The On an ordinary August afternoon in 2003, a pizza delivery guy named Brian Wells walked into a bank

with a cane, a lollipop, and a bomb strapped around his neck.

By the end of the day, he was dead. The FBI was chasing clues across Pennsylvania,

and a frozen body was about to pop out of someone's basement. The story has it all, a scavenger

hunt with deadly stakes, a woman whose boyfriends keep mysteriously dropping dead,

and a mastermind, or maybe a pawn, at the center of it all.

It's one of the most bizarre, twisted true crime cases you've never heard of.

And trust me, by the time we're done, you'll be questioning every detail.

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and welcome to 10-minute murder. Brian Douglas Wells was, by all accounts, the human equivalent of a reliable clock.

46 years old, a pizza delivery man with a decade-long tenure at the same

pizzeria. And a guy who didn't just show up, he always showed up. He never called in sick.

He was late exactly once, and that was because one of his cats died. A valid excuse, really,

because those cats are pretty much his whole world.

He lived alone in a small apartment with three of them, sticking to a routine so predictable

you could set your watch by it.

Each day, he'd wake up, grab breakfast at a local cafe, read the newspaper, and head to

work.

Then repeat, day after day, same breakfast, same paper, same pizza joint. It wasn't

flashy, but it was Brian's life. Simple, uncomplicated. Until it wasn't. August 28, 2003 began like

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