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Crime involving motives that a normal person can't really understand. >> you're describing bill rostein. >> that would be bill rostein in my mind. to me, he fits to a "t" the profile of someone who would commit such a bizarre and pathological crime. >> but now four years after the original crime, the government had to prove in court its theory was correct. and there were two big problems. rostein, the alleged master mind, died before even officially being linked to the crime. and the other main suspect, marjorie diehl-armstrong, had shown so many lies, she was showing evidence of mental proble...

>> i think when he was asked, he should have said no, i can't help you or called the police right away. he chose not to, so that left someone with bipolar personality disorders not otherwise specified with paranoid borderline, in doing that he also said i need money. so marjorie gave him $75,000 worth of money she also kept at the house. so bill rostein was left with two of the most important things to hold over marjorie diehl-armstrong. the money and the body that would make her lose the rest of her life. >> even though diehl-armstrong had been talking to police, it took the fbi four more yea...

Months after that bank robbery in a police evidence tape where he's explaining to a detective how he helped a former girlfriend marjorie diehl-armstrong dispose of a body. >> what came first the body or the freezer? >> the body came in, i put it on a cart. i'll show you where the cart is. the cart with big wheels. yes, that one there. >> but what's really going on here? what did that body in the freezer and bill rostein's confession have to do with the collar bomb explosion that killed brian wells? in a word, everything. bill rostein told police he was just doing marjorie a favor. he claimed m...

To police. rostein made that mess go away. >> he came to the house and helped. he took the body out, cleaned everything up. cleaned the walls, replaced floor boards, replaced everything. painted, got rid of everything that might have blood on it. basically stored it in his garage. but then also grabbed the body and unbeknownst to marjorie, bought a freezer to put the body in and held the body. >> after rostein turned her in for murder of her ex-boyfriend, there was another twist. she connected rostein to erie's biggest bank robbery. >> i mean, to build the bomb and test the bomb and all the co...

30-year history. she was able to be directed by bill rostein to do what he wanted and help ken barnes in the conspiracy. it wouldn't take much. all you had to do was remind her i got a body in a freezer and a bunch of cash in my basement. that's what unfortunately drives her. >> over many delays and many more years, the government finally obtained convictions on charges of bank robbery and murder. life plus 30 years for marjorie diehl-armstrong. a lesser sentence for police kenneth barnes, because he testified on part of prosecutors. brian wells, the government said he, too, was in on the crim...