A few years ago, in a photo essay for Slate.com, boxer-turned-Boston-Marathon-Bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev said:
“I don’t have a single American friend. I don’t understand them." But
Tsarnaev, 26, who died Friday in a police shoot-out during a botched
getaway, fell in love with and married one: Katherine Russell, a
24-year-old Rhode Island native and the mother of their 3-year-old
daughter, Zahara.
The young family lived in a Cambridge apartment that had been leased
more than 10 years ago by Tsarnaev's parents. Russell worked 70 to 80
hours, 7 days a week as a home health-care aide, her lawyer, Amato
DeLuca, told reporters, and she thought her husband was caring for their
toddler at home while she was at work. Instead, he allegedly was
planning out the terrorist attack that killed 3 and maimed more than 170
others at the finish line of the Boston Marathon last week.
Her husband "was home" on Thursday when his wife left for work, DeLuca told the Associated Press.
When asked whether she suspected him of anything, DeLuca answered: "Not
as far as I know." She found out that her husband was a suspect in the
Boston Marathon bombing after seeing pictures of him on TV, DeLuca said.
Bea Arthur, a psychotherapist and the CEO and Founder of Pretty Padded Room,
a virtual therapy platform for women, told Yahoo! Shine in an interview
that it's quite possible Russell didn't know what her husband was
planning.
"People like him have double lives," she told Yahoo! Shine. "They
really are like two people. They have you questioning what you would be
without the person."
ABC News reported
that friends said Tsarnaev was controlling Russell. So why did she stay
with him? In situations like this, Arthur says, the victims "don't
trust their own instincts anymore. The manipulation is so deep they
really are at the will of this other person. That's what keeps them
around."
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