Evidence is mounting that the Boston Marathon bombers were involved in the unsolved murder of three men in suburban Boston.
Police officials said that some crime-scene forensic evidence was a match to Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two brothers alleged to have set off two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, ABC News reported last weekend.
The officials also said records of cell phones used by the brothers put them in the area of the murders on that date.
Three men — Brendan Mess, Rafael Teken and Erik Weissman — were found dead in September 2011 in an apartment several miles from the campus of Brandeis University in the Boston suburb of Waltham.
The bodies of the three men were discovered with their throats slit and about seven pounds of marijuana dumped on the bodies, with $5,000 in cash left behind.
Two of the victims, Weissman and Teken, were Jewish.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police several days after the bombing. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction — a charge that could bring the death penalty. — jta