange. 292 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:00,120 It's not weird. 293 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,120 Because you don't just dig into the ocean. 294 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:04,840 It's just like an iceberg, right? 295 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:05,840 Yeah. 296 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,680 Like, this is as much as you see on top, but underneath there's land. 297 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:10,760 A lot more. 298 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:15,320 And the building had been constructed in an excavated pit, creating a defensive dry moat 299 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:16,320 also. 300 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,760 So even harder to get off if you needed to leave. 301 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:24,440 In 1934, the island was converted into a federal prison called Alcatraz, a federal 302 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:25,640 penitentiary. 303 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,760 So 1934 is the beginning of what we now know to be Alcatraz. 304 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:29,760 Alcatraz today. 305 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:30,760 Okay. 306 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,480 Well, not really, but yes. 307 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:37,280 The strong currents and ice cold water surrounding the island made it the perfect spot for a continuing 308 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:41,000 prison, as it was nearly impossible to escape. 309 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,880 Due to this, the prison quickly became one of the most notorious in American history. 310 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:50,760 I say ice cold water, but the seasonal temperature in the San Francisco Bay is around 53 degrees 311 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:51,760 Fahrenheit. 312 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:52,760 Okay. 313 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:54,520 So not like ice cold, but not hot, you know, pretty cold. 314 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,560 It would be livable, but hypothermia would set it at some point, right? 315 00:13:57,560 --> 00:13:58,560 For sure, yeah. 316 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:03,200 And the current can exceed six knots of force, excuse me. 317 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,040 With these barriers and the fact that there were many razor sharp rocks and great white 318 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:11,600 sharks spotted surrounding the prison, prison officers would highly discourage escape attempts 319 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:12,600 by prisoners. 320 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:17,720 Like, yeah, you probably don't want to do that, like I'm not saying this as your correctional 321 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:18,720 officer. 322 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:19,960 I'm saying this as your friend, as a person. 323 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:20,960 Don't do that. 324 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:21,960 Don't do that. 325 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:22,960 You're going to. 326 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:23,960 Don't do that. 327 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:29,280 The first ever attempt to escape the prison was made on April 27th, 1936, just two years 328 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,040 after Alcatraz became Alcatraz. 329 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:37,960 By prisoner AZ210, Joseph Bowers, who was assigned the duty of burning trash at the 330 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:39,600 incinerator. 331 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:44,160 He was working burning garbage at the incinerator during duty hours when he suddenly ran and 332 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,960 began scaling a chain link fence at the edge of the island. 333 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:48,200 It's like I'm out of here. 334 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:49,200 Attempting to make it to shore. 335 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,440 Well, at this point, like you said, the prison's only two years old. 336 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:53,760 He's probably like these dumbasses. 337 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:54,760 Yeah. 338 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:55,760 They put it like right on some water. 339 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:56,760 I could just swim. 340 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:57,760 Fucking hell. 341 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:58,760 It's a dumb machine. 342 00:14:58,760 --> 00:14:59,760 It's just a dumb machine. 343 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,440 It's a dumb island. 344 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,880 When he was caught in the act of running, Joseph would refuse orders of the CEO yelling at 345 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:11,120 him from the tower due to him ignoring the commands of the CEO. 346 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,360 Joseph would be shot seriously injured and fell from the top of the fence where he was. 347 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:16,360 Oh my God. 348 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,680 He would ultimately die from his wounds. 349 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:19,680 I fucking bet. 350 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:20,680 Yeah. 351 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,320 And they're probably not, I mean, you're on a fucking island. 352 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:23,320 I guess they have an informatory. 353 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,320 Kick him into the water. 354 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:25,320 I'm sorry. 355 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:26,320 It's not funny. 356 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:27,320 Of course, nobody saw that. 357 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,320 But can I start making a kicking motion? 358 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,320 Get out of here. 359 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:31,320 Get out of here. 360 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:32,320 Get out of here. 361 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:33,320 No, that's terrible. 362 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:42,400 But yeah, of course, they would have an informatory, but if you needed like real help, a boat is 363 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:43,400 forever away. 364 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:44,400 The way for the boat to get there. 365 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:45,400 Well, it's a dad farm. 366 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,400 It's like a mile, not even a mile and a half. 367 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:48,400 Yeah, but this is 1936. 368 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:49,400 It might as well be 1836. 369 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:55,600 You got to wait for quotes to where Columbus can pick your ass up. 370 00:15:55,600 --> 00:16:00,280 So this incident termed Bowers quote, desperate escape, end quote, was deemed by inmates 371 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:06,280 to have either been an actual escaped attempt, escape attempt, a deliberate suicide, an attempt 372 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:10,800 to climb up and grab garbage wedged in the fence, or an attempt to climb the fence to 373 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,300 feed a seagull. 374 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:13,800 The last one doesn't seem very feasible. 375 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,960 Feeding an alcatraz or whatever that thing was called. 