Crime & Safety
Middlesex DA Investigating Marathon Bomb Suspect's Links to Waltham Triple Murder
Authorities confirm to ABC News they are looking into possible connections between the Tsarnaev brothers and a horrific triple murder that took place in Waltham around 9/11/11.
Just days after a report that Brendan Mess, one of the three people murdered in a Waltham home in 2011, was the “best friend” of one of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney's office has confirmed to ABC News that the DA has launched an investigation into the possible connection.
The murders of Mess and two other men happened around the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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"We are looking at a possible connection with the suspect in the marathon atrocity and this active and open homicide in Waltham,'' Stephanie Guyotte, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex County District Attorney, confirmed to ABC News.
A relative of one the victims reportedly told the Boston Globe on Sunday that police have resumed the investigation at the request of victims’ relatives who believe Tamerlan, and perhaps his younger brother, Dzhokhar, were involved in the killings.
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Authorities say all three victims had their throats slit.
The triple murder at 12 Harding Ave. in Waltham has long thought to have been connected to drugs.
Here is Patch's earlier timeline of the triple murder.
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