>> here we go. canal larsen takes you inside a rescue mission. hollywood hustle. >> you say you've been robbed for the last few decades. >> what would you call it? >> pop star david cassidy claims he was ripped off over his pop idol image. but first, a pizza delivery man robs a bank with a bomb around his neck. >> these suckers say you got 55 minutes, man. what are you going to do? >> and that's just the beginning of one of the most bizarre crimes ever. cnn's drew griffin unravels the twisted tale of the man known as the pizza bomber. >> 911. what is your emergency? >> yes. we've just been robbed. >> was anyone hurt? >> no. he just walked out the door. >> august 28, 2003, erie, pennsylvania. within minutes of robbing a bank, brian wells is surrounded by police, cross legged on the ground and handcuffed. he told police he was a pizza delivery man and he delivered a pizza. the group he delivered it to captured him, he told police, put this bomb on his neck, and told him to rob a bank. >> can you call my boss? >> yes. >> he asked police to call his boss. then to save his life. >> why is it nobody is trying to help? >> 25 minutes ticked by. then the device begins to beep. in an instant the bank robber is dead. the death of brian wells in this parking lot that day turned out to be only the beginning of the most elaborate, intricate, and some say still unsolved bank robbery case the fbi has ever had. >> at the end of it all, our system worked. our law enforcement partners solved the puzzle, and we achieved convictions and long sentences. >> the fbi, the local police, and the u.s. attorney's office simply want this case to be closed. but is it? tonight you decide. did the fbi catch all the suspects? did the fbi let one of them walk? and did the fbi make a mistake putting blame on a pizza delivery man whose secrets blew up in a parking lot? it was a hot thursday afternoon. jane hyde was expecting to see her brother at a party that night, but she had one errand to run -- a quick shopping trip on erie's peach street. but there was trouble. police had blocked the road. cops and cars everywhere. she turned around and went home. it was only later that night, watching the 10:00 news, she learned what that traffic was all about. >> my kids are sitting on the couch and then the story airs of there's a bank robbery and a man came into the bank with a bomb on him. >> you are recognizing your brother. >> my brother sitting there with this bomb on him. i'm thinking okay. the police have him. they'll find out who did this to him. then as it goes on it's like, brian exploded. you know, the bomb went off. brian's dead. i'm like, i can't believe this. >> after the explosion, one of the first things the cops did was look inside his car. they found these. meticulous notes that amounted to a bizarre scavenger hunt. notes given to brian wells instructing him to follow a lengthy set of orders if he wanted to survive. >> laying out this puzzling, highly complex scavenger hunt directing him to go to specific places. >> rich shapiro is a journalist who's written extensively about the robbery for "wired" magazine. >> the notes suggested that at the very end of this if he completed it in the allotted time, which wasn't much, that he would be able to save his life. >> have you asked yourself why didn't my brother brian get in that car and drive straight to the police station? >> no. i have never asked that because brian was in survival mode. i truly believe that he was trying to save his life and others' lives. >> but the police had no idea what to think. was brian wells a victim? was he in on the robbery? what were those notes all about? who wrote them? why? there were no answers, but plenty of agencies wanting to be involved in the biggest case erie had ever seen. >> we have formed a multiagency task force comprised of the pennsylvania state police, the atf, the erie police department, specifically their bomb squad, the united states attorney's office and the erie county district attorney's office. >> i wouldn't be surprised if some game warden from warren, p.a. was on the task force. >> jim fisher, a former fbi agent and criminologist studied the case from the beginning. >> so you have 50 people running around randomly conducting leads with very little coordination. no one really seemed to be in charge. >> from the outset, he believes the fbi, the erie police all the law enforcement agencies involved, were on the wrong track. this was not, he says, a bank robbery. >> you believe brian wells was murdered. >> well, he was murdered, and it was a first-degree murder. this was an intentional, premeditated, homicide. moreover, it was extremely cruel in the way the crime was executed. >> not just the crime, the actual bomb was a crude masterpiece of someone's twisted art. police would find intricate decoy cables, home made lock, it all made into a bizarre puzzle wrapped around the neck of the victim. and whatever this was, a bank robbery, violent murder, the case was about to take another bizarre, almost unreal twist. >> there is a frozen body. it's in the freezer in the garage. >> a second body. this one hidden in the freezer and a new suspect telling an even stranger tale. >> what came first, the body or the freezer? 