376 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,360 Some inmates believe that this was an attempted suicide due to the fact that Joseph had previously 377 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:26,200 made multiple attempts and was deemed by other prisoners to be criminally insane. 378 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:30,880 So he was probably like, but like, okay, so if I make it over this fence, I'm at least 379 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:36,080 throwing myself into this frigid water or, you know, presumed frigid water, or I'm going 380 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:37,880 to get shot before I reach there. 381 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:38,880 Exactly. 382 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,520 Whatever the intention was by Bowers, it was indisputable that he ignored the commands 383 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,880 of the correction officer and kept climbing the fence even after warning shots were fired. 384 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:47,880 Oh my gosh. 385 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,920 So even if his mindset when he was leaving was I'm going to grab some trash. 386 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,280 Yeah, like it's like they told him to stop and he didn't. 387 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,200 So that makes sense as to why he would fall in so far because he was really high up the 388 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,840 fence when they shot him. 389 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:08,880 On December 16th, 1937, prisoners Az 258 and Az 260, Theodore Cole and Ralph Rowe had 390 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:14,280 gradually filed through iron bars in the prison's mat shop and escaped on a very foggy day. 391 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:15,840 Damn, that's so boss though. 392 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,000 I love like Andy Dufresne. 393 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,600 Yeah, that's a hero story. 394 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,960 It's terrible. 395 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,280 Because it was so foggy this prevented the two men from being seen by guards in the watch 396 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:27,640 towers. 397 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,240 The two jumped off the island and into the water and were never seen again. 398 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:32,440 Never seen again. 399 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,120 The treacherous waters and severe weather at the time led people to believe that the two 400 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:39,320 had drowned in the bay and their bodies were swept out to sea. 401 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:43,720 However, they were subsequently listed as number one and number two on the FBI's most 402 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,160 wanted list because of this. 403 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,000 Never found them at all. 404 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:53,920 So it's either them or another case that you're probably going to touch on that there's a 405 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,160 possibility that they actually escaped. 406 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:57,640 So yes, I will talk about that. 407 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,560 That's towards the end. 408 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:05,920 So I will say just spoiler alert, no one has ever been officially labeled escaped from 409 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:06,920 Alcatraz. 410 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:07,920 Wow. 411 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:12,760 There's no evidence that anyone escaped successfully from Alcatraz ever. 412 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:23,840 On May 23rd, 1938, prisoners Az263 and Az335 and Az224, Rufus Franklin, Thomas R. Limerick, 413 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:28,800 and James C. Lucas attacked and killed a guard named Royal Klein with a claw hammer in the 414 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:29,800 woodwork shop. 415 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:30,800 Oh, that's fucked up. 416 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:31,800 Terrible. 417 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,960 Also, this is like one every year, like one attempt every year. 418 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:39,120 Yeah, and it seems like they're like kind of learning from like past failed attempts, 419 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:40,120 which is awful. 420 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:49,080 Bright Cellars is a monthly wine club that matches you to delicious wines tailored completely 421 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:50,640 to your tastes. 422 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:55,120 Take their personalized seven-question quiz and be paired with wines that you will love. 423 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:58,400 You can even improve your matches by rating each wine. 424 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:03,040 Bright Cellars offers a unique tasting experience as each bottle comes with tasting notes and 425 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,040 pairing suggestions. 426 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,720 It's like having a sommelier at home. 427 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:11,880 Your expert wine concierge will customize your subscription to fit any lifestyle. 428 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:21,880 Click the link in the show notes and get your first two bottles starting at just $74 today. 429 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,440 The three proceeded to the roof where an armed guard shot Rufus Franklin and Thomas Limerick, 430 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,680 who both ultimately died. 431 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,400 James Lucas was eventually cornered by guards and would surrender. 432 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:38,120 A few years prior to this escape attempt on June 23rd, 1936, James Lucas was also known 433 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:41,080 to have attacked Al Capone in the prison's laundry room. 434 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:42,080 What? 435 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,080 So this guy was not fucking around? 436 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,080 No, he wasn't. 437 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:45,480 I don't know any more details about that. 438 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:46,480 Oh. 439 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:47,480 I just thought that was interesting. 440 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:48,480 That is interesting. 441 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:56,720 On January 13th, 1939, Arthur or Doc Barker, William Martin, Rufus McCain, Henry Young, 442 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,600 I guess that was Henry Young that made that noise. 443 00:19:58,600 --> 00:19:59,600 That was crazy. 444 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:00,600 I had to stop because I heard something. 445 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:01,600 I was like, what the hell? 446 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,280 And then he opened up the door, like the bedroom door, and we checked on no one who was there. 447 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:06,280 Nope. 448 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,120 Kenan was even like, but where you at? 449 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:10,120 And then nothing happened. 450 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:11,120 Nothing. 451 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:12,120 Cute. 452 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:13,120 Okay. 453 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:14,120 So I'm going to repeat those names. 