Federal authorities have asked to speak with the wife of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and her lawyer said he is discussing with them how to proceed. 
 
 In this Feb. 17, 2010, photo, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, Smiles after acceping the trophy for winning the 2010 New England Golden Gloves Championship from Dr. Joseph Downes, right, in Lowell, Mass. Tsarnaev,... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this Sunday, April 21, 2013 photo, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, center, wife of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, exits a car at the home of her parents in North Kingstown, R.I.... (Associated Press) 
 
 Amato DeLuca told The Associated Press on Sunday that Katherine Russell Tsarnaev did not speak to federal officials who came to her parents' home in North Kingstown, R.I., Sunday evening, where she has been staying since her husband was killed during a getaway attempt early Friday. 
 
 Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother, Dzhokhar, 19, two ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia, are accused of planting two explosives near the marathon finish line Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 180. A motive remains unclear. 
 
 DeLuca said he spoke with the officials instead, but would not offer further details. 
 
 "I spoke to them, and that's all I can say right now," he said. "We're deciding what we want to do and how we want to approach this." 
 
 DeLuca also offered new details on Tamerlan Tsarnaev's movements in the days after the bombings, saying the last day he was alive that "he was home" when his wife left for work. When asked whether anything seemed amiss to his wife following the bombings, DeLuca responded, "Not as far as I know." He said she learned her husband was a suspect in the bombings by seeing it on TV. He would not elaborate. 
 
 DeLuca said his client did not suspect her husband of anything, and that there was no reason for her to have suspected him. He said she had been working 70 to 80 hours, seven days a week as a home health care aide. While she was at work, her husband cared for their toddler daughter, DeLuca said. 
 
 "When this allegedly was going on, she was working, and had been working all week to support her family," he told the AP. 
 
 He said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was off at college and she saw him "not at all" at the apartment they shared with her mother-in-law. 
 
 Katherine Russell Tsarnaev was attending Suffolk University in Boston when friends introduced her to her future husband at a nightclub, DeLuca said. They dated on and off, then married in 2009 or 2010, he said. 
 
 She was raised Christian, but at some point after meeting Tamerlan Tsarnaev, she converted to Islam, he said. When asked why she converted, he replied: "She believes in the tenets of Islam and of the Koran. She believes in God." ||||| EXCLUSIVE - How doctor's daughter became the Muslim convert widow of Boston bomber: Terrorist husband 'brainwashed' her and she gave up her dreams of college to have his baby at 21 
 
 Schoolfriend tells MailOnline how Katherine Russell had dreams of joining the Peace Corps - but was 'totally transformed' by Tamerlan Tsarnaev 
 
 
 
 Yearbook photos reveal her transformation from all-American girl 
 
 
 
 By Laura Collins In North Kingstown, Rhode Island 
 
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 Katherine Russell, the widow of Boston bomb suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was 'an all-American girl who was brainwashed' by her extremist husband according to one schoolfriend. 
 
 Today MailOnline has gained the first glimpse and pictures of the early life of the woman who, according to those who knew her best, was 'totally transformed' by Tsarnaev. 
 
 At high school her personal motto was 'Do something about it or stop complaining'. She dreamed of going to college and joining the Peace Corps. 
 
 She urged her friends to 'lighten up and enjoy the small things,' in life. 
 
 Transformed: Katherine Russell, the American wife of marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is pictured left in her school book and, right, leaving the house she shared with her husband in Cambridge 
 
 
 
 Instead she met Tsarneav, 26, a disenfranchised man who came to America from his troubled homeland of Chechnya who rapidly had her in his thrall. 
 
 
 
 By the time she was 21 she had married him and borne his child, Zahara, now three. She had converted to Islam, hidden her tumble of chestnut hair beneath the hijab and undergone a change so profound that today few friends profess to truly understand it. 
 
