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Investigators Probe Bizarre Bomb Death of Pizza Ma
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Those who knew pizza man doubt he planned bank robbery
Thursday, September 4, 2003 Posted: 11:43 AM EDT (1543 GMT)

ERIE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Living in a rented cottage with hand-me-down furniture and three cats, Brian Douglas Wells was content to deliver pizzas 27 hours a week and spend much of his free time listening to his stereo. Money, say his friends, never meant much to him.

That's why people who knew Wells can't believe he could have masterminded any bank heist, particularly a plot as bizarre as the one the 46-year-old deliveryman has been linked to for a week.

FBI agents and other law enforcement officials have been trying to determine what happened to Wells, who died last Thursday after robbing a bank near Erie when a bomb tethered over his chest and hanging from a locked, metal collar around his neck exploded.

Pleading with police to help him get the bomb off, Wells told authorities he had been forced to rob the bank, indicating that someone else had clasped the bomb to him.

Authorities have been trying to figure out whether that story was true, or whether Wells had played a more willing part in the robbery.

His friends and neighbors are firm in their belief that Wells was a victim.

"He had a different set of values," said his landlord, Linda Payne, who rented the white cottage behind her home to the unmarried Wells for five years.

While Wells' family members have refused to speak publicly, others described him as a quiet man of average intelligence, friendly and willing to help with chores from picking up the mail to shoveling snow in winter.

Investigators haven't talked about what a search of Wells' home produced, but Payne said she doesn't believe they found much to support a theory that he was willingly involved in the heist or the making of the bomb.

"He didn't have a computer. He couldn't get it off the Internet. He would have no desire to make a bomb. He would have no desire to hang something around his neck," Payne said.

Investigators seized drill bits, household tools, phone bills and letters from Wells' home when they searched it last Friday, according to court documents. FBI officials have said they are trying to reconstruct the bomb and analyze notes found with Wells to determine whether he was forced to rob the bank by someone who had locked the collar around his neck.

Korac Timon, chief deputy coroner in Erie County, says the blast killed Wells, leaving a postcard-sized hole in his chest.

FBI Agent Kenneth McCabe said through a spokesman Wednesday he has never heard of such a collar-bomb device being used in America but that he was aware of at least one similar case in Colombia.

In May 2000, in what was believed to be an extortion attempt, a collar packed with explosives and placed around the neck of a 53-year-old woman exploded, killing her and a bomb technician trying to disarm it. This summer, Colombian rebels were accused of using a so-called "necklace bomb" to try to extort money from a Venezuelan rancher. Police were able to disarm that bomb, authorities said.

Authorities investigating the case in Erie have said they do not believe Wells' death was an act of terrorism, and, on Wednesday, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, a native of Erie and a former assistant prosecutor in the county, said his agency is not investigating.

"I'm confident that they will get to the bottom of this, but it's a very strange occurrence. It's very bizarre," said Ridge.

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Re: Investigators Probe Bizarre Bomb Death of Pizz
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since this is in PA, they have been talking about this ALL week, does not seem that they are any closer to getting answers either way.

Sad story really. Sad

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