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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