Ohio dad’s deathbed confession to daughter: I’m the fugitive behind notorious 1969 bank heist
- Ashley Randele discovered that her father, who she thought was a loving suburban dad, was actually a wanted fugitive who pulled off a bank heist in 1969.
- Despite learning her father's secret, Ashley and her mother chose not to share the information with authorities due to her father's deteriorating health.
- Investigators sought closure on the unsolved heist case from 1969 and interviewed Ashley after her father's death.
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On his deathbed, Lynnfield woman’s father told her a secret: He was a fugitive and had robbed a bank in Ohio - Boston News, Weather, Sports
(CNN) — Thomas Randele was dying of lung cancer and had a secret.In March of 2021, with his daughter at his bedside in suburban Boston
Before his death, a man told his daughter his secret: He was a bank robber and a 52-year fugitive from justice.
Ashley Randele enjoyed a particularly close relationship with her late father, who treated his only child more like a confidante than a daughter. “I think he would tell me things because he either thought that I could handle it better than my mom or that I just have this terrible gift of being able to compartmentalize things and put it on a shelf and tuck it away,” Randele told the podcast “Smoke Screen: My Fugitive Dad,” in an episode that drop…
Man makes startling deathbed confession to his daughter
“I told him, ‘I looked you up. And there are a million articles about you. And they’re also still looking for you, in case you didn’t know. And we have to tell Mom,’” said Ashley Randele, 38, who’s co-host of a new podcast on who her father was and what drove him to rob a bank.
A deathbed confession: The story behind one of Cleveland’s largest bank heists
CLEVELAND (WJW) - Pete Elliot is Ohio’s current and longest serving U.S. Marshal. Before that, his father John Elliot helped bolster the program in his time as a leader for the U.S Marshals. “He ran the witness protection program during the real hot days of the mob and so on,” said Elliot. Over the length of John Elliot’s career, there were few crimes he couldn’t solve. Hacker accessed data from millions of 23andMe accounts: investigation…
On his deathbed, her father told her a secret: He was a fugitive in Mass. and robbed a bank in Ohio
In March of 2021, with his daughter at his bedside in suburban Boston after his first chemotherapy session, he made a stunning confession: He was a fugitive, and had been one for more than five decades.
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