Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice (35 page)

The call came while Deval Patrick
:
Patrick interviews; Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours.”

The principals gathered in a trailer
:
Patrick and Menino interviews; interviews with law enforcement officials, 2013; Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours.”

What was clear was that no one
:
Henneberry interviews; Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours.”

a public plea by his high school wrestling coach
:
Reitman, “Jahar’s World.”

The same mop of dark hair
:
Additional details from photographs taken by Massachusetts State Police sergeant Sean Murphy and published by
Boston
magazine, in “Behind the Scenes of The Hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,” September 2013, http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2013/08/27/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-manhunt-photos.

Menino’s voice cut in
:
Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours”; Mark Arsenault, “Second Marathon bombing suspect captured,”
Boston Globe
, April 20, 2013.

Dzhokhar was in rough shape
:
Travis Andersen, “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s injuries detailed in documents,”
Boston Globe
, August 20, 2013.

At 10:05
P.M.
, President Obama spoke:
Statement by the president, 10:05
P.M.
, April 19, 2013, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/19/statement-president; Menino and Patrick interviews.

As Krystle Campbell’s brother put it
:
Arsenault, “Second Marathon bombing.”

Kevin Brown first saw the memorial
:
Interviews of Kevin Brown by Jenna Russell, 2013.

The square, named for the colonial portrait painter
:
William A. Newman and Wilfred E. Holton,
Boston’s Back Bay: The Story of America’s Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2006), vii–xii.

It was hard to explain
:
Evan Allen, “Copley Square a place to mourn, heal after bombings,”
Boston Globe
, May 3, 2013.

“Yeah! We’re alive!”
:
Sarah Schweitzer and Evan Allen, “Joining sorrow—the joy of coming together,”
Boston Globe
, April 21, 2013.

Mental health experts voiced concern
:
Deborah Kotz, “Mental health experts worried about ‘Boston Strong’ slogan,”
Boston Globe
, May 13, 2013.

But the IRS was cool
:
Menino interviews.

That day, September 11, 2001
:
Bob Oakes and Lisa Tobin, “9/11: Menino on Leading Boston Through Chaos,” WBUR, September 7, 2011.

“We’re a big city”
:
Andrew Ryan and John R. Ellement, “Mayor Menino lunches on Boylston Street; says businesses helping each other to recover,”
Boston Globe
, April 25, 2013, http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/25/mayor-menino-lunches-boylston-street-says-businesses-helping-each-other-recover/NLmEwVSxjznE1OV2ujWrcN/story.html.

On the weekend following the attack
:
Interviews of McGillivray and race official Josh Nemzer by Scott Helman, August and September 2013.

“I’m just trying to pull it together”
:
Jenn Abelson and Casey Ross, “Back, but in no way business as usual,”
Boston
Globe
, April 24, 2013.

Sharon Maes returned to her apartment
:
Evan Allen and Brian MacQuarrie, “Residents return to homes forever changed,”
Boston Globe
, April 23, 2013.

At 3:35 that morning:
Martine Powers and Evan Allen, “At Copley Square, reopening and reflection,”
Boston
Globe
, April 24, 2013.

but if you watched closely
:
Powers and Allen, “At Copley Square.”

a new sign had appeared
:
“Marathon memorial to be moved to Copley Sq. Park,” WHDH, April 22, 2013, http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/boston/10010432402737/marathon-memorial-to-be-moved-to-copley-sq-park/.

Shane O’Hara had gone back in
:
O’Hara interviews.

Heather Abbott had been waiting
:
Abbott interviews.

Her friend Jason had been with her
:
Geremia interviews.

Medford was the city where he’d grown up
:
Interviews of Dave McGillivray, Amy Dominici, and Susan West by Scott Helman, 2013.

In a room near the entrance
:
Bryan Marquard, “Hundreds bid goodbye to Campbell,”
Boston Globe
, April 23, 2013; interview of Bryan Marquard by Scott Helman, October 2013.

McGillivray was nervous
:
McGillivray and Dominici interviews.

With hundreds of mourners
:
Interview of Fred Dello Russo by Scott Helman, October 2013.

The skin on her forearm
:
Richard A. Oppel Jr., Jess Bidgood, and Katharine Q. Seelye, “Bostonians, Assured That Danger Is Past, Begin Farewells to Victims,”
New York Times
, April 22, 2013.

“I’m here because my heart hurts”
:
Franci Richardson Ellement and Rich Schapiro, “She was so loving,”
New York Daily News
, April 22, 2013.

As the first wake or funeral
:
Marquard interview.

About two hundred people
:
Marquard, “Hundreds bid goodbye.”

Dave McGillivray had mowed the grass
:
McGillivray and Fechter,
The Last Pick
:
The Boston Marathon Race Director’s Road to Success
, 19.

A hush fell over the gathering
:
Marquard, “Hundreds bid goodbye”; Marquard interview.

her friends had trouble leaving her
:
Interviews of Tim Getchell, Sean McLaughlin, and Bryan Conway by Scott Helman, August 2013.

Brian Fleming spent the week
:
Interview of Brian Fleming by Jenna Russell, September 2013.

Shana Cottone knew she needed some time off
:
Cottone interviews.

Celeste was in tears
:
Eric Moskowitz, “Marines bring hope to Marathon attack victims,
” Boston Globe
, April 23, 2013; “Celeste and Sydney get an inspiring visit from the Marines,” posted to YouTube by Alyssa Carter, April 21, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hy_LNYR-MiI.

More than 1,500 American soldiers
:
David Wood, “US Wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan, includes more than 1,500 amputees,”
Huffington Post
, November 7, 2012; Gregg Zoroya, “Some wounded troops choose amputation,”
USA Today
, April 19, 2011.