454 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:17,800 Arthur, Doc Barker, William Martin, Rufus McCain, Henry Young, and Dale Stamp Hill, who 455 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:22,000 were inmates of the prison's more secure unit, the D Block, they all escaped the cellhouse 456 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,520 and reached the Alcatraz Shore. 457 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,200 So they got all the way to the end. 458 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,440 As they were putting a makeshift raft together, they were spotted by a guard and fired upon 459 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,000 immediately. 460 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,840 Doc Barker was killed on site while Dale Stamp Hill was wounded, and the others were 461 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,160 captured and sent to solitary confinement. 462 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:39,400 Why am I rooting for these guys? 463 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:40,880 Oh, damn, they got caught. 464 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:42,960 Oh, no, he was shot. 465 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,920 I mean, they're here because they're like really bad people. 466 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,720 So true. 467 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:54,720 On May 21st, 1941, Joe Kretzer, Sam Shockley, Arnold Kyle, and Lloyd Barkdahl were working 468 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,800 in the industry's area when they ambushed the guards on duty and attempted to saw through 469 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,760 window bars to reach the shore. 470 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,560 The bars were tool-proof, however, and their attempt at escaping became foiled when they 471 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,560 realized this. 472 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:11,400 So it's like, did they replace all the bars after those other two files down the bars? 473 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:12,400 That's interesting. 474 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,040 So it's Alcatraz is learning as well. 475 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,240 Exactly. 476 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:22,040 Both Joe Kretzer and Sam Shockley would attempt to escape again later in the Battle of Alcatraz. 477 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:23,040 And we'll talk about this in a minute. 478 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,760 The Battle of Alcatraz? 479 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:31,280 On September 15th, 1941, John Richard Bayless was working in the garbage detail on Alcatraz 480 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,520 and managed to elude the guards reaching the shore. 481 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,000 He would jump into the water and try swimming to San Francisco, but would ultimately give 482 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,240 up and return to shore. 483 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,240 He's like, you know what, it's not going to work. 484 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:42,520 Can you just give me back inside please? 485 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:43,520 Never mind, I'm cold. 486 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:44,880 I'm hungry. 487 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:50,680 On April 14th, 1943, James Borman, Harold Martin-Brest, Floyd Garland Hamilton, and 488 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:55,240 Fred John Hunter managed to cut window bars in the industry's mat shop without being noticed. 489 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:56,240 That's four of them? 490 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,240 Yes. 491 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,240 That's one too many, in my opinion. 492 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,680 I feel like three is pushing it, but a group of them? 493 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,680 Fuck off. 494 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,680 Yeah, you're going to make it more obvious. 495 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,760 You go ahead and do that and I'll sneak out the back. 496 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,720 The men were able to assemble four cans that contained army uniforms and would double as 497 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,480 flotation devices like the cans. 498 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:18,480 Then they would overpower two guards, bind and gag them, and escape out the window. 499 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,160 During this time, the four men would leave behind two of the four cans. 500 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,720 I guess they were just trying to leave so fast. 501 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:27,680 Now they are getting to shore and only two of them have flotation devices. 502 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,360 One of the attacked guards managed to get his whistle loose while the other guard managed 503 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:34,880 to get his hands free, enabling him to blow the whistle that was free. 504 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:35,880 That's kind of cool. 505 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:36,880 That's cute. 506 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,120 Back in the day, they're like bobbies. 507 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:44,360 All they do is just blow whistles at people. 508 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:49,080 This whistle-blowing alerted the tower guards who then opened fire on the men running. 509 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,240 James Borman would be shot and begin floating in the water unconscious but supported by 510 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,000 Harold Brest. 511 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,240 As Brest was recovered by guards, Borman would be let go of and ultimately sink into the 512 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,840 bay, never to be seen again. 513 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,440 Fred Hunter, who had injured his back and hands during the escape attempt, gave up 514 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,680 swimming and sought refuge in a nearby cave. 515 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,400 He would be discovered two hours later when guards saw blood stains on the outside of 516 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,880 the cave and fired a warning shot into the cave to entice him to come out. 517 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:17,880 Oh yeah, totally. 518 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,600 I was like, oh yeah, let me run towards you. 519 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,480 Well, they're like, next one's in your fucking scalp. 520 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,480 You know what I mean? 521 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,400 He's probably like, yeah. 522 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,600 He would surrender himself and return to the prison. 523 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,960 Floyd Hamilton was wrongly assumed by guards to have been hit by gunfire and sunk, similarly 524 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:37,480 to Borman, but he had actually been hiding in the same cave as Fred Hunter, under a 525 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,400 pile of tires. 526 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:44,080 Two days later, he would climb back up the same cliff that he had jumped off of and find 527 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,440 his way back to the window he had escaped from. 528 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,920 Being under a pile of materials in the storeroom, he's like, I'm cold. 529 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:56,200 He would be found there the next morning and just continue to be at the prison. 