Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice (33 page)

Two runners of South Asian descent
:
Interview of Michelle Hall by Scott Helman, June 2013.

They blew up at least one bag
:
O’Brien, Foley, and Keeley interviews.

One of Davis’s immediate tasks
:
Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours in pursuit of Marathon suspects,”
Boston Globe
, April 28, 2013.

Katherine Patrick had only been
:
Patrick interviews.

Hadn’t one caught fire
:
Brian MacQuarrie and Brian R. Ballou, “Nearly all are out of dark,”
Boston Globe
, March 16, 2012.

“I was really resistant”
:
Interview of Peter Sagal by Scott Helman, July 2013.

The governor knew
:
Patrick interviews.

Patrick also conferred
:
Patrick interviews; Scott LaPierre, “Press conference about Boston Marathon explosions,”
Boston Globe
, April 15, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeTQRJL537E.

His doctors had tried to stop him
:
Menino interviews.

Dave McGillivray had changed
:
Interviews of McGillivray and Ron Kramer by Scott Helman, July, August, and September 2013.

After a few hours
:
Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours”; interviews with law enforcement officials, 2013.

It was the largest crime scene
:
Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours”; Maria Sacchetti, Michael Bello, Kay Lazar, and Andrew Ryan, “Investigators scour the area for any clues,”
Boston Globe
, April 17, 2013.

President Obama addressed the nation
:
“Obama vows to find who’s behind Boston blasts,” Associated Press, April 15, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBeaamkBGk4.

The prospect of a bombing
:
Brian Castner, “The Exclusive Inside Story of the Boston Bomb Squad’s Defining Day,”
Wired
, October 25, 2013, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/boston-police-bomb-squad/all/; Alben interview; interview with BAA executive director Tom Grilk, September 2013.

diplomatically sensitive operations
:
Massimo Calabresi, “Richard DesLauriers: The Special Agent in Charge,”
Time
, April 17, 2013, http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/17/richard-deslauriers-the-special-agent-in-charge/.

Governor Patrick would later describe
:
Patrick interviews.

One of the first people
:
Amina Chaudary, “What Really Happened? The Bomb, the FBI and the Media,”
The Islamic Monthly
, May 21, 2013; “Exclusive Interview: Boston Marathon ‘Saudi Man’ transcript,”
The Islamic Monthly
, May 21, 2013, http://www.theislamicmonthly.com/exclusive-interview-saudi-man-transcript.

As darkness fell on Monday
:
Cottone interviews.

Karen Rand had arrived
:
Liz Kowalczyk, “Hospitals size up the lessons of Marathon attacks,”
Boston Globe
, July 28, 2013; Stephen Rex Brown, “Boston Marathon victim’s dad was told daughter was only injured, then he found out she’d been misidentified and had been killed in the blast,”
New York Daily News
, April 16, 2013.

“That’s not my daughter!”
:
Brown, “Boston Marathon victim’s dad.”

Back on Boylston Street
:
Sally Jacobs, “Hardest-hit family conveys thanks and cautious hope,”
Boston Globe
, May 10, 2013.

These were the bags
:
Interviews of McGillivray, and Boston Marathon officials Rich Havens and Matt Carpenter by Scott Helman, 2013.

Heather Abbott opened her eyes
:
Abbott interviews.

most critically injured patients had been “red-tagged”
:
Dr. Paul D. Biddinger et al, “Be Prepared—The Boston Marathon and Mass-Casualty Events,”
New England Journal of Medicine
, May 23, 2013, http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1305480.

the first patient from the finish line
:
Liz Kowalczyk, “Hospitals size up the lessons of Marathon attacks,”
Boston Globe
, July 28, 2013.

Mass General took in thirty-one
:
Biddinger et al, “Be Prepared.”

It made for a nightmarish scene
:
Byrne interviews.

“What we like to do”
:
Gina Kolata, Jere Longman, and Mary Pilon, “Doctors Saved Lives, if Not Legs, in Boston,”
New York Times
, April 16, 2013.

The array of other injuries
:
Marathon patient timelines provided by Boston hospitals to
Globe
reporter Liz Kowalczyk, June 2013.

there were inevitable inconsistencies
:
Byrne interviews.

The underpinnings of Boston’s medical infrastructure
:
“Harvard Medical School: The Early Years,”
Harvard University
, http://hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/history-hms/early-years; “John Collins Warren Papers: Guide to the Collection,”
Massachusetts Historical Society
, http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0183; Walter C. Guralnick, DMD, and Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD, “Keeping Ether in Vogue,”
Massachusetts General Hospital
, 2010.

largely due to recent training
:
Bissinger et al, “Be Prepared”; Atul Gawande, “Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready,”
New Yorker
, April 17, 2013, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/04/why-bostons-hospitals-were-ready.html.

Three miles away
:
King interviews.

75 percent of injuries
:
Gawande, “Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready.”

An online campaign for Jeff Bauman
:
Jennifer Preston and Christine Hauser, “Victims in Boston Marathon Bombings Turn To Crowdfunding for Support,”
New York Times
, May 6, 2013.

Patrick spent time
:
Patrick interviews;
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
, MSBNC, April 18, 2013.

Patrick arrived at the emergency department
:
Interview of Erin McDonough by Scott Helman, September 2013; Patrick interviews.

Heather’s close friend Jason Geremia
:
Geremia interviews.

the wait for information Monday night
:
Interview of Rosemary Abbott by Jenna Russell, September 2013.

