This Friendly Family Man Had a 50-Year Secret: He Was a Fugitive Bank Robber, Too
By the time of their final visit last May at Randele's house in suburban Boston, the cancer in his lungs had taken away his voice. So they all left without knowing that their friend they'd spent countless hours swapping stories with never told them his biggest secret of all.
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. His mom, he said, was relieved more than anything to find out her brother had lived a happy life."She thought she would go to her grave and never know," he said.The bank heist in 1969 didn't capture the attention of the nation, or even the city of Cleveland. Everyone else was focused on Apollo 11's historic flight to the moon that week.
His father died in March 2020 before investigators pieced together details from Randele's obituary and signatures from his past. Then in November, Randele's family confirmed that just before he died he told them his real identity and what he had done, Elliott said. After the real-life robbery in Cleveland, Conrad wound up in the Boston area, where much of the movie was filmed. It's a good possibility that he chose his new first name"Thomas" based on the movie, Elliott said.The man known as Thomas Randele came into existence the first week of January in 1970, investigators have found in recent weeks.
His wife told Cleveland.com in November that her husband was a great man and that she was still grieving. She has declined interview requests.In this photo provided by Bob Van Wert, Tom Randele, whose real name according to authorities is Ted Conrad, tends to golf clubs, in September 2012, in Ayer, Mass. Conrad, a former Ohio bank teller-turned-thief, lived for decades under a different name in suburban Boston. Conrad died in May 2021.
The two were among a group five or six car salesmen who stuck together for much of their careers. None of them, Healy said, ever suspected something like this in Randele's past.His former co-workers said they never heard Randele say a bad word about anybody or raise his voice. They all said he was the best golfer they ever knew. Everyone wanted him on their side when there was a tournament.
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