The Collar Bomb Case of Brian Wells

One afternoon, a pizza delivery man walks into a bank to deliver a peculiar order. He hands the chief teller a letter and at the top of the page it says “Bomb Hostage”. The man lifts up his shirt to reveal a bomb attached to his neck. The letter instructs him to rob a bank as an unwilling participant in a crime. However, suspicions arise and everything may not be what it seems.

Born in 1956, Brian Douglas Wells was raised with five siblings in a crowded home in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was a simple man, introverted, and lived with 3 cats in his rented five-room white cottage. Brian was a sophomore dropout of East High School in his hometown and was a poor performing student, but he had average skills for manual work and was capable enough to be a mechanic.

However, people in Erie knew him as a pizza deliveryman for many years. Brian stayed out of trouble most of his life and was a friendly man in his neighborhood. He would die tragically in the case known as “The Collar Bomb Case”

The world identified him as a diabolical man, but friends and acquaintances knew him as an ordinary man with no malice behind his kind smiles.

On August 28, 2003, Brian went on with his usual day and ordered breakfast from McDonald’s, got a newspaper, and went to work at Mama Mia’s Pizza-Ria on 5154 Peach Street.