351 - Pizza Bomber: The Mysterious Death of Brian Wells

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

On August 28, 2003, a 46 year-old pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, with a bomb locked to his body at his neck. After the bomb detonated a few minutes later, it would take investigators years to figure out who placed the bomb on him and why.

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0:00.0	On the afternoon of August 28, 2003, at 220 in the afternoon, 46-year-old Brian Wells
0:06.4	walked into a bank just outside of Erie, Pennsylvania, and handed the teller a note demanding
0:11.2	$250,000 in cash.
0:13.7	The note warned that he was wearing a live bomb and that he had limited time to complete
0:17.6	the robbery before detonated.
0:20.1	By 3.18 pm, that bomb did detonate and Brian Wells was dead.
0:25.4	Brian died surrounded by police officers, guns drawn and pointed at him.
0:28.6	He spent his final moments asking for help and warning the officers that the bomb was
0:31.7	real and that he was running out of time to find the keys he needed to unlock it.
0:36.2	Immediately following his death, investigators found a set of very strange notes in Brian's
0:40.7	car.
0:41.7	Some of these notes were sending him on a scavenger hunt throughout Erie, starting with
0:45.3	the bank robbery.
0:46.6	Brian was supposed to complete a series of tasks that would lead him to the keys that
0:49.7	would unlock the collar of the kept the bomb hanging in front of his chest.
0:53.8	The FBI, ATF and the Pennsylvania State Police launched an investigation to try and find
0:59.1	out who put Brian up to this.
1:01.4	Who wrote the notes found in his car?
1:03.4	Who was Brian Wells?
1:05.0	What was his motive to participate in such an insane way to rob a bank?
1:09.6	Did he participate willingly or was he a victim?
1:13.1	Was he conspirator?
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