Doswell News

After cemeteries in the Boston area refused his body for burial, Boston-marathon suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is being laid to rest at an Islamic burial ground near Kings Dominion in Doswell, Va.

Controversy escalates over the burial of a Boston bombing suspect in Doswell. An activist group is now calling for the body to be removed and the Sheriff says he's frustrated with authorities in Massachusetts.

What do you do when a monster is buried in a cemetery just down the street? Miranda Green and Justin Green visit the sleepy town in Virginia where Tamerlan Tsarnaev now rests.

FULL TITLE: Some video of the Boston Marathon Muslim Terrorist's burial plot in case you want to pay your 'respects" Bearing Drift Jim Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force is going to hold a press conference in front of the cemetery which has chosen to embrace Boston terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnev: The Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force and ... (more)

The sheriff of a small Virginia county, where residents and officials alike had expressed dismay over the burial of a Boston bombing suspect within their midst, said Saturday that it appears "all paperwork is in order at this point," suggesting the interment was legal and nothing can be done about it.

The locals aren't happy and I don't blame them. This was done so on the sly. Stealthily. This savage should have been sent back to Chechnya or The Caucasus or anonymously buried in .... potter's field.

Flabbergasted Virginia officials have asked authorities there to look into whether the secret burial of accused marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a rural Muslim cemetery broke any laws - but one expert says they likely have no ground to stand on.

The Boston Globe reporter who broke the story about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's burial in Doswell, Virginia said he tries to respond to all the email he receives.

"We didn't know anything about it. It's not the kind of publicity we'd like to have," said Caroline County Administrator Charles Culley.

Tsarnaev's uncle told the Associated Press his nephew has been buried in Virginia, but did not say where the remains has been entombed.

Ruslan Tsarni, who lives in Montgomery Village, Md., said Friday that the body was buried with the help of a "faith coalition." He would not say where in Virginia the remains had been entombed, but several media outlets were reporting that it was at a private Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Va., a rural town about 25 miles north of Richmond.

Ruslan Tsarni said Friday that the body was buried in a cemetery in Doswell, Va., near Richmond, with the help of a "faith coalition." The burial this week ended a frustrating search for a community willing to take the body, which had been kept at a funeral parlor in Worcester, Mass., as cemeteries refused to take the remains.