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The true story is that he was a bank robber who had taken and brutalized a hostage on at least one occasion and committed murder in 1933--some 3 years before being incarcerated at Alcatraz. He had served time in State prisons in Montana and Washington before entering Federal prison for the first time in 1935 at the U.S. Penitentiary on McNeil ...
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Dec 21, 2023 · Q: Is Murder in the First based on a true story? A: Yes, the movie is based on the true story of Alcatraz prisoner Henri Young. Q: When was Murder in the First released?
Young is put on trial in San Francisco for first degree murder in what district attorney William McNeil and the public defender's office run by Mr. Henkin believe is an open-and-shut case. Public defender James Stamphill, a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, is given the case.
Based on a true story through Henri Young, an inmate on Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, who attempted to escape Alcatraz in 1938 with three other inmates, including the infamous Arthur 'Doc' Barker, but was caught and sent to rehabilitation in solitary confinement.
In real life, Henri Young's defense was handled by two prominent San Francisco attorneys, Sol A. Abrams and James Martin MacInnes. They offered the temporary insanity defense, saying that Young's brutal treatment on Alcatraz had led him to murder his fellow inmate, Rufus McCain.
Eleven days after re-entering the Alcatraz general prison population in 1940, Young murdered McCain. No apparent motive was ever disclosed for the murder. However, according to prisoner 325 Alvin Karpis, Young blamed McCain for the failure of the escape attempt.
Mar 3, 1994 · Marc Rocco, the director, is shooting a scene for the film "Murder in the First," on the site of what was once this country's most infamous prison.
