On 10 year anniversary of 9/11, did the Tsarnaev brothers decide to make a clean braek in their lives and return to the path of their religion? Disgust with the American way of life and their personal failures which led Tamerlan to claim: “I have no friends here in America.” Uncle Tsarni split with his nephews three years ago because they became too fanatic about Islam.
Slain Boston Bomb Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Eyed in Jewish Triple Murder
(The Forward) – Police in a Boston suburb are investigating whether slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was involved in the unsolved murders of his close friend and two other men, one of whom was a Brandeis University graduate and the other a devout Jew.
Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police, was a close friend of Brendan Mess, who was found murdered in an apartment in Waltham, Mass. on Sept. 12, 2011, along with Erik Weissman and Raphael Teken.
Weissman was a devoted member of his synagogue, according to WCVB in Boston and Teken had majored in history at predominantly Jewish Brandeis.
The triple murder was originally considered to be drug related because the men’s bodies were found covered with marijuana. The crime was particularly brutal and all three victims’ thoats were slashed.
A Boston Globe profile of the Tsarnaev brothers first made the possible connection to the triple murder.
Did Weissman get Dzhokhar hooked on drugs?
According to police reports, Weissman was arrested in 2008 charge of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Larry Aaronson, who taught Weissman at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, told the Globe after the murders that Weissman had an unusually diverse group of friends.
One year later, still few answers in Waltham triple homicide