After 52 years, investigators have identified one of Cleveland’s most wanted bank robbers who stole $ 215,000 and disappeared | The U.S. Marshal’s Office has certainly verified his identity but reportedly died a few months ago
One of Cleveland’s most wanted bank robbers for 52 years after he committed one of the biggest robberies in Cleveland – Ohio and disappeared without a trace, has been discovered.
The case has surprised investigators for decades, but has apparently only been resolved now, according to the NBC news network. Theodore John Conrad was a 20-year-old bank clerk at a bank in Cleveland when he looted the safe, he came out with the cash in a paper bag and disappeared on July 11, 1969.
Just after he did not report for work on Monday, the theft was exposed $ 215,000 – worth $ 1.7 million in today’s money. The two days in which no one discovered the robbery gave him enough time to disappear from the eyes of law enforcement.
When investigators finally caught up with Conrad, they discovered he had lived quietly in a suburb of Boston since 1970 as Thomas Randall, but died last May of lung cancer. Authorities have clearly identified Randall as Conrad, after investigators were able to find a link between Conrad’s 1960s records and documents later filed by Randall, including filing for a 2014 federal bankruptcy, the U.S. Department of Marshall said in a press release last Friday.
Randall gave his date of birth on July 10, 1947 but Conrad’s real date of birth was July 10, 1949. He was 71 at the time of his death. According to the suspect, Conrad confessed to the robbery while he was on his deathbed.
Conrad loved a character from a movie in the 60s who manages to steal about $ 2 million from a bank in Boston. Conrad decided to adopt the name of the imaginary robber from the film named Thomas Crown, “he bragged to his friends about how easy it would be to take money from the bank and even told them he planned to do so,” the U.S. Marshal’s Office said in a news release.