Post by ninja108 on Nov 23, 2021 19:16:51 GMT -5
www.cleveland.com/crime/2021/11/mystery-solved-theodore-conrad-vanished-after-robbing-cleveland-bank-where-he-worked-in-1969-marshals-traced-him-to-boston-suburb.html
Saw this on USA Today on the case of Theodore John Conrad and figured I would make a thread on it because he had been profiled on America's Most Wanted a few times.
Back in 1969, Conrad was a 20 year old employee of a Cleveland bank who had become obsessed with the movie the Thomas Crown Affair and told friends he wanted to do a similar heist.
They thought he was kidding.
As he showed on July 11, 1969, he wasn't.
He went into the vault of the bank he worked qt and took over $200,000 in cash and then vanished without a trace.
He would be profiled on AMW, Unsolved Mysteries and other media outlets but nothing ever came of it.
Flash forward to earlier this year in early 2021 in MA, where a man named Thomas Randele was dying of lung cancer.
As his death grew closer and closer, he let his family in on a life long secret.
His name wasn't Thomas Randele but was in fact Theodore John Conrad and he had been a fugitive from justice for over 50 years.
His family chose to keep his secret before he passed away but it would be discovered anyway when the son of the original U.S. Marshal investigator on the case, a marshal himself noticed details in the obituary including the name of "Randele's" parents that matched details of Conrad's life.
In short order, the truth would be discovered and the mystery of what happened to Theodore Conrad would be resolved.
I won't lie here.
If he had been arrested while he was still alive, I would have had no issues with him being brought back to Ohio to face justice.
But I don't feel as bad as I do in the case of Frederick Mclean that death had the final say here.
Theft is bad but it's still a long stepping stone from what Mclean did.
Saw this on USA Today on the case of Theodore John Conrad and figured I would make a thread on it because he had been profiled on America's Most Wanted a few times.
Back in 1969, Conrad was a 20 year old employee of a Cleveland bank who had become obsessed with the movie the Thomas Crown Affair and told friends he wanted to do a similar heist.
They thought he was kidding.
As he showed on July 11, 1969, he wasn't.
He went into the vault of the bank he worked qt and took over $200,000 in cash and then vanished without a trace.
He would be profiled on AMW, Unsolved Mysteries and other media outlets but nothing ever came of it.
Flash forward to earlier this year in early 2021 in MA, where a man named Thomas Randele was dying of lung cancer.
As his death grew closer and closer, he let his family in on a life long secret.
His name wasn't Thomas Randele but was in fact Theodore John Conrad and he had been a fugitive from justice for over 50 years.
His family chose to keep his secret before he passed away but it would be discovered anyway when the son of the original U.S. Marshal investigator on the case, a marshal himself noticed details in the obituary including the name of "Randele's" parents that matched details of Conrad's life.
In short order, the truth would be discovered and the mystery of what happened to Theodore Conrad would be resolved.
I won't lie here.
If he had been arrested while he was still alive, I would have had no issues with him being brought back to Ohio to face justice.
But I don't feel as bad as I do in the case of Frederick Mclean that death had the final say here.
Theft is bad but it's still a long stepping stone from what Mclean did.