Boston Bombing Day 2 | How Authorities Found the Bombers in the Crowd

The first explosion occurred about 10 or 15 seconds later there was a second explosion. A nice moment here at the stadium as we unite with the people of Boston. It was a feel-good moment at Yankee Stadium when New Yorkers showed their support by singing the song. song by their hated rivals the Boston Red Sox, but no one was feeling very good when the day began at Boston FBI headquarters in the cart lab where agents had spent the night searching through chilling video footage of the terrorists who He was Swiss he was hidden in plain sight, we couldn't see anything that stood out, you're tearing your hair out, yes, that would be a good way to describe it, yes, but just frustration.

I talked to one of the agents who reviewed the tape and he said you have no idea how. Many times I had to watch the film to get over the horror and see who it would be. That took a long time because it just let you know that this is the man they were looking for but they couldn't detect him, it was very frustrating to see it all the way through. over and over again any information that has videos or photographs could be useful for this investigation the clues we are looking for now is that someone sees a person put a bomb in a trash can a mailbox leaves us a sack on the sidewalk someone saw something and that's what they're looking for right now, that's the most important clue they could have.

On Tuesday we got a call from the public from someone who said you know I was across the street taking pictures of my friend running and the pictures. They were taken just before the explosion and we thought you might be interested in my photos and we absolutely said that still photo combined with the video put the pieces of the puzzle together. The FBI bomb technicians had determined where the bomb had detonated and in that precise spot they could now see a black backpack right there, that's the first time they saw it, that's the first time, so we saw that back and We said that would be the bomb and then we started looking around that place around the bag of who might have been responsible or who did that bag belong to, was it the man in the white hat that could be our man and we went back to the video and the Do we synchronize both?

That was the aha moment and we took over the executive leadership of the command. I posted and they brought it in and said this is who we're looking for now. It seems so obvious that you see him walking about four and a half minutes before, if you see him with a backpack, you see him on a phone, you see him arriving. that point and just gently drive to the side and place the backpack on the ground and then fast forward to the moments just before the first explosion and you see that everyone reacted well, their reaction was slightly different, it wasn't their panic, you could tell that . he knew that was about to happen and then you start counting one thousand two thousand and he starts walking backwards from the direction he came from three thousand four thousand and you get to twelve and just as he leaves the frame that second explosion happens , but there were two bombs and two

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and at this point the FBI had only identified one attacker, the one who was the backwards white baseball cap, could he have detonated both?

You think we didn't know that at the time. The FBI team set out to track down the white hat attacker. Officers then created a mock-up model of the crime scene. This is an actual 3D model of the Boylston Street scene, marking in yellow all the surveillance cameras known to be installed along Boylston. Street and these yellow dots are all the CCTV cameras in Kent, so we start looking back and we play the tape backwards to make sure we see where it's coming from, going backwards, caught first by the Walgreens cameras and then we can see it come from here. by the Bank of America ATM camera in front of the Back Bay social club, the next key piece of CCTV footage we get is here the whiskey restaurant, where Whitehead is seen with another man in a black hat and in It's actually whiskey when we see them together for the first time.

So when you saw them here, you knew that was the second person, that's where we now have the black hat and the white hat, which is essentially our second moment, aha. Now we're looking for two

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, but it turns out that this key video appeared within minutes. of having been wiped from the system in the whiskey records during the previous days images every 24 hours the day of the attack mm-hmm the cameras are recording yes, we are always in the whiskey manager made an urgent call to the Boston police you know what You need to get here right away because I don't know if it's really not going to be shit on top of each other.

Detectives rush to the restaurant and arrived just in time to take the system offline and preserve this key video. Now more than three thousand federal agents and police were searching, the FBI was conducting aerial surveillance, and more than a dozen potential suspects in the Boston area were desperate when we were absolutely desperate to find out who these guys were, the manifesto of every international flight was erased, it had no solid indication. say they were still in the area or even the country or wherever, then late Tuesday, the black hat and white hat photos were run through the FBI's new billion-dollar facial recognition software, Unfortunately it didn't get us anywhere.

Manufacturers boasted that the software could be used to match suspects under surveillance with official photographs, which was not the case in Boston. Facial recognition software at the time was good at comparing driver's license and passport photos to other driver's license and passport photos, but it didn't help. With the photos and videos we had, we do not know if this is an act of an organization or an individual or individuals, since the FBI has more information, since our counterterrorism teams have more information, we will make sure to keep you informed you and the American people. There was pressure from Washington DC, the president was informed, you know, FBI headquarters was working with them, you know, every hour, and it's this constant monitoring where we are, where we are, where, these people did not die in the explosion, Who were they going to? be next that's the worry that was the worry what's next? where are they?