Jul 9, 2007 9:03 pm US/Eastern
Woman To Be Charged In Erie Collar-Bomb Case
Public defender Thomas Patton is not saying what he thinks his client will be charged with
PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) ―
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Brian Wells died in 2003 after robbing a suburban Erie bank in 2003 with a bomb strapped to his neck
KDKA
An attorney says his client is about to be charged in connection to the bizarre murder of a pizza delivery man who robbed a bank with a bomb strapped to his neck four years ago in Erie.
Federal public defender Thomas Patton says his client Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong will be charged in the case of Brian Wells, the man who died.
He wants a judge to stop investigators from holding a news conference later this week t o announce the indictment.
Diehl-Armstrong is already in jail in the murder of her boyfriend in 2003, the same year Wells died with a homemade bomb strapped around his neck.
Investigators were able to determine that someone called in a fake pizza delivery order and when Wells showed up, they put the bomb on his neck and forced him to rob a bank.
Wells was instructed to deliver the pizza to a TV tower located near the house where Diehl-Armstrong's boyfriend's body was found stuffed in a freezer.
The owner of that house has since died.
Investigators have questioned Diehl-Armstrong several times since the bombing, but until now, no one had ever been charged.
A federal source tells the Associated Press that they will hold a news conference on Wednesday, unless a judge orders them not to.
The attorney for Diehl-Armstrong says she's guilty of nothing more than knowing some of the people who might have been involved in this case.
(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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