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🗓️ 20 June 2018
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The #RCP team are joined by retired FBI profiler and forensic linguist James “Fitz” Fitzgerald and continue their analysis of the Netflix show “Evil Genius” which focuses on the bank robbery, which resulted in the death of Brian Wells in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Fitz worked on the case and profiled the 9-page letter when he was in the FBI. We discuss his analysis of the letter and what it reveals about the author and the architect of what has been called “America’s most diabolical bank heist”. Our listeners will not want to miss Fitz’s searing insights.
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0:11.0 | On the 28th of August of 2003, I've sent my office and received information that the PNC Bank, |
0:20.0 | which is located directly across here, have been robbed by individual, apparently, wearing a collar bomb. |
0:30.0 | Brownwell's walked into the PNC Bank with the cane and the collar robin's neck. |
0:36.0 | We later learned that the cane was actually a cane gun. |
0:41.0 | I don't have a lot of time, he said. Police wanted to talk to him. Brian Wells about a bank robbery that he had pulled off, but he told them that he had been set up and that the bomb he was wearing would go off and soon. |
1:05.0 | And then it did on live TV, but that was only the beginning of the mystery. It took four years, but police finally pieced together a plot that apparently Wells, the delivery man was in on to an extent. |
1:17.0 | Police say Wells was part of the bank robbery scheme, but that he didn't realize that he'd be wearing an actual bomb. |
1:25.0 | Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profiles. This is Jim Prometti, former New York City prosecutor, retired FBI profiler and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds in Season 14. |
1:35.0 | And finally today, we're all back together in the studio and with me is Laura Richards, criminal behavior analyst, former New Scotland Yard and founder of Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service. |
1:48.0 | And I'm Lisa Zanvedi and the casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds. I have a real interest in Real Crime and these fantastic minds that solve those crimes. |
1:55.0 | The amount of brain power in this room right now is overwhelming me. |
1:59.0 | So we are continuing our coverage of Evil Genius. So who better to have with us as our special guest? |
2:08.0 | A genius in his own right, Jim Fitzgerald. There you go. |
2:11.0 | And Modus too. |
2:12.0 | Bitsy J in the house with us via Skype. How you doing, Fitz? |
2:15.0 | I'm doing great. Just finished watching a certain docu series called Evil Genius. And I'm very much anxious to talk about it. |
2:23.0 | I know you guys have talked about some of it already. So I'd be glad to give my two bits of a fascinating case that I worked back in the day, at least to some degree and I brought back some very vivid memories watching on Netflix over the last week or so. |
2:37.0 | Yeah. Can I say real quick that I had no idea that you worked on this case. But when I saw what we're going to talk about that nine page tone, I thought, oh my god, if Jim Fitzgerald needed a birthday present, this would be it. |
2:49.0 | Like handing you those pages and having you, you know, just dive into it and tear it apart. I can't wait to hear what you have to say about that. |
2:57.0 | But well, I'm holding the pages here in front of me now. And I remember a lot of the notes I took back in the day. And I don't have the original letter, if you will. |
3:09.0 | But I suddenly have the copy I made here. And I did all came back to me, especially watching the TV show course. |
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