*BREAKING* 3 killed in Alabama university shooting

[starvosan]

...her husband Jim Anderson is in custody. Jim Anderson has not been charged with a crime.

How can they arrest somebody and not charge them?  Isn't this a violation of habeus corpus?

[donnay]

How can they arrest somebody and not charge them?  Isn't this a violation of habeus corpus?

I am sure he was held in custody to answer questions--since he was the one, his wife called to pick her up from University.  I am not sure he is currently in custody.

[Optimus]

Police say slaying suspect fatally shot brother in '86
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011069817_alashoot14.html

By The Associated Press and The New York Times

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting was a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, inventor and mother whose life had been marred by a violent episode in her distant past.

More than two decades ago, police said, Amy Bishop fatally shot her teenage brother at their Massachusetts home in what officers at the time logged as an accident, although authorities said Saturday that records of the shooting are missing.

After being educated at Harvard, Bishop moved to Huntsville and in 2003 became an associate professor at the University of Alabama's campus. The school, with about 7,500 students, has close ties with NASA and is known for its engineering and science programs.

As of Saturday morning, authorities said, Bishop had been charged with one count of capital murder, and more charges were expected. Three people were wounded in the shooting.

Police say she is 42, but the university's Web site lists her as 44.

Some have said she was upset after being denied the job-for-life security afforded tenured academics, and the husband of one victim and one of Bishop's students said they were told the shooting stemmed from the school's refusal to grant her such status. Authorities have refused to discuss a motive, and school spokesman Ray Garner said the faculty meeting wasn't called to discuss tenure.

William Setzer, chairman of the chemistry department at the university, said Bishop was appealing the decision made last year.

"Politics and personalities" always play a role in the tenure process, he said. "In a close department it's more so. If you have any lone wolves or bizarre personalities, it's a problem and I'm thinking that certainly came into play here."

Bishop presided over her regular neuroscience class Friday before going to a biology faculty meeting on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology.

There she sat quietly for 30 or 40 minutes, said one faculty member who had spoken to people who were in the room. Then Bishop pulled out a 9-mm handgun and began shooting, firing several rounds before her gun either jammed or ran out of ammunition, police said. At least one person in the room tried to stop Bishop, said Sgt. Mark Roberts of the Huntsville Police Department.

After Bishop left the room, the police said, she dumped the gun — for which she did not have a permit — in a second-floor bathroom. The people left behind barred the door, fearing she would return, the faculty member said.

Bishop was arrested outside the building minutes later, Roberts said at a news conference on Saturday.

She shot her brother, an 18-year-old accomplished violinist, in the chest in 1986, said Paul Frazier, police chief in Braintree, Mass., where the shooting occurred. Bishop fired at least three shots, hitting her brother once and hitting her bedroom wall before police took her into custody at gunpoint, he said.

Frazier said the police chief at the time told officers to release Bishop to her mother before she could be booked. It was logged as an accident.

Frazier's account was disputed by former police Chief John Polio, who said he didn't call officers to tell them to release Bishop. "There's no cover-up, no missing records," he said.

Attempts to track down addresses and phone numbers for Bishop's family in the Braintree area weren't successful Saturday. The current police chief said he believed her family had moved away.

The shooting at the Huntsville campus occurred about 4 p.m. Friday, officials said. A 911 call came at 4:10, the authorities said. Few students were in the building, and none was involved in the shooting, Garner said.

Officials said the dead were all biology professors: G.K. Podila, the department's chairman; Maria Ragland Davis; and Adriel D. Johnson Sr. Two other biology professors, Luis Rogelio Cruz-Vera and Joseph Leahy, and a professor's assistant, Stephanie Monticciolo, were at Huntsville Hospital Saturday. Cruz-Vera was in fair condition; the others were in critical condition.

Garner said Bishop was first told last spring she had been denied tenure. Generally, the university does not allow professors to stay on after six years if they have not been granted tenure, and this would have been the final semester of Bishop's sixth year.

The university has an appeals process, and people who know Bishop said she had appealed the decision.

Bishop may have had academic problems, but her business prospects seemed good. She and her husband, James Anderson, had invented an automated system for incubating cells that was designed as an improvement over the Petri dish. The system was to be marketed by Prodigy Biosystems, which raised $1.2 million in capital financing.

"From the way it looked to us, looking from the outside, she's had success," said Krishnan Chittur, a chemical-engineering professor.

Chittur said Bishop was a respected scientist who nevertheless had trouble getting along with colleagues. As members of the biotechnology program, students have to pass core classes in biology, chemistry and chemical engineering. But Bishop became convinced, he said, that the chemical-engineering professors were trying to keep biology students from succeeding by making the classes too difficult.

"It was one of those things that ultimately became irrational with her, in my opinion," he said.

Bishop and her husband, who was questioned by the police Friday, have four children.

[donnay]

She shot her brother, an 18-year-old accomplished violinist, in the chest in 1986, said Paul Frazier, police chief in Braintree, Mass., where the shooting occurred. Bishop fired at least three shots, hitting her brother once and hitting her bedroom wall before police took her into custody at gunpoint, he said.

Frazier said the police chief at the time told officers to release Bishop to her mother before she could be booked. It was logged as an accident.

You know I keep reading that the 1986 incident appeared to be an accident, and yet, one policemen remembers that she shot her brother in the abdomen and another policemen remembers she shot her brother in the chest after they had an argument-- coincidentally the report has gone missing...it is quite a leap to make this assumption of deliberate murder now, 24 years after the fact.  I suppose we could exhume the body to find the facts, couldn't we?  Not to mention Amy Bishop was 24 years old when this incident took place-- why was she released to her mother's custody?

Murder cases usually have no statue of limitations...

This whole thing stinks to high heaven for me.  I have been trying to connect the dots since the first report came out, and there are quite a few glaring inconsistencies.  

I have many questions...

If she had launched a successful business with her husband why would she be so upset if they passed her over for tenure?

All reports stated she was an brilliant neurobiologist and inventor--this would be great material on a resume to find teaching elsewhere, or even a top notch researcher for NASA so, being upset about tenure just doesn't hold water for me.

 

[roell29]

Subjects for mind control experiments are allegedly chosen at a young age and chipped so that they can be experimented upon and/or manipulated throughout their lives. They've been chipping *babies* as far back as 1946! (article by former Chief Medical Officer of Finland December 6, 2000 - http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/microchip_implants_mind_control.htm) She might have been manipulated into shooting her brother as a test to see whether she could be counted on to repeat the act on command in the future. I've been thinking for a while that many of the scientists who have allegedly died mysteriously or disappeared over the last few years may have been taken underground, since they may have special abilities are needed for the D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases) - like Dr. Podila, allegedly killed by her, who is a specialist in cloning plants genetically engineered for maximum nutrition (which would be useful in space and also in D.U.M.B.s). Maybe she did participate in some kind of drill and then mind controlled into shooting them (like the Fort Hood shootings) - "It didn't happen. There's no way .... they are still alive."  They probably *are* still alive. They needed to create a pretext that would sever all ties to their current lives so they could be taken underground (or whereever). Just speculating, of course.

[donnay]

Subjects for mind control experiments are allegedly chosen at a young age and chipped so that they can be experimented upon and/or manipulated throughout their lives. They've been chipping *babies* as far back as 1946! (article by former Chief Medical Officer of Finland December 6, 2000 - http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/microchip_implants_mind_control.htm) She might have been manipulated into shooting her brother as a test to see whether she could be counted on to repeat the act on command in the future. I've been thinking for a while that many of the scientists who have allegedly died mysteriously or disappeared over the last few years may have been taken underground, since they may have special abilities are needed for the D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases) - like Dr. Podila, allegedly killed by her, who is a specialist in cloning plants genetically engineered for maximum nutrition (which would be useful in space and also in D.U.M.B.s). Maybe she did participate in some kind of drill and then mind controlled into shooting them (like the Fort Hood shootings) - "It didn't happen. There's no way .... they are still alive."  They probably *are* still alive. They needed to create a pretext that would sever all ties to their current lives so they could be taken underground (or whereever). Just speculating, of course.

As far-fetched as that may sound to the average person, nothing, I mean nothing, would surprise me at this point.  As I stated earlier that there are too many glaring inconsistencies to this story and it keeps changing daily.  So, to surmise what actually transpired is all we have to go by for now, and your theory is the closest to logic that I have seen thus far.  *SIGH*

[starvosan]

I caught this on another forum.  The guy has a good point--

''I can't understand how one woman can shoot all those people and not be counter-attacked, maybe after one shot. She doesn't apear to be injured at all. This sounds like Virginia Tech where a whole classroom of kids cowered under desks, waiting to be shot, when anyone could have at least jumped the shooter. But those were kids. Here we have adults facing off against one woman.''