530 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,200 Totally didn't escape. 531 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:58,200 I've been here this whole time. 532 00:23:58,200 --> 00:23:59,200 I don't know what you're talking about. 533 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,360 They're like, you smell like seaweed and piss. 534 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:02,360 Exactly, though. 535 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:04,480 That's probably what he was thinking, like if they don't know that I left. 536 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,800 They're like, we literally saw you in the water. 537 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:08,800 We saw you. 538 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:09,800 We thought you were dead. 539 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,880 That's the only reason we didn't try to recover your body. 540 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:13,880 Right. 541 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:18,480 Here on Ted Walters, who was serving a sentence of 30 years for robbery, assault, and auto 542 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,840 theft, had noticed that on the weekends fewer guards were on duty. 543 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,560 He also noticed that their attention tended to be focused on the wreckyard rather than 544 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,120 inside. 545 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:32,560 He would take advantage of the situation on August 7th, 1943, and slip out of the new 546 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,320 industry's building where he was working in the laundry room. 547 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:40,640 His plan was to cut through two security fences that separated him from freedom, make his 548 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,120 way to the water, and swim to San Francisco. 549 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:48,000 His plan would quickly go sideways when the wire cutters he smuggled with him failed to 550 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,000 work. 551 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,640 He would end up climbing up both fences, but fell from the second fence, injuring his 552 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,240 back. 553 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,040 Although Huron would make it to the shore, he was unable to go any further due to his 554 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:02,480 injury, and he would be picked up by Captain of the Guards, Henry Weinholt, and the Associate 555 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,760 Warden, E.J. Miller. 556 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,840 Huron would be returned to the cell house where he spent some time in the hospital and 557 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,000 then was thrown in solitary confinement. 558 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,360 And then he was thrown back out to the shore. 559 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:20,080 On July 31st, 1945, John K. Giles, a prison worker, managed to assemble a U.S. Army's 560 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,760 Technical Surgeon's uniform, most likely from stealing pieces of garments that were sent 561 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,560 to be cleaned, like one at a time. 562 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,200 And I say prison worker, but he was a prisoner. 563 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,920 And he actually boarded a ferry that provided service between government facilities and 564 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:36,360 San Francisco Bay with his army fatigues, like he looked like one of the guys. 565 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:39,480 I think this is like the smartest one on the whole of them. 566 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:44,280 Shortly after the ferry's departure for Angel Island, headcount on Alcatraz came up short. 567 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,400 They would relay the information to the ferry who searched the boat and came across John, 568 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,320 returning him to Alcatraz. 569 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,760 Imagine that, like, he's like, God, I was so close, like I was right there. 570 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:54,760 So close. 571 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:55,760 Fuck. 572 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:56,760 That 23-year-old happened. 573 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:57,760 Don't feel sorry for him. 574 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:58,760 They're prisoners. 575 00:25:58,760 --> 00:25:59,760 They're bad people. 576 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:00,760 But what did they do, though? 577 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:01,760 But like, what did they do? 578 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:02,760 Probably murder. 579 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:03,760 Probably murder. 580 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:09,080 Perhaps the most violent and infamous escape attempt from Alcatraz came in May of 1946, 581 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,320 in the form of the Battle of Alcatraz. 582 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:17,120 From May 2nd to May 4th, six prisoners would attempt to escape the island. 583 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,240 This was also known as the Alcatraz blastout. 584 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:26,120 The six prisoners involved in the escape were Bernard Coy, Clarence Carnes, Marvin Hubbard, 585 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:30,120 Myron Thompson, Joseph Kretzer, and Sam Shockley. 586 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:31,400 So the guys from earlier. 587 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:32,400 From earlier. 588 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:33,400 Yes. 589 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,600 The men took control of the cell house by overpowering COs and were able to enter the weapons room, 590 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,640 maintaining keys to the right-yard door in the process. 591 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:40,840 Oh, that's a big goof. 592 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:41,840 Oh, yeah. 593 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,680 That's just like, I mean, it's just one guy that has all those keys. 594 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:45,680 You're right. 595 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,360 They probably all have a key, right? 596 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:51,200 The men's goal was to escape via boat, but they failed to obtain the keys to the outside 597 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,640 door, so they decided to battle it out with the guards. 598 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,440 So now they're in between the right door and the outside door, and the guards are like 599 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,440 inside. 600 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:58,440 They're like, come on, motherfucker. 601 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,760 Like Sallyport type stuff? 602 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,280 Or like, you know, Sallyport's like the in-between. 603 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,280 Yeah, kind of. 604 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:04,280 Yeah. 605 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,280 That's what it seems like. 606 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:10,000 The fight would ensue, and the men managed to hold two COs hostage during this time, whom 607 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,720 they eventually killed after two days of holding them hostage. 