4/17/26 Michele McPhee on the Unanswered Questions about the Boston Marathon Bombing and Why They Still Matter

About this episode

Scott interviews Michele McPhee about her research on the Boston Marathon Bombing and the unanswered questions surrounding it.

Download Audio. Scott interviews author and journalist Michele McPhee about the extensive research she’s done on the Boston Marathon Bombing that happened exactly thirteen years ago this week. Scott and McPhee dig into the background of the Tsarnaev brothers, the holes in the story that they carried out the bombing entirely on their own, how the Russians warned the FBI about the brothers before the attack, the broader political and geopolitical context that the Tsarnaevs and the US and Russian governments were navigating at the time and much more. Discussed on the show: Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing by Michele R. McPhee Mayhem: Unanswered Questions about the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government and the Boston Marathon Bombing by Michele R. McPhee The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (IMDb) The Terror Factory by Trevor Aaronson Michele R. McPhee is a screenwriter and best selling true crime author; five-time Emmy-nominated television investigative producer in Boston for ABC News; award-winning columnist; contributing editor to Newsweek and writer for Boston and LA Magazines. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Horton

Guest: Michele McPhee

Topics covered

• Boston Marathon Bombing
• Tsarnaev brothers
• FBI warnings
• political context
• geopolitical context
• true crime

Keywords

• Boston Marathon Bombing
• Michele McPhee
• Tsarnaev brothers
• FBI
• true crime
• political context
• geopolitical context

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI, ABC News, Newsweek, Boston Magazine, LA Magazine

Books & works: Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing, Mayhem: Unanswered Questions about the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government and the Boston Marathon Bombing, The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, The Terror Factory

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