What happened next?

 Escape from Alcatraz

Butch and Sundance

No Escape

There is no doubt Frank Miller, and the Anglin brothers escaoed from Alcatraz, but like Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid there is no record of them in later life.

My opinion is the got carried away by the tide under the Golden Gate Bridge. One theory I had was they were eaten by the Great White sharks that inhabit the waters near the bridge.

An equally plausible theory is the were so tired after the escape, they had no energy to fight the tide. They had hauked the raft up a ladder, across the roof, down the other side, and onto the beach. Then they had to inflate it, even using a makeshift pump, it takes energy, which they had ran out of.

In 2017, a letter was posted by a person "claiming" to be Frank Miller, you have to take this with a large dose of salt. The question you need to ask is if he had survived, why did he wait so long to send his letter, when an escape from a prison built to be unescapable would have made him a hero in the gangster world?

Ok, he was dying, but what did he have to gain? He was hardly clearing his consience.

Another aspect you need to consider, these men were hardened criminals, I doubt they could have stayed out of the life of crime for long

The book that never was

Butch and Sundance - the later years 

Several years ago, I was asked by a friend of my friend, Julia, if I would be interested in writing a book for him based on the theory that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid escaped to South America, and later returned to the USA.

Some people claim that Sundance returned with his lover, Etta Place to live in the USA, I can go with the theory which said Etta returned as she wasn't in Mexico when they had the final gunfight.

The issues I have with this theory are at the end of the film, Sundance says he can't swim, yet he jumps into a raging river. A good swimmer would have had difficulty jumping into a river strewn with rocks, and yet, Sundance can't swim.

Add to this, both had suffered arm injuries which would have made swimming exceptionally difficult.

Jumping into a raging tide can be done, it is done each year by locals in Acapulco Bay to entertain tourists. This is done by young men who have grown up in the area, and can judge the tides, not by American bandits on the run, and injured.

Next we have the amusing section; Butch is "supposed" to have become a farmer, and died in Patagonia. Patagonia is the area south of Argentina, so we have to ask, in an age with few cars, how did he get there? I could agree to him turning up in Paraguay.

I didn't think I would be paid enough for the research involved in the project; in the end it didn't matter as the book was rejected because the person who made the request was rude to me.