608 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:13,960 Oh my god. 609 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:18,400 The hostages were killed by Joseph Kretzer after Sam Shockley and Mirren Thompson encouraged 610 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,760 him to kill them. 611 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,640 And it said that it was point blank, which is really sad. 612 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,160 Well, hopefully it was quick. 613 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,120 One of the guards by the name of William Miller would succumb to his injuries almost immediately. 614 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:31,920 With the second guard, Harold Stites would ultimately be killed in the cell house by 615 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,560 friendly fire from the outside. 616 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:34,560 What? 617 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,240 I don't know if he would have lived or not, but he got additionally wounded by his own 618 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:39,240 men, unfortunately. 619 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,960 Oh my god. 620 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,920 Following this shootout, Shockley, Thompson, and Carnes would return to their cells, and 621 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:49,600 the other three, Koi, Kretzer, and Hubbard, would persist with their fight. 622 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,320 The US Marines would intervene to help the COs and would kill the three men who stayed 623 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:54,880 behind. 624 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,400 In this battle, apart from the guards and prisoners killed, 17 other guards and one prisoner were 625 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:00,840 also injured. 626 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:05,160 Shockley, Thompson, and Carnes were tried for the killings of the COs, and Shockley and 627 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,360 Thompson were sentenced to death through gas chamber. 628 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:08,360 That's what I was going to ask. 629 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:13,040 I'd be like, yeah, you returned to your cells at certain points or whatever, and you're 630 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,120 like, oh yeah, but you've already done enough damage. 631 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:17,120 Exactly, yeah. 632 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:18,120 On some of those. 633 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,560 And so I was wondering, did some of them get tried with murder? 634 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,560 Yeah. 635 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:23,920 Of course, rescindence. 636 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,640 So there was actually no death row at Alcatraz, so this would actually be carried out at San 637 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,000 Quentin in December of 1948. 638 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,440 And I'll talk more about that a little bit later. 639 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,480 But it's all essentially gen pop right now? 640 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:36,960 They're all just, it's general population. 641 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,520 Unless you're in the military, yeah. 642 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:39,520 Oh my gosh. 643 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:40,520 Yeah. 644 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,080 Carnes, who was only 19 years old at the time of this battle, was given an additional life 645 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,280 sentence. 646 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,280 On July 23rd, 1956, prisoner Floyd Wilson disappeared from his job at the dock, but 647 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:56,520 was discovered after hiding for 12 hours among large rocks on the shoreline. 648 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,840 He had given up his plan to make a raft out of driftwood. 649 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,640 He's like, you know what, this is too hard. 650 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,880 It's cold and it's wet. 651 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,720 And that's what a lot of people, I feel like, realized. 652 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:09,600 They're like, oh shit, this is not as easy as I thought it was going to be to get out 653 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,600 of here. 654 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,960 Prisoners Aaron Burgett and Clyde Johnson were working on the garbage detail when they 655 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:19,320 both overpowered a guard on September 29th, 1958. 656 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,160 They would both jump into the water attempting to swim off the island. 657 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,720 The two men attempted to use inflated plastic bags as flotation devices and wooden boards 658 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:28,720 as flippers. 659 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:29,720 What? 660 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,720 They tied them to their feet. 661 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,080 I don't know why that's so funny. 662 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,480 I feel like it's like floaties and two wooden bars. 663 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,680 They tied plastic bags to their arms. 664 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,320 That's so silly. 665 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:49,360 A police launch would intercept Clyde Johnson, but Aaron Burger disappeared. 666 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,960 He would die in his escape attempt and his body would be found floating in the bay near 667 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,480 Alcatraz two weeks later. 668 00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:02,040 On June 11th, 1962, Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin would successfully carry 669 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,040 out one of the most intricate escapes ever devised. 670 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,040 Oh, okay. 671 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,040 This is it. 672 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,040 I'm excited. 673 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,040 I'm excited. 674 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,040 I'm excited. 675 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:11,040 I don't remember a lot from it. 676 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,040 I just remember seeing something on History Channel. 677 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,040 Yeah. 678 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:18,720 Behind the prisoner's cell in Cellblock C was an unguarded, three-foot-wide utility corridor. 679 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,520 The prisoners would chisel away the concrete that was damaged by moisture, giving way for 680 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,120 it to be softer, using tools like metal spoons and forks. 681 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:31,800 They had also somehow gotten access to an electric drill made from a stolen vacuum cleaner motor. 682 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:32,800 I don't know how. 683 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:33,800 What? 684 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,240 And of course, this was noisy, right? 685 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,840 The noise of this was disguised by accordions that prisoners played during their music hour, 686 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,000 which is actually like an hour and a half, and their progress into the tunnel was concealed 687 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000 by false walls. 