Who is wife of bombing suspect

And he's critical of the way she's depicted in "Patriots Day. He told The Associated Press, which was first to report the story, that the film was unfair and not true. But in several scenes, the movie repeatedly casts suspicion on Russell. As runners prepare for the start of the marathon, the film turns ominous.

We see her in the Tsarnaevs' Cambridge apartment, caring for their infant daughter. Russell then walks by the bathroom in the film as her husband, Tamerlan, cuts off his beard.

She then is shown glancing at her brother-in-law, Dzhokhar, who is watching an Arab language video of a bomb being assembled. In the immediate scene, Russell is shown within earshot as Tamerlan confronts Dzhokhar and says "You're my brother, you understand that? Are you ready for this?

Four days after the bombing — and just hours after Russell learned her husband died in the Watertown shootout — the movie shows her defiant as she's interrogated by a federal agent from a special, but unnamed agency. The wife of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect has never been implicated in the attack, but her proximity to it has put her in a prison without bars.

Katherine Russell, who married Tamerlan Tsarnaev in , rarely ventures outside of her Rhode Island home anymore, according to neighbors — so little is known about her beyond what first impressions were revealed nearly a year ago. Katherine, 25, is the oldest of three daughters in the Russell family, from North Kingstown, R.

Her father, a Navy veteran, is a physician in Providence, and her mother is a nurse. She attended Suffolk University in Boston, studying communication from the fall of to the spring of , but did not receive a diploma, a spokesman told NBC News. She reportedly married Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the summer of , at a mosque outside of Boston, in a small ceremony with two witnesses. There were some early reports that she had returned to Christianity after the April 15, , bombings, but her lawyer has said that is not true.

We believe there may be people trying to manipulate the process. The U. Attorney's Office in Boston, which is overseeing the investigation, did not respond to requests for comment. Russell, 24, and a convert to Islam, lived with her husband in the Cambridge, Mass. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shoot-out with police after the attack and his brother has since been indicted. Russell's lawyers have repeatedly denied she had any knowledge of her husband's plans to bomb the marathon.

Dratel said that he recently cut off cooperation with the FBI in the investigation because of concerns that agents were engaged in overly aggressive questioning of his client.