Also note it is not quite SO sure indictments will be handed down next
month.  This article below is more interesting & intriguing IMO.

I think the header would be "may solve."

FYI, if someone strapped a bomb around MY neck & said they would set if off
if I did not 'obey,' I might not shoot the gun they gave me either....

PattyC

P.S.   U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan was called for jury duty the other
day, but the accused rapist requested she be taken out of the potential
juror pool.
Feds may solve neck bomb case
Saturday, February 17, 2007

By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Federal officials believe they are close to solving the case of an Erie
pizza delivery man who was killed when a bomb strapped around his neck was
detonated more than three years ago.

For the first time in the investigation into how Brian Wells was killed,
U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan met with all of the state and federal law
enforcement officials involved at her office yesterday.

The meeting lasted for three hours, she said.

"We now believe we have a much better understanding of what happened on Aug.
28, 2003," she said. "I'm very encouraged by the information that has been
collected."

Mr. Wells, 46, was working as a delivery man for Mama Mia's Pizza-Ria when
he received an order about 1:30 p.m. for an address near a television tower.

He left to deliver the two sausage and pepperoni pizzas and wasn't seen
again until a short time later when he showed up at a PNC Bank just south of
Erie to rob it with a bomb strapped around his neck.

Investigators have not said how many people might have been involved in the
elaborate plot.

However, they did find nine pages of handwritten instructions given to Mr.
Wells, including maps and drawings, that he was to follow to rob the bank.

After the robbery, he was stopped by state police and handcuffed in a
parking lot. The bomb detonated a short time later, killing Mr. Wells.

At their meeting yesterday, Ms. Buchanan said she directed investigators to
take several additional steps to conclude the case.

She would not go so far as to say that the mystery has been solved.

She also would not confirm an Associated Press report that quoted a law
enforcement official saying that proposed indictments could be presented to
a grand jury as soon as next month.

"I would never comment on an expected indictment," she said yesterday
evening. "Until the grand jury hears that testimony and determines there's
probable cause, it would be improper to say that."

John Wells, Brian Wells' brother, said yesterday that he was not aware that
federal officials were nearing the end of the investigation.

"We won't be satisfied until everyone is held responsible for their actions
that day," he said.

Included in that everyone, he continued, are members of law enforcement who
didn't call the bomb squad for 32 minutes after his brother had been taken
into custody by state police.

Brian Wells died, his brother said, after 46 minutes in custody.

Mr. Wells is unsure why the investigation has taken such a long time. A
federal grand jury was seated just a month after his brother was killed, he
said.

Ms. Buchanan said that the investigation has been complicated by the deaths
of at least several witnesses in the case.

"A number of individuals connected in some way with the facts of this case
have died," she said.

Ms. Buchanan would not say if any of the deaths were related to the case.

Since Brian Wells' death, several theories about what happened that day have
been advanced.

They include that he was taken hostage and used by his kidnappers to rob the
bank. But others have speculated that Brian Wells may have been involved in
the robbery attempt and could have thought the bomb was a fake.

John Wells dismissed that idea.

"Everyone knows Brian was an innocent victim," he said.

Ms. Buchanan said she could not comment on Brian Wells' role, if any, in the
crime.

The family has a Web site about the case, www.brianwells.net.