A bank robber stole $215,000, changed his name, and escaped justice for 50 years. He only told his daughter the truth on his deathbed.

A bank robber who changed his identity and escaped justice for 52 years after stealing $215,000 only told his daughter his real name when he was dying, according to CNN.

Theodore John Conrad, who for decades went by the name Thomas Randele, made the confession in March 2021, as he was fighting lung cancer in a hospital in Boston, per the outlet.

The confession sent his daughter, Ashley Randele, into a state of disbelief, prompting her to look for more information about her father’s well-kept secret, the outlet reported.

“I’m alone in my childhood bedroom, and I Googled ‘Ted Conrad missing,’ and the first thing that came up said something like, ‘Vault teller robs bank.’ I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is my dad,’” she told CNN.

Conrad was a bank teller in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1969 when, as a 20-year-old, he stuffed $215,000 in cash into a paper bag and fled, the US Marshals Service said in a statement in 2021.