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What they're saying. >> nick, you've been now in dagestan in russia for awhile, tracking down this story. it's possible we may never know the specifics of what that elder brother was doing over there six months or who he met with, when he was back in russia last year, correct? >> reporter: absolutely. there are still people trying to piece it together. my conversations with russian security services, they give no comment at all but there's a suggestion perhaps there is more information ticking around on their side of the fence. we do know this extremist militant was attending the same mosque h...

Random crime, that the victims and killers appear to have known each other. there were never any arrests and tamerlan wasn't ever interviewed by police. another oddity, marijuana was sprinkled on the dead bodies of the three people. their throats were slit. as we said at the top, there's new evidence that tamerlan may have been dealing drugs. authorities do not know for sure if there is any connection but it does heighten sort of suspicion about the murder case. deborah feyerick investigates. >> reporter: three men nearly beheaded, their throats slit ear to ear. >> there was a girl running out...

Suggestion perhaps there is more information ticking around on their side of the fence. we do know this extremist militant was attending the same mosque here, an islamist accused of extremism by authorities. we know they attended the same mosque because his mother told me so. the question here is whether the men actually ever met at all or whether there was some other kind of link, perhaps tamerlan tsarnaev had to militancy here. he was here for six months. we don't know what he did for the first few of them. we know his aunt first saw him in march this year when he came here in january and hi...

Also, tonight, as we mentioned a moment ago, we were learning more about one of the pipe bombs found at the scene of last week's shoot out in waterer town. an official calling it similar to one published in a magazine. is simply following a recipe enough or did they have help. susan candiotti is reporting late on it as well as some other new wrinkles in the investigation including to who led authorities to this landfill. she's got new details on the shadowy figure known as misha who steered the suspects towards a new radical strain of islam. mary snow with the biggest, and some say best antite...

Of the house saying there's blood everywhere. >> reporter: the brutality of the murders didn't add up. certainly not in a town like waltham. something else didn't make sense. the victims who were each killed in different rooms in this house were covered in marijuana. investigators describe it as a symbolic gesture. robbery wasn't a motive because police found thousands of dollars in cash. the theory is that the victims knew their killers. >> we have no evidence of a break in the apartment and we have other indicia that the decedents and the assailants were known to each other. we know there ar...