Posted on 02/13/2010 11:47:33 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
LOL, I think they all came to the school where I was secretary...esp. the peace studies folks.
Where did the information come from that her parents were wealthy? I haven’t seen any reports about it.
Wrong dad. Amy Bishop’s father was a prof. in the Art dept, and he retired (there’s a Samuel Bishop Award) so he might even be dead.
http://www.northeastern.edu/magazine/9903/sam.html
The family lived at 46 Hollis ave. Braintree, MA when the brother’s death occurred. It’s not likely that the mansion has anything to do with that family. Her mother isn’t the Microsoft researcher, either.
They don’t have a lot of money. That’s just sloppy research.
Wrong dad. Amy Bishop’s father was a prof. in the Art dept, and he retired (there’s a Samuel Bishop Award) so he might even be dead.
http://www.northeastern.edu/magazine/9903/sam.html
The family lived at 46 Hollis ave. Braintree, MA when the brother’s death occurred. It’s not likely that the mansion has anything to do with that family. Her mother isn’t the Microsoft researcher, either.
Her undergrad degree was from Northeastern, where her father taught in the art dept. Her later degrees were from Harvard, but it’s not the same thing.
Here’s the State police reports.
Nope. Her father taught in the Art Dept. at Northeastern, and retired.
Dad retired
http://www.northeastern.edu/magazine/9903/sam.html
If you think he’s retiring to “spend more time with his family” and it has nothing to do with the loss of the Kennedy seat to a Republican, his past involvement in the case involving the murderer of 3 teachers in Alabama on Friday and the ferocious anti Dem incumbent attitude which prevails across the Nation, then so be it.
I am still searching , myself, for verification .
However, Amy Bishop is a graduate (PH.D) of Harvard.
I’ve heard that not only do you have to have good grades, but it takes a considerable amount of money, and some political pull to gain admittance.
The ‘speculation’ that we are trying to investigate is that the GRANDFATHER was the wealthy one, and the one who convinced DELAHUNT to act on his granddaughter’s behalf.
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What I was saying was that since he WAS RETIRING, that this info could not harm him in CAMPAIGNING for REELECTION.
“The ‘speculation’ that we are trying to investigate is that the GRANDFATHER was the wealthy one, and the one who convinced DELAHUNT to act on his granddaughter’s behalf.”
Can’t be. At the time of her brother’s death, her paternal grandfather was dead (the obit is in the Glove archives). Her maternal grandmother was living in Lynn, Ma and her other grandparents lived in New Hampshire. There’s no connection to a Cohasset mansion or any yacht club that I can find.
Thanks for clarifying.
Was her mother the same Judy Bishop who was on the personnel board in Braintree?
It’s breaking now that she was investigated for sending a pipe bomb.
Oh! The grandfather. That makes sense.
Thank you.
“The psych prof said, My thinking was some student went crackers”
obviously a regionalist
Good God! Who said understanding someone’s motive has anything to do with condoning their action. Knowing why Mao murdered millions of fellow Chinese doesn’t mean the action was rational or acceptable. It’s just understanding why something happened. Just like the murders. Everything has a reason. In murder investigations, it’s called motive. Here, it looks like the perpetrator perceived an unfair situation, and, whether real or imagined, we will NEVER know. It wasn’t that long ago that a person could legally and morally challenge another person to a duel to the death over real or imagined injury or insult. Aaron Burr comes to mind...times change, but humans haven’t changed that much.
Bishop also killed her brother in 1986.Thanks Bodleian_Girl.
According to missing police reports she didn't kill her brother. A bullet did.
Apparently, a shotgun she was carrying around started going off repeatedly, blasting holes in her bedroom wall.
Then, one of the bullets managed to find it's way to her brother's room, and hit him in the chest.
She was so scared of the flying assassin bullets that she fled to the front yard where the shotgun again attempted to fire another bullet at a passing car she had flagged down.
She begged the driver to get her away from the flying bullets, got in the car and was driven to a remote location where she was safe.
Later, police picked her up, and after checking the home to make sure there were no longer any flying bullets running around, left her in her mother's care.
Poor thing was so frightened, police decided not to question her further until a week or so later.
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