Money came into the picture.

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That was until a Virginia woman named Martha Mullen came into the picture, reaching out to representatives of her church plus local Muslim, Jewish and Hindu representatives in an effort to find a final resting place for Tsarnaev, according to the Islamic Society of Greater Richmond.

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Week by week, in airless church halls, in community centres laid out with plastic chairs, the picture came ever more sharply into focus.

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