Boston Marathon Bomber’s Widow Vanished After He Was Killed. She Did Not Do It Alone: ‘She Was Erased’ (Exclusive)
U.S. officials tell The Messenger that the woman who was married to Tamerlan Tsarnaev is 'hard to find' and 'that's by design'
Published 01/20/24 06:30 AM ET|Updated 2 hr ago
Steve Helling
Katherine Russell pulled off a seeming vanishing act shortly after her husband, notorious Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police days after the bloody 2013 terror attack.
But she didn't do it alone. The Messenger has spoken to multiple sources from various U.S. government agencies who say that the FBI helped Russell go off the grid.
The widow, now 34, fled the Boston area to New Jersey with her young daughter. She remarried, though she kept in close contact with her late husband's family while cutting off almost everyone from her old life.
The daughter of an ER doctor and a nurse, Russell was raised in a Christian household with her two younger sisters. After she met Tsarnaev, she converted to Islam and grew more radical.
But after the bombing, it seemed that she had left her old life behind forever.
"When she moved away, we knew exactly where she went," an FBI investigator who worked on the case tells The Messenger. "We had to be able to keep in touch with her, but she was somewhere that no one else could get to her.
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