Frank Lee Morris

Frank Lee Morris born September 1 1926 was born in Washington DC His parents abandoned him when he was 11 so he spent the rest of his childhood in foster homes an orphan He was convicted of his first criminal offense at 13 and by his late teens had been arrested for crimes ranging from narcotics possession to armed robbery He spent most of his early years in jail serving lunch to prisoners Later he was arrested for grand larceny in Miami Beach car theft and armed robbery Morris reportedly ranked in the top 2 of the general population in intelligence as measured by IQ testing 133 He served time in Florida and Georgia then escaped from the Louisiana State Penitentiary while serving 10 years for bank robbery He was recaptured a year later while committing a burglary and sent to Alcatraz on January 20 1960 as inmate number AZ1441