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The Alcatraz Escape Nobody Could Explain

The face on the pillow is made of papier-mâché. Three guards walk past the cell at midnight, shine their flashlight through the bars, and see nothing wrong. It's June 11th, 1962, and three men are already in San Francisco Bay.

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