This entire case has the same chaotic energy as tiger king. Like, the deeper you get into it the more you realise not a single sane person was involved
i didn't realize my spotify was still playing music so i was trying to figure out why they were playing "celebration" when they were talking about a guy dying
As someone who’s been to that mcdonald’s multiple times, a man rummaging through the bushes is probably one of the lesser of suspicious things i’ve seen there
Chip Mulaney’s suicide note: this has nothing to do with the death of Penelope, or whatever her name was! Whoever killed her only did it to protect her from this world
I just watched a documentary on this case. Jessica Hoopsick later admitted that she had told those 3 monsters involved in the planning of the heist about Brian Wells and that Brian was easily manipulated and a pushover, so they used him as their bomb carrier. He didn't really know what he was getting into. She went along with it cuz she was going to get 5000 dollars out of it but she said she felt terrible for getting Brian involved cuz he was really good to her and he was innocent. Apparently he was a good guy, according to everyone that knew him personally. All i know is i feel bad for that guy cuz no one helped him as he sat there pleading for help
If you’re talking about the Netflix documentary, the story still has holes and the confession might be false. What’s clear is that the mystery isn’t concrete solved
Coming to this video to say that I knew Brian Wells personally as a child. This horrific incident happened when I was nine years old. The landlord in question is my grandmother. Brian was a wonderful guy for the short time I knew him. My brother and I made mini pizzas with him one day in the shop where he worked using the giant mixer. He was always polite and friendly when we visited (cuz the rental is in the backyard he was always kind of around). I saw someone mention that he was mentally challenged but that definitely wasn't apparent to me or anyone else in my family. As far as I know, Brian was a good dude.
You should do research on this story and try to remember everything you can about Brian and write a book that clears his name a little. My gut keeps telling me that Brian Wells is innocent. I don’t know why but I just feel it that he’s innocent.
Brian had no use for it after the bomb went off . I saw the NF doc on this and I have to watch it again This case truly showcases the evil in this world
When Ryan suggested they spring cleaned together my face lit up simply because their bromance is awesome. Even when Shane pointed out they live in different places, the suggestion of Face Time came into play. No obstacle can tackle a bromance that is strong like Cory and Shawn!
oh my god i literally just saw a Cory and Shawn bromance video before this. I love this comparison . (Another one of my fave bromances are joey and chandler )
karleesawesome like the best bromance ever. They’re best friends from a show called boy meets wolrd. disney did a spin off called girl meets world but shawns only in like 4 eps
Something to point out with Brian’s “calmness”. It’s very possible he was in shock. People often refer to the fight/flight/freeze response and a common attribute to the freeze response is disassociation caused by trauma. It’s also possible that his survival instincts kicked in and realized if he acted out, the people watching him would have set off the bomb.
Yeah, him getting a dum-dum doesn't seem that weird to me. If you thought that this might be your last day on earth, I could see how someone might choose to grab a lolipop on the way out. I've also heard of people who felt eerily calm right before a high-risk surgery, or right before they decided to commit suicide. It's a weird thing where the brain is forced to make peace with the situation
that happened to some girl in australia. some guy broke into her house, strapped a [fake] bomb onto her, and orchestrated a hostage situation. after like 19 hours they figured out the bomb was fake and cut her out. can you even imagine that though? yikes edit: she was 18 years old and it took 10 hours to remove the collar. it's called the mosman bomb case.
Even sadder is that Jessica Hoopsick, the girl that set Brian up, gave birth shortly after the heist and it's believed to be Brian's. So Brian would have been a father and jessica has to live knowing shes responsible for getting her child's father killed. Crazy story all the way around
i didn't know she was pregnact but as brains profile shows he may have been a great father, always working and being responsible seems like a humble guy
Fun Fact: Wells was a scavenger hunt enthusiast and had been featured in his local paper as such after winning a town-wide scavenger hunt. (Maybe this is why he was selected to participate, willingly, or not?) Also, when police went to Rothstein's home they missed the sketch/plans for the collar bomb which was out in plain sight, most likely due to the sheer amount of stuff that prevented officers to really take everything in, plus they were there about a body in a freezer, not the Wells case. It wasn't caught until some time later, when photographs or video footage was revisited that they could clearly make it out, sitting at the edge of a table.
*BONUS-FUN-FACT* The comedy movie, "30 Minutes or Less" with Aziz Ansari and Jesse Eisenberg, is literally based off this story/event... And if you haven't seen that movie, man, I really feel bad for you (in general) & highly suggest you watch it because it is absolutely hilarious!!!
He was willing. Pizza delivery people don't got to sketchy non houses because they don't want to be robbed. He never would have stopped there let alone got out of the car for four black men.
@@soxpeewee lmfao you're comment wasn't well written in a sense that is sounds like you are being racist, but I understand where you are coming from. Keep in mind this would be the last pizza drop off for Wells, and I'm sure he was more worried about getting home then we're he was dropping off the pizza. I personally side with the idea that wells was a man who was a part of the scheme, but he is not with us anymore and we will most likely never know the truth.
I work at a thrift store and we have a code word for when someone donates something that we can’t sell and needs to be crushed. We say “take this to Wesley.”
There was a teacher at my old high school that was arrested for murdering a woman in our town. Our English teacher was also arrested for making and manufacturing meth.... Ah, small town life.
Wolfie dude that’s how you accidentally detonate the bomb and get even more people hurt. You have no choice but to wait for a bomb squad when there are explosives to deal with. This isn’t really up for debate. The cops couldn’t defuse a bomb without a bomb squad.
Why is it called the "bizarre collar bomb incident" instead of the "erie collar bomb incident" because it happened in Erie Pennsylvania Missed opportunity.
you guys forgot to mention that there was a coworker at mama mias who ended up dying not long after “under mysterious circumstances” and was requesting protection bc he was afraid the people who killed Brian wells was also going to kill him. His name was Robert Pinetti and he scheduled an interview with investigators for a Monday and was killed Sunday evening
riseordietrying96 they found his body in his apartment but there was no sign of anything self inflicted. they ruled it as a suicide but it wasn’t concrete.
Wow, Really?? It's crazy how much extra people know about this video! Was there a documentary made of this or something cuz if so, I def. gotta watch it!
