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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