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How about this! I figured this would be a cold case forever.

ERIE, Pa. ?  A pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank and was then blown up by a bomb locked around his neck was a participant in the robbery plot, federal authorities said Wednesday in announcing the first indictments in the nearly four-year-old case.

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and her friend Kenneth E. Barnes were indicted on bank robbery and conspiracy charges in an indictment unsealed Wednesday.

The two contrived a series of notes to make it appear pizza deliveryman Brian Wells was "merely a hostage," authorities said in court papers. Diehl-Armstrong and Barnes also planned to get the robbery money from Wells so that, if he were caught, he could claim he was a hostage and an unwilling participant, authorities said.

Authorities said the plot was concocted so that Diehl-Armstrong could pay someone to kill her father.

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Diehl-Armstrong is currently serving a state prison sentence for killing her boyfriend, James Roden. In the indictment, authorities say she killed him to keep him from disclosing details of the robbery plot.

Barnes is jailed in Erie County on unrelated drug charges.

Diehl-Armstrong and Barnes used a live bomb to assure that Wells completed all their instructions and turned over the money, according to the indictment.

"If he died, he could not be a witness," authorities said in the indictment.

Wells was identified in the indictment as an unindicted co-conspirator. Authorities used only his initials.