@@angelbabyprincess there’s quite a bit of evidence that he was part of it as well as a good amount that says he wasn’t. It’s one of those situations where it’s up in the air with his involvement.
@@Jared_Wignall I think the biggest piece of evidence that suggests he was involved is Brian telling people about the bank robbery for two weeks before it happened. But yes, let's look at other "evidence"
Ryan forgot a major piece of evidence. when the cops were going through the scavenger hunt, they saw a blue minivan drive through a field away from them and when they went to rothstein’s house they saw that same van.
13:02 Fun Fact: a large amount of houses in New Orleans are supposedly haunted. So, having a selling point for a house be "NOT HAUNTED" makes a lot more sense than it would anywhere else
this comment was not too soon. erie is the worst. we're the tumor that grows from the top of pennsylvania. we're composed of the worst parts of ohio and the worst parts of new york. we've only been infamous for bizarre and some horrifying events. (facebook killer caught, murder at pizza hut, pizza bomber) that mcdonald's is in the same plaza as my childhood chuck e. cheese. erie is the kind of place that builds personality and character because you will do anything to appear to NOT be a born-and-raised local. also marjorie is guilty as hell 🤣 any long-time local will tell you crazy, off-the-wall stories about marjorie and her circle. pizza bomber is not not even the tip of the iceberg.
Just so everyone knows, in 2018 (after this video was released), Jessica Hoopsick said that she was involved with the plot, and was asked to find a "gopher" to be scared into robbing a bank. Hoopsick said Wells was "a pushover" and chose him, and she identified KENNETH BARNES as the head conspirator. She also said that Wells had no prior knowledge of the plot.
Are we the only people that really paid attention in the details of what really happened in the crime? I like the video that these people made. But there was a lot of inconsistencies to the real truth of a story. I just watch this twice in a row on Netflix and then researched it myself after.
@@jamesfall101 i agree. They left out a lot of important details. Ryan should have mentioned how the police made the decision to remove Wells' head to "CONSERVATIVE" the bomb device around his neck!
You can see that wells did put up a struggle with whoever put the bomb around his neck....look at the dirty knees on his jeans he’s wearing. He was on the ground at one point. Probably against his will. so I dont believe he was involved. He just happened to know those who were.
But why would he be so calm during the robbery, to the point of grabbing a sucker on the way out? Unless the note demanded he do that as a sign to show that he had the money, I don't think that's what an innocent party with a bomb clamped to their neck would do. I'd have told the teller to call the police & bomb squad because I was forced at bombpoint to rob the bank.
the actual video of him begging for them to do something then the bomb going off & him dropping to the floor is really disturbing. it had me speechless for a minute.
He loved his cats. He seemed like such a nice, quiet guy. His calm demeanor could be chalked up to the fact that some people stay incredibly calm under situations. Almost like its not real.
I can't believe, that after watching this series for two years and just coming back now, that Ryan is responsible for the weird voices people do on TikTok when narrating mystery stories.
I feel like Ryan and Shane have single-handedly kept buzzfeed in business. Their hilarious off the cuff banter and improv is unlike any other duo around.
I'm sure they thought of that & tested the shotgun shells that were in the shotgun to the ones in the boyfriends body. If they matched then it'd confirm everything.
Being from Erie, I'm curious about the lack of mentioning Wells being mentally challenged. I remember when this happened, being a huge crime in my somewhat small city, and everyone in my family who knew him described him as challenged or quiet and weird. But if that's true, it adds a whole new layer to his victim status. Maybe those family members were just mean, but it makes sense given the circumstances.
If he was mentally challenged or developmentally disabled in some way that might explain how he could have gotten roped into the plot. He may have thought these people were his friends and maybe been easily manipulated so that by the time he realized what was going on it would have been too late.
Its very common in cases involving mentally ill or intellectually disabled people that they will be blamed for what is done to them as if it is their fault for being sick or disabled, it may be that they did not want to perpetuate that or could not be certain of the method in which he was intellectually disabled.
Pretty much everyone involved in the incident had some form of mental issue. Marjorie is purportedly either schizophrenic or just suffers from NPD. Rothstein was most likely autistic. And Barnes also likely had a learning disability.
The pizza went into witness protection for a short time after the incident but eventually got bored and now has a lucrative career in pizza-man-bank-theft themed porn.
maeryon There was a news coverage on this heist. The FBI confirmed that Wells was tricked. There were witnesses who heard him discussing fake bombs weeks prior. Also, the real bomb had schematics. In Rothstien’s home, they found crude sketches showing an unidentifiable mechanism. After the case closed, ballistic forensic experts and retired bomb squad personnel looked into the odd device. It turns out that the device was the clamp, and the clamp armed the bomb once closed. The timer couldn’t be stopped, as the way the device was set up caused any tampering to detonate prematurely. The phone receiver in the device would signal a cutoff switch, causing imminent detonation. He was double-crossed. Granted, the fake bomb might be here-say, Wells was innocent to a degree.
Thank you! This guy was a victim. Plain and simple. Not everyone handles that kind of situation the same. We are all not identical cookie cutter human beings. And as for Armstrong? I watched the interviews with her. She is gauranteed 100% the exact type of person that would take pleasure in dragging an innocent mans name through the mud just because she has the power to do so. The fact the police gave any weight to her stating Thst shows how pathetic the police dept. is there. The ONLY person who said he was involved was a bipolar, paranoid, narcissistic killer.....Armstrong. So really? The only thing that is keeping his name run through the mud unjustly is "he was calm" and a known multiple murderer said he was. Yes she killed all those guys. Clearly doesn't take anything but common sense to figure that out. Husband shot, other husband fell hit the coffee table? Then another....and another....every guy she married died. In succession. Come on. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the pattern there. Let this victim rest in peace. He is innocent. R.I.P. Brian Wells.
@@engleberthumperdink3522 I am inclined to agree but I have one issue with Wells as a pure victim. Why did he say he was attacked by a group of Black men when that was so clearly not what happened? That seems like his story to throw off the suspicion of the actual group of villains maybe to appeal to some racist nature that may have been prevalent in the town. I would have believed he was innocent if he had said they were masked or something but he very obviously lied.
