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| 3 more suspects taken into custody in Boston bombing case, police say - Fox News Posted: 01 May 2013 09:25 AM PDT Three additional suspects were taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombing case, the Boston Police Department tells FoxNews.com. Police would not confirm when the suspects were taken into custody, and referred further questions to the FBI. Prior to the latest development, authorities had named only brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as suspects in the April 15 bombing at the finish line of the world famous race. Two of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's UMass-Dartmouth roommates, Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, are from Kazakhstan and faced an immigration hearing this morning, sources said. Sources told Fox News they face obstruction charges in connection with the bombing. The identity of the third suspect is unclear. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov are suspected of taking computers and other equipment from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's apartment and trying to dispose of it after the bombings, sources told Fox News. Police did not confirm the gender of the third suspect. More information was expected to be provided by the US Attorney's office later Wednesday. Three people were killed and more than 200 injured when the pair allegedly set two bombs, at least one of which was made from a pressure cooker packed with explosives and shrapnel, amid the crowd. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died April 19, after a shootout hours after authorities showed the brothers on surveillance video and named them as suspects. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is in a prison hospital after being wounded in the shootout with police as he and his brother made their getaway attempt. He is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, a crime that carries a potential death sentence. Authorities have searched the Rhode Island home of the parents of Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow. |
| Skeleton of teenage girl confirms cannibalism at Jamestown colony - Washington Post Posted: 01 May 2013 08:20 AM PDT The first chops, to the forehead, did not go through the bone and are perhaps evidence of hesitancy about the task. The next set, after the body was rolled over, were more effective. One cut split the skull all the way to the base. "The person is truly figuring it out as they go," said Douglas Owsley, a physical anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution. In the meantime, someone — perhaps with more experience — was working on a leg. The tibia bone is broken with a single blow, as one might do in butchering a cow. That's one possible version of an event that took place sometime during the winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown. What's not in doubt is that some members of that desperate colony resorted to cannibalism in order to survive. That cannibalism occurred during the colony's "starving time" was never actually in much doubt. At least a half-dozen accounts, by people who lived through the period or spoke to colonists who did, describe occasional acts of cannibalism that winter. They include reports of corpses being exhumed and eaten; a husband killing his wife and salting her flesh (for which he was executed); and the mysterious disappearance of foraging colonists. The proof comes in the form of fragments of a skeleton of a girl, about age 14, found in a cellar full of debris in the fort that sheltered the starving colonists. The skull, lower jaw and leg bone — all that remain — have the telltale marks of an ax or cleaver and a knife. "Historians have to decide whether this type of thing happened," said Owsley, who has examined thousands of skeletal remains, both archaeological and forensic. "I think that it did. We didn't see anybody eat this flesh, but it's very strong evidence." James Horn, head of research at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and a historian on the colony, said the discovery "adds a significant confirmation to what was reported to have occurred at Jamestown." Further, it's the only physical evidence of cannibalism in any New World colony, though, as with Jamestown, there are written accounts of the practice in others. "I tend to be sparing in the use of words like 'unique.' But I think this is one of those finds that literally is," Horn said. About 130 people inhabited the fort in November 1609. By spring, there were about 60. The girl, most likely a maidservant, though possibly the daughter of a colonist, was one of the casualties. Her bones were unearthed last August in a part of the fort still under archaeological excavation. About 18 inches of fill remain in the cellar; it's possible more of her skeleton will be found. Enough of her skull exists, however, to imagine what she might have looked like, using CT scanning, computer graphics, sculpture materials and demographic data. The bones, the reconstruction of her head, and the story were presented Wednesday at an event at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. They will be displayed at Jamestown. The starving time nearly ended the colony, which was riven by internal dissent, under frequent attack by Powhatan Indians, and short of food almost from its founding in 1607. |
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