Did they have to return the money?
What money? That money was probably gone within the first two decades, if not the first decade.
Not if he bought a house with it. A $50k house in the '70s could be worth around a million now.
More like half a million now probably
I don’t know much about the US housing marketbut, here in the UK, I know two couples who bought their houses for £15-25k in the 1970s and they’re worth a million now.
House price inflation is a very scary thing.
Sometimes, crime does pay.
Often. Usually, I’d be willing to bet.
I don’t know this for certain, but if a study were ever conducted on, say, the top 100 most commonly-committed crimes, I suspect the number of which you’re more likely than not to get away with would astonish you.
Wage theft accounts for more stolen money then all other theft combined, so this is bog standard true. Our very economic and legal system lets white collar crime go unpunished by design.
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I was a very, very bad teenager. I had my 5th felony by the time I turned 15. All in all, that’s a very small percentage of the felonies (and misdemeanors) I was never caught for. Nothing violent, but lots of vandalism, theft, etc.
Hover hand to avoid fingerprints. Smart.
Some compared it to the 1971 case of hijacker D.B. Cooper, who parachuted out of a plane with $200,000 in cash and vanished over the vast wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, never to be seen again.
U.S Marshalls? I thought those guys were only used for witness protection.
They’re for any federal court related enforcement. Prisoner transport, apprehending prisoners that escape, and servicing warrants for fugitives. Their historical basis is actually executing federal warrants for fugitives.
US got so many agencies it’s hard to keep track of.
If I remember right from the last time I read about them, they are the oldest agency too. They usually have to take risky tasks, and were/are rather serious about their role. Stuff from prisoner transport, to nuclear weapon transport, and protecting students during the integration of African American students in the south.
I know a guy who was on the run for ten years over a drug case (LSD). He finally turned himself in because of how much the Marshals were harassing his sister.
King.
The most interesting thing in that article was that someone anonymously sent in a tip with Randele’s obituary which is how they finally closed the case. Who is the rando super sleuth following this cold case for 50 years obsessively scanning obits from all over the country?
I caught that too. I bet someone back in Ohio knew what happened.
Yea that’s fucking wild to me. Where do people find the time?!
There’s an actual quality true crime podcast called Crime Junkie, and an associated podcast specifically dedicated to cold cases called The Deck. It’s a whole thing for some people, but occasionally a listener hits on something and makes a phone call that gets the ball rolling again.
I listen because I find it interesting, but that’s the extent of it. Some people it’s truly a hobby, or more to chase information down.
It’s crazy to think about all the things we’ve each done and seen in our lives, and maybe at some point we were part of some terrible crime and had no idea. Maybe we saw and still remember something that if known to someone else would completely change their life.
Unsolved Mysteries with the silky smooth voice of Robert Stack is the background noise for my nappings
Retirees have a lot of time on their hands.
My guess would be there are a number of people who are hobbyist cold case investigators and have a list of wanted people they keep an eye out for in obits.