@@candidesque6470 That is a good point, but I would like to point out that NOONE truly knows what he personally was told to tell anyone by way of threat in the event he was stopped. Also it is not like he had ample time to tell the full story anyhow.
Man: "There's a bomb on my neck can you please remove it?" Cops: "Let me think about it for two hours." Man: - dies - Cops: "Oh well there was nothing we could do."
@@GravesLilDarkAngel Did you not hear about Randy Andy's interview where he claimed not to sweat? Wow! He tried to spin his poor judgement as just being "too honorable." th-cam.com/video/QtBS8COhhhM/w-d-xo.html
Pootis Power Tom Holland is too good for buzzfeed. Only Buzzfeed unsolved and those Disney beauty experiments are good cuz they’re not feminists trying to tell us how oppressed they are
Sevina Lee - 1. It was more than a week. 2. While they do work to make these videos happen, they have a huge crew supporting them. It has always been that Friday you get the episode and Wednesday you get the postmortem. The 'almost 70' episode was indeed a treat, but a rare one.
I feel for the guy in the collar bc I’d probably handle it the same way and be calm and try to work with the cops until I realized they weren’t in a hurry to get the collar off then I’d freak out
Shane and Ryan: *Talks about a Horrible crime that ended with a murder of a innocent man* Also Shane and Ryan: Yknow...we should do some spring cleaning this weekend.
There was no way to get the bomb off. When he died they actually had to decapitate him to get the bomb off for evidence in the case. Officers didn't know at the time if he was in on the robbery or if he was truly and innocent victim either, and the possibility that he could have been a suicide bomber was really, really likely. There's a documentary about this on Netflix that explains the whole story in a lot more detail with interviews with people who were there during the event (Reporters and police)
"And balding on top."
Damn, Why you gotta do him like that?
Daniel Strawe 😂😂🤭😶😔
yeah poor guy
😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
Thought the same 💀
Yeah they're being Baldest to us baldys #baldysarehumantoo
"There is a bomb stuck to me!"
"Shut up Brian, we are trying to find out how to arrest a bomb"
Cop: Did anybody bring their pepper spray?
Cop2: No, but don't worry his head is about to be blown off anyway.
lmfao
Bomb squad: Sorry I'm late, what did I miss
Cop: Something mind blowing
“Have you tried kneeling on his neck even though he’s handcuffed?”
Wells: This bomb is going to kill me
Police: ight
Wells: *dies*
Police: Oh well that was unexpected
Bomb squad was 10 miles away.
*surprised pikachu face*
Oh *Wells*
*wells.* didnt expect that.
sounds like police now that don't realize kneeling on someones neck would suffocate them
This entire case has the same chaotic energy as tiger king. Like, the deeper you get into it the more you realise not a single sane person was involved
only funny comment on this video 😭
i didn't realize my spotify was still playing music so i was trying to figure out why they were playing "celebration" when they were talking about a guy dying
That’s beautiful.
I died laughing at this XD
Ella Jackson not anynore
@@bradley455 it's getting closer to 777
LX arts 888
"TV repairman turned crack dealer" that's quite a career path
Haha
Obviously the TV repair business was not booming
i started laghing when that was mentioned
Clearly you've never been to Erie 😂😂
Writing suicide note: this has nothing to with the disappearance of C.C. Tinsely
Imagine your house being so repulsive that the cops have to wear hazmat suits to investigate
The Jellyfish Jam *ed gein syndrome intensifies*
Imagine how investigators and technicians felt when they explored Jeff Dahmer's apartment...
They are the lucky ones. The ones who discovered how disgusting it was didn't have the suits and probably had to burn their clothes after 😅🙈
This comment slightly aged like milk
@@linkinlog8543 that is correct
As someone who’s been to that mcdonald’s multiple times, a man rummaging through the bushes is probably one of the lesser of suspicious things i’ve seen there
I love how the cats head was censored
It's in Whisker Purrtection... But seriously, that made me giggle
We cant risk that cat to be harassed.
Shalimar Hadjerel good point somebody might steal its identity
with meow sound hahahah
Thank you, harry saladino. Very cool!
I used to be afraid of ghosts but thanks to buzzed unsolved am now afraid of human beings.
Yukta Bhatti im now afraid of any towns these take place in
red art act at this point I’m afraid of averthijg
Saw Noel i’m scared of myself
WTF YES IM MORE SCARED OF PEOPLE NOW
I used to be afraid of human beings but thanks to buzzfeed I’m terrified of human beings
John Mulaney's suicide note: "This has nothing to do with the death of Princess Diana."
Jane Bartell “as you know I am in Wisconsin and 12”
@@orangejuicegoblin8396 he grew up in Chicago. The fact he said Wisconsin deeply worries me
Cara Buker also, he would’ve been 15 at the time of her death
John mulaneys suicide note: this has nothing to do with death of
Chip Mulaney’s suicide note: this has nothing to do with the death of Penelope, or whatever her name was! Whoever killed her only did it to protect her from this world
I just watched a documentary on this case. Jessica Hoopsick later admitted that she had told those 3 monsters involved in the planning of the heist about Brian Wells and that Brian was easily manipulated and a pushover, so they used him as their bomb carrier. He didn't really know what he was getting into. She went along with it cuz she was going to get 5000 dollars out of it but she said she felt terrible for getting Brian involved cuz he was really good to her and he was innocent. Apparently he was a good guy, according to everyone that knew him personally. All i know is i feel bad for that guy cuz no one helped him as he sat there pleading for help
Why did he blame it on black guys?
Apparently he was instructed to day some black guys did it if he was caught
If you’re talking about the Netflix documentary, the story still has holes and the confession might be false. What’s clear is that the mystery isn’t concrete solved
i know right, id sue the cops and the city even after the bomb went off they did nothing to help him, he was still alive
@@cubed.public its definitely still cloudy but its the most realistic version of the story I've heard so far and would explain a lot
obsessed with "brian wells' cat" being depicted the same way they do all the humans (3:52)
hahahahahahahhaha I saw the too omg I was wondering if anyone was gonna mention it
This was the best part of the episode 😂
That poor cat I love them so much
And the meow tho
They hid the cats face, to hide the cats identity of course.
