Marjorie diehl-armstrong young

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong vowed to fight her conviction in the pizza bomber case until she died.

Her battle has ended with her guilt intact.

Her death on Tuesday, at a federal prison in Texas, ended her appeals and closed out the homicidal career of one of the most infamous criminals in Erie history.

She was a killer whose name eventually became known worldwide because of the bizarre series of events that unfolded in Summit Township the afternoon of Aug.

28, 2003, when pizza deliveryman Brian Wells was killed when a bomb locked to his neck exploded after he robbed a bank off upper Peach Street.

Diehl-Armstrong, 68, was serving a sentence of life plus 30 years at the all-women Federal Medical Center in Carswell, near Fort Worth, when she was pronounced dead.

The exact cause of death was not immediately available, but Diehl-Armstrong had suffered for years from breast cancer, a disease that she pledged to beat as sound