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[ male announcer ] if you're still struggling with depression talk to your doctor to see if the option of adding abilify is right for you. and be sure to ask about the free trial offer. as brian wells was on the ground in that half hour after he robbed the bank, another man was watching everything unfold from across the street. according to an fbi affidavit informants said a 63-year-old handyman named william rothstein was sitting in his car, eyes focused on brian wells. bill rothstein, officials later said, was the mastermind behind the entire scheme. >> i put a cut piece of green tarp down here to put his body on. >> okay. >> this is bill rothstein a few months after that bank robbery in a police evidence tape where he's explaining to a detective how he helped a former girlfriend marjorie armstrong dispose of a body. >> what came first, the body or the freezer? >> the body came in. i put it on a cart. i'll show you where the cart is. the cart with the big wheels, not the cart with the small wheels. yes, that one there. >> but what's really going on here? what did that body in the freezer and bill rothstein's confession have to do with the collar bomb explosion that killed brian wells? in a word, everything. bill rothstein told police he was just doing marjorie a favor. he claimed marjorie had killed her abusive ex-boyfriend named jim roden but the fbi's investigation tells another story. roden knew about the bank robbery plot and was about to go to police. rothstein made that mess go away. >> he came to the house and helped. he took the body out, cleaned everything up, cleaned the walls, replaced floorboards, replaced everything. painted, got rid of everything that might have blood on it. >> after rothstein turned her into police for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, marjorie stunned investigators with another twist. she connected rothstein to erie's biggest bank robbery. >> i mean, to build the bomb and test the bomb and all the components he had to have already been building it and designing it. in doing that he also said, i need some money so marjorie just gave him like $75,000 worth of money that she also kept at the house so bill rothstein was left with two of the most important things to hold over marjorie diehl armstrong. number one all of her money and, number two, a dead body that would make her lose her liberty for the rest of her life. >> even though marjorie diehl armstrong had been talking with police, it took the fbi nearly four more years before it could tie up all the loose ends. everybody the fbi said was involved with the robbery. bill rothstein, marjorie diehl armstrong, even another suspect, a crack dealer named kenneth barnes and barnes claimed brian wells was in on the plot from the beginning. and that he was duped. >> wells was essentially told he would be robbing the bank with the device that was being put around his neck would be fake so he would not be putting himself in harm's way. as it turns out, he was double crossed. >> criminologist jim fisher believes it was rothstein who wanted to pull off the perfect diabolical crime that would baffle investigators. the elaborate scavenger hunt would eventually send police to a dead end. the confusing yet meticulously crafted collar bomb. even the white t-shirt brian wells wore into the bank spray painted with the word "guess." to fisher, all of it hatched in the mind of a mad man. >> there's the kind of motives we can understand like a standard barng robbery. someone needs the money. and then we have a category of crime involving motives that a normal person can't really understand. >> you're describing bill rothstein. >> that would be bill rothstein in my mind. to me he fits to a "t" the profile of someone who would commit such a bizarre and pathological crime. >> but now four years after the original crime, the government had to prove in court its theory was correct. and there were two big problems. rothstein, the alleged mastermind, died before even officially being linked to the crime. the other main suspect, marjorie diehl armstrong, had told so many lies she was showing evidence of mental problems and a personality disorder. >> the mental illness was a 30-year history. the personality disorders were a 30-year history. >> over many delays and many more years, the government finally obtained convictions on charges of bank robbery and murder. life plus 30 years for marjorie diehl armstrong. a lesser sentence for accomplice kenneth barnes because he testified on behalf of prosecutors. brian wells, who died with that bomb around his neck, well, the federal government said he, too, was in on the crime. >> when brian delivered the pizza, he was accosted at gunpoint by a group of strangers whom he did not know. they shot at him. when he tried to run away, they knocked them to the ground. >> the fbi version as you know is different. >> that's a lie. that's a lie. that's all their fabrication. >> the fbi did agree to sit down with cnn to explain their case and their prosecution. how it all went down. they just wanted to know the day we'd arrive here in erie and where the interview would take place. then the fbi began asking us questions. who else would be interviewed for this report? and suddenly, the interview with the fbi was off. jim fisher says the fbi and the u.s. attorney took the easy way out and never really solved the case. >> bill rothstein died about a year after the crime and he died with, in my opinion, all of the secrets, all of the answers. and to that extent, well, nobody literally dies laughing. he went to his grave knowing that he had out foxed everyone. >> neither the u.s. attorney's office nor the fbi would comment to cnn about fisher's assertions. and yet there is someone who is alive, who kenneth barnes says was at rothstein's house the day of the robbery, but was never charged in the crime. he is the convicted sex offender granted immunity in exchange for testimony he was never asked to give. next -- brian wells' family really wants to know about you, sir. >> could this man hold the answers that would finally solve the case? 