The way they made his cat seem like a suspect really made me giggle
Chloe Setzer gigglegigglegiggliiiigiggliiigiggleieieieieoooo u pssy
@@KArma-tx6nj are u ok?
@@KArma-tx6nj bro u good?
@@KArma-tx6nj hello what
this is the funniest comment chain ive ever seen
Casually discussing spring cleaning amidst a bank robbery case
A bank robbery case
@@tayloranderson7547 ?
i wonder if they actually did thoug
Coming to this video to say that I knew Brian Wells personally as a child. This horrific incident happened when I was nine years old. The landlord in question is my grandmother. Brian was a wonderful guy for the short time I knew him. My brother and I made mini pizzas with him one day in the shop where he worked using the giant mixer. He was always polite and friendly when we visited (cuz the rental is in the backyard he was always kind of around). I saw someone mention that he was mentally challenged but that definitely wasn't apparent to me or anyone else in my family. As far as I know, Brian was a good dude.
You should do research on this story and try to remember everything you can about Brian and write a book that clears his name a little. My gut keeps telling me that Brian Wells is innocent. I don’t know why but I just feel it that he’s innocent.
Yeah
Cool fake story for internet points. Congratulations
@@brianbadonde9251 ah yes, because absolutely nothing on the internet is true.
@@randomstuffprod. I'd rather be skeptical than believe everything I read in TH-cam comments
Shane’s suicide note: this has nothing to with the escape of Annabelle
Lmao As someone well versed in the original case, this would be perfect.
She didn't escape u numbnut
LMAO
Did you serisously make essentially the same comment twice 3 months apart?
@@GravesLilDarkAngel “I’m very well versed in this case” ummm ok?? That’s a weird thing to brag about
Writing suicide note: this has nothing to with the disappearance of C.C. Tinsely
Best. Comment. Ever
This one is so underrated and brilliant.
Who is she again
Raymoney the detective in the case of the Sodder children. The detective disappeared and no one knows what happened to him
Your Average New Yorker I remember now rip CC
If you guys ever do spring cleaning together and film it, I'd watch the heck out of that.
Revina Que me too 😄
Revina Que ㅐ비ㅔㅁ
I hope they do 😂💯
I'd watch anything these to did together, *anything* ;)
Honestly, same
Y’all forgot the most messed up part of the case, they cut off Wells’ head in order to preserve the collar bomb for evidence
What
@@jsvanilla he's right they did
Brian had no use for it after the bomb went off . I saw the NF doc on this and I have to watch it again This case truly showcases the evil in this world
Yeah and it prohibited the family from having an open casket funeral
@@nataliaaa6604 wait but wouldn’t the bomb disfigure his whole face anyway how did the bomb kill him and keep his head intact
writing suicide note: *This has nothing to do with the Abraham Lincoln assassination*
LMFAO🤣🤣🤣
LOOOL😂😂😂
Oh my God 😂
Lmao
Big brain
When Ryan suggested they spring cleaned together my face lit up simply because their bromance is awesome. Even when Shane pointed out they live in different places, the suggestion of Face Time came into play. No obstacle can tackle a bromance that is strong like Cory and Shawn!
Great comparison....
oh my god i literally just saw a Cory and Shawn bromance video before this. I love this comparison . (Another one of my fave bromances are joey and chandler )
karleesawesome like the best bromance ever. They’re best friends from a show called boy meets wolrd. disney did a spin off called girl meets world but shawns only in like 4 eps
karleesawesome oh man that hurt to read
Now thats strong Bromance
what a privilege it is to be alive in the same era as buzzfeed unsolved
Netflix... Evil genius
420 likes beautiful
An amazing privilege
Ya....it really is.
zainab syed lol 😂
Something to point out with Brian’s “calmness”. It’s very possible he was in shock. People often refer to the fight/flight/freeze response and a common attribute to the freeze response is disassociation caused by trauma. It’s also possible that his survival instincts kicked in and realized if he acted out, the people watching him would have set off the bomb.
Yeah, him getting a dum-dum doesn't seem that weird to me. If you thought that this might be your last day on earth, I could see how someone might choose to grab a lolipop on the way out. I've also heard of people who felt eerily calm right before a high-risk surgery, or right before they decided to commit suicide. It's a weird thing where the brain is forced to make peace with the situation
My husband "fell" and "hit his head"
I was thinking that too.
A lot of her ex partners all died. Definitely suspicious!
I read it in Candace's voice
@@alicekelly6204 i think 5. The other one hangged himself.. she said..
Exactly lmao
He protecc
He attacc
But most importantly:
He wheeze when the screen go blacc
lexsteph XD this deserves more likes
😂😂😂
Jordan Lutangu Lmao 😆
😂😂😂
Ryan is love 😍 😍 ❤️
the thought of someone coming up to me and putting a collar bomb on me gives me mad anxiety
lustremyg it’s even worse when you live exactly where this happened like me
That’s not even what happened. This dude is mad guilty
“Hey here’s your pizza-“ *puts collar bomb on me and tells me to rob a bank* “I- what?”
it's worse that someone can just say hi to you and then puts it on without you being able to escape
that happened to some girl in australia. some guy broke into her house, strapped a [fake] bomb onto her, and orchestrated a hostage situation. after like 19 hours they figured out the bomb was fake and cut her out. can you even imagine that though? yikes
edit: she was 18 years old and it took 10 hours to remove the collar. it's called the mosman bomb case.
Even sadder is that Jessica Hoopsick, the girl that set Brian up, gave birth shortly after the heist and it's believed to be Brian's. So Brian would have been a father and jessica has to live knowing shes responsible for getting her child's father killed. Crazy story all the way around
i didn't know she was pregnact but as brains profile shows he may have been a great father, always working and being responsible seems like a humble guy
i meant brian not brains LOL
She is absolutely not responsible. If he chose to do this crime, that’s on him.
