FBI to release note from (pizzaman) Wells' bank robbery

goerie.com ^ | 02/04/04 | Ed Palattella and Tim Hahn

[evets]

(Excerpt required.) The FBI is considering a new way of casting for leads in the Brian Wells case.

Agents are leaning toward releasing part of the detailed note the 46-year-old pizza deliveryman was given before his bombing death. The FBI could release the passages as early as this week.

The note, believed to be several pages long, contains directions and a variety of terms, including the word "troubleshooter," according to the FBI.

"We are reviewing the note and considering releasing parts of it for lead value," Bob Rudge, the special agent in charge of the Erie FBI office, said Tuesday.

He said the FBI could release the note "in the very near future, and perhaps sometime this week."

[evets]

This is a copy image of a printed image ot the recent drivers license photo of Brian Wells on September 2nd, 2003 in Erie, PA. Wells was killed on August 28th, 2003 in Erie after an explosive device, that was attached to him with a locking collar , went off. Wells was fleeing the scene of an alleged bank robbery.

[blackdog]

The FBI..........He,he,he!

"Hey Agent Bob, how's that mess in white trashville proceeding?"

"Just fine Deputy Skinner, We've found a pond to drain looking for key evidence!"

"Pond huh Bob?, Sounds like good work, keep it up"

[Deguello]

The Erie Times-News agreed not to publish the name of James L. Johnson???

It is also good to know that the FBI is getting around to reading the multi-page note.

I may have to ask Vinny in MA about Troubleshooter.

[Gerasimov]

Nooooooooooooooo ... THAT GUY doesn't look like someone who would strap on a C4 choker chain!

[PAR35]

At least we know the perp isn't a FReeper.

Troubleshooter:
Nobody by that name.

[Sacajaweau]

This is really wierd 'cause I was thinking about seeing what happened with this case as I was driving home from the store a few minutes ago.

[Sacajaweau]

Release the damn letter. If you had released a lot more of the unabomber clues, (like the elaborately carved box), the guy might have been caught sooner.

Trouble shooter = electrical???

[Cboldt]

http://goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040204/FRONTPAGE/102040256 <-- Link to article

Because the article WILL "flow" off GoErie's frontpage in due course, as it probably should.

Wells made only one stop after robbing the bank. He drove his Geo Metro to a drive-through sign at the McDonald's restaurant near the PNC Bank. Wells was killed moments later when the bomb around his neck exploded as he was kneeling in the driveway of the Eyeglass World store near the McDonald's.

Ummm, "moments later?" According to my memory, Wells had been more or less in police coustody for over 15 minutes when the bomb collar exploded.