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Connecticut Burial Plot Offered for Suspected Boston Bomber

The owner of a burial plot in a Hamden cemetery has offered it to the family of the man authorities say is responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings.

Could Hamden, Conn. become the final resting place for the suspected Boston Marathon Bomber?

It will be if an offer is accepted that was made Monday evening by the owner of a plot in a Mount Carmel cemetery.

The New Haven Register first reported the offer made by Paul Douglas Keane on his blog, The Anti-Yale, where he offered a plot he owns in the Mount Carmel Burying Ground for the burial place of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

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On Monday, reports surfaced that there was no cemetary in Massachusetts or in the country for that matter willing to accept Tsarnaev's body for burial. Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, are accused of setting off the two bombs at the Boston Marathon in April that killed three and injured dozens of others.

"I am willing to donate a burial plot next to my mother in Mt. Carmel Burying Ground to the Tsarnaev family if they cannot obtain a plot," he writes on the blog. "The only condition is that I do it in memory of my mother who taught Sunday School at the Mt. Carmel Congregational Church for twenty years and taught me to 'love thine enemy.'

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"I own the plot.  No one can refuse me access," he wrote.

Keane earned a masters of divinity from Yale University in 1980, according to his website. "And this time I intentionally invoke my Yale Divinity School degree," he wrote.

In addition to teaching Sunday School at the church, his mother led the Junior Choir for decades, Keane wrote on the site, and he himself taught Sunday School there when he was 16.


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