Further reading for the Collar Bomb Heist/ Jerry Brudos
Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery (Berkley True Crime)
Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
Book recommended in episode by Ann Rule
Info:
Im pretty sure it was after this episode of MFM that Netflix released a documentary on the Collar Bomb Heist that really opened up the info and the weirdness on the case, an easy peasy quick breakdown goes a little something like this.
Middle aged pizza delivery man Brian Wells walks into a bank, hand the teller a note that essentially tells them to get everyone together and get him a bag with $250,000 in it and that they have 15 min to get it done. He then lifts his shirt to reveal a boxlike device strung around his neck like a collar that he informs them is a bomb, they fill a bag with way less money then demanded, he casually grabs a lollipop and walks out the door and drives off.
He drives about 15 min down the road and is pulled over by state troopers, they get him to the ground and call in the bomb squad, as they wait they start to hear the beeping of a time (this can all be seen on video footage) and then the device goes off killing Brian Wells.
The bomb as it turns out was a handmade hodge podge that was built using professional tools, in his car they find a cane that turns out to be a handcrafted gun, they also find a note that appears to be a scavenger hunt that if Wells followed in the set time would get him the keys needed to get himself out of the bomb. The police follow the hunt but find that whoever started the game called it off once the police were involved.
This case is and edge of the seat, twist and turn extravaganza that is too bizzaro to do justice to in a synopsis…but you have to look into it…its crazy!
Creepy fetish serial killer
Jerry Brudos was born 1939 in South Dakota, he was born the younger of two boys, disappointing his mother from the get go. She had wanted a girl and did not hold back with constant emotional and physical abuse. At the age of 5 Brudos began his obsession with womens shoes, finding a pair of stilettos in the local junkyard. He became obsessive with womens shoes, and underwear stealing them from neighbors as a child.
In his teenage years he was in and out of psychiatric hospitals and began stalking local women, knocking them down or chocking them unconscious and stealing their shoes. At 17 his behavior started to escalate as he abducted a girl at knife point, beat her and threatened her if she did not follow his sexual demands. Brudos was diagnosed schizophrenic and complained of headaches and black outs, he claimed to relieve his symptoms by prowling neighborhoods at night to steal shoes and undergarments.
But you know it didn’t stop with him stealing, his behavior escalated to murder and in the end he plead guilty and was sentenced to three consecutive life terms and in 1995 he was told by the parole board he would never be released.
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