MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
The Boston Globe, Dec. 15, 2013
Tamerlan, the eldest, started hearing the voice as a young man. It disturbed him. It frightened him, as the voice inside grew more insistent. It may in the end have directed him.
Dzhokhar, the youngest, was the child full of promise. But almost from the moment he left home, trouble and failure seemed to mark him, and risk to allure him. He was anything but a passive figure in the history the brothers would soon make.
A five-month Globe investigation offers new details and insights into the two young men accused in the greatest act of terrorism in Boston history and the deeply dysfunctional family that produced them [....]
Article continues with 8 "chapters" on Tamerlan and family by Sally Jacobs, David Filipov and Patricia Wen, folllowed by 7 "chapters" on Dzhokhar by Patricia Wen. Includes challenges to the general public and law enforcement narrative on their lives to date; these questions are outlined with bullet points at the beginning of "Chapter 1" on Tamerlan.