1969 heist solved after man's 'unassuming' life in hiding

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Federal marshals have finally discovered the identity of a man who vanished after pulling off a major bank theft in Cleveland in 1969. They were a few months late: Theodore John Conrad, who had been living in Massachusetts under a fake name, died in May.

Conrad was a 20-year-old bank teller at the Society National Bank in Cleveland when he walked out at the end of his workday on a Friday in 1969 with a paper bag containing $215,000, authorities said. That’s the equivalent of more than $1.7 million in 2021 dollars. The theft wasn’t discovered until a few days later, and Conrad was never seen again.

In the years since, the case was featured on shows like “America’s Most Wanted” and “Unsolved Mysteries” and investigators chased leads all over the country.Federal marshals said Friday that marshals from Cleveland went to Boston last week and confirmed that Conrad had been living “an unassuming life” since 1970. He had been living under the name Thomas Randele in a Boston suburb close to where the original Thomas Crown Affair movie was filmed.

Thomas Randele died of lung cancer in May in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, using a date of birth as July 10, 1947. His real date of birth was July 10, 1949, and Conrad would have been 71 at the time of his death, prosecutors said. “I hope my father is resting a little easier today knowing his investigation and his United States Marshals Service brought closure to this decades-long mystery,” he said in a statement. “Everything in real life doesn’t always end like in the movies.”, became a local golf pro and sold luxury cars and “was a fixture in a small town.” An obituary said he got married in 1982 and they had one child together.

 

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gg!

Ok, so it wasn't Ted Cruz afterall?

Love it. Crime pays when you're ripping off BIG BANKS! Bet he was smirking every day he realized 'I got away with it, I GOT AWAY WITH IT!!!'

So that is why it is taking so long to get TFG and Matt Gaetz!!

What an absolute King!

Well after all that time give him a G pass.

No no no , it wasn't a bank robbery it was a reconnaissance mission , where else are they going? You know never gonna get through here , I saw them as to let me in , I went , I forgot my gun , to late his wife is a typist for the fbi happy mothers day ? Oh I did , godamn it

girlboss

Well we've all dreamed about it.

There are only two possible ways to describe law enforcement, criminal or incompetent. There is not a third option

How could he construct a new identity for so long without being discovered? Unbelievable

Didnt get greedy and go for more. Smart.

King

Middle finger from the grave

Congrats. Has anybody found the domestic terrorist who planted bombs on 1/6? Or do we have to wait 4 decades for justice?

*price is right failure sound*

King

He won! ggez!

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