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Ashley Randele discovered her father, Ted Conrad, was a fugitive when he confessed on his deathbed to robbing a bank in 1969, leading her to release a podcast detailing his life on the run. Despite his criminal past, she remembers him as a devoted father and husband, emphasizing that his actions didn't define him. Conrad lived a modest life after the heist, and his family only learned the truth after his death.
Ashley Randele, the daughter of 1960s bank robber turned fugitive Ted Conrad, reveals on "CNN This Morning" how she discovered her father's criminal past and how she is coping with the information following his death in 2021.
A woman in Boston discovered her father's shocking deathbed confession that he was wanted by the FBI for a bank heist in 1969. Her father, known as Tom Randele, had been living under an assumed name after stealing $219,000 from a bank in Cleveland. He settled in Boston, adopted the name Thomas Randele, and lived a seemingly normal life as a car salesman and scratch golfer. The daughter, Ashley Randele, learned about her father's past after his death and has now cohosted a podcast called "Smoke Screen: My Fugitive Dad" to explore his remarkable saga. Despite his criminal past, Ashley holds no ill feelings towards her father.