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Death Trap

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True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Dennis Murphy here with an episode that fits into the category of just imagine if that had happened to you.

0:06.0

The place was Eerie PA, where a bank robbery attempt turned into much more than that.

0:11.0

A pizza delivery guy, so the story goes, handed over his order when the customer snapped a locking metal collar around his neck.

0:19.0

He was told it was a bomb, a fiendish device with a countdown clock right out of bad James Bond.

0:26.0

Pizza guy would be given a code to disarm the device only after robbing a bank on this gang's order and turning over the money.

0:33.0

Just imagine a hapless delivery man lying down in the road, the clock counting down as the bomb squad rushes in to try to save him.

0:41.0

Heralding. It turned out badly.

0:44.0

But that's only one version of the story. The FBI would later alleged that the pizza guy was actually in on it.

0:51.0

That he was a co-conspirator with a criminal ring about to suffer their own bizarre deaths.

0:57.0

It was all very sad and strange. Back now to the summer of 2003 and Death Trap.

1:10.0

What a pretty late summer afternoon it had been along the Great Lake. August 28, 2003.

1:16.0

A day the people of Eurypensovangil will long remember, not for its pleasant breezes.

1:21.0

But for that spasm of unexpected violence. Date line was there.

1:26.0

It all started with a pizza delivery. It ended two hours later and one of the most bizarre crimes police have ever witnessed.

1:32.0

Maybe you remember Bitsvid. A pizza delivery guy robbing a bank, claiming he had a ticking time bomb locked around his neck.

1:40.0

The images are hard to forget and still painful to watch.

1:46.0

Horrific? Bizarre, almost like the mother of all, you know, who done it?

1:49.0

Strange indeed. But on that day we didn't have a clue about all that still lay ahead.

1:55.0

A few weeks after the bank heist, this happened.

1:58.0

There's a frozen body at Yolanda Freezer in the garage.

2:02.0

A 911 caller said there was a man dead in a freezer in his garage and a woman in his living room very much alive.

2:10.0

Who is she, T. You sir?

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