What was clear, within minutes
:
FBI, “Updates on Investigation Into Multiple Explosions in Boston,” accessed September 8, 2013, http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston; Michael Kranish, Bryan Bender, Sean P. Murphy, and Noah Bierman, “Data-sharing troubles raise questions in Marathon case,”
Boston Globe
, April 25, 2013.

In March of 2011
:
Kathy Lally, “Russian FSB describes its Tsarnaev letter to FBI,”
Washington Post
, May 31, 2013.

The Russians reported that Tamerlan
:
The contents of the letter, as read by a translator, were recounted by US Representative Bill Keating in an interview by Walter Alarkon, September 2013.

The Russians’ concerns
:
Siobhan Gorman, Evan Perez, and Alan Cullison, “U.S.: Russia Withheld Intel on Boston Bomb Suspect,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 10, 2013.

two years before the Boston bombing
:
Kranish, Bender, Murphy, and Bierman, “Data-sharing troubles.”

Under its own guidelines
:
Major Garrett, “Was the Ball Dropped in the Tsarnaev Questioning?”
National Journal
, April 24, 2013.

The FBI reported its inconclusive findings
:
Eric Schmitt and Michael S. Schmidt, “2 U.S. Agencies Added Boston Bomb Suspect to Watch Lists,”
New York Times
, April 24, 2013.

In September 2011, they went to the CIA
:
Schmitt and Schmidt, “2 U.S. Agencies.”

the TIDE database didn’t flag him
:
Ibid.

“My fear is that the Boston bombers”
:
Transcript of House Homeland Security Committee Hearing, May 9, 2013.

“If there is information that comes”
:
Transcript of Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Hearing, July 10, 2013.

US officials apparently never informed
:
Noah Bierman, “FBI director admits to lapse before Marathon bombing,”
Boston Globe
, June 14, 2013.

In a May 2013 meeting
:
Keating interview.

In August 2013, the
New York Times
:
Michael S. Schmidt, “FBI Said to Find It Could Not Have Averted Boston Attack,”
New York Times
, August 1, 2013.

McCaul said that US officials
:
Interview of Michael McCaul by Walter Alarkon, October 2013.

They were found the next morning
:
Michael Rezendes, “Bombing case casts shadow over Waltham triple murder,”
Boston Globe
, June 8, 2013.

Then, in the wake of the marathon bombing
:
Serge F. Kovaleski and Richard A. Oppel Jr., “In 2011 Murder Inquiry, Hints of Missed Chance to Avert Boston Bombing,”
New York Times
, July 10, 2013.

More troubling
:
Rezendes, “Bombing case casts shadow.”

“He laughed off the fact”
:
Kovaleski and Oppel, “In 2011 Murder Inquiry.”

whose phone number the FBI had obtained
:
McCaul interview.

“He’s got a bad temper”
:
Kovaleski and Oppel, “In 2011 Murder Inquiry.”

He had come to the United States in 2008
:
Maria Sacchetti, “After FBI probes, questions on granting of asylum,”
Boston Globe
, July 5, 2013.

In April and May 2013
:
Maria Sacchetti, “Potential witness must be jailed until leaving US,”
Boston Globe
, June 29, 2013.

Todashev sat down for a fourth interview
:
Michael S. Schmidt and Ellen Barry, “Man Tied to Boston Suspect Is Said to Have Attacked Agent Before Being Shot,”
New York Times
, May 30, 2013; Milton J. Valencia, Michael Rezendes, and Martin Finucane, “Todashev implicated Tsarnaev in murders, prosecutors reveal,”
Boston Globe
, October 23, 2013.

The bureau even told the Florida medical examiner
:
Maria Sacchetti, “FBI bars Fla. from releasing Todashev autopsy,”
Boston Globe
, July 16, 2013.

the agents began to pepper him
:
Eric Schmitt, Mark Mazzetti, Michael S. Schmidt, and Scott Shane, “Boston Plotters Said to Initially Target July 4 for Attack,”
New York Times
, May 2, 2013; Richard A. Serrano, Melanie Mason, and Ken Dilanian, “Boston suspect says no outside role in blasts, “
Los Angeles Times
, April 24, 2013.

he and his brother had considered other schemes
:
Brian MacQuarrie, Maria Sacchetti, and David Filipov, “Brothers first planned July 4 attack, officials say,”
Boston Globe
, May 3, 2013; Schmitt, Mazzetti, Schmidt, and Shane, “Boston Plotters”; Serrano, Mason, and Dilanian, “Boston suspect.”

In mining Dzhokhar’s laptop
:
Federal indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

an apparent source of inspiration
:
Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister, “From the grave, the cleric inspiring a new generation of terrorists,” CNN, April 24, 2013; Margaret Coker, “Cleric Cited by Tsarnaev Lives On—Online,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 5, 2013.

after a British student
:
Vikram Dodd, “Roshonara Choudhry: I wanted to die . . . I wanted to be a martyr,”
Guardian
, November 3, 2010.

US officials viewed Awlaki
:
Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt, and Robert F. Worth, “Two-Year Manhunt Led to Killing of Awlaki in Yemen,”
New York Times,
September 30, 2011.

these smaller, self-contained terror plots
:
Greg Myre, “Boston Bombings Point to Growing Threat of Homegrown Terrorism,” NPR, April 20, 2013.

“These extremists have no formal relationship”
:
Matthew Olsen, Remarks at the Intelligence and Information Sharing to Protect the Homeland Conference, June 26, 2011, http://csis.org/files/attachments/120626_InfoSharing_TRANSCRIPT.pdf.