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ERIE TIMES-NEWS, via FBIhttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/pizza.jpgpizzaAt 1:30 p.m. on August 28, 2003, an order phoned in to this pizza parlor sent Brian Wells on his way in the bank-robbery plot that would end in his bombing death at 3:18 p.m. Wells, 46 years old, had worked at Mama Mia’s nearly a decade. ISAAC BREKKEN/ERIE TIMES-NEWShttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/collar5.jpgcollar5Whoever built the collar bomb used machine tools to cut and join the components, shown here in an FBI model. ERIE TIMES-NEWS/FBIhttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/house1.jpghouse1Piles of junk and rotting food greeted Erie police officers and FBI agents when they searched Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong’s house after September 21, 2003. They were looking for evidence that she fatally shot her boyfriend Jim Roden and helped place his body in a freezer in Bill Rothstein’s garage. Diehl-Armstrong had history of hoarding government-surplus food. "I’ve dealt with corpses with the flesh falling off. This is worse," a veteran Erie police officer said of Diehl-Armstrong’s house. FBI photo, used as evidence at trialhttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tower-site.jpgtower-siteBrian Wells delivered his pizza order by driving his Geo Metro down a dirt road to this clearing, the location of the transmission tower for WSEE-TV, the CBS affiliate in Erie, Pennsylvania. He had the collar bomb locked to his neck in the clearing. RICH FORSGREN/ERIE TIMES-NEWShttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/house3.jpghouse3Ken Barnes’ house was in worse condition than those of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Bill Rothstein. Barnes ran a crack house amid the trash; prostitutes turned tricks for drugs in a squalid bedroom upstairs, where Brian Wells spent time with prostitute Jessica Hoopsick. FBI photo, entered into evidence at trialhttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/wells21.jpgwells2Brian Wells heads out of the PNC Bank in the Summit Towne Centre after robbing it of $8,702. Wells is carrying the cash in a white canvas bag; in his left hand is a homemade cane-shaped shotgun. He is sucking on a lollipop he grabbed while in the bank. The collar bomb is protruding from under his white T-shirt. He had demanded $250,000 from the chief teller, but left with whatever money she could give him. ERIE TIMES-NEWS, via FBIhttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/collar6.jpgcollar6The FBI lab in Quantico, Va., used evidence collected from the scene of the bomb blast to reconstruct the bomb mechanism that hung from the neck of Brian Wells. Only one of the pipe bombs exploded. A metal plate covers the kitchen timers that were so crucial to the bomb’s design; the metal mesh was a booby trap designed to detonate the bomb if the mesh touched the metal of the frame. The entire contraption weighed 10 to 15 pounds. FBI photo, used as evidence at trialhttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/sites.jpgsitesThe FBI constructed this diagram to show where Brian Wells was to travel to get the keys to unlock the bomb from his neck on August 28, 2003. He never completed the journey. Agents displayed the diagram at a news conference early in the investigation. FBI photohttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/house2.jpghouse2Bill Rothstein’s house was just as filthy and messy as Diehl-Armstrong’s. In his garage, where he had been storing Jim Roden’s body in a freezer, Rothstein also kept the bloody mattress (at left) on which Roden had died at Diehl-Armstrong’s house. FBI photo, entered into evidence at trial2016-02-10T00:11:45+00:00weekly0.6https://pizzabomber.com/faces-from-the-case/https://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/barnes2.jpgbarnes2Ken Barnes is led into the FBI office in Erie, Pennsylvania, on July 12, 2007, three days after his indictment in the pizza bomber case. At left is ATF Special Agent Jason Wick; at right is the lead investigator in the case, FBI Special Agent Jerry Clark. JACK HANRAHAN/ERIE TIMES-NEWShttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/diehl-armstrong6.jpgdiehl-armstrong6Marjorie Diehl at 20 or 21 years old, in the yearbook for the class of 1970 at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. She graduated in 1970, a year early, with bachelor’s degrees in sociology and biology. Two years later, at age 23, she would receive her first psychiatric treatment, with a later diagnosis of a bipolar disorder. ERIE TIMES-NEWShttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bomb-squad2.jpgbomb-squad2The Erie police’s bomb squad examines the dead body of Brian Wells after a collar bomb locked to his neck exploded. JANET B. KUMMERER/ERIE TIMES-NEWShttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/bomb-squad1.jpgbomb-squad1The Erie police’s bomb squad prepares to examine Brian Wells after the collar bomb locked to his neck exploded. The bomb squad arrived after the bomb detonated. JANET B. KUMMERER/ERIE TIMES-NEWShttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/wells1.jpgwells1Pizza deliveryman Brian Wells moments before the collar bomb locked to his neck exploded, killing him instantly. He had just robbed a bank in Summit Township, outside Erie, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2003. The bomb is underneath his white T-shirt, which is a knockoff for Guess jeans. Wells’ hands are cuffed behind his back. "I don’t have a lot of time," Wells told the Pennsylvania State Police. WJET-TV, the ABC affiliate in Erie, filmed the entire episode. ERIE TIMES-NEWS, COURTESY OF WJET-TVhttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mclaughlin.jpgmclaughlinU.S. District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin, whose pleasant demeanor and calm manner were tested by Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong at her three-week trial in the pizza bomber case in U.S. District Court in Erie, Pennsylvania, in October and November 2010. Contributed photo.https://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/rothstein4.jpgrothstein4Bill Rothstein in October 9, 2003, following his arraignment on charges he helped hide Jim Roden’s body in Rothstein’s freezer. Rothstein reached a deal to testify against Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong in that case, and was never charged with homicide. RICH FORSGREN/ERIE TIMES-NEWShttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/wells3.jpgwells3Brian Wells heads out of the PNC Bank in the Summit Towne Centre after robbing it of $8,702. Wells is carrying the cash in a white canvas bag; in his left hand is a homemade cane-shaped shotgun. He is sucking on a lollipop he grabbed while in the bank. The collar bomb is protruding from under his white T-shirt. He had demanded $250,000 from the chief teller, but left with whatever money she could give him. ERIE TIMES-NEWS, via FBIhttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/rothstein3.jpgrothstein3Bill Rothstein, having turned state’s evidence, helps the Erie police at Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong’s house on September 23, 2003. Rothstein would die of cancer in 2004, before he could be indicted in the pizza bomber case. RICH FORSGREN/ERIE TIMES-NEWShttps://pizzabomber.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/wells2.jpgwells2Brian Wells stands at the front counter of the PNC Bank in the Summit Towne Centre, waiting for the chief teller to give him money on August 28, 2003. He had asked for $250,000, an extraordinary amount for a bank robbery. 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