AI Just Solved the Alcatraz Mystery — What It Found After 55 Years Will Shock You

In 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary after executing an elaborate escape using handmade tools, dummy heads crafted from soap and human hair, and a raft stitched from over 50 stolen raincoats—launching into the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay where the FBI assumed they drowned and officially closed the case in 1979 as "presumed dead," despite never recovering any bodies and finding evidence like raft fragments on Angel Island suggesting they'd made it at least partway across. In 2020, artificial intelligence facial recognition technology was applied to a mysterious 1975 photograph taken in Brazil showing two men who resembled the Anglin brothers, and the AI analysis calculated 80-90% probability matches for both John and Clarence Anglin—accounting for 13 years of aging—while a 2013 letter allegedly from John Anglin claiming "we all made it that night" and revealing Frank Morris died in Argentina in 2008 was investigated but remained inconclusive, leaving the U.S. Marshals unable to definitively close the case.