The Perfect Disappearance

About this episode

The episode explores the mysterious life of Theodore Conrad, who vanished after a bank robbery and lived under a new identity for over fifty years.

Zoinks! The trail leads from a Cleveland bank vault to a quiet Massachusetts life, and the only person who ever knew the full truth took most of it to his grave. Josh brings this mystery to the bunker this week while Kim and buddy Dave join him, asking the questions that remain: How did a man who supposedly couldn't find his own socks maintain a double identity for five decades? How did he explain away his missing family, his absent past? And perhaps most intriguing of all, did he really do it just because of a movie? The case remained open for over half a century. Tragically, the original detective who worked the case died just two years before its resolution. In 2021, on his deathbed, Thomas Randall finally confessed to his wife and adult daughters that he was really Theodore Conrad, the bank teller who vanished with nearly $1.9 million in today's money. From Cleveland, Conrad fled to Washington D.C., then Los Angeles, before finally settling in a small Massachusetts town where he reinvented himself as Thomas Randall. He worked as a golf pro at a country club and sold high-end cars. He married in 1982, raised two daughters, and became well-liked by his neighbors and local…

People in this episode

Hosts: Shane L. Waters, Joshua Waters, Kim Morrow

Guest: Dave

Topics covered

• disappearance
• identity
• crime
• mystery
• true crime
• history

Keywords

• disappearance
• Theodore Conrad
• bank robbery
• identity change
• true crime
• mystery
• Cleveland
• Massachusetts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: America's Most Wanted, Unsolved Mysteries

Places: Cleveland, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Massachusetts

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