The Fugitive
January 20, 2022
LIVE EVENT
We discussed the fascinating case of "Thomas Randele" who confessed on his deathbed that he was really a fugitive named Ted Conrad. Conrad had been wanted since 1969 for a bank robbery in Cleveland, Ohio.
The US Marshal in charge of the case, Peter Elliot, who has served under two Presidents, also joined us. This case is very personal to him, as his father, John Elliot, was the original Marshal on this case, and grew up in the same small town as the culprit.
Host Kelly McLear asked Elliot to fill us in on what happened on July 11, 1969, and why Conrad was such a wanted man. It was the day after his 20th birthday when he stole $215,000 from a bank where he worked. That day he walked out of the bank with a paper bag containing the cash, a bottle of whiskey, and a pack of cigarettes — and disappeared. According to Kelly, the dollar amount would be worth $1.6 million today.
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