The Boston Marathon bombing is an
unusually complex case, involving two main suspects and their relatives on two
continents, friends and hundreds of investigators. The investigators continue to focus on the main suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26,
who died after a police shootout, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
19, who is now recovering from bullet wounds.
Meanwhile, the number of people involved in the case as suspects, lawyers and experts continues to grow. Here are the individuals playing an important role:
Judy Clarke, defence lawyer
Ms Clarke, a 60-year-old lawyer based in San Diego, is defending Tsarnaev. A "master strategist" in death penalty cases, according to the New York Times, she has represented some of the most difficult clients in recent US history.
"She has stood up to the plate in the kinds of cases that bring the greatest disdain from the public," as Gerald Goldstein, a Texas lawyer who knows her well, told the NY Times. She represented Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, and al-Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui. Another one of her clients, Jared Lee Loughner, shot and killed six people and wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Richard DesLauriers, FBI special agent in charge
Mr DesLauriers, 53, has for years been involved in high-profile cases. He announced the arrest of Boston crime boss James Bulger in June 2011, for example. He is known as "meticulous" and "a perfectionist" in his approach to investigations.Katherine Russell, widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev
A native of Rhode Island, Ms Russell, 24, met her future husband while a student at Suffolk University. Her father is a physician and her mother a nurse. Ms Russell married Tsarnaev in 2010 and afterwards converted to Islam. They have a three-year-old daughter. They liked to take walks on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, where they lived. "She wore her ethnic scarf," a neighbour, Lila Lyman, told the BBC. Her attorney, Amato DeLuca, has said she does not speak Russian and had nothing to do with the bombings.
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