Posted on 12/02/2023 9:06:08 AM PST by DFG
It was just another night in the living room of a suburban Boston home in 2021.
Thirty-five-year-old Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, was watching an episode of “NCIS.”
Tom laid on the couch, which had become his domain following a recent lung cancer diagnosis.
Doctors had told the 71-year-old he was probably six weeks away from death.
“When I moved here, I had to change my name,” he said mid-show, as casually as if asking his daughter to pass the remote control. “And the authorities are probably still looking for me.”
Stunned, his family absorbed the news and didn’t say anything at first.
“Part of me took this as dad humor. The authorities?” Ashley, now 38, told The Post. “I sat with it for a day. Then I realized that, if he is not Tom Randele, I am not Ashley Randele. I told my dad that he has to tell me his real name. He said he would tell me as long as I promised to not look into it.”
She agreed.
“After a long pause, he told me his name was Ted Conrad,” said Ashley, who couldn’t keep the promise. “That night, at 2:30, I googled Ted Conrad.”
What she found shocked her.
In 1969, a 20-year-old college dropout by the name of Ted Conrad was working as the vault teller for Society National Bank in Cleveland, Ohio.
On Friday, July 11, he left his job with a paper bag that contained a bottle of freshly purchased whiskey.
Poking out of the top was a carton of cigarettes.
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Laid what, eggs? Even an AI copy editor should have caught that.
She lied.
Amazing story.....
Smells like ....
Worth reading the whole article. Even if he’d died with his secret, it looks like he’d have been exposed regardless.
Pretty much 1965 to 1980 was the peak of PRIVACY for Western Society. That was when you could move around and not stir up questions, as prior, if you tried moving to a new town, for example, you’d be peppered with questions. After 1980, databases started being developed, plus other things to ‘get people into the system’. Today, try walking into a Social Security today when you’re 20 years old and demanding a new card without providing any history, or without being nailed for a false history. The ONLY option now is having people in government give you a new identity, and a new past.
“As for where all the money went, Ashley believes that it was blown on ritzy digs and at least one bad investment”.
Typical. Get a lot of money, blow it all on stupid stuff.
My brother learned a professional skill for work from a guy he knew for over 50 years. Friends with this guy as long.
Learned in the latter part of their relationship his buddy came from California and was a narcotics agent there. Had a different last name from which we both knew him as, this was his real last name. Details are fuzzy because he did not go into the story but he made off with a large cache of narcotics he seized working as a narc, fled with the drugs to Arizona and began a new life under an assumed name. I’m guessing he sold the drugs and got a bunch of moolah. Started a new business, became a master craftsman and none better. He passed away many years ago now. Truly likeable guy, funny and hip as hell. Occassionally told us both stories of jazz clubs he used to go to in California in the early days. Very cool cat. Loved to smoke grass and that was all and it was why it was so surprising to learn HE was a narc.
We were both shocked to learn of his past. You don’t always know the whole story.
If society were not so collectively intellect-darkened and morally deranged, the article would have reported on whether the father had confessed his sins before his death, received absolution, and made a decent go of living the rest of his life in a state of grace.
I actually did know a guy in high school, around 1971, who was building a false identity, or at least claimed to be. No idea how that ever worked out for him — probably not well unless he learned to keep his mouth shut better.
I considered trying it myself but never did. That was about the last time the old get-a-birth-certificate-in-the-name-of-a-dead-infant scheme had a chance of working. With today’s databases and cross-referencing, I’d imagine the government could easily spot a fake identity that had been done that way even 50+ years ago.
One of my husband’s friends bought a car at an estate sale. While he was restoring it he found a VERY large amount of cash in it. He figured it had come with the car so he never reported it.
His wise move was to keep working. He lived off the cash and saved his earnings and left a legacy for his family.
Or walk over the border with no ID and a made up name.
Then, they support you.
Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, was watching an episode of “NCIS.”
was?
Watch the old TV show “The Fugitive.” Couldn’t work now.
How about the old standby of getting somebody in the system to give you the birth certificate of a baby who was born at the same time you were but who died? Then you could make up some story about how your family lived overseas. It would take time to get a SSN, driver’s license etc etc.
Ding! I didn’t think of it but you’re absolutely right. Just claim you’re a foreigner. They’ll let you stay and even give you assistance while you set up a new identity and build a history here.
“Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, was watching an episode of “NCIS.” was?”
Southern famlee...
Sad isn’t it.
If you don’t look like a foreigner, you’ll be rejected.
It is still possible to leave the US and establish a new life and identity in some countries, but I don’t post it publicly. It can be found.
Just walk across the southern border, heading north...
Oh I don’t know; Saul Goodman did all right...
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