Mayhem: Unanswered Questions about the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government, and the Boston Marathon Bombing. (2022)
William Ramsey Investigates
William Ramsey Investigates
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A few seconds, he makes me nervous. |
| 0:03.0 | Please work. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm just making sure the dog's not in the background. |
| 0:06.5 | He snores a little bit. |
| 0:09.0 | It wouldn't be the first time. |
| 0:10.2 | Sometimes my cat would jump on to the back of my chair while I'm doing an interview. |
| 0:14.7 | That's happened to me twice, but she seemed to be asleep. |
| 0:17.1 | Okay, we're alive. |
| 0:17.8 | Hi, this is William Ramsey. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show |
| 0:20.8 | of a very special guest. Her name is Michelle R. McPhee. And she wrote a superb book, which I read through. |
| 0:27.0 | I really devoured this book. The title of the book is Mayhem. Unanswered questions about the Sarnay |
| 0:32.2 | of Brothers, the U.S. government, and the Boston Marathon Bombin. I highly recommend this book. Right now on Amazon, |
| 0:39.1 | it has 165 star reviews. There's an audiobook of it as well. And it is illustrated. So you get |
| 0:44.8 | to see some of the characters and the subjects that are studied in this book. And it's also a |
| 0:51.9 | steer forth press book. I've done a lot of interviews with really |
| 0:54.7 | great authors, and I'll probably put some of those in the show notes as well. But Michelle R. McPhee is a |
| 1:01.4 | screenwriter and bestselling true crime author. She's a five-time Emmy nominated television |
| 1:06.9 | investigative producer in Boston for ABC News and an award-winning columnist, |
| 1:12.3 | as well as a contributing editor to Newsweek and writer for Boston and LA magazines. |
| 1:17.5 | She wrote episode five of Showtime City on a Hill in season one and continues to consult for |
| 1:22.6 | season two while writing her first HBO pilot, The Beast, based on her reporting contained in an upcoming book about the MS-13 Street Gang. |
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