 Yesterday Katherine, who has been staying at her parents’ home in Rhode Island, returned to the Cambridge, Massachusetts home which she shared with her late husband. 
 
 Dressed in a leopard print hijab she darted into the white shingle house to collect some belongings and her pet cat while her daughter waited in the car. 
 
 Today she was back home, accompanied by armed federal agents who first interviewed Katherine and her family on Friday. 
 
 What did she know? Katherine's proximity to both brothers makes her a key witness - witting or otherwise. A team of federal agents today delivered a package to her home after her mother reluctantly answered the door 
 
 Great future: Her friends say she dreamed of going to the Peace Corps - before she met Tsarnaev 
 
 Shortly before 6pm on Sunday three law enforcement agents – two men, one woman - all wearing dark sunglasses delivered a package to the Russell's family home. 
 
 Katherine's mother Judith was initially reluctant to answer the front door, opening it fully only after requesting that the officers, thought to be Federal Agents, showed their credentials. 
 
 At around 7.30 the Federal agents returned to the Russell family home as there was a marked increase in law enforcement activity in this quiet suburban neighborhood. 
 
 
 
 MailOnline has learned that the family's attorney entered by a back door as several officers were seen going into the family home. 
 
 
 
 The agents stayed for just over an hour. Moments after they left, the family's attorney Amato DeLuca did likewise. 
 
 
 
 Mr DeLuca said he could not discuss any detail of what had passed between his client and the agents, saying only that there were ‘talks.’ 
 
 
 
 He said ‘We’re doing our best to deal with a very difficult situation. The family’s going through a lot. That’s the best I can do at the moment.’ 
 
 
 
 Through the years: She had a comfortable upbringing as the eldest daughter of a doctor and a nurse 
 
 Involved: Russell, circled, is pictured with her high school dance team, third from right on the back row Their presence raises the question how much did Katherine know about her late husband's activities and links? Katherine's awareness of her then husband's movements, thoughts and plans is under intense scrutiny as her relation to Tsaraev and her proximity to both brothers makes her a key witness - witting or otherwise. After all she was living with Tsarnaev when he travelled to Makhachkala in 2011 – a trip now attracting the interest of investigators trying to establish whether he met with Gaczhimurad Dolgatov at that time. Dolgatov was a Dagestani jihadist who died in 2012 after a vicious stand-off with Russian security services. As it has already been revealed, Tsarnaev was on the FBI's radar during that time as they were asked to look into his potential links to extremist groups. 
 
 None who knew her as a child could have dreamed that this would be the face she would one day present to the world, nor that her life and those of so many Bostonians would be so violently caught up with two brothers from Chechnya and a cause as unclear as it was brutal. 
 
 Out: She exits a car with her father Warren Russell, left, as they arrive at the family home in Rhode Island 
 
 Changed: Her school friends have described how she transformed after meeting Tamerlan Tsarnaev 
 
 In hiding: The Russell family home in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, where Katherine is staying 
 
 Support: A man, believed to be Warren Russell, father of Katherine Russell, smiles at the media 
 
 Family: After pulling into her driveway, Judith Russell, Katherine's mother, spoke briefly with the media 
 
 As a girl growing up in Rhode Island Katherine was known to her friends as Katie. One school friend who asked not to be named recalled: ‘I saw her like a few months ago and she was just totally transformed. She was not the same person at all.’ 
 
 Another agreed: ‘She was just this All-American girl who was brainwashed by her super-religious husband. Nobody understands what happened to her. 
 
 ‘None of us would have dreamed that she would marry so young or drop out of college and have a baby or convert or be part of any of what’s happened.’ 
 
 She said, ‘She’s just not the same person at all.’ 
 
 It would be hard to imagine a childhood more rooted in America’s pilgrim heritage than Katherine’s. It is in there in the names of the towns – Plymouth, Dorset, Greenwich – where many of her friends still live and writ large in the wholesome values of the one-time Honors student’s home life. 
 
