The Anglin Brothers
With age, Frank Lee Morris continued in his criminal activities and served time in prisons all over the country, eventually ending up in Louisiana’s state penitentiary, known as the “Alcatraz of the South.” At the time, Frank Lee Morris was sentenced to 10 years for bank robbery, but it was during this sentence that he made his first escape. Morris successfully avoided the authorities for just under a year before he was caught while attempting another robbery. He was arrested taken back to prison. This time to Alcatraz.
Source: Newsmax
Frank Lee Morris realized that a good prison break wouldn’t be successful if done alone. He needed a team. It was in “The Rock”, that Morris met his accomplices – two brothers named John and Clarence Anglin, as well as another convict named Allen West. The Anglin brothers were born in Georgia but grew up in Florida. Their parents were farmers, and their families would travel the country in search of farming projects. The Anglin family, two parents, and 13 children would go North to pick cherries every June.
Little did these parents know what would become of their two sons…