Bomb Reportedly Built in Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Home

Reinforcing the case that this was a home-grown effort

The bombs used in the Boston Marathon attack were built in the apartment that suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev shared with his wife and child, a U.S. law enforcement official with first-hand knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Thursday. The official was not authorized to release the information.

Katherine Russell, Tsarnaev's widow, has remained largely out of view inside her parents' North Kingstown home since her husband's death.

It remains unclear what, if anything, Tamerlan's widow might have known or suspected, the source added.

According to her attorney, Amato DeLuca, the 24-year-old widow knew nothing of plans to bomb the race, and reports of her husband's involvement came as an "absolute shock" to Russell and her family.

Comments

[Lyle]

If her lawyer is speaking the absolute truth, god damn is she an imbecile.

[JeremyR]

That's a pretty good bet, anyway.

[Jesus H. Christ]

Wives of serial killers are usually "shocked" and claim they "knew nothing". Probably so. The human mind can do an amazing job of filtering out what we don't want to acknowledge.

[GLK]

Saying she knew nothing about her husband's plans to bomb the race isn't the same thing as saying she knew nothing about him building a bomb. Muslim women are not supposed to question their husbands but that doesn't mean she didn't see what he was doing.