Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has been buried in an undisclosed location outside Worcester, Massachusetts. Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester, and has since been entombed, and police have not specified where the body had been taken.
Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are under arrest, suspected of removing items from his dorm room after the April 15 attack. Two of them were detained on April 20 on immigration charges and a third has been taken into custody, sources said.
“Danny,” the man who was carjacked by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev during the last night on the run two weeks ago, gave his first TV interview aired on CBS News on Tuesday evening.
Female DNA has been found on at least on at least one of the bombs used in the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks, but have yet to determine whose it is or whether it indicates if a woman helped the Tsarnaevs execute their deadly plot on April 15, USA Today reported.
The FBI reportedly interviewed Mikhail Allakhverdov, perhaps better known as "Misha," an Armenian teacher suspected of radicalizing Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev before he allegedly plant bombs, killing three people and injuring over 200, CNN reported. Allakhverdov denies he ever encouraged a violent take on Islam, and that he taught Tamerlan anything at all, according to a New York Review of Books writer who says he interviewed him.
The surviving Boston Marathon bombings' suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev has been transferred from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and taken to the Federal Medical Center Devens about 40 miles west of Boston, the Guardian reported. The facility treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialized long-term medical or mental health care.
A Jersey City man was arrested at a Hoboken train station carrying two homemade explosives, the Jersey Journal reported, eight days before two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. After the hearing on Wednesday, police determined "there is no indication at this point of the investigation that [Panasenko] intended to detonate a device in his building or on the transit system."
After multiple surgeries since being seriously injured at the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, Heather Abbott was faced with a choice. She either could try and save her badly mangled foot or amputating her leg below the knee. She chose the latter because she knew that her foot was unlikely to ever again be functional, and that her leg would be shorter than the other. She spoke from her hospital bed at a news conference at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.
The surviving suspect in the Boston bombings has told investigators that he and his brother planned to bomb Times Square, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday, as reported by the New York Daily News."Last night we were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," Mayor Bloomberg said. The Tsarnaev brothers came up with the plan spontaneously after the Boston bombing, as they talked in an SUV they had carjacked, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his constitutional rights sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating, according to a U.S. law enforcement source and four officials of both political parties briefed on the interrogation.
While speaking at a memorial service at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in remembrance of police officer, Sean Collier, Vice President Joe Biden questioned the motives behind the terror attacks toward the U.S. 'Whether it's al-Qaeda central out out of the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) or two twisted perverted, cowardly knockoff Jihadis here in Bostson, why do they do what they do?', he asked.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, mother of terrorism suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, insists that her eldest son was not completely inspired by a radical Muslim cleric he knew in Boston. Others, including the suspects' uncle disagrees.
The Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's American wife Katherine Russell is "very distraught" but will cooperate with the FBI investigation
Police reportedly recovered the body missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi from the Providence River.Authorities told the Boston Globe that it is "very possible" that the body they found on Tuesday is that of 22-year-old Tripathi, who has been missing since March 16. Tripathi was also in the news last week when Reddit - a social news and entertainment website- misidentified him as one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Later on in the week, the two suspects of the bombings were that of the Tsarnaev brothers.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, adding another piece to the body of evidence they say suggests the two brothers were motivated by an anti-American, radical Islam.
'Suspect 1' of the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, twice disrupted sermons to challenge views expressed by preachers leading services at a local mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston said.
The two suspects of the Boston Marathon bombings aunt Maret Tsarnaeva still believes her nephews are innocent. She has claimed she has also received numerous threats since she came forward on Friday.
Officials said Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International was briefly evacuated on Sunday afternoon because of a suspicious package discovered in the bag room from El Al Airlines.
A foreign government told the FBI in early 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers suspected in the bombings, was a follower of radical Islam.