[PEOA]

gun control..........

[oyashango]

Dang . . . this women has issues . . .
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Alleged University Shooter Was Suspect in Harvard Professor Bomb Attempt

February 14, 2010

An Alabama professor accused of shooting six colleagues was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor in December of 1993, the Boston Globe reported.

Amy Bishop and her husband James Anderson were questioned by authorities after a package with two bombs was sent to Dr. Paul Rosenberg, the newspaper reported.

When Rosenberg saw the long, thin package had wires and a cylinder inside, he and his wife called police and ran from their Newton, Mass. home Dec. 19, 1993, the Globe reported.

Two 6-inch pipe bombs connected to two nine-volt batteries were found in the package.

The new information comes a day after information surfaced that Bishop killed her brother. The 1986 shooting was ruled accidental and no charges were filed against her.

Bishop, who has four children, was arrested soon after the violent Friday shooting at the University of Alabama and charged with capital murder. Other charges are pending. Her husband was detained and questioned by police but has not been charged.

Three of her colleagues were killed in shooting, and a 9 mm handgun was found in the bathroom of the building where the shootings occurred.

Bishop, a rare woman suspected of a workplace shooting, had just months left teaching at school in Huntsville because she was denied tenure.

Several months after a federal investigation into the Harvard medical professor's attempted bombing a prime suspect was identified, but never named.

An unnamed law enforcement official told the Globe Sunday the suspect was Bishop, and her husband.

At the time, Bishop was a Harvard doctoral student working at the same hospital as Rosenberg.

The official told the Globe Bishop was suspected because she was allegedly concerned she was going to be given a bad evaluation from the professor on her doctorate work.

Her house was searched and she and her husband were questioned, but the U.S. attorney's office in Boston never brought charges against the couple, the Globe reported.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585854,00.html

[donnay]

Murder Suspect Was Questioned in Plot Against Professor
By SHAILA DEWAN and KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: February 14, 2010

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — On Friday, this city of rocket scientists and brainy inventors was stunned when a neuroscientist with a Harvard Ph.D. was arrested in the shooting deaths of three of her colleagues after she was denied tenure.

But that was only the first surprise in the tale of the neuroscientist, Amy Bishop, who was regarded as fiercely intelligent and had seemed to have a promising career in biotechnology. Every day since has produced a new revelation from Dr. Bishop’s past, each more bizarre than the last.

On Saturday, the police in Braintree, Mass., said that she had fatally shot her brother in 1986 and questioned whether the decision to dismiss the case as an accident had been the right one.

On Sunday, a law enforcement official in Boston said she and her husband, James Anderson, had been questioned in a 1993 case in which a pipe bomb was sent to a colleague of Dr. Bishop’s at Children’s Hospital Boston.

The bomb did not go off, no one was ever charged in the case, and no proof ever emerged connecting the couple to the bomb plot.

On Sunday, Mr. Anderson firmly defended his wife in an interview at their home in Huntsville, saying that she had been completely cleared in the pipe bomb case and that her brother’s death had been accidental.

“That’s incorrect,” he said about reports linking him and his wife to the bomb plot. “We were not suspects. They questioned everybody that ever knew this guy.”

The target of the mail bomb was Dr. Paul Rosenberg, according to The Boston Globe, which first reported that the couple had been questioned in the case. After returning home from a vacation, Dr. Rosenberg opened a package that contained two 6-inch pipe bombs connected to two nine-volt batteries, The Globe reported. The doctor and his wife fled and called the police.

Officials said that Dr. Bishop was concerned that Dr. Rosenberg would give her a negative evaluation on her doctorate work, the newspaper wrote, and that they were concerned about the incident involving her brother. The authorities in Boston searched Dr. Bishop’s computer at the time and found a novel she was working on about a scientist who killed her brother and atoned by excelling at her work, The Globe reported.

Though he firmly protested his wife’s innocence in the earlier cases, Mr. Anderson said he remained mystified over Friday’s shootings, which left three professors dead and three other people wounded after a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Dr. Bishop was charged with capital murder; three charges of attempted murder were added on Sunday. Mr. Anderson said he did not know of any specific incident that could have led to the shooting, and did not know that his wife allegedly had a gun when she went to the meeting.

“I had no idea,” he said. “We don’t own one.”

Those killed were Gopi Podila, 52, the chairman of the biology department; Maria Ragland Davis, 50, a professor who studied plant pathogens; and Adriel Johnson, 52, a cell biologist who also taught Boy Scouts about science.

Two of the wounded were Joseph Leahy, 50, a microbiologist, and Stephanie Monticciolo, 62, a staff assistant, both of whom were in critical condition. The third was Luis Cruz-Vera, 40, a molecular biologist, who was released from the hospital on Saturday.

Mr. Anderson said that months ago, the university administration overruled a successful appeal of the decision to deny Dr. Bishop tenure in spring 2009.

“She won her appeal,” he said, “and the provost canned it.”

The university has declined to elaborate on the details of Dr. Bishop’s tenure application, saying only that she was denied last spring and that she could stay at the university only until the end of this academic year. Even if a faculty member successfully appeals a tenure denial, the final decision rests with the administration.

But Dr. Bishop had continued to fight, appealing to two members of the University of Alabama System’s Board of Trustees for help and hiring a lawyer, who was “finding one problem after another with the process,” Mr. Anderson said. One issue was a dispute over whether two of her papers had been published in time to count toward tenure, he said.

“She exceeded the qualifications for tenure,” Mr. Anderson said. “The review board said, ‘Grant it or go through the process again.’ ”

Mr. Anderson said that his wife’s research was generating millions of dollars for the university, that she had published numerous papers and that she was a good teacher.

But that estimate of her financial benefit to the university seems likely to be premature. One of her innovations, an automated system for producing cell cultures that the couple developed together, has attracted $1.25 million in financing but has not yet reached the market. Another, a potential treatment for degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, is in the process of being licensed from the university. Typically, universities share the proceeds from such licenses with the scientists responsible.

The police said Saturday that Dr. Bishop was 45, but her birth date on a university Web site indicated that she was 44.

Mr. Anderson said he could not gain access to his wife’s e-mail account and did not know if she had received any news that might have set off the shooting. The police, he said, had taken a thick binder documenting her tenure battle, her computer and the family van. At least one of the trustees had recently told her that he could not help reverse the tenure decision, a family friend said.

Mr. Anderson said he had already told the Huntsville police that they might come across the Boston pipe bomb incident during their investigation.

Sylvia Fluckiger, who worked as a laboratory technician at Children’s Hospital when Dr. Bishop and Dr. Rosenberg were working there, said Dr. Bishop had acknowledged that she was questioned by the police about the pipe bomb incident.

“She was visited by the police,” Ms. Fluckiger said. “What she said is they asked her if she had ever used a stamp, taken it off an envelope and put it somewhere else.”

Ms. Fluckiger said Dr. Bishop “had a smirk on her face” when asked about the incident. “I don’t know why she was smirking,” she said. “It was a funny expression on her face.”

“We did know that there was a dispute between Paul Rosenberg and her,” Ms. Fluckiger said, adding that she could not recall the details.

On Saturday, the police in Braintree said they were considering reopening the case of the shooting death of her brother, Seth Bishop, 18. Although a state police report said investigators determined that the shooting was an accident, Police Chief Paul Frazier said other officers remember that it came after an argument and questioned why local police documents could not be found.

On Sunday, Mayor Joseph C. Sullivan of Braintree, a Boston suburb, issued a statement saying the town would conduct a “full and thorough review” of its records for any material relating to Seth Bishop’s death. But he noted that records from 1986 were created and maintained manually, which would complicate their retrieval.

Standing at his door after church on Sunday, Mr. Anderson confirmed the existence of the novel reported in The Globe, as well as two others his wife worked on in her spare time. The couple has four children, ranging from grade-school to college age. Mr. Anderson said that somewhere in his files he had a letter sent by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms after the bomb investigation, saying: “You are hereby cleared in this incident. You are no longer a subject of the investigation.”

“This is one thing from the past I hoped would not be dredged up,” he said.

[William Rausch]

oyashango:

This woman not only has issues, she appears to have protection!

Was it you who posted the article about how, after she killed her brother, the police chief ordered her released and the case file was subsequently found to have been purged?

And now, an attempted murder, she and her husband are detained but no charges are brought? 

That seems to me to be a little too much good luck for one homicidal woman's lifetime.

As Yogi Berra once said: "It's too coincidental to be a coincidence."

