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BOSTON -- As investigators continue to probe Monday's deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon, self-deputized Internet detectives shifted into overdrive Wednesday--with users of two popular online bulletin boards claiming they had identified the culprit.
On 4Chan, an image-driven message board, users zeroed in on a surveillance image showing a man near the marathon's finish line wearing black pants, black shirt, white hat and carrying a black backpack similar to the one recovered near the site of one of the blasts.
In subsequent aerial images, the man is seen without the backpack.
Like a nerdy episode of CSI, 4Channers, as they like to call themselves, proceeded to debate veracity of the find, even launching a shared Google spreadsheet to organize the armchair intel.
Other 4Chan users spotted another man carrying a black backpack who they deemed suspicious.
Meanwhile, Reddit.com users were engaged in a similar debate over both photos.
While some fellow users were quick to mock their fellow faux forensics, the FBI and local law enforcement have been asking the public for help, soliciting photos and video that may help solve the crime. 4Channers and Redditors are simply following instruction.
http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-boston-marathon-bomber-photo-evidence/
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