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Pizza Mystery

Posted in Crime, Oddities by Greg Ross on April 24th, 2005

In 2003, 46-year-old Brian Wells delivered two pizzas to an unmanned radio tower in Erie, Pa. Forty minutes later he was robbing a local bank, a time bomb locked around his neck.

"He pulled the key out and started a timer," he told police. "I heard the thing ticking when he did it. It's gonna go off."

They made him sit handcuffed in the parking lot; three minutes before the bomb squad arrived, the device exploded.

The crime has never been solved.