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"this is drugs....the pizza delivery man was delivering more than just pizza and shorting the mob on the cash collected is my bet....if so this will all fizzle away quietly as usually the local leo's just let it run or are even part of it."

The mob is a lot more discrete than this. Explosives always get's fed.gov involved, and the mob avoids them like the plaugue.

A lot of mob hits hang themselves or are "drug related robbery murders".

I.E.: We've found a crack pipe and the victims wallet is empty, drug robbery, case closed.

I agree with mo, except for the part about it all fizzling away. I don't think so; the case is too unique.

As for your statement that the mob is more discreet, I think that's a good assessment. You mention that a lot of mob hits hang themselves. Well, what about the associate of this pizza deliveryman? He died a day or two after the bomb incident. Cause unknown, but there was methadone in his system. Aw, too bad, another life wasted by drug use... sound familiar?

It seems that in all the serious crime cases discussed on FR--whether murder or not--someone always pops up and says, "Drugs! Drugs are behind this!" Often, I don't agree. But this time, I really do think it is drugs.

And you can count out drugs if you want, but I still think the victim owed money to someone. It makes some sense: they tell him to rob the bank, so they'll get the money he owed, which he had probably told them he just didn't have. Then they proceed to kill him anyway, so he won't tell anyone anything about the bank robbery. They knew he'd probably be caught and prosecuted for the bank robbery, and at that point he'd tell all he knew about the people he'd owed money to.

While the mob is usually discreet, sometimes they want to get the word out to others they do business with, and make an example of someone. Plus, there is more than one "mob"--that is, there are different criminal organizations in various places. This may just be one of the less careful ones.

To return to the comment that this will all fizzle out, I think the public will want it solved, but I must admit it may fizzle out for real--not b/c the police might be hiding something, but b/c the people who did this might be really good at hiding and stonewalling leads. (Not discounting the possibility that some police there might indeed be part of the criminal organization.)