Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery

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Penguin, Nov 6, 2012 - True Crime - 456 pages
The bizarre, true story of a robbery gone wrong and the explosive murder that shocked the nation—as seen on Netflix’s docuseries Evil Genius.

For the first time, two of the people who followed the story from the beginning—Jerry Clark, the lead FBI Special Agent who cracked what became known as the Pizza Bomber case, and investigative reporter Ed Palattella—tell the complete story of what happened on August 28, 2003.

In the suburbs of Erie, Pennsylvania, a pizza delivery man named Brian Wells was accosted by several men who locked a time bomb around his neck. They then ordered him to rob a bank. After delivering the money, he would receive clues to help him disarm the bomb. It was one of the most ingenious bank robbery schemes in history, known as Collarbomb by the FBI. It did not go according to plan.

Wells, picked up by police shortly after the robbery, never found the clues he needed. Investigating the crime after his grisly death, the FBI soon discovered that Wells was not, in fact, an innocent victim. He was merely the first co-conspirator to fall in a bizarre trail of death following the crime...

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Contents

Section 1
5
Section 2
30
Section 3
50
Section 4
62
Section 5
76
Section 6
84
Section 7
98
Section 8
135
Section 15
231
Section 16
264
Section 17
282
Section 18
303
Section 19
319
Section 20
328
Section 21
348
Section 22
363

Section 9
141
Section 10
160
Section 11
176
Section 12
189
Section 13
200
Section 14
223
Section 23
373
Section 24
396
Section 25
414
Section 26
420
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About the author (2012)

As a reporter for the Erie Times-News, Ed Palattella covered the pizza bomber case from the beginning. He lives in Erie, PA.

Jerry Clark was the lead investigator on the case and a long time FBI agent. He lives in Erie, PA.  

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