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what can you tell us about his status and will he be ever prosecuted for this? >> we are not in a position to comment on mr. stockton. >> douglas shagru, marjorie's attorney says there is good reason why the u.s. attorney and fbi want to keep quiet about jay stockton. >> do you think he is the person who got away with this? >> oh, yes. he got immunity from the government absolutely free and clear. convicted sex offender, multitime sex offender. the government felt he was the least involved person and so they gave him immunity. >> they shouldn't have given him immunity. he didn't deserve immunity. he deserved to -- he's the guilty one that killed my brother. he deserved to be brought to justice. >> stockton has been featured on the television show "america's most wanted." private investigators have tried to track him down but stockton has literally vanished. at least that is what he may have thought. until the day we found him. these are pictures of stockton today. two hours north of seattle down a side street in bellingham, washington, we found stockton where he told our investigator he has been living in this duplex for the past six years, but was soon about to leave. a week later we spotted him leaving the duplex in the pickup truck. we followed. to an rv sales lot where he was eyeing a large recreational vehicle at an rv sales lot. it was perhaps the first time in years anyone mentioned his involvement in the pizza bomb case. >> how you doing, mr. stockton? right? drew griffin with cnn. how you doing? it's taken a long time for me to find you. i wanted to ask you some questions. no, sir. brian wells' family is really wanting to know about you, sir. please. >> as fast as he could, with his driver's side window lowered, jay stockton sped away, not saying a word. >> mr. stockton, this is drew griffin again with cnn. brian wells' family is really just trying to get to the truth of the matter about particularly their brother. you're the only one alive and sane enough to tell the truth and that's what they're after. >> he has refused all of our phone calls, refused to respond to notes placed at his door. the assistant u.s. attorney who prosecuted the case insists to us jay stockton would tell us what the federal government has proven in court that brian wells was involved with the bank robbery. >> no one could have sat through this criminal trial without understanding the degree of evidence linking mr. wells to these particular participants. >> in fact, the same affidavit that implicates stockton repeatedly implicates jean heid's brother. the suspects involved saying brian wells knew the plot all along, was involved in the planning, was part of the band of criminal misfits trying to rob a bank. jean heid will never believe that. she believes her government is lying. >> they let an innocent man, my brother, die while in their custody and didn't even lift a finger to help him. this case is going to be looked at for years to come. and they don't want it known that they screwed up. brian never would have done this. >> next on "cnn presents" -- >> there we go. >> coast guard rescue swimmers. embedding with those who save lives for a living. later -- >> are you fighting for more than money? 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give me a typical call. >> everything. we get everything in here. >> doing our time in clearwater we'll see a lot of it in just one flight. first searching for a radio distress signal. we won't be done until we find them. we find it located on a boat. >> there we go. >> there it goes. >> safely docked here in this subdivision. just as we find the beacon -- >> be advised we've got a call and you have been diverted. sector 2-3, roger, good copy. >> we're sent to a mystery mayday call. >> we searched up and down the river. as far as inland as we could go with no signs is of any vessels in distress. >> that's never found. finally, low on fuel we get a report of people in the water near a bridge. >> sector, 2-3. we can give you about ten minutes and then we are low on fuel. arriving on scene -- >> we'll be looking. what is that over here at 3:00? >> okay. that's a third. okay. >> we find them being helped by local rescue units. >> they're all under the bridge right now. >> under the bridge? >> yes, sir. >> a busy night. just getting started. >> calls can come any time day or night. all right. so 6:00 in the morning we're all sleeping soundly and our little bunks here and the aircraft commander popped in. he said the alarm just went off and there's a potential rescue. so that's what being a standby crew means. we're getting our gear ready. we're going to jump in the bird and go see what is going on. within minutes we're on our way to the helicopter. >> so just got a mini brief by the aircraft commander. he said that they're looking for a potential victim in the water so at first light we'll launch and begin to initiate a search pattern. >> the pilot, lieutenant commander paul russo, is in charge of this morning's mission. >> we got a 20-year-old -- 24-year-old female who just came off out of rehab. she jumped off the bridge last night. we're likely looking for a body but there is a chance she could have survived and might be hiding in the woods. >> is there some kind of technology we're using? or are we going old school? >> old school eyeballs. we're going to look for a person in the water. >> after the preflight safety checks, our helicopter is taxiing into the sunrise hustling to get on scene. >> five minutes, over. >> at any point, the rescue swimmer is ready to hit the water and hoist his victim up to safety. something that i had experienced first hand at the coast guard's rescue swimmer school in north carolina. >> we have a helicopter to deploy the swimmers. i'm going to be one of the victims today so that the search and rescue swimmers get to practice what they do best. >> ready for deployment. here we go. >> targeted flight at a 1:00 position. >> as the flight mechanic guides in the pilot. he's up above water now. ease down. easy down. >> it's a rush of water, wind, and noise. >> looks like he's got a survivor. five feet off the water. survivor 35 feet. >> first, rescue swimmer daniel todd uses the most common technique, a basket hoist. then we use just a harness. finally, a quick deployment hoist. the two of us lifted and secured by just a strap. >> swimmer/survivor at the cabin door. swimmer/survivor in the cabin. >> back onboard the jay hawk in florida there is no need for any of those hoists. there is good news. >> the person has been located. 