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On August 28th, 2003, Brian Wells entered the PNC Bank in Erie, Pennsylvania with a letter demanding $250,000 in cash. Brian’s captors then sent him on a desperate scavenger hunt to unlock his collar bomb before a deadly police standoff ensued. 

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