again, found competent to stand trial, but this time instead of fighting the murder charges in court she pleaded guilty in the shooting death of jim roden. she is going down for the death of roden, the boyfriend in the freezer. right. she has pleaded guilty. she has pleaded guilty and sentenced to 7 to 20 years for that death. it was big news for trey, too. with the frozen body case finally resolved he thought the timing was right to try to make contact with marjorie so he wrote her. with rothstein dead i felt i had no where else to turn but her for information. she becomes your pen pal. she does. it was last resort for information. clark was more direct. he went to visit marjorie in prison. i m here to talk to you about the brian wells case. she said i m not telling you anything about that case unless you move me closer to erie. so it s let s make a deal. let s make a deal. it s manipulation marge.
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 welds wells as a hostage and they were peppered with notes like bomb has trip wires. forcing or tampering will detonate. and we are following you. if you delay, disobey or alert anyone, you will die. the collar bomb locked around wells neck had four keyholes. the notes also included maps and instructions directing wells to a location where he d find a key and more instructions on where to find another key and then another, until finally he d be free of the bomb. an illustrated manuscript of
circumstances. it was a much different story when marjorie was younger. a near straight-a student in high school, she seemed destined for a bright future. marjorie diehl-armstrong was a very, very bright young lady. she s got a bachelor s degree and a master s degree, looked like she was on the road to a very successful life. it turned out marjorie s latest boyfriend was the body stuffed in the freezer. rothstein was telling police that marjorie shot that boyfriend after an argument in her house, and then he took the body and stored it in his garage freezer. i said, how the hell did you kill him? where did you shoot him from? she said she shot him from the foot of the bed is here, and she shot him like this side, this direction. and in this case, the phrase dead men tell no tales wasn t necessarily true, especially when that dead man is found in a freezer that just happens to be
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, do you know what, i m going to 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 sorted detail. he relived the whole thing from the minute he was picked up that day by marjorie diehl-armstrong to every location that they went through and what his role was, what everybody else s role was, and how the whole thing was to go down. barnes said floyd stockton was also part of the conspiracy. stockton, remember, was rothstein s old friend who once lived in his house. when stockton found out he had been ratted out, he decided to talk, too, but only in exchange for immunity, a deal barnes never asked for.
coming up, in a case that s had twist after twist after twist, there s one more. she set him up. she fed him to the wolves. it s like right out of a horror movie. when dateline continues. h movie. when dateline continues (classical music playing throughout)