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Watching the Detectives

201736mMovieDocumentary

Immediately after the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013, amateur detectives took the Internet chat rooms to try to find the culprits, looking for details in photographs uploaded to the sites that could point to the guilt of potential suspects.

DirectorChris Kennedy

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