688 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,800 You really couldn't see it, especially in the dark, until the prisoners just didn't 689 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,400 really know. 690 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,240 This escape route then led through an air vent, a shaft large enough for the men to climb 691 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,760 through. 692 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:01,440 The men were able to gain access to over 50 rubber raincoats from other inmates they would 693 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,080 plan to use as their flotation devices. 694 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,080 Raincoats? 695 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,080 Yes. 696 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,080 Right? 697 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,080 Okay. 698 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,280 The men would also all make papier-mache heads of themselves and leave them in their cell 699 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,760 bunks, like in their beds. 700 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,760 It looked like they were there. 701 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:16,760 That sounds haunting. 702 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:17,760 Right? 703 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:18,760 And there's a picture of one online. 704 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,560 It's like really creepy. 705 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:25,360 They would put these heads in their bed before escaping through a vent in the roof and departing 706 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,040 Alcatraz. 707 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:33,440 An official investigation from the FBI launched immediately from 1962 and lasted until December 708 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,440 1979 when they finally closed it. 709 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,360 They were just like, it's an open case and then hopefully we'll find them and then they 710 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:41,360 just never did it? 711 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,360 Yeah. 712 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:46,000 The official report on the escape from the FBI is that the prisoners all drown in the 713 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,400 cold bay water while trying to reach the mainland. 714 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,360 The FBI states that it is highly unlikely that the men would have been able to make the 715 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,200 1.25 mile swim to shore. 716 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:01,600 The US-US Marshall Service, however, their case still remains open and active. 717 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,240 Morris and the Anglin brothers remain on the wanted list for this department. 718 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,240 What? 719 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:11,200 Circumstantial evidence uncovered in the early 2010s seems to suggest that the men had survived 720 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,800 and that contrary to what the FBI stated about rafts never being recovered, that rafts were 721 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,600 in fact found nearby Angel Island with footprints leading away. 722 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:20,600 What? 723 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,280 Like the raincoat rafts were never recovered. 724 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:23,280 Yeah. 725 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:24,280 I was like, oh, rafts were never recovered. 726 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,280 And then there was circumstantial evidence that were like made of paper. 727 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,280 But we found 50 raincoats. 728 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:28,280 That's a little rough. 729 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,880 It's not a rough, it's raincoats, duh. 730 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,720 On top of this, a car had been reported stolen on the night of the escape by three men in 731 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:38,720 the area. 732 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,520 I didn't know any of this. 733 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,120 Oh my gosh, this is exciting. 734 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,040 Because of the Anglin brothers presented further circumstantial evidence in support of a rumor 735 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:51,080 that the Anglin brothers had fled to Brazil following their escape. 736 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,480 A facial recognition analysis of a photograph proposed to be of John and Clarence in Brazil 737 00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:00,840 in 1975, 13 years after their escape concluded that it was not them. 738 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:01,840 Bummer. 739 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:02,840 I know, right? 740 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,840 Again, we're here rooting for the murders. 741 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,040 I personally think that they didn't make it, but it's just me. 742 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,040 I don't know. 743 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,080 I'd like to think somewhere out there. 744 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,080 Right. 745 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,520 I thought that these guys are Andy Dufresne, but that an Andy Dufresne exists somewhere. 746 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:16,520 Yeah, maybe. 747 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,440 As long as they're not hurting anyone else, which they probably are. 748 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,960 Yeah, hopefully they're not hurting anyone else. 749 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:28,040 Finally, on December 16, 1962, John Paul Scott and Daryl Lee Parker would become the last 750 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,760 two prisoners to attempt to escape from Alcatraz. 751 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:31,760 In what year? 752 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:32,760 62. 753 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:33,760 62, wow. 754 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,200 The men used a makeshift saw to cut through the bars on a kitchen window in the cell 755 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:41,960 house before running to the edge of the island and jumping into the water. 756 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:46,640 Daryl Parker would be found alive 81 yards from the main island on the rock formation 757 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:52,360 named Little Alcatraz, while John Scott would reach Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, 758 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:56,080 where he was found by teenagers suffering from exhaustion and hypothermia. 759 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:57,080 Oh my gosh. 760 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:58,080 The teenagers weren't suffering. 761 00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,080 The teenagers weren't suffering. 762 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:00,080 He was suffering, sorry. 763 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,440 I'm sorry, the teenagers are him. 764 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,280 But the fact that he was found by teenagers is crazy because I'm like, he was that close 765 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,280 to the mainland. 766 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,360 Like these teenagers might have been exploring a little bit farther away, but he's under 767 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:10,360 the Golden Gate Bridge. 