Posted on 02/14/2010 3:50:53 PM PST by Leisler
""Amy further stated that she does not recall putting any additional bullets into the gun after it discharged, and that she then unscrewed the bottom of the shaft in an attempt to empty the weapon, and when being unable to empty the weapon this way, she stated that she then screwed the bottom of the shaft back on."
Amy stated that she then heard her brother come into the house downstairs ( But the cover up State Police officer accepted that Judy Bishop couldn't hear a shotgun blast upstairs???)and she went right downstairs to ask Seth to help her unload the gun. She said apparently her mother had been in the kitchen for awhile and that Amy went down the front set of stairs, through the dining room, to the door by the kitchen. She stated that she asked her brother to unload the weapon because she thought it might still be loaded and she added that her mother said something to her but she does not specifically recall what it was.
Amy said that she was carrying the gun pointed beside her leg, and that Seth told her to point the gun up. Amy stated that Seth was walking across the kitchen between Amy and her mother and that Amy had the gun in one hand and started to raise it. Amy further stated that someone said something to her and she turned and the gun went off. She stated that she remembered her brother saying, "Oh God," and her mother screaming, and that Amy though that she had ruined the kitchen but was not aware of the fact that she had struck her brother with the shotgun discharge."
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I didn’t know discharging a shotgun in your bedroom improves hearing.
When this goes to trial, her defense is going to be that the gun did it.
"I do not recall" are the magic four words criminal defense attorneys tell their clients to drill into their minds until they say them in response to "how ya doin'."
As we who suffered through the Clinton years know only too well.
What is interesting - in 1993 she was suspected of an attempted bombing of a Harvard physician. During a search of her home computer, the FBI found a manuscript for a novel based on a woman who killed her brother and went on to become a renowned scientist. (or some such blather).
I’m wondering how she describes the *killing* in her novel.
Should still be in the 1993 records as a *cold case* file.
So, the missing report has suddenly re-appeared?
Possible coverup: How interesting!!
Lots of gibberish in the report. What was she trying to unscrew?
Members of the then Braintree police said she argued with her brother ( motive ) and then shot him. The State Police report and the parents said, 11 days after the event, that their was an argument, but with dear old dad.
Presto change-o, no motive.
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I own 8 shotguns. I have never heard of a shotgun with a “shaft”. Good police work, making the story nonsensical.
Supposedly she was trying to unscrew the cap at the forward end of the tube magazine. Which, as far as I know, would allow the unfired rounds to slide out.
The gibberish is, to me gut wise, part of the water carrying the SP trooper was doing.
Remember the Braintree evidense, unscripted, blunt, disappears, and the State Police scripted report is kept.
Where can we find a copy of it?
The Martian Experiment
Type of Work: Non-dramatic literary work
Registration Number / Date: TXu000923774 / 1999-09-02
Date of Creation: 1999
Title: The Martian Experiment.
Application Title: If bullets were gold ; A year in the life of Abigail White ; Abigail’s journal.
Description: 260 p.
Other Title: If bullets were gold; A year in the life of Abigail White Abigail’s journal.
Copyright Claimant: Amy Bishop Anderson
thx.
The “shaft” supposedly. In some cases the plug at the front of the mag tube is removable. That, or if she was trying to unscrew the mag tube itself, are the only things I could envision being called a “shaft”.
No, this is the official State Police report that exonerated Bishop. The Braintree Police report of the incident, with the actual details of the murder, is the one that was “lost.”
No. There are two reports.
There was the initial Braintree Police Report. You know, with all the crime scene picture, original responding officers, arresting officer reports. Stuff like that. That is and has been ‘missing’ for years.
That report supposedly doesn’t much square with the Report written by the Massachusetts State Police, which begun 11 days after the murder. Time enough for the Bishop family and their lawyers and political friends, and maybe the Chief of Police and friendly police officers to conspire to ‘assist’ the family.
If you read the State Police report, it is laughable.
My gut feeling is that the the then Braintree Chief, or someone up there in rank, pulled/destroyed the origional report with all the evidense.
(Question. Is destroying a report, evidence tampering? Seth Bishop’s murder is reopened...?)
I can not recall the shotgun laws of Massachusetts but I believe if the magazine holds more than 3 (? ) shells, the remaining space has to be filled with a ...dowel/plug.
Gut, cyclical view? She removed the dowel and went hunting for bear. One shot in her bedroom ( unheard by anyone, snicker ), one for the brother, one for mom ( a miss ), one for the car she tried to car jack.
I bet she had more in her coat.
There’s a few states like that but AFAIK it applies only when fowl hunting, and not for storage around the house.
Anyone hear if Bishop was sent away for psych evaluation after the first murder? I can’t imagine her parents wanting her around the house after that.
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