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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Sorry.
Beg your pardon.
No prob.
Thanks, I guess being a government employee is the new get-out-of-jail-free card. Not that new, actually, since the original incident happend 20 years ago. But we are talking about Massachusetts, after all...
The magic of political connections...I guess being a city employee trumps all.
Wasn't she on Howdy Doody in '53??
Yup. But I think the Princess looked a little more pleasant.
Alabama does have the death penalty but I’m not sure if we’ve ever executed a female here.
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LOL who says chivalry is dead?
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