In 1969, US investigators found the man who was missing after he stole more than $210,000 from the bank he worked for and ran away 52 years later.



According to CNN on the 14th (local time) and the New York Times (NYT), the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Federal Sheriff's Office (USMS) announced on the 12th that they had found the culprit in a bank theft case in Cleveland, Ohio 52 years ago.



The real name of the killer is Theodore Conrad.



As a teller at a bank in Cleveland, he disappeared after stealing $215,000 in a paper bag at the end of a shift.



The present value of this money is 1.7 million dollars, or about 2 billion won.



The incident happened on Friday, but the bank didn't know about the damage until he was off work on Monday.



This case also drew attention as an 'unsolved mystery' and 'America's most infamous most wanted' on TV in the United States.



After he fled, he was seldom found.



Authorities searched for him from California to Hawaii and Texas, but to no avail.



The investigation, which had stalled for decades, was triggered by the news that a man named Thomas Randall died of lung cancer in May of this year.



Based on the man's obituary, USMS has identified several clues and has begun to gather information collected in the past.



This man's real birthday is July 10, 1949, but the obituary says July 10, 1947, so it was similar.



My parents' names were the same as in real life.



It also included his alma mater, the University of New England, and his birthplace, Denver.



The signature on his college application was similar to that found in 2014 in Boston federal court, the New York Times reported.



He has been living in Boston since 1970 under the pseudonym Thomas Randall.



The young man, who was 22 at the time, had already died in his 70s.



The house he lived in in Boston was coincidentally close to the filming location of the movie 'Thomas Crown Affair' that started the crime.



The movie tells the story of a millionaire entrepreneur who robs the bank to get rid of boredom.



At the time, Conrad said he watched a movie and bluffed out to his friends how easy it was to steal money from the bank.



The chief contributor to the closure of the case was USMS employee Elliott Richie.



John K. Elliott, who worked for the Cleveland USMS from 1969 to 1990, collected evidence while tracking Conrad.



His son, Peter J. Elliott, also became a USMS employee to investigate the case.



In particular, John K. Elliott collected documents such as college applications signed by Conrad, who played a crucial role in identification.



"My father didn't stop tracking Conrad and he wanted the case to be closed until his death last year," said Elliott, son.



According to the New York Times, the man confessed to his family of a crime 52 years ago just before his death. 



(Photo = U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Federal Sheriff's Office (USMS) Twitter capture, Yonhap News)