announcer: that s just the beginning of one of the most bizarre crimes ever. drew griffin unwraps the pizza bomber. 911 emergency. we ve just been robbed. is anyone hurt? no. he walked out the door. august 28th, 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. he asks police to call his boss. then to save his life. 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 achi
reporter: david cassidy claims he was ripped off over his pop idol image. first a pizza delivery man robs a bank with a bomb around his neck. these suckers say you have 55 minutes, man, what are you going to do? announcer: that s just the beginning of one of the most bizarre crimes ever. drew griffin unwraps the pizza bomber. 911 emergency. we ve just been robbed. is anyone hurt? no. he walked out the door. august 28th, 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. he asks police to call his boss. then to save his life. 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
my people. reporter: yesterday, we saw firsthand in a city they raging up tensions which is in the hands of the rebels and gadhafi s stronghold to the west. we arrived shortly after government planes are bombed nearby weapons depot and found the local militia scrambling to load anti-aircraft guns. down the road, we found other men guarding a major oil terminal. the facility itself was safe but shutdown. all of the foreign workers have left. this engineer agreed to talk only if we didn t show his face. okay. we still make bomb for this. reporter: that fear is motivating a lot of people in this region to volunteer for the new rebel force. it s still unclear whether this militia will play a defensive role or move on tripoli. we are hearing that two major cities zawiyah and zuwarah attacked overnight by forces. rebels have managed to hold both key cities. mandy clark, thanks. for more on whether the u.s. plans to take military action against libya, let s now go to cbs
minutes passed then the bomb explodes killing 46-year-old brian wells. for years, the case stumped investigators. and that s what journalist rich th that peer rhe had found and wro twists of the collar bomb case. thank you for joining us. what was going on here and what was the deal with marjorie armstrong? armstrong is essentially portrayed as the mastermind of this crime. prosecutors say she hatched this bizarre heist because she wanted to pay someone to kill her father. she wanted her father dead they say because she believed he was blowing through her inheritance money. okay, so how did it come to be that wells went from being part of the plan to being a victim of the plan? yeah, that s one of the very mysterious questions that are lingering in this case. prosecutors say he was initially recruited as a conspirator and
father. she wanted her father dead because she believed she was blowing through her inheritance money. how did it came to wells being part of the plan to being a victim of the plan? that s one of the questions still lingering in this case. prosecutors say he was initially recruited as a conspirator and marjorie armstrong and others essentially told him that he would be a part of the heist but he would be wearing a device around his neck that was a fake. it would be a fake bomb. at the last minute, he was double crossed and they used a real bomb and they actually put the bomb on his north america at gunpoint and forced him to go through with this bank robbery. it s very interesting how this all came about because initially, it was he said that he was, i guess robbed or