The Pizza Bomber Pt. 3: The Robbery

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In August 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Wells strapped a collar bomb to his neck and chest and entered a PNC Bank demanding $250,000 in cash. He thought it was the perfect bank robbery, and that the bomb on his chest was fake. He was wrong on both counts. Keep up with us on Inst ...  Afficher plus

Discover the tragic story of Brian Douglas Wells, a pizza delivery man turned bank robber who ended up with a bomb locked around his neck in one of America's most bizarre crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

When a pizza delivery man, Brian Wells, robs a bank while claiming he has a bomb locked around his neck, it turns into one of the strangest cases the FBI has ever encountered. Dennis Murphy has chosen this episode as one of his most memorable episodes.

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This is the story Brian Wells, the pizza bomber, as well as Kenneth Barnes, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, and William Rothstein and their plot to rob a bank.