Due to the nature of this episode, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of violence, sexual assault, and killing.

Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen. It was an otherwise normal afternoon

at Mamma Mia's Pizzeria in Erie, Pennsylvania.

The employees kept up their usual pace of making and delivering pies.

Just then the phone rang.

Tony de Tomo, the store's owner, answered. The caller asked if they'd

delivered an Upper Peach Street. Tony replied that it depended on where on

Upper Peach. The customer tried to describe his location, but Tony was having a hard time hearing him over the wind in the background.

He replied that they would be able to deliver to him, then quickly handed off the phone to his delivery man, Brian Wells.

Brian listened to the directions, but in truth, he didn't need them. he'd been to Upper Peach before to that exact location

today's delivery would be no ordinary run he was. This call was his trigger. And there was more on the

agenda than two small pizzas.

I'm Vanessa Richardson, host of Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast. You can find us here every Monday,

and be sure to check us out on Instagram at Serial Killers Podcast.

Today I'm joined by my friend and host of conspiracy theories, Carter Roy.

Hey Vanessa, thanks for having me.

Great to have you here Carter.

This is our first of three episodes on 46 year old Brian Wells, more

infamously known as the Pizza Bomber. On August 28, 2003, Wells entered a PNC bank in Erie, Pennsylvania with a letter demanding

$250,000 in cash and with a live collar bomb strapped to his neck.

And behind Brian Wells was a ragtag group of conspirators looking to make a quick buck.

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