[roell29]

As far-fetched as that may sound to the average person, nothing, I mean nothing, would surprise me at this point.  As I stated earlier that there are too many glaring inconsistencies to this story and it keeps changing daily.  So, to surmise what actually transpired is all we have to go by for now, and your theory is the closest to logic that I have seen thus far.  *SIGH*

Yes, well we "epistemological cripples" must stick together you know...

[oyashango]

oyashango:

This woman not only has issues, she appears to have protection!

Was it you who posted the article about how, after she killed her brother, the police chief ordered her released and the case file was subsequently found to have been purged?

And now, an attempted murder, she and her husband are detained but no charges are brought? 

That seems to me to be a little too much good luck for one homicidal woman's lifetime.

As Yogi Berra once said: "It's too coincidental to be a coincidence."

Yep. I thought it rather strange that she shot her brother THREE TIMES, which indicates that she meant to kill him and yet they ruled it "accidental," and then the records were mysteriously purged.

[donnay]

(CNN) -- A biology professor charged with killing three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville fatally shot her brother more than 23 years ago, but she and her mother claimed the shooting was accidental, according to documents released Sunday.

Amy Bishop Anderson was 19 when she fatally shot her brother, Seth, on December 6, 1986, in Braintree, Massachusetts, according to a Massachusetts State Police report released Sunday. She was never charged in that shooting.

Anderson was charged this weekend with capital murder in Friday's on-campus shooting deaths of her colleagues. She could face the death penalty.

The state police report in the 1986 shooting, released by the office of U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Massachusetts, gives an account similar to a Boston Globe story published on December 8, 2008. Delahunt was district attorney at the time; staffers said he was in the Middle East on Sunday and unable to comment on the case.

Earlier this weekend, Braintree police said records from that shooting were missing, and that the department's log indicated the shooting was accidental. However, Police Chief Paul Frazier said he didn't agree with the Globe's account.

The Globe's story stated that Anderson asked her mother how to unload a round from a 12-gauge shotgun and that Anderson -- then known as Amy Bishop -- accidentally shot her brother while she was handling the weapon. The article cited then-Police Chief John Polio as the source.

According to the state police report released Sunday, Braintree police told state police that "indications were that Amy Bishop had been attempting to manipulate the shotgun and had subsequently brought the gun downstairs in an attempt to gain assistance from her mother in disarming the weapon" when it went off, shooting her brother, Seth, in the chest.

But, Frazier said Saturday, "it is a far different story I believe than what was reported back then. I cannot tell you what the thought process was behind our releasing her at the time."

An officer then involved in the case who is still working for the department told him that Anderson shot her brother during an argument, Frazier said.

The officer said Anderson allegedly fired a shot in her bedroom without hitting anyone, argued with her brother, shot him and then fired another round in the home before fleeing, according to Frazier.

Frazier said the teen was arrested after pointing a weapon at a vehicle near the house in an attempt to get the driver to stop, but it drove on. But during the booking process, then-Chief Polio called and told the officers to release her, Frazier said. He said her mother was at the time a member of the Braintree Personnel Board.

In a telephone call with CNN, Polio, now 87 and retired, denied ever calling in the order. He said detectives including lead investigator Capt. Theodore Buker -- who has since died -- had interviewed Anderson and her mother, Judith, who is identified in the state police report as J. Bishop.

Buker told him that the shooting appeared accidental and the two men agreed she should be released to her mother, Polio said. A request was then filed with Delahunt's office to conduct an inquiry, but Delahunt never did so, he said.

The state police report, however, said that Buker met with a state police investigator and determined that "due to the testimony of the members of the Bishop family, and in particular the testimony of J. Bishop, relevant to the facts concerning the death of Seth Bishop that no further investigation ... was warranted," the report concludes. Seth Bishop's death was listed as accidental and the investigation was concluded.

Delahunt spokesman Mark Forest told CNN the state police and medical examiner concluded the death was accidental, and an autopsy was also conducted. "The investigative reports ... did not recommend any further action," he said in an e-mail. Those reports were turned over to state and local authorities, including the district attorney's office, he said.

Anderson's mother witnessed the shooting, the state police report said. Investigators waited 11 days to interview Anderson and her parents because of their "highly emotional state" following the shooting, according to the report.

In the December 17, 1986, interview, Anderson told authorities she "thought it would be a good idea if she learned how to load the shotgun in the house," according to the state police report. The young woman told police she was concerned for her own safety after the family home was broken into, although she previously had been afraid of the gun.

She said she got the gun and loaded shells into it, but was unable to get them out. Anderson said that while she was attempting to unload the weapon on her bed, it went off. She then took it downstairs to ask for help in unloading it. She asked her brother, she said, and he told her to point the gun up instead of carrying it beside her leg. Her brother was walking across the kitchen between her and her mother, she said. She started to raise the gun, and "someone said something to her," she recalled in the report. She turned and the gun went off.

"Amy thought that she had ruined the kitchen but was not aware of the fact that she had struck her brother," the report said. She fled, and told police she thought she had dropped the gun as she ran away. "She cannot recall anything else until she subsequently saw her mother at the police station," the report said. The report does not reference any other shots fired besides the one in Anderson's bedroom and the shot that struck her brother.

Anderson's father was not home at the time. He told police he had had a disagreement with his daughter "about a comment she had made" before he left to go shopping. He told police he had bought the shotgun about a year before the shooting, after the house had been broken into, and that he and his son belonged to a rifle club. Anderson was not trained to use the gun, he said.

Anderson's mother said that when her daughter came downstairs and asked for help in unloading the gun, she told her not to point it at anyone, and that her daughter turned and the gun went off. The woman told police she did not hear the shotgun fire earlier in her daughter's bedroom and "believed the house was relatively well soundproofed and that such a discharge would not necessarily be heard on another floor of the house."

Polio acknowledged that an argument had occurred during the shooting and said that the other shots, including one fired into the ceiling, did not appear aimed at anyone. He also recalled that Anderson had fled the scene. But, he said, he could not remember what he had told the newspaper in reference to the case or why details, including the argument, were not reported.

He said Anderson's mother had worked for the personnel board and at one point was assigned to the police department. But he rejected as "laughable" any suggestions that the suspect's mother might have influenced their handling of the case.

"There was no cover-up," Polio said. "Absolutely no cover-up and no missing records. The records were all there when I left. Where they went in the last 22 years and two police chiefs subsequent, I don't know."

Braintree Mayor Joseph Sullivan announced Sunday an effort to locate all materials associated with the shooting.

"The Braintree Police Department will conduct a thorough audit of all its records to identify if there were deficits in its past recordkeeping process," Sullivan said. "It is important to note that in 1986, police records were created and maintained manually, which complicates their review and retrieval."

The Braintree shooting resurfaced after Harvard-trained Anderson was charged in Friday's shooting in Alabama. Huntsville Police Chief Henry Reyes said Saturday that Anderson was attending a faculty meeting on the third floor of the sciences building Friday afternoon when she brandished a gun and shot six colleagues, killing three.

Anderson, a professor and researcher at the university and a mother of four, was arrested as she was leaving the building, Reyes told reporters Saturday. He said a 9 mm handgun was recovered from the second floor of the building late Friday.

Madison County District Attorney Rob Broussard said officials were considering other charges, including attempted murder. Authorities have not ruled out the possibility of other suspects in connection to the shooting.

Anderson, who is known to students as Dr. Bishop, had been working at the university since 2003, and was up for tenure, according to spokesman Ray Garner. However, authorities wouldn't discuss possible motives or whether the issue of tenure may have played a role in the shooting.

Garner told CNN that the university gives teachers six years to get tenure. Those who do not get it are terminated, he said.

University President David Williams said a prayer service would be held on Sunday. He said the campus would open next week for employees, but that there would be no classes.

Reached at the couple's home, Jim Anderson told CNN that his wife has an attorney whom he would not identify. He described her as a good teacher.

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It was reported she was a teen when this happened...you do the math:  I have heard she is 44 or 45.  44 - 24 = 20  or 45 - 24 = 21.  The policemen who was recalling the incident of Amy Bishop shooting her brother stated she was a teen.

[donnay]

Yes, well we "epistemological cripples" must stick together you know...

Absolutely! 

[William Rausch]

oyashango:

Actually, although she fired at least three shots at her brother, she only hit him once.

But, as you imply, one shot is an accident, three shots is clearly intentional.

[donnay]

I would like to direct your attention to this thread:  http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=159678.40;topicseen

There are too many glaring inconsistencies to this story.  I have been following it since day-1, and there is something definitely rotten about this whole ordeal.  I am of the opinion that this woman is being set up.

Oh and for the record:  Amy Bishop and her husband, James Anderson were cleared by the BATF with regards to the pipe bomb.

