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48. there's this thing we used to have called 'investigative reporting'.

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Tue Apr 23, 2013, 10:55 PM

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Suspected Boston Marathon bombers lived in "squalid, ramshackle" apartment [View all] HiPointDem Apr 2013 OP

Bah. Check out their neighbors in Lower Allston Recursion Apr 2013 #1

i don't think it's particularly squalid looking either, except for how messy they were and the HiPointDem Apr 2013 #2

For two guys who never had a job, it looks great! marshall Apr 2013 #20

they've had jobs. HiPointDem Apr 2013 #21

Like what? marshall Apr 2013 #43

The younger kid worked for a bit as a lifeguard in summer and was fired because MADem Apr 2013 #61

They lived like pigs. MADem Apr 2013 #3

Yes, it would be interesting to know how much income they had and where it came from. Strange HiPointDem Apr 2013 #4

If she lived in that "pigsty" I doubt it was as "squalid" MADem Apr 2013 #9

lots of sources say lots of things. but there's a picture of her in front of the apt, supposedly HiPointDem Apr 2013 #10

I think they're afraid of "rampant" speculation. MADem Apr 2013 #18

There's no lab in the home. sofa king Apr 2013 #70

I thought I read that the FBI found seven pipe bombs in the house. MADem Apr 2013 #74

I stand corrected, then. sofa king Apr 2013 #75

It is really not the media's job to add them up. We have DOJ and the Commonwealth of Bluenorthwest Apr 2013 #36

there's this thing we used to have called 'investigative reporting'. HiPointDem Apr 2013 #48

What angle are you playing on this thread? graham4anything Apr 2013 #34

There's plywood in a window as well Fumesucker Apr 2013 #5

Apartments are scarce in that town. MADem Apr 2013 #7

Not who...it not a dark op. They were funding themselves through either, Katashi_itto Apr 2013 #12

Chop shop....interesting theory!! nt MADem Apr 2013 #13

It makes sense. Dads a mechanic, all the constant fancy cars....family seems steeped in illegalitie Katashi_itto Apr 2013 #14

what constant fancy cars? HiPointDem Apr 2013 #15

From what I read, the guys kept having different cars. Katashi_itto Apr 2013 #17

I used to know guys like that jberryhill Apr 2013 #27

That plywood door suggests to me that it was an illegal apartment split. Gormy Cuss Apr 2013 #46

Totally possible if it was a family-to-family sale. MADem Apr 2013 #55

Right, not a market rate sale. n/t Gormy Cuss Apr 2013 #56

That squalid apartment probably costs 3 grand a month if it has 2 bedrooms NotThisTime Apr 2013 #47

Twenty three hundred, anyway--they are on the 3rd floor! MADem Apr 2013 #54

the cookers wouldn't cost 150 if they were on sale dsc Apr 2013 #52

Same brand? Same size? MADem Apr 2013 #53

You can get them cheaper. Mojorabbit Apr 2013 #64

I thought the cops said they used this type MADem Apr 2013 #67

If so then that model IS more expensive. Mojorabbit Apr 2013 #71

Not sure mine is 6 liters dsc Apr 2013 #76

I don't know for a fact, but I thought I read (I've MADem Apr 2013 #77

mine is aluminum dsc Apr 2013 #79

I think they shatter sooner, so the stainless steel ones do better MADem Apr 2013 #80

it just looks like they didn't clean up JI7 Apr 2013 #6

Young men who don't clean up after themselves, Quantess Apr 2013 #8

what fancy cars? HiPointDem Apr 2013 #11

The ones that they brought to the auto mechanic across the way from where they lived snooper2 Apr 2013 #22

link? HiPointDem Apr 2013 #23

sure snooper2 Apr 2013 #24

Link maddezmom Apr 2013 #25

Wow, looks disgusting. I don't believe his wife and daughter lived there maddezmom Apr 2013 #16

Me either.....no signs that mother and child lived there according to article... Gin Apr 2013 #38

Could this be from AFTER the police ransacked the place?? a kennedy Apr 2013 #39

Sure, but the floor in the dinette pic looks like it hasn't been mopped in months. maddezmom Apr 2013 #40

ugh, right......that's bad. eom a kennedy Apr 2013 #41

When all your money goes to buying bomb equipment... marshall Apr 2013 #19

It looks like two guys lived there. liberalmuse Apr 2013 #26

Single young men living in a dirty apartment? jberryhill Apr 2013 #28

Except the single one lived in a dorm, the other was married with a child. Bluenorthwest Apr 2013 #33

In the wife's statement from her attorneys, it says she lived there maddezmom Apr 2013 #42

The younger one had a dorm room where he seems to have lived even after the bombing Bluenorthwest Apr 2013 #29

+1,000 - Big bro listed himself as a "driver" on his marriage MADem Apr 2013 #57

Or just another college type dorm room. Anyone know any kids that pick up after themselves? graham4anything Apr 2013 #30

omg a half-eaten meal left on the table Enrique Apr 2013 #31

Interesting the DN article doesn't mention bombmaking equipment KoKo Apr 2013 #32

yes, so one wonders where they kept the powder or whatever. HiPointDem Apr 2013 #59

Agree...so many "hanging threads" with these two. Why didn't their Apartment KoKo Apr 2013 #78

Looks like a pigpen Rex Apr 2013 #35

Most recently Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lived in a dorm maddezmom Apr 2013 #37

Lawyers do lie.... MADem Apr 2013 #60

Geez, looks cleaner than my place geomon666 Apr 2013 #44

I thought that was the point, that they suddenly had money in contrast to their normal circumstances Matariki Apr 2013 #45

Anyone notice the pressure cooker in photo 4? Fawke Em Apr 2013 #49

They actually used that one flamingdem Apr 2013 #50

Wow. Fawke Em Apr 2013 #51

that's a big pressure cooker. it seems too big for the backpacks they carried, actually -- i mean HiPointDem Apr 2013 #58

That looks like an electric rice cooker to me, not a pressure cooker. nt MADem Apr 2013 #62

they don't all look alike. could be either. to me it looks most like the 1st pressure cooker HiPointDem Apr 2013 #63

Who knows, but the brand they used was the MADem Apr 2013 #66

this fagor model looks much like the one on the chair. HiPointDem Apr 2013 #68

That one is electric, I think--but it could be; anything's possible. MADem Apr 2013 #69

It might be an electric pressure cooker Mojorabbit Apr 2013 #72

Entirely possible. nt MADem Apr 2013 #73

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I thought the same thing. Mine is that size and it is pretty big. nt Mojorabbit Apr 2013 #65