Docs: Dead marathon suspect tied to 2011 killings

[avaistheone1]

Source: Boston.com

BOSTON (AP) — Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was named as a participant in an earlier triple homicide by a man who was subsequently shot to death while being questioned by authorities, according to a filing made by federal prosecutors in the case against his brother, surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

According to the filing made Monday, Ibragim Todashev told investigators Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a triple slaying in Waltham on Sept. 11, 2011.

In that case, three men were found in an apartment with their necks slit and their bodies reportedly covered with marijuana. One of the victims was a boxer and friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, was fatally shot at his Orlando home during a meeting with an FBI agent and two Massachusetts state troopers in May, authorities said. He had turned violent while being question, according to authorities.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/10/22/docs-dead-marathon-suspect-tied-killings/oqhRcAKIxjwcf9FRuipHXM/story.html

[MADem]

1. I think the deceased Todashev may have been at that Waltham apartment, too.

I do wish that FBI would start recording their field interviews, though. It would make for improved transparency. We have the technology.

[olddad56]

2. it all sounds a little fishy to me.

[mallard]

3. Apparently bearing no resposibility for Todashev's death ... nevermind that of the elder Tsarnaev ..

... strange how authorities, already compelled to cast full blame, are relying on his 'testimony' for use against the only one of the accused now still - not so conveniently - left alive. Without any recordings to back this up, there's a kind of a lingering hearsay issue, no?

[GoneFishin]

8. And they still offer no PLAUSIBLE explanation why they shot an unarmed man.

Their mercurial, shifting, vague excuses about this shooting plus the evident cover-up is highly suspicious.

It casts doubt on the credibility of every story linked to this episode including the Boston incident.

[Downwinder]

4. Death bed statement to an execution squad?

Is that admissible?

[former9thward]

15. It is once they get the blood off of it.

[24601]

16. A dying declaration can be admissible. A statement before being shot likely would not be. The

key is that the individual has to believe he/she is dying.

[Tx4obama]

5. An additional link from The AP below

The AP - Oct 22, 11:11 PM EDT - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BOSTON_MARATHON_BOMBING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-22-23-11-11

[azurnoir]

6. He confessed to these killings last Spring

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/22/justice/florida-fbi-shooting-boston/

[tofuandbeer]

7. The Boston Marathon bombing...that was a creepy week...I was here on DU for it.

And the end of it was surreal.
Hope we have nothing like that again.

I just saw Wikipedia has a scary picture of the aftermath (not gruesome...thankful for that)...just thought provoking.
(removed link, just in case someone finds it unlikable)....you can see it on Wiki, though.

Anyway, sorry to step away from the topic at hand, this just made me think back on that numbing day—even though I live thousands of miles away.

[Myrina]

9. Well shit, he's dead - let's link him to Jimm Hoffa's disappearance too.

Any other unsolved mysteries we want to close the files on? Just blame the dead Chechen.


The Todashev story is all kinds of bullshit too, when one reads the various versions put forth by the FBI.

[shanti]

10. I knew it!

When I first read about the weed murder, it just felt vindictive to me, the sprinkling of the herb on the dead bodies. That just isn't done. It was a big red flag that the murderer was very anti-drug, and Tamerlan was.

[okaawhatever]

17. While it could be an anti-drug message, the cops thought it was a misdirect. A way of making sure

the cops knew he was a drug dealer or would at least send the investigation that way.

[alp227]

11. Boston Globe original report:

Todashev implicated Tsarnaev in murders, prosecutors reveal

[soundsgreat]

12. This is not news

Allegedly Todashev was about to sign a confession before he got aggressive and was killed then by seven shots (which are a matter of fact), one of them in the back of his head. There are about 4 or 5 versions of this story. ACLU is already investigating it.

The filing is only a warm-up of this alleged mouhly confession. The fact that it now pops up in right wing media is only part of the long lasting campaign to throw dirt on the Tsarnaevs. Don't fall into this trap.

[avaistheone1]

14. This was the lead story on Boston.com last evening.

Boston.com is the internet venue of the Boston Globe, one of this country's lead newspapers.

Your allegation that this story is part of a campaign to implicate the Tsarnaevs may well be true.

[alp227]

13. AP: Tsarnaev wants access to records in triple slaying

BOSTON (AP) — The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, who faces a potential death penalty, is fighting to get access to investigative records that implicate his dead brother in a triple slaying in 2011.

full: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/tsarnaev-wants-access-records-triple-slaying

[soundsgreat]

18. And this motion of the defense is probably the reason for the misleading headline

that Tsarnaev wants "to pin blame on his brother" which has been picked up on DU, too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014629788#post15

Note the different style of comments in these sister threads!