[Optimus]

Accused shooter linked to Harvard bomb plot
More details emerge from Alabama professor’s past linking her to cases
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35397792/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 5:32 p.m. CT, Sun., Feb. 14, 2010

The scientist who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama had been a key suspect in an attempted bomb plot at Harvard in 1993, police officials told The Boston Globe on Sunday.

Authorities questioned Amy Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, in March 1993 after a bomb-laden package was delivered to a Harvard professor and doctor at Boston's Children's Hospital, the Globe reported.

The plot was the latest revelation linking Bishop to past investigations. Bishop is accused of shooting to death three colleagues during a faculty meeting on the University of Alabama's Hunstville, Ala. campus on Friday.

Bishop, who has four children, was arrested soon after the shooting and charged with capital murder. Other charges are pending. Her husband was detained and questioned by police but has not been charged.

In 1986, Bishop shot and killed her 18-year-old brother with a shotgun at their Braintree, Mass., home. She told police at the time that she had been trying to learn how to use the gun, which her father had bought for protection, when it accidentally discharged.

Authorities released her and said the episode was a tragic accident. She was never charged, though police Chief Paul Frazier on Saturday questioned how the investigation was handled.

Bomb sent to doctor
In the Harvard plot, a police official told the Globe that Bishop's name surfaced as a suspect because she was allegedly concerned about getting a negative evaluation on her doctorate work from Dr. Paul Rosenberg.

During the initial investigation, Rosenberg told police that he had received a thin, long package addressed to him and soon discovered that was filled with wires and a cylinder, according to the Globe.

The package had contained two pipe bombs, which were hooked up two nine-volt batteries, the Globe reported.

During a search of Bishop's computer, investigators discovered a draft of a story that Bishop had written about a female scientist who had killed her brother and was hoping to find redemption in life my becoming a great scientist, the Globe reported.

Bishop and her husband were never charged in the Harvard plot.

'It was just a normal day'
Back in Alabama, some of Bishop's colleagues, including William Setzer, chairman of the department of chemistry, told The Associated Press they did not know about Bishop's past.

Alabama police said the gun she is accused of using in Friday's shooting was not registered, and investigators don't know how or where she got it.

Just after the shooting, her husband James Anderson told the Chronicle, she called and asked him to pick her up. She never mentioned the shooting, he said.

Anderson said his wife had an attorney but would not say who it was. He declined further comment to The Associated Press on Sunday. However, he told the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier in the day that he had no idea his wife had a gun — nor did he know of any threats or plans to carry out the shooting when he dropped her off at the faculty meeting Friday.

Even in the days and hours before the shooting, Bishop's friends, colleagues and students said she was acting like the intelligent — but odd — professor they knew.

UAH student Andrew Cole was in Bishop's anatomy class Friday morning and said she seemed perfectly normal. Kourtney Lattimore, 19, a sophomore studying nursing who had Bishop for anatomy and physiology courses, said she didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

"She was fine. It was a normal day," Lattimore said.

Bishop had worked closely for three years with Dick Reeves, who had been CEO of BizTech, which had been working with her to market a cell incubator she invented to replace traditional equipment used in live cell cultures. Bishop often mentioned the issue of tenure in their discussions, Reeves said.

"It was important to her," he said.

Tenure denied
However, the two had spoken as early as Wednesday, and Reeves said she showed no signs of distress.

Tenure — a type of job-for-life security afforded academics — is often a stressful process for anyone up for review, Setzer said. Bishop was up front about the issue, often bringing it up in meetings where the subject wasn't appropriate.

"That was another thing that made her different," Setzer said. "In committee meetings she didn't pretend that it wasn't happening or anything. She was even loud about it: That they denied her tenure and she was appealing it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

Some have said the shootings stemmed from Bishop's tenure dispute, though authorities have refused to discuss a motive. Andrea Bennett, a sophomore majoring in nursing and an athlete at UAH, said a coach told her team that Bishop had been denied tenure, which the coach said may have led to the shooting.

Killed were Gopi K. Podila, the chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences, and professors Adriel Johnson and Maria Ragland Davis. Three people were wounded. Two of them — Joseph Leahy and staffer Stephanie Monticciolo — were in critical condition early Sunday. The third, Luis Cruz-Vera, had been released from the hospital.

Sammie Lee Davis, Davis' husband, said in a brief phone interview that he was told a faculty member got angry while discussing tenure at the meeting and started shooting. He said his wife had described Bishop as "not being able to deal with reality" and "not as good as she thought she was."

Bishop was calm as she got into a police car Friday, denying that the shootings occurred. "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive."

[starvosan]

Mr. Anderson said he...  did not know that his wife allegedly had a gun when she went to the meeting.

“I had no idea,” he said. “We don’t own one.”

They haven't told us yet how many rounds have been fired.  Or how many rounds hit the dead and wounded.  It would be interesting to know what her ratio of shots fired to hits on target would be.  Given her violent history, you would think she would have avoided firearms like the plague.  Which if true would make her sudden facility with the 9mm semiautomatic rather suspicious.

.... Authorities have not ruled out the possibility of other suspects in connection to the shooting.

Now that is a telling statement.  Do they have any evidence of more shooters?  You'll notice none of the survivors of that faculty meeting have yet publicly given their accounts, even though some emerged unharmed.  Undoubtedly they were told to keep quiet.  But what is the big secret?

[One Revelator]

Just thinking out loud.  Braintree has past connections to PTECH, possible occult activity, Skull & Bones, accusations of murder and accusations of small arms training.  High population density can have a negative influence on people.

Braintree, MA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braintree,_Massachusetts

History
In 1640, the town of Braintree was incorporated and named after the English town of Braintree. It comprised land that was later split into Randolph, Holbrook, and Quincy, as well as parts of Milton, Massachusetts. The "North Precinct" of Braintree, which is now the bulk of the city of Quincy, was the birthplace of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, as well as statesman John Hancock and General Sylvanus Thayer, the "Father of West Point".
Braintree is also the site of the infamous Sacco and Vanzetti murders as well as the retirement home of the co-inventor of the telephone Thomas A. Watson (See Watson Park).
Braintree's population grew by over 50 percent during the 1920s.[4]
In January 2008 Braintree converted from a representative town meeting form of government to a mayor-council government.
//snip//
Demographics
As of the census[7] of 2000, there were 33,828 people, 12,652 households, and 8,907 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,434.4 people per square mile (939.6/km²).

Referenced on Prison Planet Forum:

TRANSCRIPT: Michael Corbin Interviews Indira Singh (10/28/2005)
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=129799.0

IS:  Now, going back to Dr. Kandil, who is with the Muslim Brotherhood and with all the Ptech people and Care International people.  He’s connected with Dr. Sami Al Arian of Tampa.  So Kandil and Akra are collocated at the same address in Cambridge and so are the Ptech people.

MC:  Umm hmm.

IS:  And what else do they have in common?  What they have in common is in this warehouse district in Braintree, MA…now this area and this warehouse and this trucking company that runs out of there are affiliated according to the FBI and private investigators through sources to the Whitey Bulger mob.  

MC:  That’s significant.

IS:  It is very significant because the Boston FBI rated by the organization that rates FBI considers the Boston FBI as one of the most corrupt in the nation because they basically let the mob run wild with the murders and whatever else.
//snip//
IS:  But going back to this address in Braintree, MA.  Listed there are a bunch of names and 5 companies.  Five companies where the people running these companies are closely affiliated with Ptech.  One of the companies we just talked about is Care International.  Another one is Ecom.  Another one is Logan Furniture.  Another one is (Bannon?sp) Information Technology.  The interesting thing about these things is that they all share the same address as a warehouse.  It’s one room in a warehouse.  If you go…now I’ve visited 20 Plain St., Braintree some time ago.  And I went there and went inside and went upstairs and it’s basically just a warehouse.  There are no offices.  And the companies located there share one huge warehouse.  And when you take a look at what’s going on there, there’s a lot of trucking in and out.  I walked up to the Logan Furniture people and I spoke with them.  I asked them, “Why do you call this Logan Furniture?”  And he said, “Because of Logan Airport”  And the person who runs Logan Furniture is an Emad Muntasser.  And his name comes up all over the Muslim Brotherhood terror financing and other operatives.  So (Bannon?sp) Information Technology…these are all fronts. They’re all cutouts. They’re just names.  (Bannon?sp) Information Technology is actually a Texas incorporated company with an address at 20 Plain St. in the Sudan.  Also collocated there is something called the Geneva Capital Group.
//snip//
IS:  We have here a set of companies that have been covered up that had ties to Geneva, ties to Wall Street, ties to Kalizad, ties that were on FBI lists in both Boston and Chicago where good FBI agents were stymied in their efforts to research them.  And at the core of these companies in Braintree is a codeword for an operation called “Babylon”.  Now what is significant about this when we started looking at it, is that Babylon, of course, is Iraq.  And what is significant about this is that these people funding the smuggling of stuff.  They were smuggling it into the areas around Iraq and into Iraq itself.  When I first came across this and the WMD search in Iraq, I thought that, for sure, they would find it.  Because, from what I could see, we were shipping it to them.