Even with his legs gone
:
Kathleen Ronayne, “Jeff Bauman shares Boston Marathon story, encounter with suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev,”
Concord Monitor
, May 6, 2013.

Patty Campbell summoned all her strength
:
Bryan Marquard, “Krystle Campbell remembered as ever reliable,”
Boston Globe
, April 16, 2013; “Mother of marathon attack victim speaks,” CNN, April 16, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUtRmZvmhe8.

Two blocks east of the finish line
:
Carpenter and McGillivray interviews.

race officials did their best
:
Ibid.; Christine Fennessy, editor, “4.15.13: An oral history of the 117th Boston Marathon,”
Runner’s World
, July 2013, 90.

marathon officials took the medals
:
Neil Swidey, “Restart: The future of the Marathon,”
Boston Globe Magazine
, May 10, 2013; Carpenter interview.

he slipped over to BAA headquarters
:
Patrick and McGillivray interviews.

a thousand people gathered in Garvey Park
:
Evan Allen and Jenna Russell, “Photo of victim Martin Richard now a symbol,”
Boston Globe
, April 16, 2013; Paige Buckley, “Thousands attend vigil for Richard family, marathon bomb victims at Garvey Park,”
Dorchester Reporter
, April 16, 2013; Nina Golgowski, “A cry for peace here and everywhere,”
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
, April 18, 2013.

“Lingzi, where are you now?”
:
Allen, “Student’s life ends in the city”; Andrew Tangel, Barbara Demick, and Laura J. Nelson, “Slain Chinese student embraced life in U.S.,”
Baltimore Sun
, April 18, 2013.

“To deal with those emotions of shock”
:
Dan Bobkoff, “Medford, Massachusetts, Remembers the Girl with the Freckles,”
NPR
, April 17, 2013.

The Medford High School Lady Mustang softball team
:
Allison Goldsberry, “MHS Girls Softball Team Dedicates Season to Krystle Campbell,”
Inside Medford
, April 17, 2013, http://insidemedford.com/2013/04/17/mhs-girls-softball-team-dedicates-season-to-krystle-campbell/.

Later that evening
:
“Medford Holds Prayer Vigil for Boston Marathon Victims,”
Inside Medford
, April 18, 2013, http://insidemedford.com/2013/04/18/medford-holds-prayer-vigil-for-boston-marathon-victims/.

“Of all the people that were there”
:
Interview of Bryan Conway by Scott Helman, August 2013.

“I would like to say”
:
Comment left on a Facebook page called “R.I.P Krystle Campbell,” accessed September 2013, https://www.facebook.com/pages/RIP-Krystle-Campbell/160980664067079.

Krystle, to her, was a striver
:
Interview of Robin Gomolin by Scott Helman, August 2013.

The minute he saw her picture
:
Interview of Robert Tarutis by Scott Helman, September 2013.

At 2:50
P.M.
on Monday:
Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours.”

“We were very confident”
:
Alben interview.

Within minutes of arriving at the scene
:
Davis interviews; Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours.”

The Lenox had been fully booked
:
Interview of Scott Grigelevich by Jenna Russell, September 2013.

The repetition could be numbing
:
David Montgomery, Sari Horwitz, and Marc Fisher, “Police, citizens and technology factor into Boston bombing probe,”
Washington Post
, April 20, 2013.

“He was not startled”
:
Juju Chang, “Caught; In the Company of Evil,”
Nightline
, ABC News, April 19, 2013.

Fellow student Zach Bettencourt saw him there
:
Chris Lawrence, “Hiding in plain sight,” CNN, April 2013.

“He was just relaxed”
:
Sarah Coffey, Patricia Wen, and Matt Carroll, “Bombing suspect spent Wednesday as typical student,”
Boston Globe
, April 19, 2013.

“Some of the activity on reddit”
:
Leslie Kaufman, “Bombings Trip Up Reddit in Its Turn in Spotlight,”
New York Times
, April 28, 2013; “Reflections on the Recent Boston Crisis,”
the reddit blog
, April 22, 2013, http://blog.reddit.com/2013/04/reflections-on-recent-boston-crisis.html.

The episode became
:
Jay Caspian Kang, “Crowdsourcing A Smear,”
New York Times Magazine
, July 28, 2013, 36.

It wasn’t just “new media”
:
Maria Sacchetti, “Mass. pair sues
New York Post
over Marathon bombing portrayal,”
Boston Globe
, June 6, 2013.

In the rush to figure out the real story
:
Farragher, Russell, and
Globe
staff, “102 hours.”

It was early Wednesday morning
:
Interviews with law enforcement officials, 2013.

“It was right there”
:
Alben interview.

Alben would later say
:
Michael Norton, “MSP colonel: public must be diligent,”
State House News Service
, April 23, 2013.

He showed Patrick photographs
:
Patrick interviews.

The doctors and medical teams showed up in scrubs
:
Lisa Wangsness, “Obama pledges Boston ‘will finish the race,’”
Boston Globe
, April 19, 2013.

“Every one of us”
:
Transcript of the president’s remarks released by the White House, April 18, 2013, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/18/remarks-president-interfaith-service-boston-ma.

the president wiped a tear
:
Katharine Q. Seelye, Michael Cooper, and Michael S. Schmidt, “FBI posts images of pair suspected in Boston attack,”
New York Times
, April 19, 2013.

The mayor arrived at the cathedral
:
Menino interviews; Adrian Walker, “Three secular ministers preach healing,”
Boston Globe
, April 18, 2013.