Episode Details

A pizza delivery driver walks into a bank with a bomb locked around his neck, a cane-shaped gun in his hand, and a set of instructions that turn robbery into a deadly scavenger hunt. The Pizza Bomber Heist follows the astonishing case of Brian Wells, the Erie, Pennsylvania delivery driver pulled into one of the strangest true crime stories in FBI history.

The Pizza Bomber Heist begins with the 2003 PNC Bank robbery, but the mystery quickly widens into collar bomb case theories, bizarre crimes, deadly conspiracies, and a cast of suspects including Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Bill Rothstein. We trace what really happened, why investigators struggled to untangle the plot, and how the case became linked to Evil Genius and other documentary podcast retellings.

This is a true crime podcast episode about a bank heist gone wrong, a real-life Saw movie, and the question that still makes the story so disturbing: was Brian Wells a victim, a participant, or something in between? The Pizza Bomber Heist remains one of America’s most shocking true crime cases.

Resources and Further Reading 

• Death of Brian Wells - Wikipedia​​
• Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist (2018) - Directed by Barbara Schroeder
• Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery - by Jerry Clark  and Ed Palattella​
• The Story Of Brian Wells And The ‘Pizza Bomber’ Bank Robbery - allthatsinteresting​

Host & Show Info

• Hosts: Kyle Risi & Adam Cox
• Intro Music: Alice in dark Wonderland

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