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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: The Rock: Alcatrazās Chilling True Crime Legacy
Description:
Alcatraz shut its cell doors more than 60 years ago, but its grip on the American imagination hasnāt loosened.
Each year, nearly a million and a half tourists ride the ferry across San Francisco Bay, through cold, choppy waters, to walk the crumbling corridors of the most infamous prison in U.S. history.Ā
Visitors today frequently cite the desire to see the cellblocks that once confined legendary outlaws,
Notorious gangsters such as Al Capone, George āMachine Gunā Kelly, and Robert āBirdmanā Stroud were inmates here, cementing Alcatrazās image as the end of the line for...