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 different case: the pizza bombing. we talked of, you know, her past relationships, the murder of roden, of course, and then slowly into the the pizza bomber. how does that subject get introduced, kelly, the brian wells pizza case?
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
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 cancer. the fbi man crossed his fingers for a deathbed confession. i said, bill, don t take this with you. you ve gotta tell me. are these cases related? and he lifted his arm out of the bed and he spelled out no. and four days later, he he s deceased. bill rothstein was 60. and whatever involvement, if any, he had with the pizza bombing case, he took to his grave without saying a word. with rothstein dead, clark s attention turned to marjorie diehl-armstrong who, it turned out, knew her way around sudden deaths. who is this person? you can use as many words and as many minutes as you d li
different case: the pizza bombing. we talked of, you know, her past relationships, the murder of roden, of course, and then slowly into the the pizza bomber. how does that subject get introduced, kelly, the brian wells pizza case? through rothstein. okay bill rothstein. marjorie s one time fiance who turned her in for killing roden and hid the body in his freezer. what did she tell you about rothstein? that he built the bomb. he it was his toy. and there it was the first time anyone said what investigators suspected bill rothstein was in on the pizza bombing. and now marjorie began to describe a wider plot that seemed to involve every lost soul who had come into her orbit. and who were the players in this thing? there s rothstein, who else? there s ken barnes, floyd stockton james roden pinetti, and of course brian
assumed she would receive a life sentence which she did just a few months later. for agent clark the end of a long quest to solve this wicked scheme had finally arrived. who is your mastermind in the pizza case? number one marjorie diehl-armstrong wanted her dad dead and in order to do that she needed money to hire ken barnes to kill him. that s why she wanted to rob the bank. but the scheme and how they robbed the bank and the scavenger hunt and the notes and all the involvement in the case related to the bank robbery itself was bill rothstein. so both their thumbs are on the scale but his is pushing down a little heavier? i really believe so. and bill rothstein really wanted to leave this earth with a perfect crime. but for many the question of whether brian wells was a willing participant or an innocent victim in his demise wouldn t go away. the evidence clearly shows that he had some knowledge of the people, had met them the day