Then another man, Bill Rothstein, tells police there is a body in his refrigerator. Robert Pinetti, a former colleague of Wells, is found dead in his home, apparently the victim of a drug overdose. Then, in the following days, odd things start happening in Erie. To recover the explosive device, police had to cut off Wills' head. "I am not lying," Wells said as he sat on the sidewalk. He said he had been tricked while delivering pizzas. "I don't know if I have enough time now," Wells told police.
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That scene was filmed and broadcast by TV stations around the world. Police realized he was wearing a bomb, and kept their distance.
Wells was apprehended near the bank, and handcuffed. In his hand he carries pages of rambling, hand-written instructions for a sort of a scavenger hunt for keys and combinations hidden around Erie that would remove the collar.īut he never got as far as that hunt. He hands over a note demanding $250,000, but was given just over $8,000, and leaves sucking on a lollipop he grabbed from the counter. Around his neck is a collar with a bomb on a timer. It all begins when Wells, 46, walks into a branch of PNC Bank with a gun shaped like a cane. The four fast-moving episodes of "Evil Genius," directed by Barbara Schroeder and Trey Borzillieri, look back at all the puzzles that made up this heist in Erie, a small city in the Great Lakes region. Netflix has now come out with a mini-series on the robbery and returns to a question that has divided opinion for 15 years: was that man, one Brian Wells, a willing accomplice, or was he the unwitting victim of a bizarre plot? Police in Pennsylvania apprehend him, but shortly thereafter, the explosive device goes off, ripping a hole in his chest that kills him minutes before the bomb squad arrives. As bank heists in America go, this was one of the weirdest: in 2003, a pizza delivery man walks into a bank with a bomb around his neck and a note demanding a quarter of a million dollars.
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