Federal marshals in Ohio say an investigation into a 1969 bank robbery has been closed, following the death earlier this year of the man they say was responsible.
He had made a new life in Massachusetts.
The man, who went by the alias “Thomas Randele” has a South Shore connection.
Randele’s driver license that expired in 1978, listed a “Matttakesette” Street address in Pembroke.
He also worked at the Pembroke County Club as a golf pro, eventually becoming manager.
Authorities say 20-year-old Theodore Conrad was a bank teller at the Society National Bank in Cleveland when he walked out with a paper bag containing $215,000.
That’s the equivalent of more than $1.7 million in 2021 dollars.
The U.S. Marshals service said that authorities had confirmed that Conrad had been living “an unassuming life” since 1970 under a different name until his death of lung cancer in May.
According to the NY Times, Conrad confessed the crime in a letter to a girlfriend in 1969.
Conrad, under his alias, Thomas Randele, also worked at a North Shore luxury car dealership.
