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Old cases, both solved and unsolved, keep cropping up in this True Crime post. The Stebic case intrigues in that a reporter was caught prancing around the Stebic house in a bikini while that poor woman is still missing. And while Mr. Stebic likely enjoyed his bikini-clad reporter friend, he's now been named a "person of interest". Duh. Phil Spector continues his idiotic trial until everyone tires of him and throws his butt in the slammer. New this week, a little girl murdered by an illegal immigrant. Why wasn't he deported after his FIRST sex crime? That pizza bomber story,...

Four misdemeanor charges have been filed against William Rothstein, the man who police say helped Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong move the body of a murder victim into a freezer. Rothstein is free on Bond. He faces charges stemming from transporting a corpse, and moving the body into a chest freezer with a pulley system. He has been specifically charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, and two other conspiracy charges. In Pennsylvania, those charges are only misdemeanors. Each carries a maximum sentence of two years. Rothstein’s lawyer, Gene Placidi also says his client was served with a search warrant Thursday...

FBI appeals for help after pizza man 'forced to rob bank' is killed by bomb fixed around his neck By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 03 September 2003 The FBI has released pictures of a metal collar that was found fixed around the neck of pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank and then died when a bomb that was locked to the collar exploded. State troopers arrested Brian Wells shortly after he robbed a bank outside the town of Erie in Pennsylvania last Thursday. He told the officers that he had been forced to rob the bank and that he was...

(CBS/AP) The FBI on Tuesday released photos of a metal collar found around the neck of a pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank and then was killed when a bomb strapped to his body exploded. FBI Agent Bob Rudge said the bureau hopes that by releasing the photos of the collar and locking device, someone may come forward to help law enforcement solve the strange case. A preliminary exam performed on the collar showed that it was likely not commercially manufactured, Rudge said Tuesday. "We do not believe it has any legitimate industrial use," said Rudge. "Its most likely purpose...

<p>The bizarre case of Brian Wells' death is still marked by more questions than answers.</p> <p>But clues that could point to how and why Wells robbed a bank before being killed by a bomb strapped to his body are slowly filtering in to the local FBI office.</p>

<p>ERIE, Pa. — A pizza deliveryman told police he had been forced to rob a bank and asked authorities to help him minutes before a bomb strapped to his chest exploded and killed him.</p> <p>On Saturday, federal agents and police in northwestern Pennsylvania were trying to solve the bizarre case of 46-year-old Brian Douglas Wells, who left to deliver a pizza to a mysterious address in a remote area about an hour before he turned up at the bank with a bomb strapped to his body.</p>

<p>There is no question that the bank robbery and then the death of the robber, Brian Wells, 46, when the bomb he had strapped to his chest exploded is the most bizarre crime to happen in Erie at any time. Everything about the case is hard to fathom.</p>

<p>Friendship and a pizza-delivery job linked Brian Wells and Robert Pinetti in life.</p> <p>Investigators want to know if anything connects their deaths.</p> <p>Pinetti, 43, died Sunday morning in his 2525 Dobbins Road home. What otherwise would have been a quiet death investigation instead brought his well-manicured Lawrence Park neighborhood to a standstill as local, state and federal investigators poured onto the scene, all trying to learn if Pinetti's death was related to his co-worker Brian Wells'.</p>