Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice (32 page)

What you see first
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Descriptions of the Boston Marathon are based in part on interviews by Scott Helman in 2013 of runners Vicma Lamarche, Alain Ferry, Michelle Hall, Christine Mitchell, Tom Mitchell, Nicole McGurin, Joann Kwah, Eduardo Kelly, and Amy Formica.

“Running is an affirmative act”
:
Caleb Daniloff, “I’m a Runner,”
Runner’s World
, July 2013, 136.

The race, begun in 1897
:
Christopher L. Gasper, “Soggy conditions didn’t dampen spirits,”
Boston Globe
, April 17, 2007; Nancy L. Marrapese, “Morse is Boston’s man behind the scenes,”
Boston Globe
, April 15, 1990; John Powers, “Everything came up Rosie, until . . . ,”
Boston Globe
, April 14, 1989; e-mail from Boston Athletic Association official Jack Fleming, August 2013.

It was spring
:
Descriptions of Heather Abbott based on interviews of Abbott and Jason Geremia by Jenna Russell in 2013.

There was nothing like
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Descriptions of David King based on interviews of King by Jenna Russell in 2013, and with Anne King in September 2013.

She was a Boston girl
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Descriptions of Krystle Campbell are based largely on interviews in 2013, by Scott Helman, of Billy Campbell Jr., Tim Getchell, Sean McLaughlin, Bryan Conway, Al Dugan, Susan Kane, Laurie Cormier, Jane Tuite, Robert Tarutis, Nelida Lepore, Tony Szykniej, Robin Gomolin, and David Nieto; and a memorial event held at Spectacle Island on September 24, 2013.

This year’s marathon
:
Descriptions of Dave McGillivray are based largely on interviews in 2013, by Scott Helman, of Dave McGillivray, Susan West, Bob McGillivray, Josh Nemzer, Ron Kramer, and Tom Grilk; a speech McGillivray delivered to a corporate conference in Boston, October 10, 2013; and the following book: David J. McGillivray with Linda Glass Fechter,
The Last Pick:
The Boston Marathon Race Director’s Road to Success
(Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale, 2006).

She was in the best shape
:
Descriptions of Shana Cottone based on interviews of Cottone by Jenna Russell in 2013.

The voice had begun speaking
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This chapter is adapted from “The Fall of the House of Tsarnaev,” a lengthy
Boston Globe
investigation of the Tsarnaev family by Sally Jacobs, David Filipov, and Patricia Wen published December 15, 2013. The investigation contained extensive new and exclusive reporting on the Tsarnaev brothers. Additional reporting contributed by Jacobs, Filipov, and Wen.

A few months later
:
Andrew Tangel and Ashley Powers, “FBI: Boston suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev followed ‘radical Islam,’”
Los Angeles Times
, April 20, 2013.

One of the few cracks
:
Janet Reitman, “Jahar’s World,”
Rolling Stone
, July 17, 2013, http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/jahars-world-20130717.

“all-out war against Islam”
:
Muhammad Hussain, “Dimensions of Multiculturalism: Killings, Bombings and Free Speech,”
Veterans Today
, May 27, 2013, http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/27/dimensions-of-multiculturalism-killings-bombings-and-free-speech.

Tamerlan’s apparent radicalization
:
Eric Schmitt and Michael S. Schmidt, “2 U.S. Agencies Added Boston Bomb Suspect to Watch Lists,”
New York Times
, April 24, 2013.

“A decade in America already”
:
Reitman, “Jahar’s World.”

ready to accept him anyway
:
Michael Wines and Ian Lovett, “The Dark Side, Carefully Masked,”
New York Times
, May 5, 2013.

One day in early 2013
:
Wines and Lovett, “The Dark Side.”

Tamerlan drove up to Phantom Fireworks
:
Federal indictment of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, June 27, 2013.

“If you have the knowledge”
:
Reitman, “Jahar’s World.”

One of her relatives asked
:
Marc Fisher, “The Tsarnaev family: A faded portrait of an immigrant’s American dream,”
Washington Post
, April 27, 2013.

The volume on his alarm
:
King interviews.

Obama had paid
:
Jay Carney, “President Obama and Vice President Biden’s 2012 Tax Returns,”
The White House Blog
, April 12, 2013, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/12/president-obama-and-vice-president-biden-2012-tax-returns.

Dave McGillivray rose alone
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McGillivray interviews.

The roots of the Boston Marathon
:
Boston Athletic Association,
2013 Boston Marathon Media Guide
, 80; John Hanc,
The B.A.A. at 125: The Official History of the Boston Athletic Association, 1887–2012
(New York: Sports Publishing, 2012), 40.

New Yorker John J. McDermott
:
Boston Athletic Association,
The Race Through History
, 1996, 1–10.

Bill Kennedy, a New York bricklayer
:
Caleb Daniloff,
Running Ransom Road: Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), 18–19.

Johnny “the Elder” Kelley
:
Boston Athletic Association,
The Race Through History.

After World War II
:
Boston Athletic Association,
2013 Boston Marathon Media Guide,
36.

The race’s popularity grew
:
Bob Hohler and Shira Springer, “Marathon qualifying is revised,”
Boston Globe
, February 17, 2011.

“When you ran Boston”
:
Amby Burfoot, “Just Imagine,”
Runner’s World
, July 2013, 118.

In the first four miles
:
Michael Connelly,
26 Miles to Boston
(Hyannis, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1998), 34.

“who aren’t necessarily world-class”
:
Connelly, 35.

where a local Dixieland band
:
Tom Derderian,
The Boston Marathon: A Century of Blood, Sweat and Cheers
(Plymouth: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1996, 2003), 26.

“Hey, you slug, the race is over”
:
McGillivray and Fechter,
The Last Pick:
The Boston Marathon Race Director’s Road to Success
, 39–40.

