One of America’s most-wanted fugitives identified after 52 years
One of America's most-wanted fugitives - who walked out of a bank with a paper bag stuffed with $215,000 - has been identified after 52 years, Sky News reports.
Theodore John Conrad was a 20-year-old bank teller at Society National Bank in Cleveland when he plundered the vault, walked out with the cash and vanished.
It wasn't until he failed to report for work on the Monday that the theft - worth $1.7m in today's money - was uncovered. The delay gave him a two-day head start on law enforcement.
That was in 1969 and his whereabouts have been a mystery until now - despite numerous investigators trying to track him down and appeals on TV shows such as America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries.
But the US Marshals Service finally cracked the cold case this week.
It revealed in a statement that Conrad had been living under the name of Thomas Randele in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, since 1970.
They said he'd lived an "unassuming life" in the Boston suburb for years but died from lung cancer in May, aged 71.