@@AsdfAsdf-mi6ks she...she's one of the ones who set him up. She's the one who chose him bc he would be easy to manipulate
@@kingragnar8023 he was mentally challenged too very easy to trick explains why he was calm he thought these people were his friends
ok but the real question here is whether or not shane and ryan cleaned their closets
天使 I was going to type the exact same thing
I thought they got them organized by ladylike
Ok but the real question here is whether or
@@kirstynolan893 ladylike just made them outfits I think
Fun little Saturday
Fun Fact: Wells was a scavenger hunt enthusiast and had been featured in his local paper as such after winning a town-wide scavenger hunt. (Maybe this is why he was selected to participate, willingly, or not?) Also, when police went to Rothstein's home they missed the sketch/plans for the collar bomb which was out in plain sight, most likely due to the sheer amount of stuff that prevented officers to really take everything in, plus they were there about a body in a freezer, not the Wells case. It wasn't caught until some time later, when photographs or video footage was revisited that they could clearly make it out, sitting at the edge of a table.
Cops don’t try to investigate anything the mfs probably didn’t even care to look
I remember that being mentioned on “Snapped”
*BONUS-FUN-FACT*
The comedy movie, "30 Minutes or Less" with Aziz Ansari and Jesse Eisenberg,
is literally based off this story/event...
And if you haven't seen that movie, man,
I really feel bad for you (in general) & highly suggest you watch it because it is absolutely hilarious!!!
He was willing. Pizza delivery people don't got to sketchy non houses because they don't want to be robbed. He never would have stopped there let alone got out of the car for four black men.
@@soxpeewee lmfao you're comment wasn't well written in a sense that is sounds like you are being racist, but I understand where you are coming from. Keep in mind this would be the last pizza drop off for Wells, and I'm sure he was more worried about getting home then we're he was dropping off the pizza. I personally side with the idea that wells was a man who was a part of the scheme, but he is not with us anymore and we will most likely never know the truth.
mama mia pizzeria?
Peach street?
Mario did it.
No Luigi dit it
No it was Bowser
Wait it waluigi
@@lisah2063 IT'S PIKACHU
Nah it was Princess Peach
I work at a thrift store and we have a code word for when someone donates something that we can’t sell and needs to be crushed. We say “take this to Wesley.”
Take this to Wesley sounds like mob code for planning to whack someone
@@sunsun5005 Lol! Never thought of it like that! That makes it even better!
What kind of stuff do guys crush?
@@jmjedi923 furniture we haven’t been able to sell, or stuff that is broken.
"I dont believe in ghosts but _that house is haunted_ "
I didn't believe in ghost but that house is hanted
Kyah Allen you just hit 100 likes
I was gonna like, but you already have 666 likes and I didn't want to ruin it
i liked because of the italics
Imagine having a shop teacher in high school and then turns out he’s hiding a body in his freezer
I would not be surprised, tbh.
Wells: This bomb is going to kill me
Police: ight
Wells: dies
Police: Oh well that was unexpected
Imagine u were a jerk in class and pissed him off all the time...then u find out he's a cunning murderer
@@shirleyharris3934 Death Grips lyrics?
There was a teacher at my old high school that was arrested for murdering a woman in our town. Our English teacher was also arrested for making and manufacturing meth.... Ah, small town life.
Man: guys the bomb is going to off
Police: ha ha ha bombs don't do that
Bomb: goes off
Police: wow! wasn't expecting that
What were the police supposed to do? Arrest the bomb? You need a bomb squad, and they take awhile.
@@lt0295 arrest the bomb😂😂
@@lt0295 atleast try to cut the bomb off or something
Suprised pikachu meme
Wolfie dude that’s how you accidentally detonate the bomb and get even more people hurt. You have no choice but to wait for a bomb squad when there are explosives to deal with. This isn’t really up for debate. The cops couldn’t defuse a bomb without a bomb squad.
Why is it called the "bizarre collar bomb incident" instead of the "erie collar bomb incident" because it happened in Erie Pennsylvania
Missed opportunity.
💯
Locals call it the pizza bomber case
Can confirm, the Erie news stations always called it The Pizza Bomber Case or the Brian Wells case. But the pun should be this video's title.
If from the Erie area and yes we call it the pizza bomber
@@dylanbyers1844 ooh-rah
you guys forgot to mention that there was a coworker at mama mias who ended up dying not long after “under mysterious circumstances” and was requesting protection bc he was afraid the people who killed Brian wells was also going to kill him. His name was Robert Pinetti and he scheduled an interview with investigators for a Monday and was killed Sunday evening
abby kennedy THANK YOU!! I was surprised I couldnt see anyone in the comments talking about this
I thought he killed himself? If it was suspicious circumstances that’s a whole new level of mystery
riseordietrying96 they found his body in his apartment but there was no sign of anything self inflicted. they ruled it as a suicide but it wasn’t concrete.
They left out alot
Wow, Really?? It's crazy how much extra people know about this video! Was there a documentary made of this or something cuz if so, I def. gotta watch it!
imagine if he just said “it’s the end of my shift lol, bye”
he wouldn’t have because he was part of what he thought was the plan duh
my guess would be that this would have just happened to someone else haha
@@angelbabyprincess there’s quite a bit of evidence that he was part of it as well as a good amount that says he wasn’t. It’s one of those situations where it’s up in the air with his involvement.
@@Jared_Wignall most likely was in on it, dude was 46 working at the pizza shop
@@Jared_Wignall I think the biggest piece of evidence that suggests he was involved is Brian telling people about the bank robbery for two weeks before it happened. But yes, let's look at other "evidence"
Wells: Get this collar of, it's gonna explode!
Police: (Leave the collar on)
Wells: (Explodes)
Police (surprised Pikachu face)
They are not the bomb squad. They have no ability to defuse the bomb.
you stole this comment from the other guy
Fun fact, it's possible to make a joke without knowing the joke already exists. And no, I will not delete this comment.
Woomy the Canadian how original
Omg while I was reading that I already had the pikachu face 😂😦💀
“the poilce are baffled” Bruh he told em he was gonna explode why are they so confused
ACAS all cops are slow
Ryan forgot a major piece of evidence. when the cops were going through the scavenger hunt, they saw a blue minivan drive through a field away from them and when they went to rothstein’s house they saw that same van.
Two good pizzas gone to waste.
it was actually 4, 2 sausage and 2 pepperoni
Maybe they ate it to celebrate
Who’s to say they didn’t eat it? Whenever I take a hostage I get really hungry.
Casanova I don't like sausage on 🍕
It was probably eaten by like a stray or something
Its sick to think about a teacher going to work with a bunch of highschool kids and going home to a hoarding house with a body in a freezer.
