Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Suspect Of The Boston Marathon Bombing, Buried In An Undisclosed Location With The Assistance Of An Unnamed Individual

Boston Marathon bombing suspect,  Tamerlan Tsarnaev, has been buried in an undisclosed location outside of Worcester with the assistance of an unnamed individual, police announced on Thursday.

Gary Gemme, Chief of Police in Worcester, made a public appeal on Wednesday, saying that several burial plot offers have been withdrawn for fear of negative publicity, according to ABC news.

"As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased," the Worcester police said in a statement, according to the Guardian.

The police statement went on to say that Tsarnaev's body is no longer in the City of Worcester, and is now entombed, according to Business Week.  While his body had remained in Worcester funeral parlor, protestors had had signs and chanted in opposition to the idea of a local burial.  "We are not barbarians," Gemme told reporters gathered outside the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors office on Wednesday. "We bury the dead."

An expert in US burial law said that the resistance to Tsarnaev's burial was unprecedented this country, which has always found a way to put to rest its notorious killers from Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated president JFK in 1963, to Adam Lanza, who shot and killed 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newton, Connecticut, last year, according to the Guardian.

Worcester police had pleaded for resolution for the burial of Tsarnaev's body on Wednesday, saying that they have been spending tens of thousands of dollars on the protection of the funeral home in which the body was being kept, amid protests, the Guardian reports.

Although the family had originally considered cremating the body transporting the ashes to Russia, where Tsarnaev had been born, for burial, Russia would not allow his body into the country to be buried, according to the Guardian.  

No information has been provided on the individual that assisted in the burial, or the location where the body was buried, ABC reports.

Before the announcement on Thursday, an anonymous employee of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlor told ABC that hundreds of offers of burial blots had come from across the country, some callers have even offered to cover the cost of the burial.  "We're getting a lot," she said. "If I had to venture a guess, I'd say about 400-500 people offering plots. You can offer the plot, but the cemetery wouldn't let you bury him there."

In Thursday's statement Gemme thanked the community that ultimately agreed to provide a burial site for the body, ABC reports.

Meanwhile, Tsarnaev's brother, Dzhokhar, remains in custody and has been charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing, according to ABC.  He currently faces the death penalty.