"I have been invested in this story since day one," said Carrie Rospierski.

Like so many Erieites, she remembers exactly where she was when a collar bomb killed Brian Wells.

She was on the beach, but Friday night, she saw the murder first hand.

"I absolutely love the story. It is so bizarre. It is so strange," she said. "There are still so many unanswered questions."

David Durst tries to answer some of those questions in his play, a draw for audience members who find themselves mesmerized by the criminal brilliance of Marjorie Diehl Armstrong.

"Everybody in Erie has a story about where they were when it happened, and everybody has different pieces to the puzzle, so it has just been an infatuation of mine for the last five years or so," said audience member Richard Palmer.

A thread of mental illness awareness weaves its way through the drama, not excusing the acts of the killers, but offering context.

Part of the proceeds benefit a local charity committed to improving mental healthcare, something that might have prevented the murder altogether. 

Erie's most-famous crime, playing out on the stage two decades after it played out on Peach Street.

"It is amazing. It is amazing. I couldn't be happier," Durst said of the play.