IN 2003, the world’s attention was captivated by a bizarre case involving a pizza deliveryman, a sick scavenger hunt and a horrific public murder.

Now, that case has been made into a brand new Netflix documentary series that’s about to become your latest true crime addiction.

Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist, which premieres today, promises to reveal new details about the infamous “pizza bomber heist”.

On August 28, 2003, high school drop out and pizza deliveryman Brian Douglas Wells, 46, walked into the PNC Bank in Pennsylvania in the United States with a collar bomb around his neck and a homemade shotgun in his hand.

He slid a note to the teller which demanded $250,000, and explained if the cash was not delivered within 15 minutes, the bomb would explode.

The female teller handed over just $8702 as she was unable to access the bank’s vault.

When Mr Wells was arrested by police just 15 minutes later, he claimed the collar bomb had been fixed to his neck by three African-American men who said they would kill him if he did not commit the robbery and follow a detailed, nine-page scavenger hunt.

Police didn’t try to remove the device, and only called the bomb squad half an hour after the first 911 call was made.

The unfolding drama was captured on film, and the haunting images of Mr Wells’ last moments were broadcast around the world.

In the footage, he is seen sitting cross-legged on the road alone, surrounded by police officers hiding behind their cars.

At one point, he yells to the officers: “Why isn’t anybody trying to get this thing off me?” and “I don’t have a lot of time”.

He later begs: “It’s going to go off ... I’m not lying” as the device starts to beep.

At 3.18pm, the device explodes, blowing a whole through Mr Wells’ chest and killing him soon after.

The bomb squad arrived on the scene three minutes after the explosion.

Mr Wells was believed to have been killed by Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes, who orchestrated the bizarre plot and then murdered Mr Wells in a bid to cover their tracks.

The pair were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bank robbery, conspiracy, and weapons charges.

In 2008, Mr Barnes was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

In 2011, Ms Diehl-Armstrong was also found guilty and was sentenced to life in prison, where she died in 2017.

Evil Genius promises to shed new light on the case, which has divided the public for the past 15 years.

While some, including Mr Wells’ family, believe he was simply a clueless victim of a cruelly botched crime, others thought he was a willing participant — including the FBI, with the body ruling Mr Wells had known about the plot in 2011.

The four-part docuseries, filmed by brothers Mark and Jay Duplass, sheds new light on the complicated backgrounds and motivations of one of the most twisted and complex crimes in history.