Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has been buried in an undisclosed location outside Worcester, Massachusetts, the Associated Press reported. Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester, and has since been entombed Police have not specified where the body had been taken.
Police in Worcester pleaded for a resolution as to where he would be buried on Wednesday, indicating that they were were spending tens of thousands of dollars to protect the funeral home where his body is being kept amid protests that the proper burial was difficult to achieve.
Peter Stefan, whose funeral home accepted Tsarnaev's body last week, said Tuesday that none of the 120 offers of graves from the U.S. and Canada has worked out because officials in those cities and towns never wanted to take in the body, the AP reported.
Katherine Russell, Tsarnaev's widow, faces continued questions from federal authorities, hiring a criminal lawyer, Joshua Dratel with experience defending a number of terrorism suspects in federal courts and military commissions. One such client was Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, who attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. Miriam Weizenbaum also is representing Russell.
The Tsarnaev brothers are ethnic Chechens from southern Russia, accused of planting two shrapnel-packed pressure cooker bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, killing three people and injuring roughly 260. Many patients who are still in the hospital as a result of the blast, having suffered war-like injuries.
The younger brother Dzhokhar, who was captured hiding in a tarp-covered boat outside a house in Watertown, was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill people.
Their Tsarnaev brothers' mother said the charges against them are lies.
The first in a series of hearings to review the government's initial response to the bombing began on Thursday in Washington. The hearings on Capitol Hill address what information authorities received about the brothers before the bombings.
The FBI and CIA each received vague warnings from Russia's government in 2011 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother were Jihadists.
