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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In its 29 years of operation, there were 14 acknowledged attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison involving 34 inmates (two, Joseph Cretzer and Sam Shockley, tried twice). Officially, every escape attempt failed, and most participants were either killed or quickly re-captured.
Rodney James ALCALA. The victims and Alcala. Jill Barcomb was a woman from Oneida, NY, who was killed in Southern California at age 18 in 1977 by serial killer Rodney James Alcala. Barcomb had been in Southern California for about three weeks when her body was found on a dirt path near Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.