Read More. Here are five things we know about Russell. She has said she was in the dark about the Tsaranaev brothers' alleged plans. Investigators believe the pressure cooker bombs that went off at the marathon were at least partially made on the kitchen table of the tiny apartment she shared with Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The last time Russell saw her husband alive was just hours before he died in a gunbattle with police, a source close to the family told CNN shortly after the bombings.
Her attorney told CNN that she learned through news reports that her husband and brother-in-law were suspects in the attacks. It was devastating news for the whole family, he said. In the aftermath of this tragedy, she, her daughter and her family are trying to come to terms with these events. She was arrested for theft. Before the bombings, Russell had one run-in with the law. According to court records, she acknowledged the theft and gave back the merchandise.
Last year, she appeared in court over a traffic ticket. Her last known address was near her in-laws. By all indications, Russell has chosen to be near -- and with -- her dead husband's family living in New Jersey, rather than with her parents in Rhode Island. Her last known apartment was just blocks from the last listed address of Ailina and Bella Tsarnaeva, her sisters-in-law. And she was last seen holding the newest child in the Tsarnaev family, her niece.
Ailina Tsarnaeva recently appeared in court on unrelated charges of threatening a romantic rival with a bomb. In the immediate scene, Russell is shown within earshot as Tamerlan confronts Dzhokhar and says "You're my brother, you understand that?
Are you ready for this? Four days after the bombing — and just hours after Russell learned her husband died in the Watertown shootout — the movie shows her defiant as she's interrogated by a federal agent from a special, but unnamed agency. In the film, the head of the Boston FBI tries to learn what the interrogator found out from grilling Russell.
Good luck, huh? Richard DesLauriers, the special agent in charge of the Boston FBI at the time of the marathon, said he feels "there is nothing inaccurate about that aspect of the movie," or the way Russell is portrayed in those scenes.
Russell's attorney said before that first interrogation, her mother-in-law and her sisters-in-law told her not to say anything before she got legal advice. In the film, Russell asks her interrogator for a lawyer but is told she isn't getting one. We repeatedly tried to contact the makers of the movie to ask questions about how they depicted Russell in the film but got no response. DesLauriers, now retired from the FBI, does agree that the overall takeaway from the movie is that Russell knew in advance about the plot to bomb the marathon.
But another key player in the Boston bombings is the wife of Tamerlan, Katherine Russell. Through her own attorneys, however, Russell has disputed this account and insists to this day that the movie is inaccurate and unfair in the way they depict her. There were a number of details that seemed to incriminate Russell, but in the end they all appeared to be circumstantial.
The first red flag was the instructions on how to make a bomb that were found on her computer, although it was virtually impossible to tell who actually downloaded those files. Russell's close friends, meanwhile, paint a different picture of the couple.
Friends suggested that she had been radicalized by Tamerlan and had become more submissive during their marriage since she thought that was the right way to be as a wife.
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