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Seven years ago American pizza delivery man Brian Wells was killed when a collar bomb tied around his neck blew up after he had carried out a robbery. On Monday, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, 61, was convicted over his death, but the truth about Mr Wells' own involvement remains elusive.
Cameras from a local TV station were rolling on 28 August 2003, as the 46-year-old pizza delivery man pleaded for help from police bomb squad officers.
Mr Wells, armed with a peculiar gun shaped like a walking stick, had just robbed a bank in Erie, Pennsylvania and was surrounded by police officers.
He was wearing a collar device around his neck, which he insisted was a bomb that was about to detonate.
The police have been criticised by his family for the amount of time it took them to call in a bomb squad team.
When they arrived, the collar bomb exploded before they could dismantle it. Mr Wells was killed instantly.
It appears Wells was tricked by friends, or criminal accomplices, into putting on the collar and may have been under the impression it was fake.
Confronted by the truth, he was given several handwritten letters instructing him to steal at least $250,000 from a bank in nearby Summit township