Shockingly he was no Romeo.
College roommates of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow described him as a brutish manipulative boyfriend who often hurled insults and more at the woman who would eventually bear his child.
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Three of Katherine Russell's pals at Suffolk University watched as she was terrorized by the dead bombing suspect after they began their on and off relationship in 2007 NPR reported.
Katie Zezima/AP Katherine Russell Tsarnaev center exits a car at the home of her parents in North Kingstown R.I. on Sunday.Angry and controlling Tsarnaev called Russell a slut and a prostitute and was known to throw furniture or other objects at her during fits of rage the unnamed roommates said.
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Russell now 24 wasn't the only one he abused.
In 2009 the aspiring Olympic boxer was busted for slapping around a different girlfriend Nadine Asceucal.
Katherine Russell the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Photos appear from a yearbookPHOTOS INSIDE THE MANHUNT FOR BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING SUSPECTS
His dark side wasn't obvious at first.
Russell's roommates said when the pair first hooked up Tsarnaev often partied with them.
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Glenn DePriest/Getty/Getty Images Tsarnaev an aspiring Olympic boxer who won a Golden Gloves competition in New England was arrested for slapping around another girlfriend in 2009.But they noticed a change in him in around 2008 or 2009 when he stopped smoking and drinking and became committed to Islam.
Russell followed him into the faith despite what the roommates described as Tsarnaev's increasingly extremist world view NPR's Laura Sullivan told the radio show All Things Considered.
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Russell later became pregnant in her senior year and dropped out of college. The pair married in 2010.
Russell dropped out of college and married the suspected bomber in 2010. The two have a 3 year old daughter.Their daughter Zahara is now 3 years old.
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Tsarnaev 26 suspected of setting off one of the pressure cooker bombs that killed three and wounded more than 200 at the Boston Marathon was killed in a gun battle with police early Friday.
His younger brother Dzhokhar 19 was captured in Watertown Mass. and remained in a Boston hospital where he is unable to talk because of a throat wound that may have been self inflicted.
Russell was staying with family in North Kingstown R.I. and her lawyers said she is cooperating with the FBI.
The roommates said that hadn't seen her much since she left school.
One of them bumped into her at a Boston area Whole Foods last year and said Russell who was wearing a hijab seemed distant and scared Sullivan told the show.
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