He stole $ 215,000 and disappeared for 52 years |Jdm

The US Marshals service announced on Friday that it has identified one of the most sought after fugitives in the United States, involved in a burglary 52 years ago.

On Friday July 11, 1969, Theodore John Conrad, who held a cashier position in a branch of the National Bank Society in Cleveland, in Ohio, presented himself at work as every day, according to a statement issued by the serviceUS Marshals.

However, he left, at the end of the day, with $ 215,000 American (the equivalent of $ 1.7 million in 2021) in a bag of paper, then he disappeared.

It was not until the following Monday, when the 20 -year -old man did not appear at work, that the employees of the bank checked the content of the vault and realized that the money had disappeared.

According to the US Marshals service, Ted Conrad has become obsessed with the film The Thomas Crown Affair (the Thomas Crown affair), in which a millionaire businessman has fun robbing banks for pleasure.

The cashier would also have boasted his friends that he would be easy to steal money from the bank and even told them that he planned to do so.

Theodore John Conrad has left more than one investigator in the past 50 years.

This story has already been presented in American shows such as America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries.

The file remained unresolved until last week, when a Cleveland US Marshals went to Boston, Massachusetts.

US Marshals confirmed that a man called Thomas Randele, from Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was actually Theodore J.Conrad, according to the press release.

The cashier has lived in the suburbs of Boston since 1970.Ironically, the young man moved near the place where the original version of the Thomas Crown affair was filmed.

Thomas Randele, his real name Theodore John Conrad, died of lung cancer in May 2021.