The Alcatraz case is ten years older than the DB Cooper case.
Has the FBI closed it yet?
Can former prisoners John Anglin, Clarence Anglin, and Frank Morris relax and have a cold beer to celebrate? 
a rhetorical question. I seriously doubt these hardened career criminals would have stayed out of trouble if they had survived.
Seriously, just.
I mean, it’s not like this is hard to look up.
Why start another thread
ETA, did you have all their names memorized and honestly not know if the case was open or closed or did you just start a pointless thread for shits and giggles since the answer to whether the case is open or closed was probably on the same web page that those three names were listed on when you looked them up?
I have no idea whether the case was closed. Thats why I asked.
Generally escaped prisoner cases are pursued for a very long time. They’ve recently captured prison escapees from the 1970’s. We’re pressuring Cuba right now to extradite wanted people from the 1970’s. Alcatraz is only a decade older.
I looked at the Wiki article and didn’t see the words “case closed” obviously listed. The thing scrolls for several pages.
Joey P, this is one of those things that I am interested in, but did not know that I was interested in it. I appreciate **aceplace57 ** posting the question just so I can go back and look at the history, and, see if the FBI is still on the case.
This one of the things I love about this board; the reminders of things past.
Bob
Alcatraz is just as famous as DB Cooper. The MythBusters did a special on it a few years ago. Proving the homemade rafts worked and the San Francisco Bay tides took them safely to shore. Doesn’t mean the real escape succeeded but it raises interesting questions.
The Anglin family recently released Christmas cards and a photo claiming contact with the brothers. Doesn’t prove anything but its interesting.
I don’t know if the case is open or whether the FBI cares anymore.
“The FBI closed its file on December 31, 1979, after a 17-year investigation.”
“The U.S. Marshals Service investigation remains open, however.”
Thank you.
I read the OP
I googled “Alcatraz escape case”
The first link was to the wiki page, I clicked on it
I hit Control-F, typed the word “closed” and my browser went right to the line Dewey found for you. If that didn’t show up, I would have searched for the word open.
One or the other were likely to be there.
You link to newspaper articles everyday, but you couldn’t read a wiki article because it’s too long? The funny thing is, you didn’t make it past the first paragraph before giving up.
You guys think that possibly the OP might have wanted an ingesting discussion in addition to just heading case closed?
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You did post the answer, but let’s not berate someone just because they asked a question that you believe can be easily googled.
hmm…now there’s an idea!
I often read topics here that give me food for thought.
And then, I digest the information.
But, yeah, you’re right…before all that, I first have to ingest it. 
(ain’t predictive text great?—but this example shows how far we have to go before it really works)
DB Cooper and Alcatraz were bookend events of my childhood.
A lot of documentaries, books and movies were written.
History still runs specials about these events. They’ll be part of our culture for quite some time to come.
Clarence, a very clever way to find out if they are still looking. Use us all for the research.
This case shouldn’t be closed. Those guys stole nearly 50 raincoats from the prison to make a raft, we need to keep pursuing them until we get those raincoats back.
Right. Well, if it had been only one guy, maybe he made it, got a new ID, stopped his life of crime, died in such a way no one checked his fingerprints. *Possible. *
But three? No way.
Given that these criminals, if alive, would be in their late 80’s to age 90 now, the case hardly seems worth pursuing. Also, they were all from rather deprived homes during childhood, and then were active criminals by their 20’s, so it’s likely they didn’t get much medical care, which might reduce their life expectancy.
Are there not more ingesting gambits to begin a discussion than starting from “I dunno.”?
Hopefully this isn’t ‘berating the OP’ but if he’s not going to read the articles that other people post that contain the answers, he could at least read the his own articles, which also contain the answers.
Aceplace posted the above link about a half hour after started the topic, and like my link, he clearly didn’t read it. He, literally, just looked at the pictures. This was in the second paragraph:
“FBI and local law enforcement followed hundreds of leads in the years after with little solid evidence the men died or survived. They finally decided that based on expert opinion the convicts sank to the bottom of San Francisco Bay.”
At least we know now they weren’t witches.
What if they were made of wood…or very small stones?