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Manhunt (Boston Marathon bombers) (11s)

• The Boston Marathon bombings occurred nearly a year ago, with two explosions tearing through the event, marking the beginning of a manhunt for unknown terrorists who had more bombs, (13s).
• The federal investigators who led the task force of over 1,000 federal agents, state police, and Boston cops will share the inside story of the manhunt, including the disturbing evidence that cracked the case, (28s).
• Special Agent Rick DesLauriers, the FBI's man in charge of Boston, received a text about the explosions near the finish line, turning the marathon into a sprint to catch the killers before they struck again, (52s).
• DesLauriers felt the weight of the world on his shoulders, fearing a third bombing would be on him and the joint terrorism task force, but what drove them was preventing more people from getting hurt, (1m7s).
• The investigation was the biggest of DesLauriers' 26-year FBI career, with a scene of devastation and evidence everywhere, (1m42s).
• FBI Director Robert Mueller ordered every office in the world to back up DesLauriers, with Executive Assistant Director Stephanie Douglas serving as the link to headquarters, (1m56s).
• The investigators were concerned about other bombs in Boston and other cities, as well as potential threats to US interests abroad, (2m6s).
• The crime scene spanned 12 blocks, with debris, abandoned backpacks, and bomb parts blown to smithereens, requiring a grid pattern to collect evidence, (2m20s).
• A warehouse near Logan Airport was set up to process the evidence, with a plane flying items to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, twice a day, (2m56s).
• The evidence was tagged, recorded, and preserved to recreate the devices, but it turned out that the evidence that would solve the case had been collected before the first bomb exploded, (3m12s).
• The FBI used dozens of security cameras to travel back in time and gather over 13,000 videos and 120,000 still photographs, which were analyzed by 120 analysts at the FBI lab in Virginia, (3m50s).
• The analysts were looking for someone who didn't look similar to others in the crowd, and there was a "Eureka" moment when an individual was spotted on video, (4m6s).
• The video showed a tall man wearing a white ball cap, which was watched hundreds of times, (4m19s).
• A video shows a man wearing a backpack walking into a crowd, putting the backpack down, and then walking away without reacting to a blast that occurs shortly after, unlike the people around him who turn to their left in response to the explosion (4m35s).
• The Eureka video, which has not been seen by the public, shows a similar view of the suspect and the people affected by the blast, including those who were grievously injured and killed (5m8s).
• A still photo from the video shows the suspect, people who were injured, and individuals who died in the blast, including 8-year-old Martin Richard, who was killed, and his 7-year-old sister Jane, who lost a leg (5m13s).
• The backpack explodes 20 seconds after the man in the white hat walks away, causing a smoky and chaotic scene (6m14s).
• Stephanie Douglas, who saw the video in the FBI's Washington Command Center, describes it as horrible to watch, but also remembers a police officer bravely putting out flames on a survivor's clothes with his bare hands (6m22s).
• The investigation initially focused on finding every image of the suspect, referred to as "white hat," and eventually found him with a man in a black hat, who turned out to be his older brother (7m42s).
• However, the investigation was hindered by misinformation, including erroneous reports of a suspect being arrested and a mistaken identification of the suspect on the front page of the New York Post (8m0s).
• US Attorney Carmen Ortiz notes that such misinformation can be harmful and make it seem like the government is not in control of the investigation (8m10s).
• Releasing the pictures of suspects in a manhunt can be a double-edged sword, as it may help identify them quickly, but it also gives them an opportunity to escape if they become aware that they have been identified (8m55s).
• The decision to release the pictures of the Boston bombing suspects was made to identify them as quickly as possible, despite the risk that they might flee (9m42s).
• On Thursday, the FBI released the images of the suspects, which set events in motion that led to the murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier (9m51s).
• The murder of Officer Collier was not predicted by the FBI, and it was only after the event that the connection was made between the suspects and the murder (10m5s).
• The wife of an FBI agent had suspected that the suspects were responsible for the murder, but her husband did not believe her at the time (10m19s).
• The FBI agent received a phone call around 1 am informing him that an MIT police officer had been murdered, and the suspects were engaged in a shootout with the Watertown Police Department (10m53s).
• The suspects threw pipe bombs and a pressure cooker bomb at the police, and an officer was gravely wounded (11m21s).
• The decision to release the pictures of the suspects was ultimately justified, as it led to the identification of one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in the shootout (12m20s).