Most Startling 9/11 Evidence(Ptech, Oklahoma, Saudis, etc)
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=102913.0

AlKifah became Care International, which got absorbed into Ptech

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/12/former_officers_of_islamic_charity_indicted_on_federal_charges/

The heads of Care Intl(AlKifah) and Logan Furniture in Braintree
(Emadeddin Muntasser and Muhammed Mubayyid ) Massachusetts were some of the heads of Ptech in Quincy.

Mohammed El-Mezain, head of CAIR international AND Iman Anwar Aulaqi helped to host and help the 9/11 hijackers in Falls Church VA www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/...0-7BAB1CE0141E}

Ptech is of course the high level technology firm by top bin Laden financier Yassin al Qahdi(who works with Khalid Bin Mahfouz, named in the 'Golden Chain') that by 1996 was deeply immersed in top US government network computer systems like a neo PROMIS INSLAW.
Ptech had networks in the basement of the FAA as of 9/11, along with Mitre.

Who is raping our children?
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=27096.0

The Boston Herald 7/12/01 Suspected satanist stockpiled body parts by Jessica Heslam and Steve Conroy "A Braintree man suspected of "devil worshipping" peddled drugs from his apartment that was filled with occult paraphernalia, including a stolen human skull, a human brain and a fetus, authorities said yesterday. "It was very disturbing. We believe from the items that we recovered that he might have been involved in devil worshipping," Braintree police Lt. Russell Jenkins said of 34-year-old George Picard. "It was pretty strange, pretty bizarre." Authorities said they believe Picard belongs to a devil-worshipping cult and engages in Satanic rituals."

The Sequoia Seminars - 1954 - LSD Therapy - History
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=153737.0

In 1920 two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were accused of murdering a shoe factory payroll clerk in Braintree, Massachusetts. Pinchot and his wife were convinced that the two men were innocent and spent a great deal of time and effort trying to get them released.

Soros funds infiltration of 9/11 truth, “independent” journalism
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=81023.0

Skull & Bones has been dominated since 1833 by the following family empires:

Rockefeller (Standard Oil)

Harriman (Railroad)

Weyerhauser (Timber)

Sloane (Retail Trade)

Pillsbury (Flour Mills)

Davison (J.P. Morgan)

Payne (Standard Oil)

And from Massachusetts:

Gilman (1638,Hingham)

Wadsworth (1632, Newtown)

Taft (1679, Braintree)

Torture in "good faith"
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=101377.620

Aafia Siddiqui stands her ground at trial


Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:52:26 GMT
http://presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=117468&sectionid=351020401


  
 Aafia Siddiqui


Pakistani citizen Aafia Siddiqui, who is charged with attempted murder of FBI agents and US military personnel, has told a New York court that the charges against her are "ridiculous."

On Friday, the prosecution at the New York court brought in a gun instructor from Boston.

Gary Woodworth of the Braintree Rifle and Pistol Club in Massachusetts testified that Siddiqui took a 12-hour basic pistol course in early 1990s, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday.

The move was made in response to a statement by Siddiqui in which she said that she did not know anything about firearms and had not taken a target-shooting course.

She also denied taking pistol lessons at the rifle course in Braintree while she was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Siddiqui went on to say that she saw an M-4 for the first time when it was produced in the court a couple of days ago as the weapon she allegedly used.

It was absurd to think a US soldier would carelessly leave his weapon in a place where a suspect like her could grab it, she told the jury.

"It's too crazy. It's just ridiculous," Siddiqui said. "I didn't do that."

On Thursday, Siddiqui told jurors in Manhattan Federal Court that charges alleging she grabbed a rifle and shot at US interrogators in Afghanistan are a joke.

"This is the biggest joke. Sometimes I've been forced to smile under my scarf."

Siddiqui denied the FBI's accusations that her purse contained chemicals, a list of terror targets in New York City, instructions on how to make a dirty bomb, and drawings of weapons.

“To answer your question, I do not know how to make a dirty bomb,” Ms. Siddiqui said, adding later, “I did not draw those pictures. I'm definitely not that good an artist, I can tell you that.”

Busy place that.

[donnay]

I am posting this to point out Amy Bishop's date of birth...again do the math, her brother was shoot in 1986.  She would have been 21 when the incident took place!!

UAH faculty background on suspected shooter & victims
http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/UAH-faculty-background-on-suspected-shooter/yV8sEWJH_U-0qZHfI0_tPw.cspx

From the University of Alabama in Huntsville website:

 

Faculty in Biological Sciences

(Information related to Friday’s incident)

 

 

Amy Bishop (charged with one count of capital murder)

Assistant Professor of Biological Science

College of Science

Hired: August 2003

Ph.D. Genetics

Came from Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Born: 4/24/1965

Courses taught: Anatomy & Physiology, Introduction to Neuroscience, Human Anatomy and Physiology

Dr. Bishop earned a doctorate from Harvard University and her research interests were in the field of neurobiology. She conducted research into ALS and Alzheimers diseases.  (More information – www.uah.edu/biology/amy.html)

 

 Luis Cruz Vera (listed in stable condition and able to leave Huntsville Hospital Saturday afternoon)

 

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

College of Science

Hired: August 2007

Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Originally from Mexico

Came here from Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Courses taught: General biochemistry

 

 Gopi Podila (killed)

Professor and Chair of Biological Science

College of Science

Hired:  July 2001

Ph.D. Molecular Biology

Originally from India

Came here from Michigan Technological University, Houghton Michigan

Born: 9/14/1957

Courses taught: Molecular biology systems, advanced molecular techniques, plant molecular biology and biotechnology

 

Maria Ragland Davis (killed)

Associate Professor of Biological Science

College of Science

Hired: August 2002

Ph.D. Biochemistry

Came from Research Genetics in Huntsville

Courses taught: Cell development, Gene silencing in fungi

 

 

Joseph Leahy (in critical condition at Huntsville Hospital Saturday afternoon)

Associate Professor of Biological Science

College of Science

Hired: August 1997

Ph.D. Microbiology

Came from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Taught courses: Infection and Immunity, general microbiology I & II

 

Adriel Johnson (Killed)

Associate Professor of Biological Science

College of Science

Hired: March 1989

Ph.D. Biology

Came from North Carolina State University

Born: 6/22/1957

Courses taught: General biology, organismal biology, genetics, biochemistry, anatomy and physiology, neurobiology, cellular, molecular and developmental biology.

 

Staff assistant Ms. Stephanie Monticciolo was also in critical condition at Huntsville Hospital Saturday afternoon.

 

Madison County District Attorney Rob Broussard said Dr. Bishop is charged with one count of capital murder, and could have her first court hearing in approximately six weeks. Huntsville Police Chief Henry Reyes confirmed that a 9 mm pistol which police recovered in a second floor bathroom in the Shelby Center was used in the shooting.

The university remains open for those faculty and staff who wish to report to work and grief counselors will be available to the campus community next week,but the campus will close. All classes, campus, and athletic events will also be canceled during the week of February 15th-19th.  Details have not been released, but a memorial service is planned for Friday, February 19th. 

Source: http://newinfo.uah.edu/news/newspages/campusnews.php?id=172

[starvosan]

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread543236/pg1
Breaking, so no real word yet. The local CBS affiliate is saying there were two shooters, two faculty members dead, two more in critical, and the local hospital is alerted to expect at least ten cases.

Hmmm.... two dead and 10 more wounded?  Well that would be a lot for one woman.  Maybe six total would be a more reasonable number.

Also, notice the police are not confirming the alleged motive of anger over being denied tenure.  If that really was her motive, you can bet she would be very eager to confirm it to justify her actions.  But if she is not saying that, and that is not the motive, what is?

[William Rausch]

donnay:

I don't know.

It sounds to me more like she's a bad actor who's being protected.

I'll study the facts in the articles you posted to that other thread, but three shotgun blasts in two different rooms of a house is an accident?

She and her husband may have been cleared by the BATFE for the Boston bomb attempt, but that's the agency responsible for the Waco massacre, so what is their word really worth?

[donnay]

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/cops_and_courts/x228087669/From-the-Archives-Sister-kills-teenager-in-shotgun-accident

BRAINTREE —


This story appeared on page 1 of the Patriot Ledger on Dec. 8, 1986.

