well, what we do know is that there is a record of a phone call that was placed between the two phones, between kathrine russell s phone and the phone of her late-husband. that phone call was made after the pictures were released about 5:00 in the evening and before the shootout which led in turn to her husband s death. also interesting wolf, she s distancing herself a little bit. she decided not to claim tamerlan tsarnaev s body instead saying it belonged to the family, the mother and father. have her lawyers ever explained why she didn t call the police if and this is still a big if, if she recognized from the photo that this was in fact her husband and brother-in-law? no. it s not clear. and it could be something as simple as she saw her husband and was calling up to say what s going on? or that perhaps she had a deeper understanding about what was going to happen and therefore may have been alerting him.
more from the widow of the older suspected bomber, tamerlan tsarnaev. investigators say kathrine russell had a phone call with her husband after his picture appeared on national television but before investigators had identified him. two sources tell cnn authorities want to know the nature of that phone conversation and why she didn t notify police. the discovery of the suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev s computer is a big break in the boston investigation. it s one of the pieces of evidence three of his friends are accused of taking from that dorm room to try to throw investigators off his trail. they re in the custody of the federal authorities right now facing specific charges. deborah feyerick is joining us now with more on what s going on. deb, all of us want to know how the laptop was found, what the investigators hope to learn from it? what are you learning? well, here s what we can tell you. we know that the computer was here at the university of massachusetts dartmouth in
are cooperating with investigators. authorities also want to know more from the widow of the older suspected bomber, tamerlan tsarnaev. investigators say kathrine russell had a phone call with her husband after his picture appeared on worldwide television but before investigators had actually identified him. two sources now telling cnn authorities want to know the nature of that phone conversation and why she did not notify the police. investigators are also looking into a possible connection between tamerlan tsarnaevcanadi jihadist. he was killed last year by russian troops in dagestan, russia. tsarnaev was in the same area of dagestan when the shootout took place. our nic robertson traveled to the site of that deadly battle. in these mountains dagestan
officials of firsthand knowledge are saying they are new bedford students, they d been arrested on charges of making false statements and also conspiracy to obstruct justice directly in connection with the case of the boston marathon bombings. these were dzhokhar tsarnaev s roommates, apparently. the third suspect or the third person who s been arrested in this case and possibly facing the charges at the federal courthouse later today is also a student, but we are being told that it is not kathrine russell. it s not katy russell, the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev, the older brother who died in the shoout with police the night before his brother was taken into custody. dzhokhar tsarnaev s roommates had apparently, wolf, detained for quite some time now, several days on immigration violation charges, which surprised some of us just in the fact that investigators had plenty of time to hold these two students if they wanted to have access to them or question them without having to officiall
about his life as usual. that s what s so strange. he spent time with friends, even apparently commented on the bombings. he went to the gym. students who knew him said he seemed normal. he seemed very nonchalant. he didn t seem like nervous or anything. i was like, basically, these things happen in other countries and he s like, yeah, tragedies happen like this all the time and it s sad. tsarnaev also lived on campus with about 400 other students. again, there s still a lot of information authorities are trying to figure out. we ve learned so much about these two suspected bombers in the week since the tragedy. one person we have not heard a lot about yet is kathrine russell. if you don t know her name, she s the 24-year-old wife of the suspect who was killed in the police shootout, tamerlan tsarnaev. they have a daughter who s a toddler. chris lawrence has been talking to katherine russell s lawyer. chris, what are you learning about this young woman?