The money has not been found. The family is still grieving. The case is closed. The podcast tells the story.
And somewhere in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, there is a man in the memory of his wife and daughter who was Thomas Randele when he mattered to them and Ted Conrad only in the records of a case that took fifty-two years and two generations of one family to close.
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*Excerpt:* In March 2021, a dying man told his daughter that her entire life he had been a wanted fugitive. Thomas Randele was the name she knew. Theodore John Conrad was the name that had been on a federal warrant since 1969, when he walked out of a Cleveland bank with $215,000 in a paper bag.
*SEO title:* Ted Conrad: Bank Robber Who Vanished for 52 Years as Thomas Randele
*Meta description:* Ted Conrad stole $215,000 from a Cleveland bank in 1969 and vanished. For 52 years he lived in Massachusetts as Thomas Randele — until his daughter learned the truth on his deathbed.
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## Sources and Reporting Notes
**Wikipedia: Theodore John Conrad** — Structural reference for early life (Denver birth, Lakewood Ohio, Lakewood High School graduation 1967, student council, IQ 135, New England College one semester, Cuyahoga Community College), the bank position (Society National Bank, 127 Public Square, vault teller from January 1969), the theft details (July 11, 1969, $215,000, paper bag, two-day head start), aliases, Massachusetts life (golf pro/manager, car dealerships, married 1982, one daughter), identification (obituary matching, birth date discrepancy, parents’ names, college match, signature comparison against 2014 bankruptcy filing), death (May 18, 2021, Lynnfield, lung cancer), sentence details, John and Peter Elliott, and NCIS disclosure detail. Note: individual citations within Wikipedia point to contemporaneous news sources.