My dad’s shocking deathbed confession: He was wanted by the FBI for a bank heist
nypost.comauthorities?” Ashley, now 38, told The Post. “I sat with it for a day. Then I realized that, if he is not Tom Randele, I am not Ashley Randele.
I told my dad that he has to tell me his real name. He said he would tell me as long as I promised to not look into it.”She agreed.“After a long pause, he told me his name was Ted Conrad,” said Ashley, who couldn’t keep the promise. “That night, at 2:30, I googled Ted Conrad.”What she found shocked her.
In 1969, a 20-year-old college dropout by the name of Ted Conrad was working as the vault teller for Society National Bank in Cleveland, Ohio.On Friday, July 11, he left his job with a paper bag that contained a bottle of freshly purchased whiskey.Poking out of the top was a carton of cigarettes.
Below the cigarettes: $219,000 in stolen money — the equivalent of $1.8 million today — taken from the bank’s vault.That night, Conrad taxied to the airport and caught a flight to Washington, DC.
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