Episode 42 | Chaos On The Streets of Boston: Boston Marathon Bombing with Boston Strong's Dave Wedge

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. Follow the show at @crimeofthetruestkind. Subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Recommendation List: Listen: Saint Sinners and Serial Killers podcast, hosted by Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman

Listen: Media Circus with Kim Goldman: Boston Marathon Bombing with Marc Fucarile, survivor

Read: Boston Strong: A City's Triumph over Tragedy by Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman

Read: Stronger by Jeff Bauman and Bret Witter

Watch: Patriots Day starring Mark Wahlberg

Watch: Stronger starring Jake Gyllenhaal 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

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/us/bicyclist-describes-scene-of-officers-shooting-in-boston-marathon-trial.html

Dun Danny Meng escapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a87eRueJ0sM

Bag Men

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/10/02/new-york-post-settles-bag-men-defamation-suit/

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/settlement-reached-in-new-york-post-bag-men-cover/

Boston Herald, April 15, 2013

https://www.bostonherald.com/2013/04/15/officials-144-injured-3-dead-as-two-huge-blasts-rock-boston-marathon-finish-line

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/officials-investigate-boston-explosions.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/boston-bombing-day-improbable-story-authorities-found-bombers/story?id=38375726

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-22807759

Boston Magazine

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2023/04/11/marathon-bombing-bystander-stories/?fbclid=IwAR1KHASpQA_kb3fV8Z_qQ9DhpWNZWF-YXNuR6Zvwn1wYPgyAW_V7FDd3cFM

Bystander Stories 10 years later

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2023/04/11/marathon-bombing-bystander-stories/?fbclid=IwAR1KHASpQA_kb3fV8Z_qQ9DhpWNZWF-YXNuR6Zvwn1wYPgyAW_V7FDd3cFM

Saints Sinners and Serial Killers podcast, hosted by Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman

https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1557927085

Spaulding Rehab

https://spauldingrehab.org/about/news/stronger-movie-premiere#:~:text=I%20gotta%20say%20it%20will,after%20the%20Boston%20Marathon%20bombings

Watertown Standoff

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/18/mit-police-officer-hit-gunfire-cambridge-police-dispatcher-says/4UeCClOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/story.html

The Watertown Boat

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/david-henneberry-boston-marathon-bombings-watertown-boat-owner-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-captured/

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

https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2022/08/23/murders-before-marathon-hulu-documentary-tamerlan-tsarnaev-boston-marathon-bombing

The Trial Begins

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/04/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-arrives-court-trial-about-begin/r1HKhliK4xRNORaIbPgttN/story.html

The Death Sentence https://www.wpri.com/new-england/massachusetts/court-weighs-tossing-boston-marathon-bombers-death-sentence