The frantic, dramatic search that squashed a plot to bomb Times Square.
and wounded more than 280 more on April 15, 2013, left law enforcement officials scrambling for answers — and fighting over whether or not to make public the identities of the radicalized bomber brothers, a new Netflix docuseries reveals.
The seemingly small reveal proved to be a loose thread that helped to unravel an entire terrorist plot — one that was supposed to culminate in the bombing of Times Square.Finding a needle in a haystackBoston Globe via Getty Images “You see the concussive effects of the first bomb going off,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Rick DesLauriers recalled. “Everybody on the camera looks to the left and [Tsarnaev] quickly just walks to the right.”
Their plan was to drive to New York, holding the SUV driver, Danny Meng, hostage. But nothing seemed to go right. Before going anywhere, however, the car needed gas — the trio pulled into a Shell station along the Charles River in Cambridge. With Dzhokhar out of the car, Meng managed to escape. Authorities in Cambridge were quickly able to warn police next door in Watertown that a stolen Mercedes was heading their way.
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