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Amy Bishop
Alabama Professor Charged With Murder In Disputed 1986 Shooting
Justin Elliott | June 16, 2010, 6:03PM
Amy Bishop
Amy Bishop, the Alabama biology professor who allegedly shot three colleagues to death in February, was indicted today in Massachusetts for the murder of her brother at their Braintree, Massachusetts, home in 1986.
As TPMmuckraker has reported, the shooting of Bishop's brother Seth was presented as an accident at the time. She was not charged. But after the alleged Alabama shootings this year, media reports indicated the investigation of the 1986 incident was rife with irregularities.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (10) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: Alabama, Amy Bishop, Massachusetts, Seth Bishop, William Keating
Amy Bishop
Delahunt's Office: Bishop Incident Was Presented To DA As 'Closed Case'
Justin Elliott | February 17, 2010, 12:47PM
Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA)
A spokesman for Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA), who was Norfolk County district attorney when Amy Bishop killed her brother in 1986, tells TPMmuckraker that investigators presented the case to the DA as an open-and-shut accidental shooting.
Spokesman Mark Forest also says that those who were involved in making the decision not to charge Bishop are now asking why information about her behavior after she fled the scene of the shooting -- including demanding a car from a worker at gunpoint -- was left out of a state police report on the incident.
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Amy Bishop
Witness: Cops Didn't Follow Up After Bishop Threatened Me With Gun In '86
Justin Elliott | February 17, 2010, 10:05AM
A man who was working at the newspaper distribution center where police apprehended a fleeing Amy Bishop after she killed her brother in 1986 tells TPMmuckraker that investigators never followed up with him, even though Bishop had threatened him with a shotgun, demanding to know if he had a car.
The revelation is at least the second -- and possibly the third -- known instance of Bishop pointing her gun at people she encountered after fleeing her home. And it provides more evidence of possible police missteps in the investigation of the shooting of Seth Bishop -- which was ruled an accident, mainly on the word of Seth and Amy's mother.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (17) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (3)Topics: Amy Bishop, Braintree Police Department, Braintree, Mass., Norfolk County District Attorney, Seth Bishop, University of Alabama, Village News
Amy Bishop
Read the Report: Missing Police Records In '86 Bishop Case Found
Justin Elliott | February 16, 2010, 6:52PM
Amy Bishop
The Norfolk County District Attorney has found and released the missing Braintree police report describing the 1986 incident in which Amy Bishop killed her teenage brother.
The DA concludes that, "The analysis of the newly received documents, as well as the previously released March 30, 1987 State Police report indicate that probable cause existed at that time to place Amy Bishop under arrest charged with:
Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Chap. 265 Sec. 15B
Carrying a Dangerous Weapon, Chap. 269 Sec. 10, 12D
Unlawful possession of ammunition, Chap. 269 Ch. 10 (h)"
Topics: Amy Bishop, Norfolk County District Attorney, Seth Bishop, University of Alabama
Amy Bishop
Ex-Police Chief Flips: Maybe Something Was Awry In '86 Bishop Shooting Case
Justin Elliott | February 16, 2010, 12:13PM
Former Braintree Police Chief John Polio
The former Braintree, Mass., chief of police who is said to have ordered Amy Bishop released the day she killed her brother -- and then threatened at least two people with a shotgun while frantically searching for a getaway vehicle -- now says he may have made the wrong decision.
John Polio's new comments in an interview with the Boston Globe are a marked shift from his earlier insistence that the process was handled properly. Polio previously rejected that there was any cover-up and that any records were missing in the 1986 case.
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Amy Bishop
Prof's Husband: We Went To Shooting Range In Weeks Before Killings
Justin Elliott | February 16, 2010, 9:25AM
Amy Bishop with a police officer
The husband of the biology professor charged with killing three colleagues in Alabama tells the Chronicle of Higher Education that he and his wife had gone to a shooting range in the weeks before the Friday incident.
James Anderson, husband of Amy Bishop, told the Chronicle yesterday that Bishop borrowed the gun from someone she knew:
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Amy Bishop
Auto Body Worker: Prof In Alabama Case Held Me Up After Shooting In '86
Justin Elliott | February 15, 2010, 5:38PM
Amy Bishop
A former car repairman has come forward to tell the Boston Herald that Amy Bishop, charged in the killing of three professors at the University of Alabama Friday, held him up at gunpoint while searching for a getaway vehicle after killing her brother in 1986.
The claim casts more doubt on the official version of the story -- that the shotgun Bishop was holding accidentally discharged in her Braintree, Mass., home, killing her 18-year-old brother. Bishop was 19 at the time, and she was released by the police the day of the incident without being charged.
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Amy Bishop
The Professor Accused In University Of Alabama Shooting: What Do We Know?
Justin Elliott | February 15, 2010, 3:38PM
Amy Bishop
The revelations about the past of the biology professor accused of shooting three colleagues to death at the University of Alabama Friday are stacking up by the day.
First came the news that the professor, Amy Bishop, shot and killed her teenage brother in suburban Boston under hazy circumstances in 1986. Then that she was investigated in 1993 in an attempted mail bombing of a Harvard professor who was evaluating her work as a postdoc.
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