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Alcatraz escapees' kin from Flowery Branch featured on History Channel
Special aired Monday examining infamous prison break
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Ken, left, and David Widner pose for a photo June 2015 during the filming of the History Channel program “Alcatraz: Search for the Truth.” - photo by David Scott Holloway
Ken Widner gets mail from Whitey Bulger. Just a couple weeks back, the 54-year-old Flowery Branch resident received an envelope with the Coleman U.S. Penitentiary return address. Inside it, perfect cursive inked across a single piece of paper: the precise penmanship of Boston’s former organized crime boss — now Inmate 02182-748 at the federal correctional facility in Sumter County, Florida.