This unsettling revelation unfolded for thirty-five-year-old Ashley Randall, as her father disclosed on his deathbed that he was a wanted bank robber.
From New York Post:
Thirty-five-year-old Ashley Randele, along with her parents Tom and Kathy, was watching an episode of “NCIS.”
Tom laid on the couch, which had become his domain following a recent lung cancer diagnosis.
Doctors had told the 71-year-old he was probably six weeks away from death.
“When I moved here, I had to change my name,” he said mid-show, as casually as if asking his daughter to pass the remote control. “And the authorities are probably still looking for me.”
Stunned, his family absorbed the news and didn’t say anything at first.
“Part of me took this as dad humor. The authorities?” 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.
This would truly boggle my mind.
Just picture getting hit with a curveball like that right in the midst of all those intense emotions.
I'd definitely have to reach out to a grief counselor pronto.
