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Who Is Katherine Russell? The Woman Married To Dead Boston Bomber

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Chris Arvan

April 20 2013, Published 11:02 a.m. ET

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev the 26-year-old Boston Marathon bomber who was killed in a shoot out with police, had an American wife and daughter.

Now Breaking Celebrity News is taking a look at Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old who was raised a Christian, and converted to Islam after marrying Tsarnaev when she was a student.

"Our daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child," Katherine's parents Warren and Judith said in a statement given to the UK's MailOnline Friday night.

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