Case 67: The Battle of Alcatraz

When 32-year-old Anna Lisa Raymundo was found murdered inside her Stamford, Connecticut home, investigators were left with a violent crime scene and a mysterious 911 call from an unidentified woman. Despite numerous leads, no clear motive or obvious suspects emerged. Months later ...  Show more

In 2011, the body of a woman was discovered in a California vineyard.The scene was utterly surreal. Disturbing, yet eerily clean. It was unlike anything investigators had encountered before. The killer had seemingly gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure the victim couldn’t b ...  Show more

Alcatraz was one of the United States' most notorious prisons -- isolated on an island and surrounded by sharks. Check out this HowStuffWorks podcast to learn more about the fact and fiction surrounding escape attempts at Alcatraz.

Locked cells, surrounded by an impenetrable concrete fortress, surrounded by high barbed wire fences, surrounded by water, on an island in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz was considered the most 'inescapable' prison in the world. The worst of the worst were sent there. So how, in 196 ...  Show more

Cloaked in secrecy, discussed by even the most hardened criminals as a place of terror, US Penitentiary Alcatraz is the most feared institution in the American penal system. From 1934 to 1963 more than 1500 prisoners pass through its gates, including Machine-Gun Kelly and Scarfac ...  Show more