Dad Confesses to Daughter on Deathbed, Says He Was Financial institution Fugitive

A girl dished all on her father’s surprising deathbed confession … saying her life modified when she found he had been a wished man for many of his life following an previous financial institution heist.

Ashley Randele got here on ‘TMZ Stay’ Monday to inform her story — saying her father, Tom Randele, got here clear with an estimated 6 weeks to reside following a lung most cancers analysis … abruptly off-loading the decades-long secret as they watched NCIS.

The 71-year-old defined to Ashley and her mother that he needed to change his actual title … and so they should lastly know in case it got here up after his passing … as a result of authorities “were probably still looking for him.”

Ashley says she pressed him for more information the subsequent day after realizing it wasn’t a “terrible dad joke” — including it was important for her to know her dad’s actual title: Ted Conrad.

Ignoring his pleas to not look into it, Ashley later discovered herself looking out his title on-line … yielding varied “vault teller robs bank” headlines … and up to date articles stating the 50-year hunt was nonetheless lively.

The revelation left her surprised … in any case, she had simply discovered the person she all the time perceived as a mean suburban dad stole $219,000 — the equal of $1.8M at present — whereas working as a vault teller on the Society Nationwide Financial institution in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, July 11, 1969, as a 20-year-old faculty dropout.

He fled to Washington, D.C., that night time … and when financial institution bosses found the theft on Monday, the FBI was known as, and Conrad turned a wished man.

He ended up in Boston … assuming a brand new id and resuming normalcy regardless of his image plastered throughout headlines.

Whether or not the heist was price it or not would have been a query for Ted, AKA, Tom … as Ashley says, many of the stolen cash was blown on ritzy digs and a minimum of one unhealthy funding … reaching the purpose of her loaning her dad and mom 10K earlier than they filed for chapter in 2014.