'It just seems so out of character': Friends, family stunned that car salesman was a fugitive bank robber
"It just seems so out of character": Friends, family stunned that car salesman was a fugitive bank robberJust before Thomas Randele died, his wife of nearly 40 years asked his golfing buddies and his co-workers from the dealerships where he sold cars to come by their home.
Photos of Thomas Randele, who revealed before he died that he was wanted for a 1969 bank robbery in Cleveland under his previous name, Ted Conrad.How he was able to leave behind one family and create a new life — while evading a father and son from the U.S. Marshals Service who never gave up their hunt — is just now being pieced together.
In a letter sent to his girlfriend, he mistakenly thought he could return when the statute of limitations expired. But once he was indicted, that was no longer true. But for John Elliott, a deputy U.S. marshal, it was personal because he and Conrad came from the same side of town.Elliott traveled across the U.S. looking for Conrad and even after retiring would check on the case, said his son, Pete Elliott, now the top U.S. marshal in Cleveland, who inherited the hunt for Conrad nearly 20 years ago.
Thomas Randele came into existence in January 1970 when Conrad applied for a Social Security number in Boston, Elliott said. While Randele and his wife, Kathy, lived most of their years in a pleasant Boston suburb, they filed for bankruptcy protection in 2014. She told Cleveland.com in November that her husband was a great man. She has declined interview requests.
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