Combing The Bay
They searched the bay thoroughly but did not recover any bodies. However, they did find personal items floating in the water the next day. On the night of the escape, the water was pretty cold at 50 to 54 degrees. The San Francisco Bay is cold at any given time of the year. The experts said that an adult male would only survive 20 minutes before his body gave up. The escapees would not have been prepared for the cold water because the officials made sure to keep the water warm in the showers.
Combing The Bay
Different Verdicts
The FBI finally closed the investigation 17 years later. On the 31st of December in 1997, they arrived at the conclusion that the three men met their doom in the San Francisco Bay. However, the US Marshals did not do that. In 2009, the Deputy US Marshal told NPR, “There’s an active warrant, and the Marshals Service doesn’t give up looking for people.” Moreover, there was more reason to believe they survived.
Different Verdicts
