True Crime Mysteries

 Escape from Alcatraz

The escape from Alcatraz is a fact, whether they survived the crossing of San Francisco Bay has always a debate.

It is my view they didn't cross the bay, why?

Modern science proved their is a 5km pull to the sea around the island, this is something the men would not have realised. Here is the scenario, you have three prisoners who escaped, and drageed a home made dinghy across the roof of the prison, down the rocks, and inflated it. They then had to paddle across the bay against the pull of the tides. Even today's men who are fit would struggle with the problem, on a good diet, and here we have three convicts.

The tide carries the water to an area known as the Red Zone, not for the colour of its rocks, but beceause it is the feeding area for the greatest number of Great White Shark on the coasts of the USA.

If, BIG if, they had got close to escaping across the bay, being tired, caold, and underfed, they would not have had the strength to fight the current, they probably were eaten.

The appearance of a letter by Frank Anglin, in 1992, is a hoax.

Why wait until a few months before you die to tell everyone you beat the harshest prison, if you had done the escape, and survived; you would have become an underground hero. Any half-decent forger can make a letter appear old.

                                           Jimmy Hoffa

The disappearance of union leader Jimmy Hoffa remains a mystery which I don't think will be solved, why?

To my way of thinking people have missed the obvious solution.

There have been many ideas put forward, some reasonable; others so wild as to be laughable.

One theory was he is buried under the endzone of Giants Stadium, in New York. This is the most absurd theory, to do that you would require the owners consent to dig up the area. 

Another prospect was he is bureied in the deaserts of Nevada, plausable, but why Nevada? Okay, Las Vegas is MAFIA territory, and Hoffa had recently had an argument with the Luciano family about taking over the docks, so he could have complete control of the transport of goods in America.

Why Nevada when you have vast areas of desert?

My theory is he is lying in a lake near Detroit. It is close to where he was last seen, easy access, and the fish are voracious; which explains why the body has not been found. If the fish pierce the skin, the gasses caused by death will have passed into the water, and the body won't surface.

D.B. Cooper

Three years ago, the F.B.I. closed the case of D.B.Copper as unsolved.

Over the years, I have held to one of three theories for his disappearance.
I formed these before I visited Canada in the fall of 2009, and witnessed the harshness of a winter there.

Best case scenario, he died on impact.

When he jumped, he had a spare parachute, if the first had roman candled - twisted on opening - he had seconds to deploy the second before his speed was to great to slow down. The second chute would have followed the action of the first, traveling at 16 feet per second, he would have had no chance of surviving the fall.

I have never doubted he was injured during the drop, even the most qualified parachutist would not jump over the Rockies in winter. The possibility of surviving is so slim as to be not considered; apart from the landing area, which is uneven, you have to contend with masses of trees.

Second theory

He died from a combination of his injuries during the fall, and hypothermia from the cold.

Worst case scenario.

He was eatn by an animal. In this scene, he is injured, and crawls into a cave, were owing to a combination of his injuries, and the cold, he passes out, only to be roused by being eaten; after all, meat is protien in nature; cannibalism is a modern term.

What happened to the money?

The reason the money never turned up is easy to explain. To an animal, paper is a means to preserve heat in the winter, so it made no difference whether it was a $1.00 note, or a $100.00 note, to an animal it is a sheet of paper.