Where Is Katherine Russell, The Widow Of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Brother?

After about a year in Rhode Island, Katherine Russell moved to North Bergen, N.J. with her daughter to live with Tamerlan’s sisters, Alina and Bella.

Russell has chosen to be near, and with her dead husband’s family living in New Jersey, rather than with her parents in Rhode Island.

To her neighbors, Katherine Russell was living like a ghost, rarely seen and never heard after her husband and brother-in-law were accused of plotting together and planting bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260 near the marathon’s finish line.

Federal investigators have questioned Russell, who married Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2010, but they haven’t revealed what she told them.

According to police, Tsarnaev’s younger brother ran him over with an SUV and dragged him with the vehicle for 20 feet (6 m), which is substantiated by the federal indictment.

Tsarnaev is being held at a super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colo. A U.S. district court had sentenced Tsarnaev to death but in 2020 a federal appeals panel in Boston set that verdict aside, concluding that the trial judge made several errors in the penalty trial.