768 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:11,360 Yeah. 769 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,080 Oh, Mr. Mr. Are you okay? 770 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:15,080 Yeah. 771 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,360 Oh, I, you know, take my coat, take my whatever. 772 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,360 Yeah. 773 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,360 Oh my gosh. 774 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,800 After recovering in Letterman General Hospital, he would be returned to Alcatraz. 775 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,280 They're like, he wouldn't fucking stay in here with the fuckers. 776 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:26,280 Sorry, bro. 777 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:31,080 This is the only proven case of an Alcatraz inmate reaching the shore by swimming, which 778 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:32,080 is interesting. 779 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:33,080 And that's 1962. 780 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,080 Yes. 781 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,680 And get this. 782 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:40,200 The Alcatraz Fort Point route that they took from Alcatraz to Fort Point is now part 783 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,640 of two annual triathlon events. 784 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,400 People swim this on purpose now. 785 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:47,400 What? 786 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,200 Proving that it's possible. 787 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:52,200 Exactly. 788 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:53,200 Exactly. 789 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:54,200 Every day. 790 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,200 Every day. 791 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:56,200 Yeah. 792 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,080 What's, I mean, one dude could just like hop out and just start swimming with everyone 793 00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,080 else. 794 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,080 No, really. 795 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,080 Like it's just, isn't that wild? 796 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,040 I'm like, why would you do that on purpose? 797 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,320 One guy without goggles and a wetsuit, but still. 798 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,040 It's like he might be a prisoner. 799 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,560 He's wearing black and white. 800 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:14,640 On March 21st, 1963, Alcatraz would close its doors after 29 years of operation. 801 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,280 Contrary to popular relief, the prison did not close due to the escape of Morris and 802 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:23,080 the Anglin brothers, but because the institution was just too expensive to continue operation. 803 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,840 So it's no longer a prison. 804 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,440 As of what year? 805 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:27,440 63. 806 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:28,440 Oh, yeah. 807 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:29,440 So it hasn't been a prison for a very long time. 808 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:30,440 I didn't know that. 809 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,800 I have some fun facts. 810 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,480 That's pretty much the end of all the escapies, but I have some fun facts if you want to know. 811 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:36,480 More fun facts. 812 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:37,480 Yes, more. 813 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,880 So, number one, the gardens of Alcatraz are a well-known part of the prison, but not many 814 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:46,160 people know that they were actually started by the officers who initially worked there. 815 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,320 So the officers like planted and made these gardens look pretty. 816 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:49,320 It was like kind of nice, right? 817 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,920 Because they spent so much time there, you know? 818 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:51,920 Yeah, of course. 819 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,200 They wanted to look at something pretty. 820 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,680 Due to the harsh barren landscape, particularly hard plants were chosen, and today they are 821 00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,560 maintained by the National Park Service. 822 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,080 That's so cute, right? 823 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:06,200 Number two, families used to live on Alcatraz Island. 824 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,080 Due to the fact that being a prison officer was such a full-on job, wives and children 825 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,400 of the COs sometimes lived on the island too. 826 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:13,400 I believe that. 827 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,040 Resulting in several children growing up there. 828 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,680 There's actually an alumni association for children that grew up there that exist today, 829 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,920 so people can chat and talk about their lives. 830 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,440 See, and that's what's interesting is like, I said it earlier in the beginning of the 831 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,920 episode, it's just Australia. 832 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,240 Yeah, I mean, kind of. 833 00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:33,040 They used to send prisoners there right at the beginning, and now it's like inhabited. 834 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,040 Yeah. 835 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,040 For sure. 836 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,760 Yeah, for sure. 837 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,000 You know, hundreds of years. 838 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,560 Number three, like I said earlier, there was no death row on Alcatraz. 839 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:46,160 There were actually just no facilities for executions, and no prisoner was ever put to 840 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:50,840 death there, although some did die naturally there during their sentence. 841 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:56,040 Number four, prisoners were noted as requesting transfers to Alcatraz. 842 00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:00,720 Due to the prison having single-cell occupancy, unlike other prisons close by, and apparently 843 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:05,080 high-quality food, prisoners in other facilities were known to have asked for transfers there. 844 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:06,080 It's like a Marriott. 845 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,240 Yeah, they're like, I have to share the fucking cell with this motherfucker? 846 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:11,120 Like, no, I'm gonna get some Alcatraz even myself. 847 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,560 Plus Alcapones there. 848 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,840 And lastly, Alcatraz was never full. 849 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:20,440 The highest number of prisoners ever reported to be incarcerated there was 320, but the 850 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:26,520 average usually stood around 260, and the fewest number I could find was 222. 