On August 23, 2003, a live-action version of "Life and Death Speed" was being staged on the streets of the small town of Erie, Pennsylvania, where several police cars were chasing a frantically fleeing sedan, just a few minutes before the occupants had robbed a local bank.
After a fierce collision and exchange of fire, the police quickly forced the robber's car to stop, there was only one person in the car, he was wearing a white coat, bulging high near his neck, facing a large number of police officers with guns aimed at him, chose to take the initiative to get out of the car and surrender.
The police rushed up and surrounded him until they controlled him in handcuffs, and then they breathed a sigh of relief, and just when the police thought that a robbery was perfectly solved, a sentence from the robber sitting on the ground made the police's newly fallen heart hang up again.
"I have a bomb strapped to me!" I don't believe I took off my undershirt to see what was underneath. A few short words made the police officers around them break out in a cold sweat.
A daring policeman, after cutting open the robber's undershirt with trembling hands, did see a bomb that resembled a handcuff-like metal ring tightly clasped around the man's neck.
Frightened, the crowd immediately retreated, pointed a gun at the man and told him to stay where he was, and then immediately asked headquarters for support from a bomb disposal specialist.
While waiting for rescue, the man sitting on the ground said his name was Brian, an employee of a pizzeria, and in the process of delivering food, three black people they did not know took him hostage, put a bomb on him, and forced him to rob the bank.
He must constantly follow the instructions on the note on the car, arrive at different locations within the specified time to complete different tasks, and only after all of them are completed can he get the code and key to open the bomb, otherwise it will explode directly.
However, the police do not quite believe the words of the robbers, because according to the past experience of handling cases, many bomb robbers are bluffing, and most of the bombs they carry are fake, so they still choose to wait for the arrival of bomb disposal experts.
After a period of stalemate, the robber suddenly heard a dripping sound, the bomb suddenly began the final countdown, everyone panicked in an instant, Brian's mood began to become desperate, and he constantly begged the police to help him remove the bomb from his neck.
Just three minutes before the bomb disposal experts arrived at the scene, with a loud noise and smoke clearing, a fist-sized hole appeared in Brian's chest and died next to the police car.
What unknown encounters did Brian go through? Is he the real robber or is there someone else behind him? What kind of secrets have been uncovered in the police investigation?
Hello everyone, I am a student of history, today we will talk about this bank robbery that once occurred in the United States------ neck ring bomb mystery case.
The story begins with Brian, who walked into an unusual customer in the small town of Ili, Pennsylvania, at noon on August 23, wearing a white undershirt, "Guess it" written in English on his chest, and holding a pistol disguised as a crutch.
Without a word, he walked up to the front desk teller and handed her a note that read, "I have a bomb on me, and I'll give him $250,000 in unconnected, small-denomination notes in 15 minutes, or I'll blow up the bank." ”
Seeing the contents of the note, the teller was very nervous, she explained to the robber that the bank manager had not returned from lunch, could not open the safe, and then immediately put all the cash in the drawer of more than $8,000 into a bag and handed it to the robber.
Strangely enough, the robber didn't seem to care much about the amount of money, and after taking the bag, he casually picked up a lollipop from the counter and put it in his mouth, turned and ran out of the bank and got into the car.
The robber is Brian, and just as he walks out of the bank, the teller reports the case to the police, followed by a scene of the police running in the street at the beginning of the article.
After Brian was killed by the bomb, the police, in order not to destroy the iron ring around his neck, actually made the decision to saw off his head and remove the iron ring without authorization (mourning for him for a minute, dead without leaving a whole body, too pitiful).
According to Brian before his death, it seems that he is playing a game similar to a treasure hunt, which requires a specified time to complete the task to survive, and if this is the case, then the designer of the game is behind the scenes.
The police then searched Brian's car and found six pages of paper densely packed with instructions, some for Brian, some for bank tellers, and some for police, interspersed with hand-drawn maps.
The game designer told Brian that everything he did was being watched and that he would be blown apart if he dared to call the police.
After reading these contents, the police understand that Brian is a puppet, all his actions are the idea of the black hand behind his back, and the only thing he can do is obey.
According to the requirements on the paper, Brian needs to travel to four locations within the stipulated time, and after completing all the tasks, he can put together the code to open the neck ring and the key to unlock the lock.
First of all, Brian had to go to a stone in the McDonald's flower bed to find two pages of paper with instructions on the next step, but unfortunately, just after Brian had just found the two notes of McDonald's, he was stopped by the police.
Police then followed the instructions on the note to find a jar on the grass that instructed them to go to a tree marked with the word "Vietnamese" in orange on the side of the road to find the password to open the bomb.
When the police arrived at the third location, they found that the instructions inside and the password for the bomb had been taken, and a suspicious blue van not far away suddenly fled after finding the police, and the police could not catch up with it, and could only watch it disappear.