• The FBI matched the dead man's fingerprints to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an immigrant from Kyrgyzstan, and discovered that he had a brother, who was later identified as the second suspect (12m26s).
• The governor ordered a lockdown of Boston, but a house-to-house search turned up nothing, leaving everyone exhausted and deflated (12m48s).
• Jokar Sarv was found wounded but alive in a boat in his backyard (13m4s).
• During his court arraignment, Jokar Sarv displayed a smug grin on his face, often glancing over his right shoulder to smile and smirk at his relatives (13m11s).
• The attorney general has decided to seek the death penalty in Jokar Sarv's case, a decision that is supported (13m28s).
• Jokar Sarv has pled not guilty, and his defense team declined to comment (13m36s).
• US Attorney Carmen Ortiz is preparing for Jokar Sarv's trial, which is scheduled for November (13m44s).

El Chapo (Juan "El Chapo" Guzmán) (14m12s)

• Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a notorious narco, achieved his aspiration of becoming the most famous drug lord of all time, with a reputation for his worldwide smuggling empire, ruthless brutality, and daring getaways (14m14s).
• El Chapo's real name is Joaquín Guzmán, and he was previously featured in three 60-minute stories, including his capture after 13 years on the run, his inclusion on Forbes' list of billionaires, and his interview with actor Sean Penn after his prison break (14m26s).
• Peter Vincent, a senior official and legal adviser, stated that after El Chapo's daring escape, he became almost delusional, believing he was special and untouchable, which led to his downfall (15m35s).
• Jim Dinkins, chief of Homeland Security investigations, agreed that El Chapo's arrogance and inability to remain in hiding led to his capture, despite having the upper hand after his previous escape (16m3s).
• Unlike his previous escape in 2001, where El Chapo disappeared from sight for 13 years, this time he remained in the public eye, being spotted at various locations and inviting actors Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo to meet him (16m31s).
• Mexican law enforcement knew about the actors' visit, as they were listening in on the cartel's communications and tracking El Chapo's inner circle, including his cook, lieutenants, and contacts, including Sean Penn (17m12s).
• The task force that caught El Chapo the last time was reformed, and they were tracking not just Guzman but everyone in his inner circle, which led to more sightings of him in the last six months than in the previous 10 years (17m20s).
• After his escape, Mexican officials created a smaller team of Mexican Marines to focus on capturing El Chapo alive, and they picked up on his trail just 20 days after his escape (18m9s).
• The Marines had their first opportunity to capture El Chapo in early October, just days after Sean Penn's visit, but they waited to avoid catching the American actor in the crossfire (18m24s).
• El Chapo Guzman, a powerful and macho man, was seen running with a child in his arms, using the baby as a human shield, during an October mission, allowing him to escape once again (18m58s).
• In early December, intelligence led Marines to a house in the coastal town of Los Mochis, where wiretap intercepts indicated a planned visit by El Chapo, code-named "Grandma," and his lieutenant, "Cholo Ivan" (19m19s).
• The Marines watched the house for a month before "Grandma" finally showed up on January 7th, and an assault force quickly moved into position nearby (19m38s).
• On the evening of January 7th, someone in the house ordered a large quantity of tacos, and an armored truck left to pick up the food, indicating that El Chapo was having a party (19m49s).
• El Chapo's simple tastes, including tacos and tequila, ultimately led to his downfall (20m8s).
• At 4:40 a.m. on January 8th, the Marines began battering down the gate of El Chapo's safe house, and a fierce gun battle erupted (20m19s).
• The first Marine through the door was shot in the arm, and the Marines moved methodically through the house, finding Chapo's henchmen firing high-caliber rounds and grenades (20m43s).
• The Marines found two women, including the cook, cowering on the bathroom floor, and four more gunmen were taken prisoner, while one gunman lay dead (21m25s).
• Outside the house, more Commandos fought with gunmen who fled across the rooftops, resulting in five cartel members dead and six in custody, but El Chapo and Cholo Ivan had vanished once again (21m38s).
• The Marines later discovered a hidden door behind a walk-in closet, leading to one of El Chapo's trademark tunnels, which was connected to a network of storm drains and sewers (22m10s).
• The Marines gave chase, intensifying the search inside the tunnels, and after 20 minutes of heavy rain, El Chapo popped out of a manhole cover in the middle of a busy street (22m54s).
