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September 08, 2003  FBI Suspects Helpers in Bizarre Penn. Heist
By CHARLES SHEEHAN, The Associated Press  ERIE, Penn. --
Investigators said Monday they were confident a pizza
deliveryman did not act alone when he robbed a bank with a bomb
locked to his neck that went off moments later and killed him.
But whether Brian Douglas Wells was a willing participant or
somehow "duped" into participating remained a mystery, FBI (news
- web sites) agent Bob Rudge said.  "We still don't know if it's
a murder investigation," Rudge said.  The idea that Wells acted
alone is now the "least likely scenario and we are to the point
where we have discounted that as a possibility," he said.
Wells, 46, was stopped in his car, arrested and handcuffed Aug.
28 following a PNC Bank robbery near Erie, but was killed when
the bomb attached to a collar locked around his neck exploded
while he and police waited for a bomb squad.  Investigators are
trying to determine whe