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Just One Word. METAL DETECTOR!. How could U.S. Marshalls go to an alleged grave site where the murderer said he buried horseshoes over the grave and not take a metal detector. I also like how on the day they first found the site they saw no nails in the trees and after a day where they sat in their hotel room and babbled about nothing of consequence they go back out to the grave site and lo and behold nails appear in the tree trunks. If this is the caliber of folks we have for U.S. Marshall's we're all in trouble except for crooks ad murderers. Let me close with these words; chicanery, skullduckery, flimflannery and outright FRAUD. Danny, bro I know you need the money but have enough dignity to lie a little more convincingly next time. I still gave it a 4 'cause it's Danny Trejo y'all.

Another 'history channel' type documentary with small features of 'mocumentary' flashback. Wondered why I saw Danny Trejo's face - he narrated it (probably short of cash? - sorry Danny, just a bit surprised). Or maybe a personal favour to friends connected that he knows.

It *did* raise a couple of interesting points though - the fact that a boat *could've* been off the harbour, that a tower was out (or had a restricted view), that some corners were cut by cutbacks, lax thinking etc.

Also (although the final 'reveal' is something of a disappointment - the theory behind some of the alleged 'events' could be true. Such as above - also that Priests sometimes passed messages to family of the detained - even if just a grain of truth in that, it wouldn't take much for a message (however 'inert'/seemingly containing no information), could have/contain dates/position on, which would help the case of the boat enormously.

Plus as does (the quick google search) revealing that a boat *was* claimed to be spotted by an off-duty police office that night.

One other 'viable' (at least), if there was some $$$cash for the guards, it would've been awkward to distribute, and if somehow it was in the possession of the men (more likely, as they *did* have family) - therefore they did have something to be killed for.

I wouldn't spend too much time digging up the 'football-pitch' size plot between trees though, and as above (probably c/w trees with 'fresh' rusty nails in) - and yes, where was the metal detector?!!

There is a completely new theory out there, I won't get into that, but that same Marshall is on the other story, It is way more believable than this one.

Alcatraz, the search for truth.

The Marshall looks 10-15 years younger in this, when I saw this available on Amazon Prime, it said it came out in 2017. I figured it was the same story. Then it went in a new direction, so not sure how this came out this late, and this close to the other story. (IMDB says 2015)

Parts I think were true: * I do think they got away, as not one body, not one piece of clothe, nothing was found of them. Which by all accounts is rare. * I think the Alan West part of the story is true. * and I think the it not being a secret in the jail before it happened, is essentially true.

BUT........my reason for saying this story is total non-sense, is there it would be impossible for 10-20 people to keep this a secret. For 50+ years, a Clint Eastwood movie about it, nuns, multiple prison guards, the uncle of the narrator, the family members that raised 60k (=$482k,, today), PLUS paid off the guards? Give me a break.

IMO, that is enough.There were way too many people in on this, but also, why would you take a boat all the way to Seattle? If I was the getaway guys, I'd want to get them an hour or 2 up the coast, and get on land no where near SF. Not still be on a boat for the next day, or so. SF could've called the coast guard. Its 800 miles from SF-SEA, even if they had a boat that went 50 mph, it would take 16 hours.

I hope I can edit and add later, as there were other things that didn't add up.

How convenient, not conclusive due to landslides and other pressing cases. As if we would believe you would leave this case to pursue another. Because finally closing the chapter on the most famous prison break in history is not as important as another case or that you wouldn't bring tools to the site to begin with....pfffft pathetic. We waste all this time watching so that you can say, whoops, unfortunately, we got called away from the most famous prison break case in history and couldn't spend 5 minutes with a metal detector (and it didn't occur to us to bring one when we knew we needed one).

I thought the Blair Witch Project was better made and more believable.

Spoiler alert: it sucked

Presents a story for how the convicts escaped, a story that seems much more plausible than the usual story. For example, in the Clint Eastwood 1979 movie the convicts worked alone, somehow evaded detection by the guards, got through difficult maneuvers where the couldn't have had any prior knowledge without help from an insider guard, and went off into the bay on a flimsy raft they couldn't have tested in advance.

In this documentary, they claim there were guards, maybe priests and muns, and outsiders helping them.

Ending is somewhat exasperating. Seems like the US Marshalls weren't actually serious about tracking down the leads. For example they went twice to the final site and neither time brought a metal detector. Really? Documentary left other significant details without any speculation to explain.

Still, an interesting idea

The sound quality is bad. You'll probably want to enable closed captions.

Ok im a movie nut watch loads and for a long time thought about reviewing on here , im also a alcatraz fanatic wont bore anyone with my thoughts or beliefs seeing someone elses review on here did raise a question or two for me , i think this is an ok docu movie though why did the sound have to be so bad why put music over the already dodgy sound , its an interesting thought what there saying here is the truth but there are holes in it dont want to give anything away but why has the site that was given by this man never excavated even if the was a considerable landslip surely it could only of gone to the very nearby road i will point out im not sure it never was but i cant find anywhere that says it was dug out if your wanting to solve one of the biggest mysteries of the 20th century surely this would of been done it surely wouldnt of cost a lot and it would of put this confession to bed no pun intended

Why hasn't the site been dug up yet?! It's been at least 7 years since filmed. Seems they could've put this one to bed pretty quick. Should be easy to get metal detector or gpr up there.