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Cole and Roe, both convicted bank robbers in Oklahoma, had been caught during earlier, independent escape attempts from that state's McAlester Prison. [5] As escape risks, they were both incarcerated in high-security Leavenworth Prison, then transferred to higher-security Alcatraz in 1936. [6]
Nov 2, 2021 · December 16, 1937: Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe. For their escape, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe filed their way through flat-iron prison window bars and raced for the San Francisco Bay....
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Of the 36 inmates who staged 14 escape attempts over the 29 years that Alcatraz served as a federal penitentiary, [23] 23 were recaptured, six were shot and killed, two drowned, and five (Morris, the Anglins, and Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe) are listed as "missing and presumed drowned."
Ralph Roe. #5. May 21, 1941 - Joe Cretzer, Sam Shockley, Arnold Kyle, and Lloyd Barkdoll took several correctional officers hostage while working in the industries area. The officers, including Paul Madigan (who later became Alcatraz's third warden), were able to convince the four that they could not escape and they surrendered. #6.
Jun 25, 2024 · In 1937, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe made a desperate attempt to escape the island prison. On a foggy day, they disappeared from the prison’s mat shop after cutting through the bars of a window. They climbed through the window and made their way to the water’s edge, presumably to swim to freedom.
Dec 16, 2021 · Braving armed guards, bone-chilling water, and a mythical one-finned shark named Bruce, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe take advantage of the heaviest fog on record to escape from the escape-proof prison island of Alcatraz. The two were incorrigible criminals -- and escape artists.
Jul 26, 2024 · Their story was dramatized in the film Escape from Alcatraz (1979), starring Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris. Alcatraz escape of June 1962, a jailbreak by three prisoners from the maximum-security federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, California.
