I’d heard rumors that the two bombers were drug dealers for the Russian mob, and if true (that’s always such a big “if” these days, isn’t it?), this seems to confirm it:
Federal prosecutors have disclosed publicly for the first time that they have information indicating deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev “participated” in a September 2011 unsolved triple homicide.
The revelation comes in a court document filed in the case against surviving bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan’s younger brother. In the document, prosecutors note that they told Dzhokhar his dead brother was implicated in the triple murder by a friend, Ibragim Todashev.
Todashev was shot dead in his Florida apartment in May during an interview with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police. Sources with direct knowledge of the incident told ABC News shortly after the shooting that Todashev suddenly attacked the officers before he was “about to sign a statement” admitting to his own role in the triple murder.
According to the new court filing, before his death Todashev told investigators Tamerlan “participated” in the triple homicide in Waltham, Mass., in which three bodies were discovered naked with marijuana strewn across them on the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The new court document did not elaborate on Tamerlan’s alleged involvement.
Law enforcement officials told ABC News days before Todashev’s death that there was “mounting evidence,” bolstered by “forensic hits,” that pointed to the possible involvement of both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar in the triple murder. One of the young men killed, Brendan Mess, had once been a roommate and martial arts colleague of Tamerlan’s, officials said then. At the time, the officials cautioned that DNA testing was not complete and it was too early to bring an indictment against Dhzokhar.
“Federal prosecutors have disclosed that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin with no connections to the CIA.” And now “mounting evidence” bolstered by “forensic hits” (whatever those are) that pointed to “possible involvement” in the murders. Toadashev was “about to sign a statement” admitting his role in the murders when he suddenly lunged at the (only) FBI agent (in the house who shot him 9 times in the back of the head). Go ask Alice.