Friendly family man’s 50-year secret: He was fugitive from notorious Cleveland bank robbery
- Just before Thomas Randele died, his wife of nearly 40 years asked his golfing buddies and his co-workers from the dealerships where he sold cars to come by their home.
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.
A day after his 20th birthday that July, Conrad walked out with $215,000 from the vault, a haul worth $1.6 million today. By the time the missing money was noticed, Conrad was flying across the country. The bank heist in 1969 didn’t capture the attention of the nation, or even of Cleveland. Everyone else was focused on Apollo 11′s historic flight to the moon.
After the real-life robbery in Cleveland, Conrad wound up in the Boston area, where much of the movie was filmed. What’s not clear yet is what happened to the money. The Marshals Service is looking into whether he lost it early through bad investments.
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