 'She was this All-American girl who was brainwashed by her super-religious husband. Nobody understands what happened' 
 
 The eldest of three daughters, to emergency physician Dr Warren Russell and nurse Judith, hers is a background steeped in the values of family and education. 
 
 She attended Daisyville Middle School, North Kingstown. As a sixth grader she is pictured smiling from the pages of the 2001-2002 yearbook dedicated to The North Kingstown Police and Fire Departments in the wake of 9/11. – a date, the opening dedication reads, ‘forever in our minds.’ 
 
 A section of the book is titled, ‘Enduring Freedom,’ as the school, along with the rest of the nation, refused to be cowed by the acts of terror that hit the homeland that day. 
 
 'Attackers': Her husband Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were allegedly behind the bombings at the Boston Marathon last Monday, which left three dead and more than 180 injured 
 
 
 
 Chilling: Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are seen near the marathon finish line before the bombings 
 
 Scene: Dzhokhar was found in a boat in Watertown, Massachusetts on Friday following a massive manhunt 
 
 In 2004 Katherine progressed to North Kingstown High School. 
 
 She took part gamely in the school’s Mismatch/Bad Hair Day; she dressed up for Hawaiian day though the occasion fell in a chilly October. 
 
 She was a member of the Dance Team and the Art Club. In 11th grade she was awarded a Silver Key for a rather odd image of a cat, lashing out at a mouse in a ballet shoe. Her favorite food was Pad Thai. 
 
 She competed with her peers in Class Color Day that ended with a Pep Rally in which seas of the school colors, green, blue, red, black and gold filled the stands at the playing field. 
 
 One classmate who remembers Katherine from those early days said: ‘The thing that’s so shocking is that there was nothing at all that made Katherine different. 
 
 ‘Her parents are nice people, her sisters are great girls. But she met this guy, I guess, and everything changed.’ 
 
 Memorial: Candles are lit for those who died in the Boston Marathon bombings and the subsequent police manhunt at a memorial on Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2013 
 
 Remembering: A couple embraces at a memorial on Boylston Street to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston 
 
 Flowers: A woman holds a flower at the memorial on Boylston Street last night 
 
 Katherine was a student at Suffolk University, Boston, when she met Tsaraev, then a promising boxer and athlete. 
 
 It was during that time that she converted and her youthful priorities appear to have changed as she left in 2010 without graduating. 
 
 By then her relationship with Tsaraev was intense. Not even his arrest for violently assaulting her in 2009 could change that. 
 
 According to Cambridge City Police Department reports of the incident which took place in July at the Massachusetts home she once shared with Tsaraev, when interviewed she described Tsaraev as ‘a very nice man.’ 
 
 Certainly he was a man whose influence on Katherine's life would prove profound. 
 
 There is only one odd and unsettling inclusion in her own entry in her graduation High School Yearbook. 
 
 Asked to provide a quotation she settled on one that would surely chime with the extremist views of her late husband.
– The FBI wants to know what suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife knew about the Boston bomb plot, a police insider tells the New York Post. Federal officials have visited Katherine Russell's parents multiple times but have yet to interview her, says family lawyer Amato DeLuca. He maintains that "Katherine is innocent, and she has no knowledge of any of this." DeLuca says Russell first learned of her husband's alleged involvement in the bombing through television, the AP reports. But the FBI is showing her photo to marathon witnesses in an effort to determine if she was at the scene, the Post source says. "When this allegedly was going on, she was working, and had been working all week to support her family," says DeLuca. He explained she's a home health-care aide who puts in 70-plus-hour weeks; Tamerlan watched their young daughter while she did so, and "he was home" when his wife left for work on the day he was last seen alive. Russell was "an all-American girl who was brainwashed" by Tamerlan, a childhood friend tells the Daily Mail. She met him at a nightclub while attending Boston's Suffolk University; they married in 2009 or 2010, DeLuca tells the AP.