Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, the Pizza Bomber’s mastermind, has been identified.
Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man, robbed a PNC Bank in Pennsylvania on August 28, 2003. The collar bomb was forced on the man.
He was killed when an explosive collar around his neck exploded. Following an investigation, it was discovered that it was a planned robbery and murder.
Four of them were charged with the murder of pizza deliveryman Brian Wells in 2007.
Investigators concluded that he was willing to take part in the robbery but thought the bomb was fake. Simultaneously, Wells’ family claimed that the conspirators forced him to commit the theft.
The collar bomb or pizza bomber case received a lot of media attention, including coverage in the 2018 Netflix series Evil Genius.
Brian Wells Murderer: Where Is Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong?
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was one of the case’s masterminds, and she orchestrated the entire robbery and murder of Brain Wells.
Barnes was suggested by Diehl-Armstrong to murder her father in order to receive an inheritance. Barnes agreed to do it for $250,000 in exchange for his time.
They planned the collar bomb-bank robbery solely to kill her Father; they considered giving the robbery money to someone and killing her Father.
In 2011, Diehl-Armstrong was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for her role in the collar bomb-bank robbery plot and the murder of the pizza delivery man.
Prior to becoming involved in the collar bomb bank case, she murdered her boyfriend Robert Thomas six times but was acquitted on self-defense grounds.
After Thomas, she married a man whose identity was unknown; it was assumed that she also murdered him.
Diehl Armstrong’s family stated that she had been struggling with her mental health for some time and had a close relationship with her father.
In prison, the murderer was afflicted with numerous illnesses, and she was fighting for her life.
She died of breast cancer at the age of 68, and all four murderers died inside the jail with her.
Kenneth Barnes had diabetes and died in 2019 at the age of 64. After being diagnosed with non-lymphoma, Hodgkin’s William Ansel “Bill” Rothstein died in 2004.
Floyd Arthur “Jay” Stockton Jr. passed away in 2022 at the age of 74. The cause of his death was determined to be an accident.
Netflix Pizza Bomber Case: Evil Genius
In 2018, a documentary about the Pizza Bomber case was released. The true crime series “Evil Genius: the True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist” is based on Brian Wells’ death story.
Rotten Tomatoes gives the series an 80% rating, with an average score of 6.45/10. People had mixed feelings about it; many disliked the series concept, while half admired the work.
The idea to create a series about a high-profile crime came to Trey Borzillieri; He became intrigued by the murder of Brian Wells.
Borzillieri began interviewing people in Erie, Pennsylvania, the location of the incident, and began corresponding with Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong in 2005, believing she might have information about the case.
He spent years investigating the case and met with Diehl-Armstrong while she was incarcerated.
The series is titled Evil Genius, a reference to Diehl-intelligence Armstrong’s prior to her mental illness.