Posted on 11/13/2021 6:24:26 AM PST by outpostinmass2
A man who worked as a bank teller in Cleveland and robbed his employer of $215,000 52 years ago has finally been unmasked by US Marshals - six months after he died.
Theodore John Conrad died at the age of 71 in a north Boston suburb in May of this year, having turned his hand to selling luxury cars as a career, and later ending up broke. His wife Kathy and daughter Ashley only found out their father's secret during his final days, as he succumbed to cancer.
Conrad successfully pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland, Ohio history making off with what would now be the equivalent of more than $1.7 million in today's money. He did it all from the inside as he walked into his job as a teller at the Society National Bank in Cleveland, where he had access to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash every single day.
Conrad told pals that stealing from the bank would be very easy - and later made good on his promise after walking out on it with a huge stash of cash one Friday evening.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Conrad was been featured on America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries while investigators chased leads across the country, including Washington D.C., Inglewood, California, western Texas, Oregon, and Honolulu, Hawaii.
The case remained cold until this past week when United States Marshals from Cleveland, Ohio travelled to Boston, Massachusetts and positively identified Thomas Randele of Lynnfield, Massachusetts as the fictitious name of Theodore J. Conrad.
Something similar happened at First Chicago Bank way back in the day. “Someone” just walked out with a sack of cash containing over a million dollars.
They never caught the person.
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Debits to the left and credits to the right...
Not that it was a good thing
Debits to the left and credits to the right...
Not that it was a good thing
Keeping your mouth shut is a big part of getting away with things.
I knew some people who were as they say “connected” back in the day. They never talked out of school.
Congress does it everyday in the open.
Great story!
That’s the one.
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Kool
I think I watched the movie 🍿
He won.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents had a number of episodes exploring this theme. He no doubt lived out his life as a loyal Democrat.
The difference between the two stories is that they knew who robbed the Cleveland Bank and charged him with the crime. This guy had to “hide” who he was for 50 years. No one was ever charged in the Chicago case.
Right on, as we used to say back in the day.
There’s an old saying, something like, Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
“I knew some people who were as they say “connected” back in the day. They never talked out of school.”
My favorite saying along those lines is, “three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.”
“No one was ever charged in the Chicago case.”
An interesting twist was that the guy they accused of doing it sued the bank for wrongful termination and won a settlement.
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But, but, FBI was busy planning ahead and looking forward to investigate Conservative ‘Terrorists’.....
And remains a solid Democrat vote to this very day...
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