• Security camera footage from a gas station showed El Chapo and Cholo Ivan climbing out of the sewer and carjacking a white VW Jetta, which broke down after three blocks, leading them to jack a second car, a red Ford Focus (23m24s).
• After Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's car broke down, the Federal Emergency Center received reports of hijacked vehicles on the highway, and the Marines found the Ford on a tow truck but no sign of El Chapo and his Lieutenant (23m44s).
• El Chapo and his Lieutenant were picked up by the federal police and taken to a nearby motel, where they were relaxed but looked confused, and it is unclear why they were not taken to jail (24m0s).
• Peter Vincent has a theory that El Chapo bribed or threatened the federal police to let him go, which is consistent with his past behavior of using bribes and threats to get out of situations (24m22s).
• The Mexican Marines intervened and took control of the situation, and El Chapo was flown to Mexico City for booking, paraded before reporters, and returned to the Altiplano prison (25m2s).
• To prevent another escape, El Chapo is being rotated from cell to cell, and guards are circulated every 15 minutes (25m23s).
• The US Justice Department wants El Chapo extradited to face charges for his crimes in seven separate jurisdictions, including New York, Chicago, and San Diego (25m33s).
• El Chapo's lawyer, Juan Pedro B, warns that the extradition process can take 10-20 years or as little as one or two years (25m58s).
• El Chapo knows that if he is extradited to the United States, it will be "game over" for him (26m15s).
• Following El Chapo's arrest, the US-Mexico task force captured another two dozen Cártel members, sending a powerful message to current and future narco-traffickers that they will be tracked down and brought to justice (26m20s).

The Gaskos (Whitey Bulger) (27m2s)

• Charlie and Carol Gasco, an elderly couple, moved to Santa Monica, California in 1997 to begin a new phase of their life, but they would later be discovered to be James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster, and his longtime girlfriend, Kathern Greg, who had been hiding in plain sight for 14 years (27m3s).
• The couple lived in the Princess Eugenia apartment building on Third Street, where they were known to be good tenants who always paid rent on time in cash, but they kept a low profile and were not very social (28m22s).
• The Gasco's neighbors remembered them as a quiet couple who loved animals, with Carol often feeding a stray cat in the neighborhood, while Charlie was described as a mysterious and grumpy old man who always wore a hat and dark glasses (29m5s).
• The FBI finally caught up with the Gasco's on June 22nd, 2011, when they found $800,000 hidden in their apartment, as well as numerous weapons, including shotguns, mini Rugers, and rifles, which were loaded and ready to go (29m59s).
• Special Agent Scott Garola, who was in charge of hunting fugitives in LA, led the operation to capture Whitey Bulger, who was number one on the FBI's most wanted list, and had been the subject of the most extensive manhunt in the bureau's history (30m19s).
• The capture of Whitey Bulger was a significant moment for the FBI, and it marked the end of a long and complex investigation that had spanned many years and involved numerous law enforcement agencies (30m27s).
• Whitey Bulger, a notorious Irish mobster, was the focus of a 16-year manhunt by the FBI, despite his reputation for extortion, cocaine trafficking, and multiple executions, including 19 counts of murder, in Boston (31m0s).
• Bulger had infiltrated the Boston office of the FBI, buying off agents who protected him and provided him with information, including a tip that allowed him to flee just days before his indictment (31m57s).
• The FBI task force, led by Special Agent Rich Tian, was determined to catch Bulger to establish credibility and bring him back to Boston to face justice (32m9s).
• The task force faced mistrust and ridicule in Bulger's old neighborhood of South Boston, with some people assuming the FBI had him in hiding (32m42s).
• Despite the challenges, the FBI continued their efforts, and it took 16 years to finally catch Bulger, who had planned his getaway years in advance with a fake identity and money set aside (32m59s).
• During his time on the run, Bulger was in touch with friends and family, shuttling between New York, Chicago, and Grand Isle, Louisiana, until his identity was compromised (33m10s).
• The FBI received thousands of tips, but none were deemed credible, and the lack of good photographs of Bulger and his girlfriend, Katherine Greg, was a significant obstacle in the investigation (33m32s).
• The task force eventually got a break when they obtained high-resolution photographs of Greg, who had undergone breast implants and other plastic surgery, from a physician who had located her files in storage (34m10s).
• The FBI decided to switch strategies, focusing on catching Greg in order to catch Bulger, which ultimately led to a breakthrough in the case (34m37s).
