Remember back in 2003 when a pizza delivery guy robbed a bank & died from a collar bomb?

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26530945/

The pizza guy actually was innocent!

ERIE, Pa. - A man has admitted Wednesday that he helped plan a bizarre 2003 bank robbery that ended with the death of a Pennsylvania pizza deliveryman with a collar-bomb strapped to his neck.

The pizza deliveryman, Brian Wells, told police he had been forced at gunpoint to lock the bomb onto his neck and rob the bank. He was killed when the device exploded as police waited for a bomb squad.

Barnes' co-defendant, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, is accused of masterminding the plot. A federal judge recently ruled she's not mentally competent to stand trial.

[hlthe2b]

1. damn, I had long wondered about this story...

[tburnsten]

2. And that is why I favor, in limited applications,

the death penalty. The two of them should swing from a bridge.

[AndyA]

3. That was so awful.

That man must have been terrified. I can't imagine.

I hope he's in a better place now, and has found peace. The guy was just trying to take care of himself by delivering pizzas. What a shame.

[frogmarch]

4. I always thought he was innocent.

It made me furious to see footage of the police standing around joking with each other while the poor man begged for help - which he did, right up to the instant of his death.

[asthmaticeog]

6. A person needing help will NEVER get in the way of a cop swinging his dick.

Never ever.

[FatDave]

12. I couldn't agree more.

I've tried to get police to help me. They never have. Abso-fucking-lutely never. Fuck the police.

[EFerrari]

8. Ditto. We should have all caught a big clue from that horrible death.

[tburnsten]

9. What? That is horrific!

Every one of them should lose their jobs. If my wife (still a criminal justice major, not sure she wants to become a cop anymore though) were ever in that position, she would be building her own little house in the backyard.

[PeaceNikki]

11. Me, too. That was such a bizarre and sad story.

:(

[Nikki Stone1]

16. Those police should be sued by the guy's family

And they should have criminal charges filed against them.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

5. "Not mentally competent to stand trial"?!?!?!?

WTF is up w/ that? She was mentally competent enough to hold a guy at gunpoint, fashion and lock a bomb around his neck, detonate it and kill an innocent guy. Sounds to me like she watched "Saw" too many times and started thinking it was a good idea.

[Mnemosyne]

17. Had her murdered boyfriend's body in a friend's freezer at the time of the Well's killing.

Very disturbed woman.

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Diehl-Armstrong, 58, was the valedictorian of her high school class, but her trial in Roden's death showed that her life since was full of severe mental problems, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia _ and a deep hatred of men. Two decades earlier, she was acquitted in the killing of another boyfriend that she said was in self-defense.

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Rothstein, who has since died of cancer, said he came forward after Diehl-Armstrong suggested using the ice crusher to get rid of the remains.

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Diehl-Armstrong admitted killing another love interest, Robert Thomas, in the 1980s, but she said she had been a victim of physical and sexual abuse and shot Thomas before he killed her. She was acquitted of homicide in 1988 and put on probation for carrying a firearm without a license.

more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071300560.html?referrer=digg

[DoctorMyEyes]

7. I always thought he was innocent n/t

[TNOE]

10. Great news for his family

They fought to prove his innocence.

[JI7]

13. the media should report this, i remember a bit on this

[Sequoia]

14. Yes.

[LostInAnomie]

15. I was actually thinking about this today.

Anyone involved should receive the harshest punishment, and 90% of the police involved with the incident should lose their ass.