right? yes, absolutely. the car held one peculiar thing. the cane brian wells twirled inside the bank was there. but it wasn t a simple cane. it was a shotgun that had been fabricated to look like a cane. and it was loaded. clark kept looking. you find the money? find the money. in the bank, wells demanded $250,000 from the teller. the bag found in the car had way less than that. it turned out brian wells lost his life over $8,702. investigators also recovered handwritten notes with detailed, complicated instructions, apparently written for wells, on how to carry out the robbery. the notes involved in this case were voluminous. there were nine total pages of notes. the notes referred to wells as a hostage. and they were peppered with dire warnings. like, bomb has tripwires. forcing or tampering will
well, it was very painful. i think it was most painful for my mom because, like, she wanted to have a open-casket. they were more concerned with the integrity of the collar than they were his person. pain on pain on pain on pain, jean, huh? yep. he was decapitated like john the baptist. with the pieces of the device recovered, tom stankiewicz was able to go into his shop and craft an exact replica of the bomb 340 parts in all. it is a frightening model. can i lift this thing up? sure. how much does it weigh? oh, man it s 15 pounds. this is heavy. i can t imagine this it sure is, yeah having this around your neck. so open up the inside, tom. take me through what the components are here. yeah. so on the inside, you ve
it s jarring. and i look at him and i say, listen, i m making a documentary on the brian wells case. and i i know it s affected your life, and i d like to hear your side of the story. he turned to me and he said, no. what were the hairs on the back of your neck telling you? they were telling me to get out of there. this guy s creepy? absolutely. and fbi agent clark s instincts were telling him that rothstein constructed the collar bomb. but clark still didn t have evidence to connect him to the pizza case. then in july, 2004, less than a year after the bombing, clark got some unwelcome news. his prime suspect was dying on him. i see bill in the hospital bed, and i said, ooh, he looks much more sick than they re telling me, so i may have one crack at this. rothstein had terminal
two years after the pizza bombing, fbi agent jerry clark had jailhouse notes implicating marjorie. but it wasn t enough. he needed a corroborating witness. then a break. ken barnes was arrested on drug charges. now had nowhere to hide, so clark turned up the pressure. and when he told barnes he had information that he was in on the plot, barnes caved. and he began to tell a story that would break the case wide open. he just decided, you know what? i m gonna tell the truth. barnes admitted he was part of the crazy conspiracy that led to the killing of brian wells, the pizza delivery man. a fact he laid out in all its
was the tv tower site where investigators knew brian wells made his last pizza delivery. it wasn t a home or business, but a dirt parking lot. it was too strange of a coincidence. because of that, fbi agent clark became convinced the cases were related and was determined to learn how rothstein may have been involved with the pizza bombing. so his next move was to talk with rothstein. i interviewed him and i knew that somehow these were related. and i i just felt it from the minute i sat with him. what did he tell you? he looked at me and he said, well, i ll talk to you, but i need to tell you that i m the smartest guy in this room. and i i looked around and i said, well, my wife tells me that every night. let s get started. but rothstein gave up nothing. so while he was still facing charges in the frozen body case, without other evidence, he was in the clear on the pizza bombing investigation. months passed.