Female DNA on bomb? FBI checking suspects (+video)

Female DNA on bomb? The FBI took DNA samples from the wife of suspected Boston bomber Tamerian Tsarnaev Monday.

By Eric Tucker and Michelle R. Smith,Associated Press / May 1, 2013

FBI agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombings have visited the Rhode Island home of dead suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's in-laws and carried away several bags.

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CNN says at least one bag was labeled DNA samples. The Wall Street Journal, citing an anonymous source, said the discovery of "female DNA" on the remnants of the pressure cooker bomb raised the idea that the two brothers may have had an accomplice.

FBI spokesman Jason Pack confirms agents went to the North Kingstown home of Katherine Russell's parents Monday. Russell is Tsarnaev's widow and has been staying there.

Russell didn't speak as she left her attorneys' office in Providence. Attorney Amato DeLuca says she's doing everything she can to assist with the investigation.

Attorneys have said Russell and her family were in shock when they learned of the allegations against her husband and brother-in-law, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gunbattle with police. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction.

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Female DNA on bomb? FBI checking suspects (+video)