52 years later, authorities identify fugitive behind one of Ohio's biggest bank heists

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It was the teller all along.

The U.S. Marshals Service announced on Friday that it has finally identified the person who walked out of a Society National Bank in Cleveland on July 11, 1969, with a paper bag containing $215,000 — the equivalent of more than $1.7 million today. Theodore John Conrad, who worked as a teller at the bank, has been named as the man behind the heist.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.