Shana Cottone reported to roll call
:
Cottone interviews.

It was barely light outside
:
Abbott and Geremia interviews.

It pained Menino to miss out
:
Interviews of Thomas Menino by Jenna Russell, August and October 2013.

Deval Patrick never had days like this
:
Interviews of Deval Patrick by Andrea Estes and Shelley Murphy of the
Globe
staff, April 2013, and by Scott Helman, July 2013.

William Evans finished his eighteenth Boston Marathon
:
Nick Weldon, “One Hell of a Week,”
Runner’s World
, July 2013, 112; Sean Flynn, “The Finish Line,”
GQ
, June 2013, http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201307/boston-marathon-attack-july-2013.

Edward Davis left the marathon for home
:
Interview of Edward Davis by Andrea Estes and Shelley Murphy, April 2013.

Krystle Campbell got a text message
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Interview of Liz Jenkins and John Colombo by Scott Helman, September 2013; Eric Moskowitz, “The Marathon wounded: Karen Rand,”
Boston Globe
, May 19, 2013.

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were captured
:
Remarks of Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers at Press Conference on Boston Bombing Investigation, April 18, 2013, http://www.fbi.gov/boston/press-releases/2013/remarks-of-special-agent-in-charge-richard-deslauriers-at-press-conference-on-bombing-investigation-1.

Firefighter Sean O’Brien was working
:
Interview of Sean O’Brien by Jenna Russell, July 2013.

Pat Foley, another firefighter, reminded himself
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Interviews of Pat Foley by Jenna Russell, April and July 2013.

Frederick Lorenz, a Boston fire lieutenant
:
Interview of Dennis Keeley and Frederick Lorenz by Andrea Estes, April 2013.

Brighid and Brendan Wall had miscalculated
:
Interviews of Brighid Wall by Jenna Russell, April and July 2013.

another family was waiting, too
:
Interview of Stephen Lynch by Jenna Russell, April 2013.

Lingzi Lu was one of them
:
Evan Allen, “Student’s life ends in the city that she had grown to love,”
Boston Globe
, April 18, 2013; Leslie Friday, “Lu Lingzi, Roommate Were Like Sisters,”
BU Today
, April 23, 2013.

Alma Bocaletti was still running
:
Interview of Alma Bocaletti and Rekha Drew by Scott Helman, October 2013.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev continued walking
:
Interviews with law enforcement officials, 2013; federal indictment of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, June 27, 2013; Kathleen Ronayne, “Jeff Bauman shares Boston Marathon story, encounter with suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev,”
Concord Monitor
, May 6, 2013.

“God protect us”
:
Interview of Carlos Arredondo by Jenna Russell, April 2013; David A. Fahrenthold, “Boston Marathon bystander Carlos Arredondo says he acted instinctively,”
Washington Post
, April 16, 2013.

Bill Iffrig:
John Brant, “Back on His Feet,”
Runner’s World
, July 2013, 96.

Perched near the finish line
:
Interview of Vicma Lamarche by Scott Helman, June 2013.

Inside Marathon Sports
:
Interviews of Shane O’Hara by Scott Helman, 2013.

It was there:
David Abel, “Runners and spectators raced to save lives,”
Boston Globe
, April 17, 2013; David Abel, “Amid shock at Marathon, a rush to help strangers,”
Boston Globe
, April 16, 2013; interview of David Abel by Scott Helman, September 2013; Elizabeth Cohen, “Nurses relied on trauma experience,” CNN, April 16, 2013.

That’s not a cannon
:
O’Brien interviews.

The first explosion had rippled
:
Geremia interviews.

Brighid Wall threw her six-year-old son
:
Wall interviews.

Searching in the
smoke
:
Sam Trapani, “Heroes among us,”
Danvers Herald
, April 25, 2013, www.wickedlocal.com/danvers/news/x1853931027/Heroes-among-us?zc_p=0; interview of Matt Patterson by Jenna Russell, December 2013.

Allison Byrne was so eager
:
Interviews of Allison Byrne by Scott Helman, 2013; e-mails from Nancy Shorter to author, November 2013.

After he heard the deafening explosions
:
Sushrut Jangi, “Under the Medical Tent at the Boston Marathon,”
New England Journal of Medicine
, May 23, 2013.

Heather Abbott lay on the floor
:
Abbott interviews.

Shana Cottone reached for her gun
:
Cottone interviews.

Firefighters tried to revive her
:
Chris Doucette, “Boston firefighter in midst of bloody carnage,”
Toronto Sun
, April 18, 2013; O’Brien and Foley interviews.

Standing where the second bomb
:
Keeley and Lorenz interviews.

“Gimme the belt”
:
Foley interviews; Sam Gardner, “Boston Marathon victims form bond,”
FOX Sports
, July 4, 2013.

83-
A van pulled up beside them
:
Keeley and Lorenz interviews; Jessica Heslam, “Desperate ride bonds survivors,”
Boston Herald
, November 14, 2013.

In the alley between Boylston and Newbury
:
Abbott and Geremia interviews.

Shana Cottone leaned all the way
:
Cottone and Foley interviews.

They were coming for Heather
:
Abbott and Geremia interviews.

The two firefighters had run
:
Foley interviews.

Ed Davis couldn’t believe
:
Davis interviews.

he had barely hung up
:
Interviews of Davis and Daniel Linskey by Andrea Estes and Shelley Murphy, April 2013.

Alben had been at the starting line
:
Interview of Timothy Alben by Shelley Murphy, April 2013.

Davis felt fairly certain
:
Davis interviews.

Communication failures amplified
:
Michael B. Farrell, “Cellphone networks overwhelmed after blasts,”
Boston Globe
, April 17, 2013.