'EVIL GENIUS'
When was Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong’s trial, did she kill ‘pizza bomber’ Brian Wells and when did she date Bill Rothstein?
MARJORIE Diehl-Armstrong was convicted for her part in a bank robbery that ended up with a pizza delivery guy Brian Wells exploding.
Here is a briefing on the woman convicted of hatching the plot.
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When was Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong's trial?
Ringleader Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong went on trial in 2011 accused of dreaming up the bank robbery plot to pay for a hit-man to kill her father so she could bag her inheritance.
She was was convicted of armed bank robbery, conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery and of using a destructive device in a crime.
She was sentenced to life in prison but died in 2017.
Her involvement in the failed 2003 bank raid was the subject of a four part Netflix documentary called Evil Genius.
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Did she kill 'pizza bomber' Brian Wells?
She was never convicted of murdering delivery man Brian Wells, 46, but rather being involved in the raid that led to his death.
But Mr Wells' family believe he was actually a hostage and had been forced to carry out the raid.
Seconds before his death after being surrounded by police, he had told police that he had been coerced into the bank raid.
He had pleaded to them “I don’t have a lot of time” and said he had “heard the thing ticking and it’s going to go off”.
A few seconds later bleeping could be heard before an explosion blew open most of his body on live TV.
The bomb squad, who didn’t arrive in time, later discovered the device only gave Mr Wells 55 minutes before detonation.
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When did she date Bill Rothstein?
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong dated Bill Rothstein on and off during the 1960s and 70s.
And it was Rothstein who was thought to have made the bomb - and it was he that would lead to her arrest.
Almost one month after the very public death of Brian Wells, Rothstein called 911.
He told the police call handler: “At 8645 Peach Street, in the garage, there is a frozen body.
“It's in the freezer.”
The corpse was Diehl-Armstrong’s boyfriend and Rothstein had agreed to store it.
It later transpired he had been bumped off because he was going to tell the police about the failed bank job.
Diehl-Armstrong later admitted to his killing but said she was mentally ill at the time.
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