Allen Jay ikr, that made me scared.
Yup, you can’t trust no one
She was a teacher?
Linda Svalesen no the man who was hiding the body was a teacher
My teacher said something really creepy a few weeks ago...I changed schools.
As a McDonald’s employee and can confirm that a guy rummaging through the flower beds is not that weird.
Literally sounds like a GTA mission
Giorno Giovanna frrr
He got [Bite za dusto] but yea it dose sound like a GTA mission
Respawing in 3 2 1 respawn corrupted error
Giorno Giovanna sounds like a mission in GTA 3 to be specific
Tell us about your dream Giorno
3:53 I love how they darkened the cat's face too 😂
M S hahaha
M S attention to detail. Love it
Gave a little 'meow' sound effect to it too
And then the meow too. Like, come on, guys. This is supposed to be serious, but then I laughed while watching this at the gym.
Yeah but like are his Cats okay?
Connor Bean unfortunately police put collars on them
They were all found decapitated
Adrien Broner how do you know that
happy valentines
Adrien Broner what
Yes
13:02 Fun Fact: a large amount of houses in New Orleans are supposedly haunted. So, having a selling point for a house be "NOT HAUNTED" makes a lot more sense than it would anywhere else
Sounds like. Uh. Either New Orleans has a mold issue or maybe a carbon monoxide issue. Possibly gas leak issue.
"Will you grind the body?"
"... **sigh** "
*Goddamnit Marjorie. You stepped over the line. What were you thinking?*
In a goddamn ice grinder at that.
I mean... at least run him through with the coffee beans.
Thomas Edison's suicide note: "This has nothing to do with the disappearance of Prince"
Shhhh
@@thomasedison3700 I’m onto you
Prince???? different eras
@@johanvajse8410 they're probably talking about Louis le prince. Buzzfeed unsolved made a video on his disappearance
@@Whooshfurby oh of course. so sorry
Remember when shane didn't look like a tired divorced college professor with a gambling addiction
those were the days
Lol
this sent me
Yeah good times man.....
Rude!
Brian: This is a real bomb and it's gonna go off. Please take it off
Cops: Shut up
Bomb: *detonates*
Cops:*surprised pikachu face*
8:40
So uh, did they do the Spring Cleaning together? Or will it remain Unsolved?
Find out in the next episode, The Bizarre Case of the T-shirt Thief
You could say that this case was quite eerie...
Cameron Beach lol I actually live there
Too soon.
@@liamoooo ayy!! I dont live in Erie but I live right outside!
this comment was not too soon. erie is the worst. we're the tumor that grows from the top of pennsylvania. we're composed of the worst parts of ohio and the worst parts of new york. we've only been infamous for bizarre and some horrifying events. (facebook killer caught, murder at pizza hut, pizza bomber) that mcdonald's is in the same plaza as my childhood chuck e. cheese. erie is the kind of place that builds personality and character because you will do anything to appear to NOT be a born-and-raised local. also marjorie is guilty as hell 🤣 any long-time local will tell you crazy, off-the-wall stories about marjorie and her circle. pizza bomber is not not even the tip of the iceberg.
Adri Sypin those all sound like comedy sketches...which is even worse, lmao. in all seriousness though stay safe
john mulaney doing coke before his graduation: this has nothing to do with the death of princess diana
glassie !! Chip Mulaney: this has nothing to do with Penelope, or whatever her name was!
We need a solved series, would love to hear how some of the criminals were caught
Just watch crime watch daily
RyanMK666 But the crimes being unsolved make this series so interesting, well that and Shane and Ryan’s sense of humour.
Yes
Look into a case called the girl in concrete. Its a Japanese case from the 80s
Evil genius on Netflix. At least you'll put a face on who the criminals were in this case.
There is something very unsettling about this story.
FormulaVase3806 there’s a Netflix original documentary about this case if you want more information
@@dylancross2940 what is it called?
@@Ren-cs1ic Evil Genius - in case you haven't found it in the comments yet :)
@@Tesspanda thank youuu
I agree
Just so everyone knows, in 2018 (after this video was released), Jessica Hoopsick said that she was involved with the plot, and was asked to find a "gopher" to be scared into robbing a bank. Hoopsick said Wells was "a pushover" and chose him, and she identified KENNETH BARNES as the head conspirator. She also said that Wells had no prior knowledge of the plot.
Are we the only people that really paid attention in the details of what really happened in the crime? I like the video that these people made. But there was a lot of inconsistencies to the real truth of a story. I just watch this twice in a row on Netflix and then researched it myself after.
@@jamesfall101 i agree. They left out a lot of important details. Ryan should have mentioned how the police made the decision to remove Wells' head to "CONSERVATIVE" the bomb device around his neck!
You can see that wells did put up a struggle with whoever put the bomb around his neck....look at the dirty knees on his jeans he’s wearing. He was on the ground at one point. Probably against his will. so I dont believe he was involved. He just happened to know those who were.
I feel sorry for this Wells man...
But why would he be so calm during the robbery, to the point of grabbing a sucker on the way out? Unless the note demanded he do that as a sign to show that he had the money, I don't think that's what an innocent party with a bomb clamped to their neck would do. I'd have told the teller to call the police & bomb squad because I was forced at bombpoint to rob the bank.
the actual video of him begging for them to do something then the bomb going off & him dropping to the floor is really disturbing. it had me speechless for a minute.
Precisely why I have no desire to watch it. I can't believe they just stood around and let it happen.
He loved his cats. He seemed like such a nice, quiet guy. His calm demeanor could be chalked up to the fact that some people stay incredibly calm under situations. Almost like its not real.
Krystle Barnes yeah, it wouldn’t be odd if he was just in shock
Lucy Hanouille lol it's a case about a bank robbery involving a collar bomb murder. That's complex before you ever start.
Krystle Barnes it all started with a pizza order...
i hope they got the pizza though
Cat people aren't murderers, we all know that :)
Next episode on Unsolved, we’ll be looking at the mysterious death of Brian Well’s Cat.
😂👌
glad to know my name was once useful in a bank robbery
audrey lol
me too
same lol
same lol
Lol
I can't believe, that after watching this series for two years and just coming back now, that Ryan is responsible for the weird voices people do on TikTok when narrating mystery stories.
