MAN SEEKS REMAINS OF PIZZA DELIVERY BOMBER

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ERIE, PA. A man claiming to be the husband of a woman convicted in a bizarre Pennsylvania bank robbery plot that killed a pizza delivery driver with a bomb locked to his neck wants prison officials to confirm her death and release her remains.

The Bureau of Prisons has said 68- year- old Marjorie Diehl- Armstrong died April 4 at the Federal Medical Center- Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. She was serving life plus 30 years in the 2003 Erie bank robbery plot that ended with the death of 46- year- old pizza deliveryman Brian Wells. He had been forced to rob a bank while wearing the metal collar bomb that exploded afterward as he sat, handcuffed, in a parking lot while police and the FBI waited for a bomb squad

Mark Marvin, of Walden, N.Y. told the Erie TimesNews on Monday that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons hasn’t c o- operated with helping him locate Diehl- Armstrong’s remains — or even confirming to his satisfaction that she’s dead.

“It is certainly reasonable to believe she died,” Marvin said. “But I don’t have any confirmation of that.”

If she is indeed dead, he wants to move her remains to a Quaker cemetery near Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

“I am just pursuing her interests,” Marvin told the newspaper. “She insisted she is not guilty.”

Marvin said he met DiehlArmstrong by mail while he was corresponding with her fellow inmates and helping them with legal issues, though he’s not an attorney.

A Bureau of Pri s ons spokesman was investigating Marvin’s request Tuesday, but didn’t immediately comment.