• A public service announcement was run in 14 markets on daytime talk shows aimed at women, featuring an 81-year-old man and his 60-year-old girlfriend, with a tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI, which led to the Buell task force receiving three messages the next morning from someone who used to live in Santa Monica and was 100% certain that Charlie and Carol Gasco, living in Apartment 303 at the Princess Eugenia Apartments, were the people they were looking for (35m1s).
• The descriptions and age difference matched, and the tips specifically described that they were caring for a cat, which added up to saying that if this wasn't them, it was something that needed to be checked out immediately (35m36s).
• A search of the FBI's computer database for the Gasco's raised another red flag, as they seemed to be "ghosts" with no driver's license, no California ID, and no record of their existence (35m49s).
• FBI agent Scott Gerola set up surveillance posts and met with apartment manager Josh Bond to talk about his tenants, showing him pictures of the Gasco's, which led Bond to realize he was living next door to a gangster (36m8s).
• Bond logged on to Bulger's Wikipedia page and discovered his serious crimes, including murders and extortion, which made him realize that he shouldn't be involved in the situation (36m33s).
• The FBI devised a ruse involving the Gasco's storage locker in the garage, telling them that it had been broken into, and when Charlie Gasco came down to investigate, he was rushed by FBI agents with guns drawn (37m32s).
• Charlie Gasco, also known as Whitey Bulger, was told to get down on his knees, but he refused, not wanting to get his pants dirty, and instead asked the agent to identify himself (37m48s).
• The agent identified himself and asked Bulger to confirm his identity, which he did, saying "yes" when asked if he was Whitey Bulger (38m13s).
• Janice Goodwin, a resident from the third floor, informed the authorities that the man they had arrested, who claimed to be Whitey Bulger, had dementia, specifically Alzheimer's disease (38m27s).
• The man, later confirmed to be James "Whitey" Bulger, denied having Alzheimer's and instead claimed the woman was "effing nuts" (38m47s).
• Bulger confirmed his identity a few minutes later by signing a consent form, allowing the FBI to search his apartment, and mentioned it was the first time he had signed that name in a long time (38m54s).
• The FBI found a mixture of mundane and murderous items in Bulger's apartment, including a lifetime supply of household cleaners and a collection of 64-ounce bottles with white socks stretched over the top (39m28s).
• Bulger explained that the bottles with socks were used to keep his calves warm, as he bought tube socks from the 99-cent store and stretched them out (39m49s).
• Despite having half a million dollars hidden under his bed, Bulger shopped at the 99-cent store to make his money last (39m54s).
• One reason it took so long to catch Bulger was that people were looking for a gangster, but he had ceased to be one and found it hard to keep up the mindset of a criminal (40m8s).
• Bulger credited his partner, Katherine Greg, for keeping him crime-free, hoping it would mitigate her sentence, and she is now serving eight years for harboring a fugitive (40m37s).
• On the plane ride back to Boston, Bulger told his captors that he became obsessed with not getting caught and would do anything to avoid it, even if it meant obeying the law (40m48s).
• Bulger's biggest fear was being discovered dead in his apartment, and he had a plan to avoid it by crawling into a mine in Arizona and decomposing, hoping the authorities would never find him (40m59s).

Kill Bin Laden (Battle of Tora Bora) (41m32s)

• Shortly after 9/11, the Pentagon ordered a top-secret team of American Commandos into Afghanistan with the objective of killing Osama Bin Laden, led by a Delta Force officer who remains anonymous and is referred to as Dalton Fury (41m34s).
• The mission's objective was to find, capture, or kill Osama Bin Laden, but the preferred outcome was to kill him, as no one wanted to bring him back to the United States to stand trial (42m25s).
• Dalton Fury, a 37-year-old Army major at the time, led a team of America's most elite Commandos, and to protect his identity, he underwent a series of transformations using theatrical makeup (42m40s).
• The team transformed themselves in Afghanistan by growing beards and wearing local clothing to blend in, with the goal of killing Osama Bin Laden without anyone knowing Delta Force was involved (43m10s).
• The administration's strategy was to let Afghans do most of the fighting, using radio intercepts and intelligence to pinpoint Bin Laden's location in the mountains near the Pakistan border (43m45s).
• Dalton Fury's Delta team joined the CIA and Afghan fighters, following the strategy of keeping an Afghan face on the war, and their orders were to kill Bin Laden and leave the body with the Afghans (43m59s).
