A Human Time Bomb.

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    • Subject Terms:
      PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States
    • Subject Terms:
      PNC Bank Corp.; UNITED States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • Subject Terms:
      WELLS, Brian Douglas
    • Abstract:
      The article describes how Brian Wells robbed a bank in Erie, Pennsylvania and then proceeded to commit suicide. After Wells walked out of the PNC Bank branch with a bag of money, police surrounded him. Wells showed them that he indeed did have a bomb--locked to his neck by a bizarre metal collar--and told them he had been forced to carry out the heist and that the device was set to detonate in about 20 minutes. On Sept. 8 the FBI released sketches of two men who--according to motorists who saw them--were acting suspiciously around the time of the explosion. In a note later found by police, Wells was directed to go to four spots after the robbery--including a location close to where the two men in the FBI sketches were seen. Investigators continue to run down leads, including whether the death of Robert Panetti, 43, who worked with Wells and was a friend and who was found to have suffered an apparent drug overdose three days later, is in any way connected. INSET: PIECES OF THE PUZZLE.