marjorie insisted she had nothing to do with the pizza bombing. bombastic as ever, she told the filmmaker it was she who solved the case by pointing authorities to rothstein and barnes. there s nothing in it for somebody like me who s not a drug addict or an alcoholic or a whore or anything else. there s no reason in god s world to do it and i didn t do it i want to embarrass these people. show what greed will do, but it wasn t me that was the one. as frightening and fascinating a character as she appeared to be, trey wasn t buying marjorie s spin. i just was overwhelmed by this dark, dark presence, this dark feeling of, oh, my god, you know, what am i doing? you know, am i am i honestly if she s at the center of this, what does this mean? is there anything you d like to say marjorie. she had danger written all over here. she did. i m innocent. now it would be up to a jury finally to sort it all out. and in the fall of 2010, marjorie went on trial. they say you r
kelly makela was in the prison for assault and gun charges. but before that, she trained at a police academy. she knew cops. how they thought. what questions they asked. marjorie thought kelly had expertise that could help her in her upcoming trial. marge became my best friend. everybody was stayin away from her. everybody was staying away from her. and i offered hear cup of coffee. little did i know how important that cup of coffee would be. cement your friendship, huh? yes, it did. sitting side by side, kelly kept scrupulous notes for what she said was thousands of hours of conversations with marjorie often telling the chatterbox to slow down. marjorie thought she was talking to someone who would help her beat the rap for killing her boyfriend. but kelly would also try to use their conversations to steer her new friend to talk about a
she decides to buy a gun and she kills him. she shoots him 6 times with a .38 special. she was charged with murder. her attorney, leonard ambrose, realized just how difficult a defense case he had. after the shooting, she went out with a bag filled with $18,000 in cash and was soliciting individuals to help her with a chainsaw, cut up the body and bury it. oh, you re kidding. which started the whole thing going. part of ambrose s defense consisted of having marjorie committed three times while she awaited trial. to illustrate just how truly ill she was, ambrose pointed to what authorities found in her house after her 1984 arrest. marjorie was a hoarder in the extreme. she had 400 pounds of cheese in the attic. she had hundreds of dozens of eggs in the freezers. i mean, who would put 400 pounds of cheese in your attic in july? she just was really, really disturbed, and she was never gonna get better. but the courts ultimately declared her competent to stand trial. ambros
absolutely not. in his opening statement the prosecutor put marjorie at the center of the conspiracy to rob the bank and place a live bomb around brian wells s head. where were you the day that brian wells was killed? well, i certainly wasn t doing anything connected with the crime. a twisted scheme , the prosecutor called it, a group of dysfunctional, highly intelligent individuals, completely outsmarted themselves. local reporter paul wagner covered the trial. if brian wells had followed all the instructions to the letter, he would have died. there s no question about it. the note was a sham. it was too complicated, too, complex. too much to do to get keys to unlock the collar bombing.
erie s resident black widow and master manipulator, was going on trial for the infamous pizza bombing. as her trial approached, marjorie began to call filmmaker trey borzillieri from prison. as much as he could, trey pressed her for details. necessity is the mother of invention, you know. and so, i needed information to get to the you know, get to deeper truths in this case and she clearly seemed like the last resort for me. hello, trey i ve got some interesting news for you. in dozens of recorded calls marjorie spewed out her version of the truth and relentlessly attacked ken barnes, the prosecution s star witness in her upcoming trial. ken barnes is a pathological liar and i said this from day one and you know, i may lie a little bit to protect myself cause everybody was lying and framing me, okay? but i m not a pathological liar.