Drawing Conclusions
Extensive searches stretched for many days. A team working in the bay found some scattered personal belongings, but no bodies. When they checked how cold the water was on the night of the escape, the temperature was between 50 to 54 degrees. Experts said that it would take all of 20 minutes for an adult’s body to stop functioning in such cold temperatures. Since the men had no acclimatization to such cold temperatures, they surely would not have been able to last for longer than that in the water.
Drawing Conclusions
A Spotting
A month had passed since the notorious escape when a Norwegian freighter called in a sighting of a dead body. This happened 17 miles away from the Golden Gate Bridge, and the body had clothing similar to those of Alcatraz inmates. By the time the investigation was underway, the body had disappeared and the investigation hit a wall again.
A Spotting
