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December 16, 1962[edit] John Paul Scott and Darl Lee Parker were the last two prisoners to attempt to escape from Alcatraz. Scott and Parker used a makeshift saw to cut through the bars on a kitchen window in the cell house, then ran to the edge of the island and jumped into the water.
The hunt is still on: 50 years after three inmates 'escaped' from Alcatraz through spoon-dug tunnels a U.S. marshal searches for an 80-year-old fugitive. It's been half a century since three inmates pulled off a Houdini-like escape from America's most foreboding maximum security prison, Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay.