Today in True Crime History: March 21

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1963 — Alcatraz, a prison on a small island in the San Francisco Bay, formally closes after 29 years of operation.

1981 — Michael Donald is lynched in Mobile, Alabama. The lynching was carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan and was one of the last lynchings in the country. One man, Henry Hays, was executed for the crime in 1997. Another, James Knowles, received a life sentence. Two other men…