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It was known as the world's most secure prison, the rock.

Sitting in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by the freezing currents of the Pacific Ocean,

it was a fortress from which there was no escape.

But on June 12, 1962, four men hatched a plan to do just that.

Today, we explore the compelling story of the escape from Alcatraz.

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Welcome back to another Mystery Monday task force.

I'm your host Trevor Collins, and with me is always Alfredo Diaz.

Dude, you're talking my hometown, you're talking the rock.

We're talking about SF.

Not Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

No, I'm about to talk about it.

Totally, also, be inescapable.

Yeah, no, that makes sense.

We're talking about a very famous prison on the little island in the Bay Area.

And this, what year was this?

This was in 1962, so in the heyday of Alcatraz.

I mean, I started a lot about Alcatraz because like 20 years later,

there was former General Francis Hummel, who took a bunch of hostages on the rock,

and then threatened to actually induce chemical warfare upon US soil.

And then that's when they had Stanley Goodspeed, who was a biochemical engineer.

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