Episode 42 | Chaos On The Streets of Boston: Boston Marathon Bombing with Boston Strong's Dave Wedge
- Anngelle Wood
- May 16, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 6
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
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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Music included in this episode from Joe onlyone Kowalski and Andrew King.
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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
Krystle Campbell
Lingzi Lu
Martin Richard and the Richard family
https://apnews.com/article/boston-marathon-bombing-survivors-9a0bcba9158e42efa2149cb7cb8b218e
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
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Sean Collier murder
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Dun Danny Meng escapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a87eRueJ0sM
Bag Men
Boston Herald, April 15, 2013
Boston Magazine
Bystander Stories 10 years later
Saints Sinners and Serial Killers podcast, hosted by Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman
Spaulding Rehab
Watertown Standoff
The Watertown Boat
The Bomber parents
College friends of brother arrested
Trayvon Martin
Murders Before the Marathon on Hulu
The Trial Begins