• The team developed an audacious plan to attack Bin Laden from an unexpected direction, coming in from the back door over the mountain peaks, but this plan was disapproved at a higher level (44m40s).
• The next option was to drop hundreds of landmines in the mountain passes leading to Pakistan, Bin Laden's escape route, but this plan was also not implemented (45m10s).
• Delta Force came up with a tactical plan to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, but it was disapproved by higher headquarters, which was unusual as it had never happened before in the experience of the Delta Force team leader, Dalton Fury, in his 5 years with Delta (45m33s).
• The disapproved plan led to a frontal assault on Bin Laden's dug-in Al-Qaeda fighters, with the Delta team having only about 50 men and relying on the Afghan militia as guides and muscle, led by warlord General Ali (45m55s).
• General Ali initially expressed doubts about the ability of the Delta team to handle Al-Qaeda in the mountains, but later accepted millions of dollars in cash from the CIA and agreed to escort the Delta Force into the mountains (46m19s).
• The Afghan mujahadin troops, who ranged in age from 14 to 80, were dressed in standard muhad warrior attire, which was considered rags by Western standards (46m41s).
• The Delta Commandos, dressed like Afghans, maneuvered up the mountains, calling in air strikes on Al-Qaeda by day, but at night, they discovered that their Afghan allies would go home, giving up the territory they had gained to the enemy (47m3s).
• The Afghan allies would engage in skirmishes with Al-Qaeda, lose a few men, and then leave, almost as if it was an agreement between the two forces fighting each other (47m31s).
• Four days after arriving in Tora Bora, Dalton Fury was faced with a fateful command decision: three of his men were in trouble behind enemy lines, and at the same time, the CIA had a breakthrough in locating Bin Laden's radio transmissions (47m44s).
• The CIA had a location for Bin Laden, which was the best locational data they had ever had on him, but it was night, and Fury was without his Afghan allies (48m8s).
• Fury managed to rescue his men and approached Bin Laden's door, but he had to make a decision: advance his small team with no Afghan support or return to camp and assault in the morning (48m24s).
• Fury was under orders to make the Afghans take the lead, and intelligence said there were over 1,000 hardened fighters protecting Bin Laden, so he decided to abort the effort to kill or capture Bin Laden (48m41s).
• Fury's decision to abort the effort still bothers him, leaving him with a feeling of somehow letting down the nation at a critical time (48m51s).
• Fury feels that if they had gone up the ridgeline towards Bin Laden's location, they might have run into him, but it wasn't worth the risk at that moment, and it was better to be cautious and refit to go up there with the entire force the next day (49m13s).
• Osama Bin Laden was heard on the radio by the CIA, Delta, and their Afghan allies, and the Afghans reacted with a mix of awe and reverence, gathering around to listen to his voice (49m51s).
• The radio intercepts provided a location fix on Bin Laden, and a Delta soldier narrated a video showing the suspected location of Bin Laden on a hill (50m46s).
• The Afghan allies announced a ceasefire with Al-Qaeda, which the Americans had no interest in, and even drew their weapons on Delta, leading to a 12-hour delay (51m15s).
• Bin Laden changed direction, and his radio calls indicated he was clearly hurting and caring for his men, with a tone that suggested he was preparing for defeat (51m52s).
• The American team listened to Bin Laden's radio calls, including one where he expressed regret for bringing his men to the location and suggested it was okay to surrender (52m3s).
• A Delta team, Jackal, spotted Bin Laden's entourage and observed 50 men moving into a cave, leading to a bombing campaign that was believed to have killed Bin Laden (52m34s).
• However, six months later, American and Canadian forces returned to search for proof of Bin Laden's death but were unable to find his body (53m10s).
• In October 2004, Bin Laden released a message, revealing that he had survived, and Fury believes that Bin Laden was wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel from an American bomb and was hidden in a nearby town (53m42s).
• Osama bin Laden is believed to have been brought to a house near the al-Qaeda Cemetery by a gentleman who, along with his family, was supporting al-Qaeda during the battle, where he received medical attention for a few days (54m1s).
• After receiving medical attention, bin Laden was likely moved to a vehicle and driven as far as possible before getting out and walking or being carried across the pass into Pakistan (54m16s).
• The trail used by bin Laden to escape is believed to be the same one he would have used to cross the pass into Pakistan (54m17s).
• It is thought that bin Laden successfully escaped into Pakistan, and once he is finally caught, the fact that he was initially lost in Tora Bora will become less significant (54m30s).