2-3. roger. person has been located. out. >> the victim has been found. alive. we return to base. >> people often think that search and rescue is all about jumping out of helicopters and saving lives but there is also a lot of, you know, long flights, long searches that don't end up doing anything but that's why these guys do it. keep going out there until that one critical moment when they do actually have to jump in and get someone. >> we just want to be the guys that are there and when it gets bad and you, you know, somebody needs help they look at us and go that's the guy that's going to come and pick us up. >> it will be many months before the students back in north carolina are doing what mike zoellner has done for the last ten years. but they'll be doing it for the same reasons. >> that's why i joined the coast guard. everything was kind of about me you know and i realized that's not what i wanted. i wanted to get out there and see what i can do to help other people. i mean, there's many ways to do that, saving someone's life though, i mean, what more could you do? 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if somebody does not pay you and you are entitled to a percentage of the profits and you know they're making profits is that stealing? >> cassidy isn't alone. the cast of "happy days" also wants to know where the money went. four stars of the iconic show, anson williams, dawn mose, marian ross, and erin moran as well as the widow of tom bosley are suing cbs for $10 million. they told cnn earlier this year they weren't paid what they're owed for "happy days" merchandise that sold around the world. cbs, which owns the show, agrees the actors are owed money but disputes the amount. after the suit was filed, cbs cut checks to the actors totaling about $43,000. largely for the use of their images on happy days slot machines. but the actors argue they're owed much more. >> are you fighting for more than money? >> i think fairness. when you think of all the different shows that must be having the same argument about this? >> there you go. >> shows like "the partridge family." cassidy says according to his contract while the program was on the air he was entitled to 15% of net merchandising profits when his image was used. half that if he appeared with other cast members. were you paid for that? >> i was told by my manager i received a check for $5,000 and i never heard another word. i was never given another statement. >> but why is cassidy just coming forward now? decades after the partridge family ended? he says it wasn't until just a few years ago after a string of business managers and moves across the country that he found his old contract. >> my hands started to shake. i went, and there was the contract. >> as for the other cast members, brian forester who played chris part ridge says he did get about $1100 for merchandising back in the '70s, but the others we spoke with say they didn't have a merchandising deal or don't recall getting paid for any items. hours before a las vegas concert cassidy signed some of the items. >> it was at the time the largest selling lunch box in history. >> he showed us items with recent copyrights that he says were issued without his permission. sony did not reply to our question about this. >> the only way i can get a truthful accounting is by showing articles like this of which there are many others that are done in this last decade that they're obviously in breach. >> cassidy's lawyer sent this letter to sony requesting a prompt and full accounting and payment of proceeds for any merchandise sold using his name, likeness, voice, or other exercise of such merchandising rights. sony responded it could not locate any merchandising statements but found letters showing that mr. cassidy's representatives audited such statements. therefore, they must have been rendered to him. the company went on to say it was not aware of any new merchandising licenses with his name, voice, and likeness after the partridge family went off the air and said the stat tutz of limitations had run out on any claims. sony had no other comment to cnn. >> hello las vegas! >> on stage it's like cassidy's back in the '70s with fans who still throw their underwear. >> i'm not sure these will fit. >> how much do you think you're owed? >> until i get a proper sit down with them, i'm not going to demand a number. >> i mean, are you willing to settle with sony or do you want to see this go to trial? >> i don't want to shame and embarrass and humiliate them but i will if i have to. get real. be fair. you owe me a fortune. you want to go to trial? lay bets against david cassidy? go ahead. >> in his florida home, there are few remnants of cassidy's life as a pop superstar. but what made him famous will always be a part of who he is today. ♪ i think i love you ♪ so what am i so afraid of i'm afraid that i'm not sure ♪ ♪ a love there is no cure for >> on the next "cnn presents"