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How a Famous Marathon Bombing Victim Helped Name the Suspects

Boston Marathon Attack

Jeff Bauman—the man who had his legs blown off and was pictured with the cowboy—may have helped identify one of the suspects. Read Michael Daly’s report, published before the shootout in Watertown early Friday morning.

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The investigators kept at it around the clock, pursuing thousands of leads.

“Working methodically and with a sense of urgency,” Richard DesLauriers, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the Boston division, later noted.

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One crucial lead is said to have come early on from Jeff

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