Ted Conrad was a fugitive wanted in one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland’s history. And he had spent most of his life using the name Thomas Randele, a name he created six months after the heist in 1969.
Photos, a driver's license, the original warrant and other items from a 1969 robbery involving Ted Conrad are shown on Dec. 16, 2021 at the Carl B. Stokes U.S. Courthouse. After more than 50 years, Elliott announced that they had closed the case on one the city's biggest bank robberies. Conrad pulled off the 1969 robbery and had been living in Boston under a new name until his death last May.
For the past 50 years, he was a fugitive wanted in one of the largest bank robberies in Cleveland’s history, living in Boston under a new name he created six months after the heist in the summer of 1969. Not even his wife or daughter knew until he told them in what authorities described as a deathbed confession.
Then just a day after his 20th birthday that July, Conrad walked out at closing time on a Friday with a paper bag stuffed with $215,000 from the vault, a haul worth $1.6 million today. U.S. Marshal Peter J. Elliott at the Carl B. Stokes U.S. Courthouse in Cleveland with items related to a 1969 bank robbery.
The problem was that Conrad's head start allowed him to disappear, and he was disciplined enough not to make any missteps. The last credible sighting came in October 1969, when a Cleveland couple visiting Hawaii met a man they later realized looked very much like Conrad. Conrad saw the film at least six times and copied Steve McQueen’s character, driving sports cars and drinking high-end liquor, according to friends.
Around then he began working in the car business, selling Land Rovers and Volvos at a handful of dealerships until he retired after nearly 40 years.What’s not clear yet is what happened to the money. The Marshals Service is looking into whether he lost it early on through bad investments. Among the many people he became friends with over the years was an FBI agent in Boston, Elliott said.
He wasn't much of a drinker and never put down any side bets while playing, said Bob Van Wert, who first met Randele while golfing and then later worked with him.
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