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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
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.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (22) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (3)Topics: Alabama, Amy Bishop, Braintree, Mass., John Polio, Paul Frazier, William Delahunt
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.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (34) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (3)Topics: Amy Bishop, Braintree, Mass., Dave Dinger Ford, Paul Frazier, Ronald Solimini, Timothy Murphy, Tom Pettigrew
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