reporter: authorities have combed the home for evidence. we ve collected fingerprints during that search and also what we believe to be dna. those prints and that dna will hopefully be processed within the next week. michael range lives near the fowlers and heard of the stabbing by a neighbor boy. i took my kids inside and locked the doors and waited to hear actually what happened. it s been scary. we ve been inside all weekend. reporter: a lot of residents feel trapped, pinned down after the mysterious death of leila fowler who would have turned 9 in june. valley springs, california. we ll keep following that story. still to come, more on the breaking news that we told you about at the top of the hour. investigators have found female dna on one of the bombs used in the marathon attack. and then who is misha? we are learning more about the mysterious man authorities believe radicalized tamerlan tsarnaev. the only man who has spoken to misha is next. it s monday. a brand n
i ll be writing about them in my next article for the new york review. and when i was talking to them, they were very kind. and they knew a lot about the tsarnaev family. they had associated with the tsarnaevs for many years and they were quite eager to tell their story. as they were telling me their story, misha s name came up and i said that s interesting. did you know him? they said oh, yeah, we knew him quite well. he was hanging around. we didn t you know, we thought he was a very nice, harmless guy. we don t understand why the tsarnaevs are saying these things about him. then i asked if they knew his name and they said they did and he lived in rhode island. there s only one person by that name in rhode island. there are not very many armenians who converted to islam. and he confirmed that detail to me when i saw him. again, there s this physical description that matches. when i arrived at the apartment, i almost they understood immediately why i was there. i identified myself
i m correct, right? we spoke a lot of the time in russian. sometimes he spoke english. he speaks very good english with a rather pronounced russian accent. his parents, with his parents i spoke almost entirely russian. all right. now one thing i want to ask you about you had a conversation about how well he knew the family. we ve been hearing these different family members saying misha this, misha that, that has led to this outside perception. he never met tsarnaev s family members but obviously the suspect s mother said he was in their home, praying with them. here is what she told our nick peyton walsh. when misha visited us, we just kind of he just opened our eyes, you know, really wide about islam. he was really he was devoted and very good, very nice man. so what do you make of that?
quite welcoming. his family was very welcoming. and i was struck how much he resembled the physical description from some members of the tsarnaev family, medium height, stocky, reddish-blond hair. and that matched in general terms of the physical description that the tsarnaevs had given of him. christian, misha is a common name in russia for mikhael. i know you re talking about the superficial resemblance to the description. did you feel comfortable this is the guy? i really did, erin. first of all, i heard about him from some russian-speaking sources in boston that i had found who have not yet spoken to
time the cnn has learned the fbi has interviewed the man, misha, from rhode island about his ties to the tsarnaev family. out front now, christian carl. thank you very much for coming on. you caught misha and his family by complete surprise when you went to the home. you described him as a 39-year-old man of american-ukrainian descent. of medium height and has a thin, reddish blond beard. thank you very much for having me on rkt erin. it s a great honor. he was a very interesting character. i m not sure what i was expecting. the man i met certainly did not fit the description, purely superficial terms of an islamic master mind who was manipulating people. he seemed actually rather agitated and very, very nervous and but despite that, he was