Transcripts for CNN EarlyStart 20130430 09:50:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
convert to islam, had moved out to dagestan, perhaps in about 2010, and was killed in a village in july last year, along with six other rebel fighters, in a village not so far from this city here. john? and, nick, what s the significance of this connection? there also may be another militant that tamerlan tsarnaev could or could not have met with when he was there. yeah, the significance of the connection is, look, he had a number of things in common with tamerlan. in this region, at the same time. both were boxers. both had sort of gone down the radical islamic route. a possibility that the pair of them had met in toronto, which was where plotnikov lived in 2009. tamerlan reported to have visited his aunt in that city in 2009. so the possibility of a prior
unabomber, ted kaczynski. all these clients avoided the death penalty, getting life sentences, instead. federal investigators are focusing their efforts on the female dna that was discovered on bomb fragments at the boston marathon finish line. yesterday, they searched katherine russell s home in rhode island. with more on the investigation. good morning, pamela. reporter: good morning to you, john. when fbi agents left the home of katherine russell yesterday, they carried out bags of evidence. they want to know what role, if any, she may have played in helping to carry out the attacks. fbi agents searched this home belonging to the family of katherine russell. the widow of boston bombing suspect, tamerlan tsaranev, who
who s dna is it? with bags of dna evidence. they ll also try to piece together her every move in the days before and just after the attacks. also news this morning, the boston herald reports that the state medical examiner has determined tamerlan s official cause of death, but, but they re not releasing the details because russell nor anyone else has claimed tamerlan s body yet. as for suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev another lawyer has been added to his defense team, death penalty expert judy clarke. her past clients include susan smith, convicted of drowning her two children, she represented unabomber ted kaczynski, as well as tucson shooter jared loughner. all these clients were spared the death penalty, getting life sentence, instead. investigators now focusing in on that dna found on bomb fragments in boston.
tsarnaev but they re not telling us. why? that s right. and that s because, john, no one has claimed his body. the examiner s office tells us that essentially tamerlan s widow, katherine russell, and his family members haven t come by to claim his body. so until that happens, the officials aren t going to release any details about his cause of death. as you mentioned, they have determined his cause of death. john? all right, pamela brown in devens, massachusetts this morning. thanks so much. appreciate it. meanwhile, federal investigators want to know if boston bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev ever knew a man named william slotnikov. our nic robertson is in dagestan. what do we know about this figure? he was 23 years old. he was canadian. his parents were from russia. his father from the north. his mother from the south. and in this area, he was a