- Law Breaker
The Boston marathon bombings would not be the first time Katherine Russell has faced legal charges. In June 2007, she was arrested for stealing merchandise worth about $67 from Old Navy. However, she admitted to the theft and consequently returned the goods. She was also once charged to court over a traffic ticket.
- Parents Disapproval
Katherine’s parents were never in support of her relationship with Tamerlan from the onset as revealed by her mom, Judith. Their concerns weren’t because of Katherine’s conversion to Islam but more so because their once athletic and independent-minded daughter now appeared to be ‘brainwashed’ by an extremist.
- Pre-Boston Marathon Bombing
Though Katherine Russell’s late husband Tamerlan was a promising boxer and athlete, she was the breadwinner. It was through Katherine’s job as a home health aide that she was able to sustain the family while her husband was mostly at home surfing the net.
- Accomplice?
According to investigators, the pressure cooker bombs which Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother used at the Boston marathon were believed to have been partly made on Katherine Russell’s kitchen table which she shared with her late husband. Shortly after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Russell texted a friend stating that such was the fate of many innocent people in Syria and other places on a daily basis. More so, the search history on Russell’s PC showed that she may have been aware of her husband’s extremism. Some of the search phrases include “rewards for the wife of mujahideen” and “if your husband becomes a martyr what are the rewards for you?” Despite the pieces of suggestive evidence against Russell, prosecutors have never disclosed if she is a suspect and there have been no charges filed against her since then. She has never testified in court or spoken publicly about the bombing.
