FBI photo of now-dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. FBI.gov
The Radicalization Of Tamerlan Tsarnaev - Profile Slowly Emerges Of Boston Marathon Bomber -- New York Daily News
Exactly what turned Tamerlan Tsarnaev into the suspect accused of three murders and mass wounding in the Boston Marathon bombings may never be known. But a picture has emerged of a proud but angry young man who never quite achieved his own idea of the American dream.
In America, he had been a cocky and charismatic heavyweight boxer who wore fancy pointy leather shoes and slick white shirts down to the gym.
In Dagestan, the volatile southern Russian region where he lived for a time as a teen and returned to spend the first half of 2012, he became a quiet young man who spent his days online studying Islam, nursing a growing anger against heretics.
Exactly what turned Tamerlan Tsarnaev into the suspect accused of three murders and mass wounding in the Boston Marathon bombings may never be known. He died in a gunfight with police leaving no explanation. His younger brother and alleged co-conspirator Dzhokhar is in hospital, barely able to speak.
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My Comment: I suspect that law enforcement pro-filers and psychologists/psychiatrists are going to spend the next few years on trying to understand this psychopath's thinking.