The Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent manhunt around the city this past April gripped the nation. Now that the supposed perpetrators have either been killed or arrested, the one still alive is coming forward to proclaim his innocence.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been in U.S. officials' custody ever since he was caught a few days after the bombings that claimed three lives at the Boston Marathon. He has finally been able to get a hold of his mother, and appears to be quite out of sorts with everything that has transpired.

"He didn't hold back his emotions either, as if he were screaming to the whole world: What is this? What's happening?," said his mother. "I could just feel that he was being driven crazy by the unfairness that happened to us, that they killed our innocent Tamerlan."

Dzhokhar's brother Tamerlan was killed during the manhunt that heated up on the Thursday after the bombings, which started on MIT's campus after the murder of a police officer and soon moved to the surrounding suburban area. Dzhokar was eventually arrested, and has been the subject of much scrutiny ever since.

"All I can do is pray to God and hope that one day fairness will win out, our children will be cleared, and we will at least get Dzhokhar back, crippled, but at least alive," their father said.

The two men's family has maintained their innocence during the entire incident. They have claimed that the manhunt was a set-up by the American government, and that the Tsarnaev brothers were not responsible for what happened.

Boston policemen and federal investigators, of course, tell a different story. They detail a manhunt wherein the brothers fired guns at police and lobbed explosives out of their car while being chased. Investigators also point to an incriminating message scrawled in a boat that Dzhokhar was hiding in before his arrest.

"The note, scrawled with a pen on the interior wall of the cabin, said the bombings were retribution for what the U.S. did to Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims collateral damage in the way Muslims have been in the U.S.-driven wars. When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims, the note added," according to the Atlantic Wire.

Many unsupported conspiracy theories have cropped up since the first moments after the bombings. Some simply say that the government blamed the bombings on the Tsarnaev twins while secretly carrying out the attack itself. Others believe that the CIA mentally manipulated the brothers for years to carry out the attacks in a covert example of psy-ops.

Though it may never be known exactly what happened on that fateful Monday in Boston, it is equally unlikely the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will ever see freedom again. A judge has ordered his court proceedings to begin Jul. 2, and with a mountain of evidence against him, he will most likely receive a life sentence for his alleged role in the attacks.