In the follow-up investigation, the police found that the remaining clues in the note were missing, and it should be that someone rushed ahead of the police to deal with the evidence.
The interruption of all clues left the police with the ability to return to the origin of the case and start over, first to find the source of the bomb, and after analysis by the bomb disposal experts, the bomb on Brian's neck was a monolithmic structure, and once opened, it would start automatically timing, and it would explode after about 55 minutes.
After dismantling the residual bomb, the police were surprised to find that the raw materials used in this homemade bomb were all waste parts, and it was impossible to track them through the raw materials, and the bomb also deliberately got a lot of wires and parts used to confuse bomb disposal experts.
There was no hope of tracing the bomb, and the police turned the focus of their investigation to the note they had obtained, hoping to trace the clues through handwriting and ink.
As a result, after analysis, it was found that the contents of all the notes were first typed out with a printer, and then traced with a pen on the printing paper, so there was no way to find the model of the ink cartridge, nor to extract the handwriting of the suspect, and whether it was a bomb or a letter paper, no other people's fingerprints and DNA were left.
Through the suspect's cunning means and super anti-reconnaissance awareness, the police judged that this should be a well-thought-out and cautious habitual offender, in order to be able to solve the case as soon as possible, ATF and FBI also joined the investigation of the case.
After analysis, it was found that the suspect did not want to let Brian go back alive from the beginning, because according to the traffic situation at the time and the extremely scattered mission locations, even if Brian was not caught by the police, he could not take the full route within the stipulated time.
The real purpose of the suspect is to show off his superb intelligence through this treasure hunting game, deliberately playing Brian and the police together.
Now there is only one clue left, and that is the address where Brian last delivered the meal.
After questioning the pizzeria owner, he learned that he had received a delivery call that day, but due to the ambiguity of the other party's words, he handed the phone to Brian, who wrote in the delivery book: Send two pizzas and sausages to "8631 Peach Street".
Police tried to track down the call to order food, only to find that the call came from a public telephone booth at a Shell gas station, which was not monitored and had no idea who had made the call.
"8631 Peach Street" is an extremely remote and long-abandoned address, with only an abandoned base station signal tower standing there, no one living there, all of which is a trap for Brian.
The police, who were suffering from the interruption of clues, could only look up from Brian, who had opened a takeaway after dropping out of middle school and had been working for more than 30 years, and had not been married due to his relatively withdrawn personality.
After the police searched Brian's home, they did not find any clues related to the case, if there is anything different from ordinary people, it is that Brian often finds some women who understand technology to serve in the house.
He had a notebook in his home with a lot of women's phone calls, and he loved a woman in her 20s named Jessica, who would look for her several times a month, and often took Jessica and his family to go shopping on weekdays, like boyfriend and girlfriend in love, and Brian had few friends.
So how exactly did the murderer find Brian? Wouldn't he be randomly looking for a delivery man to rob the bank for him?
Just when the police were helpless, a female friend of Brian's former acquaintances reported his black guest to the police, saying that he had worked in the army related to explosives.
As soon as they heard the words of the explosives, the police immediately looked at the man and brought him back for interrogation, only to find that he had no connection with the case.
In order to be able to find clues, the police released a large amount of physical evidence in the case, hoping that someone in the know could provide information, but after a period of nothing was found, the case reached an impasse.
Soon more than 20 days passed, and just when the police and the FBI were at a loss, suddenly an alarm call entered the police station.
The police said there was a male body in the garage freezer of his home, named James Roden, who was killed by his live-in girlfriend, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong.
Just as the so-called wave of unrest has started again, the police can only deal with this murder case first.
When the police arrived at the scene, they learned that the policeman was named Bill, who had been a rich second generation, and soon went bankrupt due to poor management, but he often bragged to people that he was superhuman, and liked to make small inventions out of some scrap in his home, and his home lived near the tower where Brian was tricked into delivering meals.
According to Bill's account, in early August, Joemari suddenly ran to her house, said that she and Jamie had quarreled, killed Jamie by mistake, asked him to help dispose of the body, and out of desperation, he put the body in the freezer, and the gun that killed the person was melted with gas welding and discarded.
When the police asked about the relationship between Bihe and JoeMarie, he was always reluctant to say anything.
When the police arrest Joemarie, she first scolds the police, and then says that it was Bill who killed Jamie, because Bill has always had a crush on her but can't get her, and kills Jamie in a jealous rage.
Who is this Jomari? The two sides have their own opinions, who is the real murderer?
Marjorie was a goddess-like presence when she was young, a wealthy family or an only child, coupled with a beautiful appearance, many men fell under her pomegranate skirt.
