Anngelle Wood
May 16, 2023
Updated: Jun 5, 2023
Monday, April 15, 2013 stands as the most chaotic time in Boston's modern history and was the beginning of a traumatic four-day manhunt that shutdown the city.
Two home-made pressure cooker bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon twelve seconds apart, filled with enough nails and ball bearings to cause maximum damage. Three people were killed as a direct result of the explosions on Boylston Street that afternoon: 29-year-old restaurant manager, Krystle Campbell, 23-year-old Chinese student Lingzi Lu, and the youngest of the victims, 8-year-old Dorchester boy Martin Richard; 264 others were injured, some lost limbs from the blasts.
In the days that followed, MIT Police Officer Sean Collier would be ambushed and murdered by the wanted men, a civilian carjacked and terrified for their life, another officer would nearly die, and one more would succumb to injuries from the shootout a year later.
Journalist and Boston Strong co-author Dave Wedge joins me to talk about the 10th anniversary of Boston Marathon Bombings and the events that followed in Cambridge and Watertown.
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Read: Stronger by Jeff Bauman and Bret Witter
Watch: Patriots Day starring Mark Wahlberg
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Read: Mayhem: Unanswered Questions about the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government, and the Boston Marathon Bombing, by Michele McPhee
Watch: Hulu series, Murders Before The Marathon
Watch: Netflix series, American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing
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Sources
Boston Marathon Bombing, April 15, 2013
https://www.britannica.com/event/Boston-Marathon-bombing-of-2013
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/how-many-people-died-were-26679200
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/photos
https://www.npr.org/series/177378595/boston-marathon-explosions
https://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/haunting-photos-boston-marathon-bombing-23143733/image-23147393
Krystle Campbell
https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/boston-victim-final-moments/index.html
https://www.tbf.org/donors/forms/krystle-campbell-memorial-fund
Lingzi Lu
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2013/statement-from-the-family-of-lu-lingzi
Martin Richard and the Richard family
https://apnews.com/article/boston-marathon-bombing-survivors-9a0bcba9158e42efa2149cb7cb8b218e
https://www.wcvb.com/article/henry-richard-boston-marathon-2023-team-mr8/43623645#
Jeff Baumann
https://www.historyvshollywood.com/video/jeff-bauman-interview
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/sports/beyond-the-finish-line.html
Officer Richard Donohue
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/officer-in-firefight-with-boston-suspects-recalls-moment-he-was-shot/
Officer Sean A Collier Memorial Fund
https://officercolliermemorialfund.org/about-sean-a-colliers-life
Sean Collier murder
https://abcnews.go.com/US/images-show-sean-collier-murder-scene-boston-marathon/story?id=29556597
Witness to Sean Collier’s murder
Dun Danny Meng escapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a87eRueJ0sM
Bag Men
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/settlement-reached-in-new-york-post-bag-men-cover/
Boston Herald, April 15, 2013
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/officials-investigate-boston-explosions.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-22807759
Boston Magazine
Bystander Stories 10 years later
Saints Sinners and Serial Killers podcast, hosted by Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1557927085
Spaulding Rehab
Watertown Standoff
The Watertown Boat
The Bomber parents
https://www.distractify.com/p/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-parents
College friends of brother arrested
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-men-arrested-connection-boston-marathon-bombing-investigation
https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/us/tsarnaev-friend-sentence/
Trayvon Martin
https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us/trayvon-martin-shooting-fast-facts/index.html
Murders Before the Marathon on Hulu
The Trial Begins
The Death Sentence
https://www.wpri.com/new-england/massachusetts/court-weighs-tossing-boston-marathon-bombers-death-sentence