Picture That "Proves" Prisoners Did Escape From Alcatraz

The story of Alcatraz prisoners John and Clarence Anglin has always been surrounded in mystery.

The brothers escaped from Alcatraz along with their fellow inmate Frank Morris back in June 1962.

Now, a History Channel documentary has been given a photograph by the Anglin brothers nephews that they say proves they were alive and on a farm in Brazil in 1975 - over ten years after the FBI claimed they had died.

They were also given Christmas cards that John would apparently send to his family every year.

The nephews, Ken and David Widner, say that the family were given the photographs by a family friend by the name of Fred Brizzi.

Brizzi had known the Anglin brothers prior to their life of crime. According to him, he bumped into the brothers in a bar in Rio De Janeiro. They asked him if he'd like to come and see the farm that they owned and asked him to take pictures. He obliged. Ken and David believe that their uncles did this so that the pictures would get back to the family so they'd know they were still alive.

A forensic examiner looked over the pictures, and confirmed that it was 'very likely' due to the facial structures of the pair, that they were in fact the Anglin brothers.

The pair could still be alive! They would be in their 80s, though.