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Hulu Docuseries Looks Into Link Between Marathon Bomber, Triple Murder
"The Murders Before the Marathon" will investigate the connection between the Boston Marathon bomber and a 2011 Waltham triple murder.
BOSTON — An upcoming documentary series on Hulu dives into the potential link between one of the Boston Marathon bombers and a triple murder that took place a few towns over a year before.
"The Murders Before the Marathon," follows journalist Susan Zalkind as she seeks to find out if the 2012 tragedy could have been prevented if a 2011 triple murder in Waltham had been solved.
The Boston-based journalist had written about the connection between Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the unsolved murders of Brandon Mess, Raphael Teken, and Erik Weissman.
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The three were murdered inside Mess' apartment on Sept. 11, 2011. According to court records, Ibragim Todashev - a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev admitted both his and Tsarnaev's involvement in the murders before he was shot and killed by the FBI agents questioning him.
According to the FBI, Agent Aaron McFarlane shot Todashev inside his apartment in Orlando, Florida after police say he attacked the agent with a pipe or stick in the middle of writing his statement both about the Boston Marathon bombings and the Waltham murders.
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A series premiere date has not yet been released.
Krystle Campbell, 29, a restaurant manager from Medford, was killed by a pressure-cooker bomb placed by Tamerlan on Boylston Street on April 15, 2013, during the Boston Marathon. Tamerlan also shot and killed MIT police Officer Sean Collier while fleeing the bombings. Tamerlan was killed during a confrontation with police in Watertown hours later.
Tsarnaev's brother, Dzhokhar, now 28, was sentenced to death after being convicted of placing a pressure-cooker bomb outside the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street the same day. This led to an explosion that killed three and injured more than 260 others. The bombing took the lives of 8-year-old Martin Richard of Dorchester and Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from China. At the time, Tsarnaev was 19.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in prison in Colorado.
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