I guess this one qualifies as a conspiracy theory bc the government hasn’t come out and explicitly said “this is what happened” but bits and pieces of this theory have been confirmed over the years.
It’s about the motive behind the Boston Marathon Bombings. Why did those two brothers do it? The story goes like this:
A Boston reporter gathered documents thru the freedom of information act wrote a book entitled “Mayhem” which theorized about the motive for the marathon bombings. It’s been a while since I’ve read it but here’s how it goes.
Tamerlan (the older brother) was a boxer. His dream was to be a US Olympic boxer but he wasn’t a US citizen. Anyway, he starts training with a mixed martial artist who lived in Waltham (a suburb of Boston). Each is training the other in their fighting styles and they quickly become very good friends. One day the mixed martial artist is killed in his apartment in Waltham along with two other guys. It was a strange murder which remains unsolved even today. There were no signs of forced entry and there was marijuana and money literally thrown all over the apartment. Also, all three were beaten to death. This signified to police that the killer(s) knew the occupants of the apartment because they were let in. That the motive for the killing was NOT robbery because the cash and marijuana were everywhere and it was very very personal because they were beaten to death. When it came time for the funeral Tamerlan didn’t attend even though they were very close. This seemed odd to the dead guys mother. The fact is, visa records indicated that Tamerlen had left the US and returned to his homeland country one week after this murder.
Tamerlan stayed in his home country for a few years. During this time, he’s going to different mosques and gets on the radar of CIA officials working in that part of the world. Records show that Tamerlan begins working with the CIA as an informant. He is giving the US government information about these Muslim terrorists with whom he is interacting. Tamerlan does this for several months and actually makes contact with a hard core group that lives in a remote area outside of town. Over the next few weeks Tamerlan visits this group, stays for a few days and returns to town. He goes back and forth between this group in the woods and town a few times. On one occasion he visits the group but then leaves and shortly and after he leaves this group is wiped out by special forces who are tipped off to their position. The theory is Tamerlan was the informant who tipped off the US government as to this groups location and he left just before the raid that wiped them out.
Shortly after this incident, Tamerlan leaves his country and comes back to the US. Despite him being on a terrorist watch list he breezes thru immigration without any issues and is given entry back into the US. Within weeks of re-entering the US he applies for citizenship and on his application it lists the CIA as supporting his petition. Problem for Tamerlan is citizenship is controlled by homeland security not the CIA. Records show that homeland security denied his citizenship request because he’s on a terrorists watch list. In fact, one day, a few weeks before the bombing, Tamerlan goes to the Boston Homeland security office thinking he’s gonna get his petition approved only to find out it’s been denied. (Again ALL the documents that prove this were secured via a FOIA request. These events are all documented).
Tamerlan realizes he’s been fucked over by the CIA. They didn’t get him what he was promised (citizenship so he can become an Olympic boxer) in exchange for gathering all that intel for them. He’s pissed off. So what does he do? He gets his brother to help him with the marathon bombings.
After the bombings took place the younger brother was caught. They do a deep dive on him. They find out all kinds of stuff about him. One thing they found was that he was a major pot dealer at his college. Where did he get his marijuana from? They trace his supplier back to the guy who was killed in that apartment in Waltham. Police quickly realize that Tamerlan found out this guy was selling pot to his younger brother so he goes to the apartment and, of course, he’s let in. Once inside Tamerlan (who is a fighter) quickly ties up the other guys and beats them to death. He then throws the marijuana and money all over the apartment because he’s pissed off.
The book she wrote is called “Mayhem”. She’s also written another book about who may have helped them make the bombs. I haven’t read that one.