Sister kills teenager in shotgun accident at home

BRAINTREE – An 18-year-old who won prizes in science and music was killed when his sister accidentally fired a shotgun she was trying to unload in the kitchen of their Braintree home Saturday afternoon.

Seth M. Bishop, a freshman at Northeastern University in Boston, was shot in his home at 46 Hollis Ave., at about 2:20 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Police said his sister, Amy Bishop, was trying to unload the pump-action, 12-gauge shotgun when it discharged.

The fatal shooting was witnessed by Bishop’s mother, Judith, according to authorities.

The shotgun was registered to Bishop’s father, Samuel S. Bishop, a professor at Northeastern University.

According to investigators, Amy Bishop had been taught how to use the shotgun by her father. On the day of the accident, she was handling the loaded weapon in the home, although investigators said it was not clear why.

She pumped a round from the magazine into the firing chamber of the shotgun, then went into the kitchen and asked her brother and mother for help when she couldn’t eject the shell from the chamber, investigators said.

Her mother instructed Amy Bishop to pump the shotgun again, which ejected the first shell, according to an investigator. However, she apparently pumped the weapon again and unknowingly advanced a second shell from the magazine to the chamber.

Thinking the weapon was empty, she pulled the trigger, the investigator said. The blast struck her brother, who was standing three to four feet in front of her, authorities said.

Dr. William P. Ridder, an associate Norfolk County medical examiner, said Bishop was shot once in the lower right chest with bird-shot. He said Bishop showed faint signs of life when ambulance attendants arrived at the home, but attempts at reviving him were not successful.   Bish was pronounced dead at 3:08 p.m. at Quincy City Hospital.

The accident is under investigation by Braintree police and the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office, but authorities said they don’t expect charges to be filed

Bishop graduated from Braintree High School this spring near the top of his class. He was a freshan at Northeastern University, studying electrical engineering.

Teachers say he was an accomplished violinist. He began studying music in elementary school and developed a broad repertoire. He was a member of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Braintree High School Orchestra and other student orchestras.

He received fine arts awards from state groups and the high school, including the Arian Award for Music. He won the Science Fair at the high school, second prize in the district science fair and third prize in the state science fair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

"He had great potential and he was interested in all aspects of science," said Paul Hogan, head of the high school sciences department. "I know he would have been very successful in whatever he chose to do."

Teachers recalled Bishop as a shy but friendly student who enjoyed school but kept to a small circle of friends who shared his interests in music and science.

"He was extremely gifted, so intelligent that I think many other students didn't understand him," said Dr. Katherine Dewey, head of the music department at the high school. "He was one of those genius kids who marched to the beat of his own drum.

"Once kids got to know him, they accepted him. They sort of looked after Seth, had him take part in whatever they were doing."

Dewey said Amy Bishop, who graduated from the high school two years ago, was also a talented violing who had gone on to study at Northeastern.

"They were very much alike, shy and pretty much out of the mainstream," she said.


  
   This story appeared the next day, also starting on page 1:

Gun fired moments before teen’s death

BRAINTREE – The shotgun that accidentally killed an 18-year-old college student in the kitchen of his Braintree home Saturday had gone off moments before in an upstairs bedroom.

After she accidentally discharged the gun into her bedroom wall, the victim’s sister, Amy, carried the weapon downstairs and asked for help unloading it. It was then that the shotgun discharged a second time, fatally wounding Seth M. Bishop, police said.

“It all happened in a split-second in front of me,” Judith Bishop, their mother, said this morning. “I keep seeing it over and over in my mind.”

Mrs. Bishop said Amy was trying to teach herself how to use the 12-gauge shotgun in case burglars broke into the house.

The family purchased the gun after their Hollis Avenue home was burglarized a year ago, Mrs. Bishop said.

When the shotgun went off in her bedroom, Amy Bishop, 20, became frightened and “highly emotional” and went downstairs to her mother and brother to find out how to unload it, Braintree Police Capt. Theodore Buker said.

“She came downstairs to the kitchen seeking help on how to unload it,” Buker said. “Her mother said something like, ‘Be careful where you point that’ and as she turned around (toward her brother) the gun discharged.”  

Seth Bishop, a 1986 Braintree High School graduate and an award-winning violinist, was struck in the lower chest by the shotgun blast.

His funeral was today at All Souls Church in Braintree and he was to be buried later today in Exeter, N.H. He was a student of electrical engineering at Northeastern University in Boston.

Mrs. Bishop said last year's burglary was followed by an attempted housebreak just before Thanksgiving. Buker confirmed those incidents.

"I think she (Amy) thought she should know how to use it in case she was home alone," Mrs. Bishop said. "She didn't know anything about it."

Buker said after the gun went off in her bedroom, Amy Bishop apparently pumped a second shell into the firing chamber, then went downstairs seeking help. He said she probably did not know she had advanced a second shell into the chamber.

"It is not an automatic weapon, so in order for the shell to be advanced, it would have to be pumped," Buker said. "It isn't particularly hard to do."

Buker's comments clarified a report in yesterday's Patriot Ledger which said Amy Bishop tried to unload the shotgun by pumping it and had ejected a shell, but inadvertently loaded a second shell into the firing chamber and pulled the trigger.

Both Buker and Mrs. Bishop said Amy Bishop did not try to unload the weapon because she did not understand how it worked.

After the incident, Amy Bishop ran from the house with the weapon. Police officers found her a short time later near Braintree Square in a "highly emotional state."

Samuel S. Bishop, the father of Amy and Seth, was not at home at the time of the accident, Buker said.

[William Rausch]

donnay:

Whichever one of us is right, one thing is for sure: as Alex would say: "This has black ops written all over it.".

[donnay]

William,

I sure hope Alex brings this up today!

[donnay]

Braintree promises search for records in Bishop case
By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

The mayor of Braintree said today that the town and its police department would work with the Norfolk County district attorney's office to locate all materials relating to the 1986 fatal shooting by Amy Bishop of her brother, Seth Bishop, a case that is drawing new interest because Amy Bishop was charged with shooting six people on Friday in Alabama.

The town and the police recognize "the importance of transparency ... The Braintree Police Department will conduct a thorough audit of all its records to identify if there were deficits in its past record keeping process," Mayor Joseph C. Sullivan said today in a statement.

The statement came after Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier on Saturday raised troubling questions about the handling of the case in his town, saying that a police report on the Dec. 6, 1986 shooting was missing and that the officer who prepared it remembered the shooting as happening during an argument, even though the State Police later ruled it was an accident.

More than two decades later, Amy Bishop now stands accused of shooting six of her colleagues – three of them fatally – at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Sullivan promised that the results of the review would be shared with the public and with law enforcement agencies.

John Guilfoil of the Globe staff contributed to this report.

[g1rlg0ne]

The police said Saturday that Dr. Bishop was 45, but her birth date on a university Web site indicated that she was 44.

I thought they said she was 42?
This is so confusing!

[donnay]

I thought they said she was 42?
This is so confusing!

Yes, I did hear them say 42 at the beginning.  

I searched and found that her DOB is: 4/24/1965

[oyashango]

I donno. I just think she has an anger management problem.

[Optimus]

Bishop recalled as a ‘brilliant’ person; no indications of violence
http://www.wickedlocal.com/mansfield/topstories/x228088830/Bishop-recalled-as-a-brilliant-person-no-indications-of-violence
By Sue Scheible
The Patriot Ledger
Posted Feb 15, 2010 @ 02:06 PM

BRAINTREE —Amy Bishop was recognized as very bright from an early age, and although shy, she gave no signs of being troubled or capable of violence.

Town Councilor Charles Kokoros, who went to school with Bishop from kindergarten on, remembers a girl who was “extremely bright.”

The Bishop family lived near the Kokoros home off Pond Street until they moved to the large Victorian house at 46 Hollis Ave. Kokoros graduated from Braintree High with Bishop in 1983, and after the shooting death of her 18-year-old brother, Seth, in 1986, he recalls, “everyone in town reacted mostly with shock and sadness.”

He does not recall any questions about the accidental-death ruling.

“No one would want to believe that she would kill her brother on purpose,” he said.

Bishop was described during high school as a talented musician who played in the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. She attended Northeastern University and received a doctorate from Harvard Medical School in 1993.

That same year, Bishop was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard professor, according to the Boston Globe.

Her husband, James Anderson, said he had no clues that she might be capable of violence, the Associated Press reported. Colleagues and students expressed shock at the alleged shootings.

The couple have four children.

