#137: Getting to the Bottom of Evil Genius

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The full RCP team of Laura Richards, Jim Clemente and Lisa Zambetti reunite to interview co-directors Trey Borzillieri and Barbara Schroeder about the genesis of the Netflix show "Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist."

We go behind the scenes and ask the documentarians the tough questions that are still burning after the final twist lands at the end of the four part docuseries. We debate the answers that Trey and Barbara give and the evidence to support it including material which did not make it onto our screens.

In this episode, burning questions include how Trey and Barbara come into contact with this baffling case, the extent of Brian Wells's involvement, Brian's nonchalant affect, demeanour and behaviour at the bank, who was involved in the so-called scavenger hunts in Eerie and the context and detail of Trey's relationship with Marjorie Diel-Armstrong and Bill Rothstein.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.8	A pizza delivery man walked into a bank in broad daylight with a bomb strapped around
0:12.3	his neck demanding money.
0:14.8	Had he acted alone or was he actually a victim of a bigger crime?
0:20.2	That crime is now the subject of a new Netflix series that explores a complicated plot that
0:25.8	seems too strange, too twisted to be true, but it is.
0:42.5	The Netflix docuseries takes us all back almost 15 years to the crime that captivated
0:48.1	the country.
0:49.1	The narrator, Trayborzaliri, is a Western New York native.
0:52.3	I was in Buffalo, New York, which is just east of Eury on that day, August 28, 2003.
0:57.8	Admittedly, he became obsessed with the pizza bomber case.
1:00.8	He calls this woman Marjorie D. Alarmstrong, the mastermind.
1:05.6	Or as the title suggests, an evil genius.
1:08.8	For ten years, Tray communicated with her in prison through letters and hundreds of phone
1:13.9	calls.
1:14.9	I was very uncomfortable with it.
1:15.9	I was from the start, but I was willing to do it for the story and to get truth in this
1:21.0	case.
1:22.1	This was a story that brought him to the truth about Wells himself.
1:24.7	Prosecutors and investigators argued he was part of the planning, and not an innocent hostage.
1:29.9	The series argues otherwise.
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