Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and his brother Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, right, are suspected of being responsible for the twin bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon that left three people dead and more than 170 injured on April 15, 2013. They are also suspected of being responsible for the death of an MIT officer whom they allegedly ambushed, leading to a shootout with police in which Tamerlan was fatally wounded. Dzhokhar was later captured and charged with using a weapon of mass destruction.
The body of Sunil Tripathi, a 22-year-old Brown University student missing since March 16 2013, was found in Providence, R.I. on April 23, 2013, the Rhode Island medical examiner's office confirmed. The cause of death has not yet been determined. Tripathi's body was found by members of the Brown crew team in waters off India Point Park. Prior to the discovery of Tripathi's body, the missing student was falsely accused on social media as being one of the Boston Marathon bombers.
Rebecca Kasper, a 19-year-old Arizona State University student, right, was found brutally murdered in a bathtub on April 23, 2013 and her boyfriend, Luis Soltero, left, was arrested and charged in connection with her death, CBS affiliate KPHO reports. Kasper, a junior marketing major from Minnesota, was found in the bathtub of a Tempe, Ariz. apartment wrapped in a yoga mat and blanket, her head covered with a plastic bag and her face beaten beyond recognition, police say, according to the station. Luis Soltero, 22, of Tempe, was arrested on the same day she was found and charged with first-degree premeditated murder in connection with her death. Police said they learned that Soltero and Kasper has recently broken off a relationship and that a handwritten note listing the "pros" and "cons" of "breaking up with Becky" was found in the apartment, the station reports. Another note found at the scene reportedly stated Kasper was killed "because I had to end to her life. I did not treat her right. She deserved better but never accepted it. So I had to make the choice for her." Soltero was being held on $1 million bond.
Jamie Kirk Hahn, a 29-year-old fundraiser who worked on high-profile political campaigns, center, died April 24, 2013 of injuries she suffered in a April 22, 2013 stabbing at her north Raleigh home that left both she and her husband severely wounded. Her husband, Nation Richard Hahn, a 27-year-old Democratic strategist, right, was treated at WakeMed in Raleigh, N.C. and later released. Thirty-one-year-old Jonathan Wayne Broyhill, left, is accused in the attack. A wedding announcement in a South Carolina newspaper listed Boyhill as the best man at the couple's wedding in April 2009. Police said April 22, 2013 that Broyhill, who was being treated for self-inflicted injuries sustained in the incident, will be charged with murder upon his release from the hospital, CBS affiliate WRAL reports.
Sandra Layne, a 75-year-old grandmother, was sentenced to at least 22 years in prison on April 18, 2013 after being found guilty in mid-March of the second-degree murder of her 17-year-old grandson, Jonathan Hoffman. Hoffman was shot to death on May 18, 2012 in West Bloomfield Township, Detroit. Layne's lawyer has said Hoffman was troubled, Layne was afraid of her grandson and she fired her new handgun because she felt she had no choice.
Eric Lyle Williams, left, a former justice of the peace, was charged on April 18, 2013 with capital murder in the slayings of Mike McLelland, a North Texas district attorney, McClelland's wife, and his assistant, Mark Hasse. Hasse and McClelland had previously prosecuted Williams for theft. Authorities say the 46-year-old Williams emailed an anonymous threat to law officers one day after the McLellands were found dead. Williams' wife, Kim Williams, right, was arrested April 17, 2013 and charged with capital murder in the killings. An arrest affidavit alleges Kim Williams confessed to taking part in the killings and told investigators her husband was the gunman. Authorities say Eric Williams has maintained his innocence.
In April 2013, the story of Audrie Pott, left, a 15-year-old California girl who hanged herself after an alleged rape in the fall of 2012, became public. The 16-year-old boys accused in the alleged attack were removed from their high school on April 11, 2013 by sheriff's deputies who arrested them on charges of sexual battery and distribution of child pornography. According to Robert Allard, an attorney for the Pott family, the three suspects allegedly took Pott upstairs to a bedroom during a Labor Day weekend party in 2012 where she drank a combination of vodka and Gatorade and passed out. The boys then allegedly assaulted her, drew and wrote on her, and took a photo of an intimate body part, Allard said.
The story of Rehtaeh Parsons also made headlines in April 2013 and posed a resemblance to the story of Audrie Pott. Parsons, right, a 17-year-old Canadian girl, reportedly hanged herself in early April 2013 after being bullied and becoming depressed over an alleged rape in 2011 by four teenage boys. Parsons' family said she was photographed while being sexually assaulted and then bulled after the photo was shared on the Web and went viral. Police concluded there were no grounds to charge anyone after an initial year-long investigation, but on April 12, 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted police said they received new information and were reopening the case.
Dylan Quick, a 20-year-old student at Lone Star College in Cypress, Texas, allegedly used a razor-type knife in a rampage on the campus April 9, 2013. Quick reportedly injured more than a dozen people and was charged later that night with three counts of aggravated assault.
Police say Joshua Hakken, a Florida man, kidnapped his two non-custodial children, 4-year-old Cole Hakken, left, and 2-year-old Chase Hakken, right, from their maternal grandparents' Florida home after the grandmother was tied up on April 3, 2013, CBS affiliate WTSP reported. Deputies said Joshua Hakken and his wife Sharyn Hakken took the children just one day after losing custody. The Hakkens set sail for Cuba after the abduction and federal, state and local authorities searched by air and sea for the sailboat Joshua Hakken had recently purchased. The family was eventually located in Cuba thanks to a tip from the person who sold the boat to Joshua Hakken and they were extradited back to the U.S. on April 9, 2013. Joshua and Sharyn Hakken are charged with kidnapping, child neglect, false imprisonment, burglary and interference with custody. The children were safely returned to their grandparents.
Diana Lalchan, 27-year-old pharmacist at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, made headlines in early April 2013 after being accused of intentionally killing her 36-year-old husband, Christopher Lalchan, at their District of Columbia home on March 28, 2013. Diana, who was initially charged with second-degree murder in her husband's death, had the charge reduced to voluntary manslaughter after a judge found enough evidence to support the possibility that she killed her husband in self-defense, the Washington Post reports. The charge was reduced April 3, 2013 and Diana Lalchan was ordered to be released from jail. She was sent to a halfway house and placed on GPS monitoring until her trial, according to the paper. Police say Lalchan called 911 just after midnight on March 28, 2013 to report that she had shot her husband. Police say Lalchan told detectives that she picked up a pistol from the television stand and shot her husband after a series of arguments that she said made her feel unsafe, CBS DC reports. Lalchan's attorney, Arthur Ago, says his client was abused throughout her four year marriage to Christopher Lalchan, but charges were never filed, the paper reports. The case was sent to a grand jury and jurors can decide to indict Lalchan on additional charges based on evidence.