Posted on 02/13/2010 1:51:54 PM PST by freespirited
A University of Alabama professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues at a faculty meeting this week shot her younger brother dead at their home in the Boston suburbs more than 20 years ago, but records of it are missing, police said Saturday.
Amy Bishop shot her brother in the chest in 1986, Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier said at a news conference. She fired at least three shots, hitting her brother once and hitting her bedroom wall, before police took her into custody at gunpoint, he said.
Before Bishop could be booked, the police chief back then told officers to release her to her mother, Frazier said.
The shooting of the brother, Seth Bishop, was logged as an accident, but detailed records of the shooting have disappeared, he said.
"The report's gone, removed from the files," he said.
He said people who worked for the police department then remember the shooting and he planned to meet with the district attorney over the possibility of launching a criminal investigation into the report's disappearance.
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I don’t know. I think it’s possible that she panicked when she was handling the gun and shot at random and ended up shooting her brother, but looking at her photo and reading more of the details, I’d say she was a nutcase waiting to happen and probably her mother was protecting her.
To me, she looks like any random frumpy female academic and doesn’t appear to be a minority who might have a grudge. In any case, her brother would have been the same minority, so that explanation doesn’t work.
I wonder if we will find out that there were other - er, anger management incidents - in her past. I don’t think she was certifiable, but she was definitely somebody who felt she was “special” and the world wasn’t recognizing this.
That is certainly an angry look.
She’s a white, Harvard-educated scientist, from the Boston area.
I, too, think the portable cell incubator that she developed, and was to be marketed by her husband’s company, had something to do with the shootings.
Perhaps, since she didn’t get tenure, she didn’t own the rights to the incubator. I’m not sure how that works, so this is just a guess.
It sounds as if she was always a whack job.
launching a criminal investigation into the report’s disappearance.
Harvard sure has a lot to answer for—they let a felon in, graduate her, and then she commits more felonies, all in denial, knowing she must be “right” because she’s from Harvard!
She is pro-choice and decided that post-term abortions were necessary. Women’s right to choose dontchyaknow!
We fry out own vermin here in AL
Yep! ;-)
My wife enjoys watching the Fox TV show ‘Fringe’ which features two Harvard trained neuroscientists a father/son team both named Dr. Bishop. It gets even creepier to know that the younger Dr. Bishop also has a secret hidden in his past. I must admitt that he’s not a murder suspect like this Huntsville Liberal Elitist kookie.
Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt.
Feces gonna hit the fan for Delahunt? Instant karma is sometimes not so instant!
Howie had him on the way out already as it was:
I haven’t quite understood the family’s connection with Delahunt. Were they related or was there some other reason for him to be so agreeable about accepting the mother’s story?
Alabama does have the death penalty but I’m not sure if we’ve ever executed a female here.
Okay, one tidbit I picked up in the reports is that her mother was on the Braintree Personel Board, and Delahunt was the D.A. Don’t know what the connection was or could have been, but it is a connection.
What in the hell are you talking about?
Did you read the article?
That jump to conclusions, racist bullshit is not acceptable here!
That bee-yotch should never see daylight ever again, except through steel bars. Crazy murderous bint...
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