However, in her 20s, she suddenly suffered from mental illness and personality disorders, unable to communicate with anyone, and Kaihang's life began to take a sharp turn for the worse, until she was in her 50s and had nothing to do, living on her mother's inheritance and disability benefits.
After the police investigation also found a strange thing, the boyfriend who lived with Jomari had at least 5 people who died unnaturally, when she was 35 years old, Jomari had fired 6 shots in the back of her boyfriend, but at the trial she said that she was beaten in self-defense, and the strange thing was that the jury actually believed her lies and actually ruled that she was not guilty.
Several other boyfriends who died mysteriously have also been evaded by her for various reasons, and each time the death of her boyfriend can bring her more or less benefits, it is not difficult to see that Jomaie's heart is vicious, most likely an experienced serial killer.
Maybe that's what's called being born from the heart
During the interrogation of Jomari, her performance was tearful, deeply rooted in people's hearts, and even once received sympathy from the police, but when the police asked Jamie about the cause of death, she began to point the signs at Bill, constantly insulting and personally attacking, and even said at one point: "Bill should be prosecuted for killing Brian for him!" ”
Police eventually indicted Joey on murder charges, and at trial she finally confessed to killing Jamie, but claimed she was mentally disturbed at the time. The jury, unable to believe what she said this time, eventually convicted her of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
But does the deaths of Joe Marie, Bill, and Brian really matter?
In July 2004, the police found Bill, who was living in the hospital, who was already a terminal patient with lymphoma, and when asked if the bomb case had anything to do with him, Bill wrote a NO in the air with his hand, and Bill died shortly thereafter.
Soon after, Jomari, who was serving a prison sentence, contacted the FBI and asked for a change of prison, in exchange for telling them the clues to the bomb case.
She thought she could blame all the blame on the dead Bill, but this time she miscalculated, and when she took the initiative to link herself to the bomb case, the FBI reopened the case and conducted a second search of her home.
This time, the FBI found a letter of complaint in her home, and it was Joemarie who complained about being robbed of the bank, indicating that there had been a festival between the two.
A professor also reported that Jomari had been driving wildly in the opposite direction on the highway on the day of the crime, and a truck driver said that before the crime, he had seen Jomari and a large man in suspender pants (Bill often wore) playing public phones at Shell gas stations.
The fatal blow to JoeMarie's bombing came from one of her friends, Kenneth Barnes, who said that Joemari had told him about the bombing.
Ken had known Jo-Marie in his early years, and on one occasion Jo-Marie offered to hire him to kill her father because his father would not leave the property to her, and she thought of this method in order to be able to quickly and legally inherit the inheritance.
Unable to be sure if it was a joke, Ken casually said yes, but at least $250,000 was needed, and Brian robbed the bank for just $250,000.
Ken then met Brian through Jessica, who often bought hallucinogens with him, and it was Ken's presence that he connected Jomarie to Brian.
Under the FBI's multi-pronged interrogation, Ken finally said that JoeMarine was the mastermind of the bombing, the note was written by her, and the bomb was made by Bill.
He also said that Brian was not innocent either, that he was one of the accomplices, because Bill and Joemari promised to pay him a sum of money when the time came.
At first it was agreed that a fake bomb would be used to blackmail the bank, who knew that when Brian arrived, Bill suddenly took out a real bomb, and Brian saw the bomb and wanted to escape, but was stopped by Jomarie with a gun and forced to put the iron ring around his neck.
Joemari also told him that if you were caught by the police, three black people would threaten you, and handed him a gun disguised as a crutch.
After obtaining this evidence, in 2010, the police again prosecuted Jomari, who stood in the dock and defended herself endlessly during the 5-hour trial, sometimes crying and sometimes angry, portraying the image of a patient who committed a crime due to mental illness, but she never admitted that it was related to the bombing.
The law was just, and in the face of such an ugly humanity, it swung down the sword of justice that the jury finally convicted Joey of robbery and the use of dangerous devices, and sentenced her to life imprisonment plus an additional 30 years. Although Jomari appealed several times later, they were all rejected by the court.
When Jomari died of breast cancer in 2017, no one attended her funeral, and she was buried in a grave without a tombstone, along with the secret of the bombing.
After the incident, Brian's family was angry about the same case, they believed that Brian was the victim, many people thought that Brian was still in the mood to eat lollipops during the robbery, saying that he lied to the police that three black people had coerced him, and why the pizza shop owner could not understand the contents of the phone Brian understood, etc., all of which were framed by Jomari and others.
Long after the bombing, Jessica revealed a secret in an interview, and Ken and Joemari had asked Jessica if she recognized the timid, preferably the one who obeyed as soon as she was frightened, while discussing a bank robbery.
Jessica was addicted, and in order to get money, she said Brian, and then got paid $1500, but her statement was doubted by many people, thinking that what a special industry said to women who were addicted to hallucinogens was not credible.
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