A man who worked as a bank teller in Cleveland and robbed his $ 215,000 employer 52 years ago was finally obscured by a US Marshals Service six months after his death.
Theodore John Conrad died in May of this year in the suburbs of northern Boston at the age of 71 and went bankrupt after reaching out to sell luxury cars as a carrier. His wife Kathy and daughter Ashley only learned the secrets of their father during his last days when he succumbed to cancer.
Conrad has successfully succeeded in one of the biggest bank robbers in Cleveland, Ohio, earning more than $ 1.7 million worth of money today.
Federal agents say Thomas Randele, who was using the name ‘Theodore John Conrad’ while working as a bank teller at a Society National Bank in Cleveland, walked out of the bank at the end of one of his shifts in 1969 with $215,000, or the equivalent of about $1.7 million today.
The robbery was first discovered after Conrad, then 20 years old, carried all cash in a paper bag, and then disappeared. He did not go to work next Monday.
‘Conrad’ was 20 years old at the time. He had a two-day head start on investigator before anyone knew the money was gone, according to the U.S. Marshals service.
Investigators say ‘Conrad’ had become obsessed with the movie ‘The Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen. The 1968 movie was based on a bank robbery for sport and the marshals say ‘Conrad’ had watched it more than a half dozen times.
The case had remained unsolved over the last 50 years. The robbery has been the focus of most wanted TV shows. Feds chased leads all over the country, from California to Texas, to Hawaii.
Many news articles were written about the bright red robbery, but Conrad was not caught.
On Friday, U.S. Marshal Peter Elliott said his office solved the mystery his father, John, had investigated decades ago.
Investigators from Ohio traveled to Boston and positively identified Thomas Randele of Lynnfield.
Since 1970, he has lived an unpretentious life in the suburbs of Boston near where the original Thomas Crown Affair movie was filmed.
Agents say they learned Randele had been living an “unassuming life” in Lynnfield since 1970, near a spot where the original Thomas Crown Affair was filmed.
Agents were able to identify Randele by matching documents ‘Conrad’ had completed in the 1960′s.
Randele died of lung cancer in May of 2021. He was 71 when he died.
Agents say Randele’s real date of birth was July 10, 1949, not 1947 as listed in his obituary.
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