After 52 years of searching, the Feds catch bank robber

Today I’m finishing the week on a lighter note. This is not a story with some deep insight, nor is it a rant about some nutter. Instead it is a tale that amused me and so I wanted to share it with you all because I thought it just might tickle you as well.

It concerns a guy who stole a lot of money from a bank by simply picking it up and then walking away with it all in 1969. They finally managed to find him last month (November 2021).

Here is what happened.

The Robbery

Back in 1969, a young guy, age 20, named Theodore John Conrad, worked at Society National Bank in Cleveland, Ohio. His job was to go into the vault, and package up cash for delivery to branches around town. He noticed that their security was rather lax. Nobody was paying too much attention to what he was doing during the day, they just trusted him to get the job done and assumed that if anything went missing then an audit would soon reveal that.

He even explained it all to his friend Russell Metcalf when having lunch with him on the day of the theft. He pointed out that security was very lax, and that stealing the cash would be very easy. I guess Russell did not think he would actually do it. Inspired by the 1968 Steve McQueen film The Thomas Crown Affair, this was exactly…