The Man Forced to Rob a Bank With a Bomb Around His Neck
On August 28, 2003, a pizza delivery driver walked into a bank in Erie, Pennsylvania carrying a cane gun, a handwritten demand note, and a metal collar locked around his neck. Minutes later, he was surrounded by police in a parking lot, desperately claiming that the bomb attached to him was real.
Then it exploded.
What followed became one of the most bizarre and disturbing criminal investigations in FBI history. Was Brian Wells a willing participant in a carefully planned bank robbery? Or was he an innocent man forced into a deadly plot he could never escape?
In this episode of Unlawful Acts…
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