851 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,440 So yeah, it was just never a full prison. 852 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:29,440 That's gonna be nice. 853 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:30,440 That's it, though. 854 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,440 It was a huge giant mental breakdown, but I think it was really interesting. 855 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,400 It's like a history lesson wrapped into true crime. 856 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,560 Right, something a little different, and honestly, I could have gone through every 857 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,760 single person and what they did, but it would have made like for like a two-hour episode. 858 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,720 I was like, I don't know if I want to do all that. 859 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:45,720 They're all murderers. 860 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:46,720 But yeah, you can look it up. 861 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:51,320 I mean, I got literally all my information in one spot, and you can find a lot of stuff 862 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,320 on there, but... 863 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:53,320 That's interesting. 864 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,440 Yeah, they still do tours and stuff. 865 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:56,440 Yeah, I'm sure they do. 866 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,440 I mean, I don't think I would want to go there. 867 00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,440 No? 868 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:00,440 I would love to. 869 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,120 I'm sorry, Great White Sharks around in the area. 870 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,880 I'm not gonna go there in a teeny boat. 871 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,880 It's not gonna be a teeny boat? 872 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,840 I've been on a boat and I've seen sharks. 873 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,840 There's fairies, because that one guy. 874 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:10,840 That's true. 875 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:11,840 Yeah, that's true. 876 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:12,840 I don't know, maybe. 877 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:13,840 I think it'd be fun. 878 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,040 I'm like, I'm not really crazy about islands, but I go to islands all the time, so I don't 879 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,040 know why I wouldn't be crazy about them. 880 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,440 It's 16 American football field sizes. 881 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:22,440 That's true. 882 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:23,440 It's pretty big. 883 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:24,440 I have to think about it. 884 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,560 And then, I mean, clearly the prison is just one part of it. 885 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:29,560 Yeah, that's true. 886 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:30,560 Would you guys go to Alcatraz? 887 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:31,560 Tell us. 888 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,560 Tell us. 889 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:33,560 Send us an email. 890 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:34,560 Tell us in the comments. 891 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,880 But yeah, that's all I have for today, and I can check that one off my list, because 892 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,360 every time I think of a new mental breakdown idea, I write it down in my notes, and then 893 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,560 I'm glad I do, because I saw it today and I was like, oh, okay, I forgot I did that one. 894 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:52,000 Yeah, so you guys have maybe a location that deals with true crime that you find is interesting. 895 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,680 I know we did Cecil Hotel once. 896 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,120 That would be kind of cool. 897 00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,520 If you guys would like to hear more about location content on mental breakdowns, of 898 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,800 course, not in lieu of a case. 899 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,480 But yeah, that would be interesting. 900 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,080 Yeah, keep giving us your ideas. 901 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,880 Like I said, this is a cool opportunity, I think, for us to, I say loophole, but either 902 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,360 way, we're going to do what we want to do. 903 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,360 Yeah. 904 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,720 But to talk about things that are just interesting to us, it doesn't always have to be a psychology 905 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:20,560 diagnosis or an experiment. 906 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:21,560 Exactly. 907 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:22,840 Yeah, something like this, I think, is really cool. 908 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,360 And of course, it ties right into what we talk about. 909 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,600 Tell us about your famous true crime place. 910 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:28,600 There you go. 911 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:29,600 Whatever country you're in. 912 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,600 Or tell us your stories and we'll do a mental breakdown with people's personal stories. 913 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:33,600 Ooh, I would love to do that. 914 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:34,600 That would be cool. 915 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:35,600 Do a compilation of like write-ins. 916 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:36,600 The mental breakdown members only. 917 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:37,600 That's cool. 918 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:38,600 Just coined it. 919 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,120 All right, well, we will see you guys next time. 920 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:43,360 Yeah, love you. 921 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:44,360 Love you. 922 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,360 Bye. 923 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:46,360 Bye. 924 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:52,440 You don't need real ink to make an impact. 925 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,280 Let the power of temporary tattoos tell your story. 926 00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:01,600 Temporary tattoos specializes in a wide range of temporary body art, including custom tattoos, 927 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:06,320 with the option to add unique effects like metallic, glitter, glow in the dark, and so 928 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,360 much more. 929 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,440 Temporary tattoos are easy to apply and last up to five days. 930 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,640 When you're ready for your new look, simply remove your fake tattoo using their lemon-scented 931 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:20,040 removing wipes, rinse, and repeat. 932 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:24,240 Temporary tattoos, experiment with a new look without the commitment. 933 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:28,400 Use the link in the show notes below to enjoy your exclusive offer and bring your new look 934 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:51,000 to life.