--- description: The writings show a young man coming to terms with his brother's death title: Boston Bombing Trial Jury Sees Tsarnaev's Blood-Stained Screed image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Boston Bombing Jury Sees Tsarnaev's Blood-Stained Manifesto by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 10, 2015 10:39 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 10, 2015 10:39 PM CUT A bullet-ridden, blood-stained religious manifesto allegedly written by accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev in the hours before he was captured took center stage in his terror trial Tuesday, as the public got its first intimate glimpse inside his last hiding spot. The writings — scrawled in pencil inside a boat parked behind a Watertown, Massachusetts home — seem to reflect a young man trying to articulate to the rest of the world some motivation behind the attacks, and coming to terms with the loss of his brother, who’d recently died in a shootout with police. “I do not mourn… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at _NBC News._](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-trial/tsarnaev-lawyers-dispute-analysis-accused-bombers-tweets-n320746 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3739954/boston-bombing-tsarnaev-manifesto/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3739954/boston-bombing-tsarnaev-manifesto/"},"headline":"Boston Bombing Jury Sees Tsarnaev's Blood-Stained Manifesto","datePublished":"2015-03-10T22:39:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:03:58.136Z","description":"Scrawled inside a boat where the bombing suspect hid from authorities","url":"https://time.com/3739954/boston-bombing-tsarnaev-manifesto/","keywords":["Crime","Courts","Dzhokhar Tsarnaev","boston bombing"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3739954/boston-bombing-tsarnaev-manifesto/","name":"Boston Bombing Jury Sees Tsarnaev's Blood-Stained Manifesto"}}]}] ```