Can we talk about the cute friendship that they have. Spring cleaning and FaceTime on Saturday 😂
Crazy Llama Lady HONESTLY OML I LOVE THEM SM
Yes to Shane and Ryan spring cleaning live, internet, make it happen! !!!
enacrt I'd watch it
“Former TV repairman turned crack dealer”
😭😭😭
The us in a nutshell
This town I swear to god
the american dream 😍😍😍
**Knock knock** "Hey, I got your 32 inch TV right here! Oh wait...Never mind, it's
C R A C K "
That’s PA for you
I feel like Ryan and Shane have single-handedly kept buzzfeed in business. Their hilarious off the cuff banter and improv is unlike any other duo around.
They’ve been gone for a while now. Buzzfeed been real quiet since they left.
I just hope his cats found loving homes
hannahmawaii same
Mez that’s what I was thinking about during pretty much the entire episode.
Zoe Potatoes they died
sammi where did you get that information
That’s what he would have wanted
Marjorie: *gets life sentence*
Also Marjorie: *get +30 years on sentence*
A life sentence doesn't technically mean their entire life, its usually somewhere from 7-25 years depending on the crime.
@PanicingAnimal Do you mean parole? Not bail, cause bail is the sum of money paid for temporary release awaiting trial, where they are then sentenced.
Just means they gonna leave the corpse in the cell for another 30 years
Would hate to be that corpse cell mate
Unclaimed prison corpse, you say...?
* lloyd henreid has entered the chat *
I bet the shotgun cane was made from the shotgun she used to kill her boyfriend. That’s how they “disposed” of it
interesting point!
I thought of that too!
They recycled so atleast cared about the planet maybe the planet was in on it
I'm sure they thought of that & tested the shotgun shells that were in the shotgun to the ones in the boyfriends body. If they matched then it'd confirm everything.
That’s what I thought
Being from Erie, I'm curious about the lack of mentioning Wells being mentally challenged. I remember when this happened, being a huge crime in my somewhat small city, and everyone in my family who knew him described him as challenged or quiet and weird. But if that's true, it adds a whole new layer to his victim status. Maybe those family members were just mean, but it makes sense given the circumstances.
If he was mentally challenged or developmentally disabled in some way that might explain how he could have gotten roped into the plot. He may have thought these people were his friends and maybe been easily manipulated so that by the time he realized what was going on it would have been too late.
Its very common in cases involving mentally ill or intellectually disabled people that they will be blamed for what is done to them as if it is their fault for being sick or disabled, it may be that they did not want to perpetuate that or could not be certain of the method in which he was intellectually disabled.
Pretty much everyone involved in the incident had some form of mental issue. Marjorie is purportedly either schizophrenic or just suffers from NPD. Rothstein was most likely autistic. And Barnes also likely had a learning disability.
@@tzvikrasner6073 Well this doesn't exactly seem like a crime that any particularly stable person would have come up with.
@@tzvikrasner6073 Do you have any support for your claims about Rothstein and Barnes?
The real unsolved mystery is where did the pizza go?
The people who put the bomb on Wells ate it.
plot twist the pizza is the killer
pennywise the evil clown I think you're onto something.
@@bunnyclouds5415 its Detective penny lol
The pizza went into witness protection for a short time after the incident but eventually got bored and now has a lucrative career in pizza-man-bank-theft themed porn.
wells seems like a really good guy, like he literally came late to work because his cat.
Yeah, poor guy’s cats probably miss him.
Honestly I’d do that. I’d be so sad I’d be out for a week grieving
Netflix has a whole mini series in this! The guy isn’t that good O: but yeah RIP cat
maeryon There was a news coverage on this heist. The FBI confirmed that Wells was tricked. There were witnesses who heard him discussing fake bombs weeks prior. Also, the real bomb had schematics. In Rothstien’s home, they found crude sketches showing an unidentifiable mechanism. After the case closed, ballistic forensic experts and retired bomb squad personnel looked into the odd device. It turns out that the device was the clamp, and the clamp armed the bomb once closed. The timer couldn’t be stopped, as the way the device was set up caused any tampering to detonate prematurely. The phone receiver in the device would signal a cutoff switch, causing imminent detonation. He was double-crossed. Granted, the fake bomb might be here-say, Wells was innocent to a degree.
maeryon a
"Oh that h- I don't believe in ghosts but THAT house is haunted."
*Talking about a bank robbery*
Shane and Ryan: Let's facetime this Saturday
I’m gonna be completely honest here. The calmness of Wells with the bomb is because adrenaline is one hell of a drug.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Sometimes calmness is a panic response
Thank you! This guy was a victim. Plain and simple. Not everyone handles that kind of situation the same. We are all not identical cookie cutter human beings. And as for Armstrong? I watched the interviews with her. She is gauranteed 100% the exact type of person that would take pleasure in dragging an innocent mans name through the mud just because she has the power to do so. The fact the police gave any weight to her stating Thst shows how pathetic the police dept. is there. The ONLY person who said he was involved was a bipolar, paranoid, narcissistic killer.....Armstrong. So really? The only thing that is keeping his name run through the mud unjustly is "he was calm" and a known multiple murderer said he was. Yes she killed all those guys. Clearly doesn't take anything but common sense to figure that out. Husband shot, other husband fell hit the coffee table? Then another....and another....every guy she married died. In succession. Come on. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the pattern there. Let this victim rest in peace. He is innocent. R.I.P. Brian Wells.
@@engleberthumperdink3522 I am inclined to agree but I have one issue with Wells as a pure victim. Why did he say he was attacked by a group of Black men when that was so clearly not what happened? That seems like his story to throw off the suspicion of the actual group of villains maybe to appeal to some racist nature that may have been prevalent in the town. I would have believed he was innocent if he had said they were masked or something but he very obviously lied.
@@candidesque6470 That is a good point, but I would like to point out that NOONE truly knows what he personally was told to tell anyone by way of threat in the event he was stopped. Also it is not like he had ample time to tell the full story anyhow.
@@candidesque6470 at that point he still thought there might be a chance to survivw
"PEACOCK'S NEST!"
