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BooMan, chances are you’ll get your movie after all.
(The Confluence) – A pattern seems to be forming, doesn’t it? James Anderson claims that neither he nor his wife were suspects in 1993, but Sylvia Fluckiger, who worked with Bishop as a lab assistant says otherwise. According to Fluckiger, Amy Bishop smirked when she talked about being questioned, and others in the lab were “knew she had a beef with Paul Rosenberg” and didn’t see how the bombing could be a coincidence.
During the search, the Feds found a novel on Bishop’s computer about a woman who had killed her own brother and wanted to “make amends by becoming a great scientist.”
The family home at 46 Hollis Ave. in Braintree, where Seth Bishop was killed in 1986.
Patriot Ledger Dec. 8, 1986 – ‘Sister kills teenager in shotgun accident’
(Boston Globe) – Some legal specialists say there is more than enough reason to question the thoroughness of the 1986 investigation of the shooting death of Amy Bishop’s brother, which was declared an accident at the time.
Janet Hetherwick Pumphrey, a Lenox-based criminal appeals lawyer, said the fact that the original police report on Seth Bishop’s death is missing is “really unusual and suspicious.” In addition, she said the only other report currently available, a State Police investigation summary, suggests the only witnesses questioned in the case were “three people who had reason to cover it up” — Amy Bishop and her parents.
“And the fact that it wasn’t investigated for so many days, that’s huge,” said Hetherwick Pumphrey, who reviewed the State Police summary and statements made last weekend by Braintree Police, whose current and former chiefs are now questioning the handling of the investigation by former Norfolk District Attorney William Delahunt and State Police assigned to his office.
A six-page State Police report shows Bishop and her parents were interviewed 11 days after the shooting, but provide little additional detail about the inquiry.
Hetherwick Pumphrey said the report should have included interviews of all of the officers who interacted with Bishop and her family on the day of the shooting. In addition, she said state police should have gone to Bishop’s house and looked at how the fatal shot was fired, along with evidence that she fired the shotgun more than once while in the house.
“There’s a whole investigation missing, basically,” Hetherwick Pumphrey said. “One very well may have been done, but it’s not here [in the report.]”
In today’s editions, the Globe reported that former Braintree police chief had backed away from his earlier defense of a 1986 decision not to press charges against Bishop.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