Several Braintree residents described Bishop’s mother, Judith Bishop, as outgoing, friendly and active in town issues. She was a witness in the 1986 investigation that resulted in the accidental-death ruling. Bishop’s father, Samuel, taught at Northeastern. They moved from Braintree not long after their son’s death.

[donnay]

I donno. I just think she has an anger management problem.

The media is making us believe she had anger issues.  Personally, I think she is being set up for a fall. 

[donnay]

Okay now this is starting to look like a bad script from a B-rated movie!!!   

Quincy man recalls Amy Bishop holdup
‘For the last 23 years, it was just a cool story I could tell.’
By Jessica Van Sack, Jessica Fargen and Edward Mason
Monday, February 15, 2010 -

RIDING SHOTGUN: Thomas Pettigrew talks about being held up at a car dealership by a woman he says was Amy Bishop, looking for a getaway car after her brother was shot dead in 1986.


A former auto-body worker claims Amy Bishop put a gun to his chest and demanded a getaway car just minutes after she shot her brother to death 24 years ago in a controversial case that is now being reviewed.

Tom Pettigrew, 45, told the Herald he was working at the Dave Dinger Ford auto repair shop in South Braintree, near the former Bishop home, when he saw the gun-wielding woman run into the dealership with what he thought was a BB gun.

Pettigrew, of Quincy, who was 22 at the time, recalled telling his co-oworkers: “I’m like, ‘Did I just see what I just saw?’ ”

Pettigrew said he heard noise coming from where car keys are stored, so he went to investigate.

“I go over to the door and I can sense that she’s right near the door,” Pettigrew said. “I’m thinking it’s a BB gun. I open the door and she’s right there and we basically bumped into each other and I got a shotgun right in my chest!”

“And she’s like, ‘Hands up!’ and I’m like, ‘Yes ma’am’ ”

Bishop appeared agitated and nervous, Pettigrew said. The University of Alabama professor now accused of killing three colleagues Friday said she needed a car because, “I got into a fight with my husband and he’s going to kill me,” the worker recalled.

Pettigrew then watched as Bishop walked through the dealership looking at cars, all the while grasping the gun.

By then, police arrived and swarmed the parking lot. One armed officer climbed up on a nearby roof, Pettigrew said, and could have taken her out.

Instead, they arrested her. Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier has said officers on duty claim they were forced by retired former Chief John Polio to let Bishop, whose mother was a member of the police personnel board, go. Polio denies that and said then-District Attorney William Delahunt investigated the case and ruled it an accident.

Pettigrew said police questioned him after the incident but he never heard from them again.

“For the last 23 years, it was just a cool story I could tell my friends,” Pettigrew said.

Braintree Mayor Joseph C. Sullivan said yesterday the city, its police department and the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office are “conducting a full and thorough review of its municipal and law enforcement records to locate all materials relating to the Dec. 6, 1986, death of Seth Bishop . . . to identify if there were any deficits in its past record-keeping process.”

[oyashango]

I don't believe she murdered her brother...too many inconsistencies with reports here.  I believe it was an accident just like it was reported first.  Now, the Braintree, MA police department are saying she had a fight with her brother Seth and shot him in the chest--why wasn't she arrested and charged with murder, she was 20 years old when this incident took place?  The other interesting thing is the Braintree, MA police department just cannot seem to find her file.  If it was a possible murder case the file would be left open since there is no statute of limitations on a murder case.

I'd also be interested in the schools surveillance cameras--we know they have them.  Of course the cameras will either have been shut down or so blurry you couldn't make out who did what.

They also said that she was upset because she was not going to make tenure yet in this article it was said that the faculty meeting wasn't even discussing tenure.

I do smell a set up in progress.

Donnay: I just heard on CNN that just completed a profile of her, and they raised the same question about why was she not arrested. The reporter who visited her home and sought out other informaties stated that she was not charged with murder because her mother at the time, had a close relationship with the police chief. I think they even said her mother was working there.

I am not feeling the "setup" theory. I just think there is a fine line between genuis and insanity. given that if she was overly pampered and not disciplined firmly growing-up, I just think she was never taught to handle her anger properly. She appeared to come from a family that covers for her errors. I most definitely could be wrong.

[donnay]

The saga continues to paint these people as strangely psychotic.

Ipswich neighbors recall confrontations with Amy Bishop
February 15, 2010 06:58 PM

By John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff

IPSWICH -- On Birch Lane, a family neighborhood where there are almost as many curbside basketball hoops as mailboxes, Amy Bishop, her husband, and their four children did not seem to fit in, former neighbors said yesterday.

Bishop, who now stands accused of gunning down three professors at the University of Alabama Huntsville, and her husband, James Anderson, were not always considered friendly neighbors and sometimes had arguments with other families. At least once, Bishop hinted that an ongoing confrontation with neighbors could become violent.

The accounts of longtime neighborhood residents, combined with a stack of police reports provided to the Globe by the Ipswich Police Department, paint a picture of conflict between the Bishop/Anderson family and others in town.

Bishop, who was referred to as Amy Anderson at the time, called 911 regularly during her short time living in this North Shore community. She reported several neighborhood kids to the police for "disturbing the peace" by riding their dirt bikes and motorized scooters in the neighborhood after school. Police repeatedly informed her and her husband that kids are allowed to ride their bikes and scooters during the afternoon hours, especially on their own property.

Bishop called police at least five times about neighborhood children making noise after they got home from school. On July 3, 2001, she complained that the noise from motorized scooters and motor bikes was bothering her. On April 12, 2002, she complained that children were riding dirt bikes in the woods around the neighborhood. On April 27, 2003, she called police again about kids riding bikes in the neighborhood.

On June 25, 2000, during another complaint about kids making noise, Bishop reportedly told police that her dispute with one of the children's parents may "come to blows."

Joey Lafoe, now 18 and a senior at Ipswich High School, was the target of Bishop's police reports several times for riding around on his dirt bike and motorized scooter.

"They used to videotape us driving our dirt bikes, and they used to call the cops on us saying that our dirt bikes kept them up -- at 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon," Lafoe said. "The cops said we could go until 8 o'clock."


He summed the family up in one word:

"Strange," Lafoe said.

Ipswich Police Officer Michael Thomas remembers responding to several 911 calls at the Anderson/Bishop house, calling the family "regular customers."

"I do remember them. Some of their complaints were legitimate, but it just gets to a point there was never enough we could do for them."

Thomas said that the family would get angry with police, especially when they said they were told that police couldn't put a stop to kids playing basketball or riding dirt bikes in the neighborhood because it wasn't illegal.

Bishop once stopped a local ice cream truck from coming into their neighborhood. According to WBZ-1030 radio, she said it because her own kids were lactose intolerant, and she didn't think it was fair that her kids couldn't have ice cream.

"That's who it was!" Lafoe said. "When we were younger the ice cream truck just stopped coming around. That's strange."

On February 17, 2002, a police report indicates that Bishop called 911 several times and hung up on the dispatcher. No further information was available on that day's incident.

On April 11, 1999, James Anderson called police to report that the couple's daughters, Phaeder and Thea, were missing. He said that the girls were at a friend's house and were supposed to call before they left. Police arrived, and another neighborhood parent quickly came outside and said the girls and other children were over at his house.

But the children were largely kept isolated from the other neighborhood kids.

Lafoe and several others said that it was common knowledge in the neighborhood that the kids weren't allowed to play with the rest of the kids in the neighborhood.

Some neighbors, like Ethel Farmer, who's lived in the neighborhood for 37 years, never knew the Bishop/Anderson family at all because they largely kept to themselves, neighbors said. Farmer said one of the only things she knew about the family was that the kids weren't allowed to play with other kids in the neighborhood.

"I never met them. I never knew their names. I've been here 37 years and never met them. I just found out that they were my neighbors from another neighbor," Farmer said. "I know who Amy Bishop is because of the news, but not because she was a neighbor."

John M. Guilfoil can be reached at jguilfoil@globe.com

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So they interview people who NEVER met Amy Bishop and husband James Anderson and continue to spew what they have been told what the media has portrayed them and then other neighbors hearsay. 

They have to continue to make this woman look like she is a absolute nutcase.

[donnay]

Alleged Alabama shooter was investigated for shooting brother

GateHouse News Service
Posted Feb 14, 2010 @ 11:47 AM
Weymouth —

Dr. Amy Bishop, who has been charged in the shooting deaths of three professors at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, was investigated for the shooting death of her brother, Seth, in Braintree in 1986 and let go suddenly without explanation, Police Chief Paul Frazier said Saturday.

Chief Frazier, who was a patrolman at the time, said he remembers that many officers “were extremely upset” when the investigation was stopped and Amy Bishop released, at the order of then Police Chief John Polio, who retired the following year.

