In 2003, a pizza delivery driver named Brian Wells walked into a bank wearing what appeared to be a bomb locked around his neck. Later, he was surrounded by police on live television, insisting he had been forced to rob the bank. Then... the bomb exploded.

What followed was one of the strangest criminal investigations in FBI history—a case involving scavenger hunts, homemade bombs, conspiracies, mental illness, greed, and a cast of characters so bizarre it feels fictional.

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Do you think Brian Wells knew what he was getting into, or was he manipulated?

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McLaughlin, Sean J. United States v. Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. 20 Sept. 2010,  ...