In 2003, an Erie, Pennsylvania pizza delivery man named Brian Wells robbed a local bank only to be quickly surrounded by police. Rather than surrender to the armed officers, Wells was killed when explosive devices inside the collar he had locked around his neck detonated. As the ATF, Pennsylvania State Police, and the FBI began investigating, they revealed that Wells did not act alone in the robbery/suicide.
As Evil Genius begins to unfold, it’s revealed that a woman named Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was impatiently waiting for her father to die so that she would receive her inheritance. Not willing to wait until nature took its inevitable course on the old man, Diehl-Armstrong opted to hire a man named Kenneth Barnes to kill him. But what in the world does this have to do with a pizza delivery man robbing a bank and blowing himself up with an improvised explosive device?