The Brazil photograph remains unverified. It has not been authenticated by any official investigative body.
### The 2013 and 2018 Letters
The letter timeline is complicated and deserves careful treatment.
A letter postmarked 2013 and addressed to the San Francisco Police Department was disclosed publicly by the FBI in 2018 (the five-year gap reflects processing time and investigative confidentiality rather than the letter’s date). The letter claimed to be from John Anglin. It stated that Morris had died in 2008, that Clarence had died in 2011, and that John himself was alive but suffering from cancer. The letter offered to surrender to authorities in exchange for cancer treatment — specifically, medical care at a named facility.
The FBI conducted handwriting analysis. The results were described as inconclusive — not a match confirmation, not a definitive exclusion. John Anglin, if the letter was genuine, never followed through with the offered surrender. No further contact was made.
A separate account of a letter came from family members who described a 2018 letter with somewhat different details — different death dates for Morris and Clarence, the same offer of surrender. Whether these represent two separate letters, the same letter described inconsistently in different sources, or an error in the reporting is not resolvable from the available evidence. What is clear is that at least one letter was sent, that the FBI examined it, and that the examination was inconclusive.
The letter should be treated as what the official investigation concluded it to be: unverified. Its content — including the specific death dates for Morris and Clarence — is not established as factual. It may represent genuine communication from a surviving fugitive. It may represent fabrication by someone seeking attention or medical care. It may represent a family member or associate writing on behalf of someone who actually knew something. The investigation could not distinguish between these possibilities.