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Great Crimes and Trials

Season 2 · Episode 24

The Escapes from Alcatraz

0.030mSeptember 9, 1996

The Escapes from Alcatraz. Documenting some of the attempted escapes from the notorious US island prison in San Francisco Bay.

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Episode 1Charles Starkweather - The Badlands Killer
Episode 2Howard Hughes Autobiography Hoax
Episode 3The Scarsdale Shooting
Episode 4The S.L.A. Kidnap of Patty Hearst
Episode 5Richard Speck - The Nurse Killer
Episode 6Caryl Chessman - The Red Light Bandit
Episode 7Roberts, Duddy and Witney - The Braybrook Street Massacre
Episode 8The Bamber Family Murders
Episode 9Hitler and the Nuremberg Trials
Episode 10Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood
Episode 11The Assassination of Gandhi
Episode 12The Assassination of Martin Luther King
Episode 13The Assassination of John F Kennedy
Episode 14The A6 Murder
Episode 15Dennis Nilsen - The Kindly Killer
Episode 16Charles Whitman - The Austin Sniper
Episode 17The Boston Brinks Robbery
Episode 18Richard Ramirez - The Night Stalker
Episode 19The Rosenbergs - Atom Spies?
Episode 20The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
Episode 21Dan White - The City Hall Killer
Episode 22Bonnie and Clyde
Episode 23Wayne Williams - The Atlanta Killer
Episode 24The Escapes from Alcatraz
Episode 25The KKK Killings
Episode 26New York Mafia Wars