Frazier called a news conference Saturday afternoon to respond to reports in the media. Frazier said he had been contacted by the Huntsville police looking into the incident and had found that the reports of the 1986 shooting were missing from the archive files.

He then made phone calls to officers involved in the case at the time to try and fill in some of the details. Frazier said he had not spoken with former Chief Polio, who lives in town.

Contacted later at home, Chief Polio, now 87, said that he remembered the shooting and that he turned the investigation over to the District Attorney’s office for an inquest in 1986 because there were questions about whether it was accidental.

The office of then Dist. Atty. William Delahunt determined that no complaint would be issued, Polio said.
   As far as he is concerned, Polio said, he believes his department did everything correctly in turning the case over to the district attorney’s office for an inquest.

But Frazier said his information gathered over the past day suggested that the reports filed at the time did not give an accurate account of what really happened in the house at 46 Hollis Avenue. "It is a far different story that was reported back then," Chief Frazier said. "I cannot tell you what the thought process was behind our releasing her at the time." Frazier said he spoke with a retired police deputy who did the booking process in 1986 and he told him he was contacted by the Police Chief John Polio at that time and told to release her.

Frazier said every officer who was working on the case in 1986 has retired except for one, whom he spoke with.

Frazier said he would like to find out if the former police chief in 1986, John Polio, spoke with then District Attorney William Delahunt. In a statement released later, Frazier said he and Mayor Joseph Sullivan had been in contact with Norfolk County Dist. Atty. William Keating and planned to meet with Keating next week.

"This would not happen in this day and age, I can tell you that," Frazier said of the 1986 investigation. "I would have to see the story again, but from what I am hearing, it was not accurate."

Delahunt, now a Massachusetts congressman, could not be reached for immediate comment.

At  the press conference, Chief Frazier said his conversations Saturday with police officers  led him to believe that Amy Bishop fled the home after the Dec. 6, 1986 shooting and then was captured at gunpoint by officers, brought into the station under arrest and released during the booking process by order of then chief Polio and that no charges were filed against her. The Huntsville police had asked for a report from that incident.

Frazier said he found the day log from that date has no name attached and the incident report is missing from the archive files. He spoke with the officer who wrote the report who said it was discovered to be missing in 1988. A current Braintree police lieutenant who was a high school classmate has identified that Amy Bishop as the same person charged in Huntsville.

The officer who was on scene in 1986 told Frazier that Bishop fired a round in her bedroom, had a fight with her brother, shot him, and fired one more round before fleeing, pointed the gun at a vehicle, before she was arrested at gunpoint. She was taken to the station and later released without any charges filed.

In 1986, The Patriot Ledger reported that police said Amy Bishop, 20,  accidentally discharged a shotgun in her bedroom wall and then carried the gun downstairs and asked her brother to help her unload it. It was then that the gun accidentally discharged a second time, fatally wounding Seth Bishop, investigators said at the time.

Judith Bishop, their mother, was reported in the Patriot Ledger as saying, "It all happened in a split second in front of me." Judith Bishop said then that Amy was trying to teach herself how to use the 12-gauge shotgun in case burglars broke in, according to Ledger reporter Jim Kelly. It was also reported that Seth Bishop, 18, had won prizes in science and music, and was a freshman at Northeastern University in Boston.

Seth Bishop was shot in their home at 46 Hollis Avenue about 2:30 p.m. Saturday Dec. 6, 1986.

The shotgun was registered to Bishop's father, Samuel S. Bishop, a professor at Northeastern University. Judith Bishop was active in town affairs and on the personnel board.

According to investigators, Amy Bishop had been taught how to use the gun by her father. On the day she shot her brother, according to the 1986 article, she was handling the loaded weapon and pumped a round from the magazine into the firing chamber, then went from her bedroom to the kitchen and asked her mother and brother for help because she couldn't eject the shell from the chamber.

Her mother instructed her to pump the shotgun again, which ejected the first shell, the Ledger reported. However, she apparently pumped the gun again and unknowingly advanced a second shell into the chamber, and then pulled the trigger, thinking the weapon was empty. The resulting blast killed her brother, who was standing three to four feet in front of her, the Ledger reported.

The Norfolk County associate medical examiner, William Ridder, said that Seth Bishop was shot once in the lower right chest with bird shot. He was pronounced dead at Quincy City Hospital.

Two days after the shooting, the Ledger reported that the case was being investigated by the Braintree police and the Norfolk County District Attorney's office but that authorities said they did not expect charges to be filed.

Seth Bishop was described as extremely gifted and intelligent by his teachers at Braintree High School. Amy Bishop was described as a talented musician who had also gone on to Northeastern. Both were "shy and pretty much out of the mainstream," a high school teacher said at that time.

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Something just occurred to me that I found kind of weird-- the Huntsville police department summons the Braintree police department for information about the 1986 incident.  If Amy Bishop wasn't charge with anything there would be no record of this incident as a prior in a database.  Am I wrong to wonder why the Huntsville Alabama police would inquire about it, if there is no record of Amy Bishop being charged with anything?

[trailhound]

Donnay wrote

Something just occurred to me that I found kind of weird-- the Huntsville police department summons the Braintree police department for information about the 1986 incident.  If Amy Bishop wasn't charge with anything there would be no record of this incident as a prior in a database.  Am I wrong to wonder why the Huntsville Alabama police would inquire about it, if there is no record of Amy Bishop being charged with anything?

 Georgiacopguy might know something in this regard. Good question.

[oyashango]

Alabama Professor Went to Range Before Shooting, Husband Says

February 15, 2010

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama  —

The husband of an Alabama professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues said Monday that he'd gone with her to a shooting range recently but that he didn't know where she got the gun she used for practice that day.

James Anderson told The Associated Press that his wife, Amy Bishop, didn't do anything unusual in the days before Friday's shooting. Bishop, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, is accused of pulling a gun at a faculty meeting and shooting six people, three fatally. Two of the survivors remained in critical condition Monday.

Anderson said he knew his wife had a gun, but didn't know when or how she got it.

"I really don't know how she got it, or where she got it from," he said.

Police have previously said Bishop had no permit for the gun they believe she used in the shooting, and investigators said they didn't know where she got it. It's not clear if that was the same gun that her husband knew about.

Bishop's husband said nothing unusual happened on their trip to the shooting range, and that she didn't reveal why she took an interest in target practice. Nothing in her behavior before the shooting foreshadowed the violence last week, either, he said.

"She was just a normal professor," he said.

On Monday, some victims relatives were questioning how Bishop was hired at the university in 2003 after she was questioned years ago in separate criminal probes.

In 1986, Bishop shot and killed her 18-year-old brother with a shotgun at their Braintree, Mass., home. She told police at the time that she had been trying to learn how to use the gun, which her father had bought for protection, when it accidentally discharged.

Authorities released her and said the episode was a tragic accident. She was never charged, though current Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier questions how the investigation was handled.

Her husband said Monday he had known about her brother being shot, but said "it was an accicdent. That's all I knew about it."

In another incident, The Boston Globe reported that Bishop and her husband were questioned by investigators looking into a pipe bomb sent to one of Bishop's colleagues, Dr. Paul Rosenberg, at Children's Hospital Boston in 1993. The bomb did not go off, and nobody was ever charged.

James Anderson defended himself and his wife as innocent people questioned by investigators casting a wide net. He said the case "had a dozen people swept up in this and everybody was a subject, not a suspect."

"There was never any indictment, arrest, nothing, and then everyone was cleared after five years," he said.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586024,00.html

[One Revelator]

RIDING SHOTGUN: Thomas Pettigrew talks about being held up at a car dealership by a woman he says was Amy Bishop, looking for a getaway car after her brother was shot dead in 1986.
//snip//
Bishop appeared agitated and nervous, Pettigrew said. The University of Alabama professor now accused of killing three colleagues Friday said she needed a car because, “I got into a fight with my husband and he’s going to kill me,” the worker recalled.

Fascinating how the media keeps morphing the story around, as the facts don’t seem to quite line up.

Also what’s up with the husband not bothering to ask or seeming to care where a gun came from when they don’t own any guns?  I definitely think we’re not getting the whole story.  Still waiting on those mysteriously missing survivor/witness accounts.  I’m vaguely reminded of  the Columbine anomalies that remain unresolved to this day.

[donnay]

Another glaring inconsistency.

University of Alabama professor charged in killings was questioned, along with her husband, in 1993 pipe bomb case

By The New York Times
February 14, 2010, 9:52PM
By Shaila Dewan and Katie Zezima

//SNIP//

He said he [James Anderson] did not know of any specific incident that could have triggered it and did not know that his wife had a gun when she went to the meeting.

"I had no idea," he said. "We don't own one."