>>> What would it prove?
You don't need the money.
>> It's not the money, it's not the money.
It's me.
It's me and the system.
>> That was of course the 1968 bank heist classic the Thomas crown affair, authorities
say that movie inspired bank teller to.
He walked out of the bank with $215,000 in paper bag and he vanished.
Just for context, $1.7 million today.
But for more than 50 years, no one knew he had done it.
Not until his daughter said he confessed to her on his death bed before passing away from
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bed before passing away from lung cancer in 2021.
Thomas randele's daughter is sharing her story in a new pod cast.
She joins us now.
Ashley, we appreciate you joining us this morning, I think this story is one, it's wild,
two, people are completely fascinated by it.
The questions, the idea of doing the podcast, why did you decide this is you wanted to do
this.
>> Thank you so much for having me.
I knew it was really important to tell my dad's full story.
So much to a life one moment when you're 20 years old.
It gave me the opportunity to tell this compelling story in an exciting medium.
Podcasting allows incredible storytelling, it really feels like you're listening to movie
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like you're listening to movie when you listen to this podcast.
>> I also think that the story itself feels like it's a movie on several different points
throughout including -- I want to start how you found this out, you watch NCIS and crime
shows regularly, watching an episode in 2021 was first how this came to your attention,
explain.
>> It was.
My mom, dad and I were sitting in the living room watching NCIS and he looked over at us
and calmly said, ladies, just in case anything ever comes up, I had to change my name when
I moved here.
The authorities are probably still looking for me, I don't want to talk about it, but
just so you know in case it ever comes up you're not blindsided.
Then we went back to NCIS.
>> Then what?
>> I realized that wasn't enough information and the next day I
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information and the next day I sat down with him alone and really pushed him on finding
out his name, if his name wasn't Tom randele, I deserved to know my father's name and my
name.
He finally said that he would tell me as long as I promised not to look into it and that's
when he told me his name was Ted Conrad.
I didn't listen to him and I looked into it.
That night at 2:30 alone in my childhood bedroom, I put in the name Ted Conrad, missing, that's
when I saw the headline, like vault teller heist and I was absolutely floored.
I couldn't have been more shocked.
I said out loud to the room, oh, my gosh, my life is a lifetime movie.
>> The process of processing to some degree, where are you now versus when you had that
moment
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versus when you had that moment of realization?
>> I'm definitely I think in a more solid place now.
Honestly working on this podcast, to investigate my dad, has helped me transition through a
lot of the uncertainty and a lot of the grief of losing him, what's so fascinating about
this project specifically is the psychology of a criminal is fascinating to me.
But we hear a lot about it from criminals who were caught.
And my dad was never caught.
So being able to have those conversations with him and really delve into that psychology
of what does it mean to be a fugitive on the run for 50 years, to have to keep that huge
secret, but then also, what other secrets do you then have to keep from your friends,
from your family, I mean from your wife and child, to keep that
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wife and child, to keep that original secret and protect yourself?
It's been a healing journey but fascinating.
>> Real quick, everyone should listen it's fascinating story, any idea where the money
went?
>> I donave a big bag of money.
I mean, it sounds like when he first moved here he lived in a gorgeous apartment and
didn't work all that much and it was gone within a few years of just living a really
nice life in on.
>> Right.
Ashley the story is fascinating, the podcast is out today.