Robert "Birdman' Stroud [inmate]

This episode is 15 minutes long.

This episode was published on May 31, 2026.

Robert Franklin Stroud, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz," was a brutally violent double-murderer who became a self-taught ornithologist and author during his 54 years of near-total solitary confinement.

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