he told investigators that he and the older tsarnaev brother committed a triple murder two years before the bombings. it happened to be the tenth anniversary of 9/11. he said that they had intended to do a robbery that the older tsarnaev brother had gone in with a gun and they stole thousands of doll lars then tammer lynn said he wanted to eliminate witnesses to the crime. here s a quote from the investigators from this document saying that this murder was particular lly grizzly, the victims were bound, beaten, covered with marijuana. the document also describes one of the three victims as being a close friend of tsarnaev. he then told the investigators they spent more than an hour try ing to clean up and erase evidence of fipger prints. now he actually died. he was shot and killed during the course of giving this interview to investigators because u.s. officials said he
natasha, what more can you tell us? you remember that the older tsarnaev brother was killed in a police fire fight shortly after the boston marathon bombing after that it was his friend who gave investigators an interview. he told investigators that he and tsarnaev committed a triple murder. and here s where it gets very graphic. here s a quote from from what the agent wrote down in this
whether the size and explosive force of this backpack bomb tells us whether this person had any connection with isis, i would simply say absolutely not. it doesn t tell us one way or the other. remember, that the boston marathon bombs that were also deadly and very sizable, they were set off outside, so just like the ones in the uk, they were pretty well designed and there was never any connection found between the stsarnaev brothers and all indications were they figured out how to build those bombs entirely on their own. so i don t think you can make any conclusion at all. this is a 22-year-old, the older tsarnaev brother was older than that, i don t know whether that
six nations have been trying to hammer out an outline for a future agreement aimed at curbing iran s nuclear program. a final deal could end crushing economic sanctions against iran. there will be no movement in the boston marathon bombing trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev for a few days now the defense rested its case. the case was completed in two days of testimony. prosecutors and tsarnaev s attorneys now have until monday to work on their closing arguments. abc s lana zak reports. reporter: four witnesses and six hours. that s the entire defense mounted for dzhokhar tsarnaev in the boston marathon bombing trial. from the beginning, it appeared the strategy was to suggest that dzhokhar followed his brother s lead and tamerlan called the shots in the attack that killed three and injured 260. the defense used the witnesses to shift the focus to the older tsarnaev brother. an fbi fingerprint analyst said only tamerlan s fingerprints were found on the bomb. the same was true on other
three then were found in their apartment with their necks slit. one was a boxer. a man told investigators that the older tsarnaev brother was involved in those murders. tsarnaev s younger brother dzhokhar tsarnaev has been charged in the bombing and pleaded not guilty. the wife of martin macneill is on trial. it s about to rachet it up with the children about to testify for the prosecution. reporter: today, the children of dr. martin macneill, a instead of closer to testifying, against their own father. prosecutors say the first up as soon as 30 expected to be 12-year-old aida mac neil, only