The fugitive behind one of America’s most notorious bank robberies has been identified after a 52-year search, law enforcement officials have announced.
Ted Conrad was working as a teller at the Society National Bank in Cleveland, Ohio when he robbed his employer in July 1969.
He disappeared with $215,000, worth $1.7m (£1.2m) today.
Investigators from the US Marshals Service said he subsequently lived a quiet and unassuming life.
Conrad, who died in May from lung cancer, was just 20 years old when he pulled off the heist. He reportedly took advantage of the bank’s lacklustre security, walking out with the money stuffed into a brown paper bag as the branch closed on a Friday evening.
By the time other bank employees realised the money was gone two days later, Conrad had disappeared.
He sparked a manhunt that would last for more than half a century, and went on to feature on television shows like America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries.
According to the Marshal Service, Conrad had allegedly told friends of his plans to rob the bank and boasted about how easy it would be to do.
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