Yeet
Man: "There's a bomb on my neck can you please remove it?"
Cops: "Let me think about it for two hours."
Man: - dies -
Cops: "Oh well there was nothing we could do."
They had to wait for a bomb squad
@@sins4223 they had some very unfortunate timing.
Yeez M don’t forget there was heavy traffic that day and the bomb squad had to reroute lol
Ik guys that's why I said it. I think it's better that one died cause if the police tried who knows more could have been killed.
@@sins4223 They waited 30 minutes to call the bomb squad
"She must've been beautiful."
*looks up her image*
Well, I'm having nightmares tonight.
"at age 46, wells lived alone with 3 cats"
probably me in my mid forties tbh
lalaki ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ me in 5 years
I. Wynn Wynn to be honest
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lalaki ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ that's me right now. Except I'm not 46. My cats are Ramona, Amelia, and Veronica,
Prince Andrews suicide note: "This has nothing to do with the Epstein case"
I can't believe he didn't off himself after that interview, to spare his daughters and incredibly elderly mother more embarrassment.
@@abug5004 Ooo, what interview was this?
@@GravesLilDarkAngel Did you not hear about Randy Andy's interview where he claimed not to sweat? Wow! He tried to spin his poor judgement as just being "too honorable." th-cam.com/video/QtBS8COhhhM/w-d-xo.html
@@abug5004 I hadn't before now but thanks to you...and Oh. My. Gods. Who exactly does he think he's fooling. His poor mother and daughters.
😅😂😂😂😂
Ooooo 'elucidate.' Well, look who got a new thesaurus, Ryan, I see you.
Lol
PAHAHAHAHAH Ryan is the reason I know so many new words to show off at school with
i love words so when he said it my heart skipped a beat in excitement hahaha
Words are the best aren't they? I mean that with whole hearted sincerity. Linguistics is fascinating.
I elucidated once. I blacked out and woke up at Burning Man wearing a palm frond as underwear next to a Bulgarian clown spooning an alpaca.
Man, I had no idea this happened so close to my hometown. This is incredibly sad. Whether or not he was involved, he didn’t deserve go go out that way
Take a drink everytime Ryan says "quote" or "end quote"
Ugh. My head hurts
_;-(__£?:_7&_(-£3;&8_75_--&-'hfgi
Alcohol poisoning
Eww hydration
/@^to runningpp")));
JC also.... Lol
I find this channel more interesting than anything buzzfeed has to offer
Not that hard to do.
@@pootispower304 Tom Holland always looks like a frog is attempting to escape from his mouth.
Yess!!! Same here !!!
Pootis Power Tom Holland is too good for buzzfeed. Only Buzzfeed unsolved and those Disney beauty experiments are good cuz they’re not feminists trying to tell us how oppressed they are
agree
Well this makes me never want to deliver anything to anyone
Same
Same
'he took the hubcaps off of his car because they were too shiny' i really like this guy
This episode was probably the most twisted, confusing, weirdly plotted I’ve ever watched.
Chloe ikr I literally have no idea what’s going on
Watch evil genius it will shed more disturbing details on the mstter believe me
Torian Lynch was about to say the same. Watch the documentary
There is a documentary called "Evil Genius" covering this case in detail currently on Netflix which explains everything. Wells was 100% innocent.
@@rosanguyen9143 no he wasn't innocent... Netflix's evil genius will explain
ARE YALL EVEN TAKING RESTS LIKE WHAT IS THIS CONTINUOUS CONTENT IM SO HAPPY
Sevina Lee you obviously missed their break between both seasons😢. You don’t watch enough. Lol
Trey Huston i did but it was like barely a week???? And it bet they were working on this new channel as well so was it really a break?!??!
Sevina Lee - 1. It was more than a week. 2. While they do work to make these videos happen, they have a huge crew supporting them. It has always been that Friday you get the episode and Wednesday you get the postmortem. The 'almost 70' episode was indeed a treat, but a rare one.
Sevina Lee I think they shot these videos during their gap and then they shoot the Postmortem ones after a video is released
Buzzfeed: Semi-Solved
I feel for the guy in the collar bc I’d probably handle it the same way and be calm and try to work with the cops until I realized they weren’t in a hurry to get the collar off then I’d freak out
"Lived alone with three cats" If this doesn't describe my future.
I sympathized so hard w/that line. And I'm okay with that, cats are cuddle monsters 😂🤗
Sydney i wood marrey u
Sydney that is exactly what I thought too 😂
I own 3 cats and a lap (dog) cat.
420 likes, blaze it!!!
Even if he was involved and double crossed, I still feel bad for Brian Wells. It's a really cruel way to kill someone.
Shane and Ryan: *Talks about a Horrible crime that ended with a murder of a innocent man*
Also Shane and Ryan: Yknow...we should do some spring cleaning this weekend.
Paper Towel I still wanna know if they did it or not 😂
Vibe Check lol pretty sure they did
Writing suicide note: This has nothing to do with the zodiac killings
*The music was soooo good in this one*
Man exploded into bits
“We should do spring cleaning”
Man exploed into bits
Nobody:
Ryan and Shane: *takes a break from talking about bombs to plan spring cleaning*
Spring bomb cleaning
Fun little Saturday
It's crazy to think that there might still be instructions around that nobody's found, they only needed to reacquire one clue to break the sequence
“baffled” lol
“WOW THE BOMB WENT OFF EVEN THO HE TOLD US THE BOMB WOULD GO OFF AND BEGGED TO TAKE IT OFF HIM???? crazy world.”
tessska lmao who'da thunk it would explode
police can't just take off a bomb... if you watched the video it said they called the bomb squad after it was identified as an actual bomb.
so what?? The bomb squad took their sweet time getting there and the guy died.
Kristin Wiebold I don't know much about the case but... how do you know they took their "sweet time"? they don't have wings and just fly everywhere.
There was no way to get the bomb off. When he died they actually had to decapitate him to get the bomb off for evidence in the case. Officers didn't know at the time if he was in on the robbery or if he was truly and innocent victim either, and the possibility that he could have been a suicide bomber was really, really likely. There's a documentary about this on Netflix that explains the whole story in a lot more detail with interviews with people who were there during the event (Reporters and police)