Posted on 02/22/2010 11:43:47 AM PST by outpostinmass2
*ping*
Wonder what happened to the shotgun?
Oh please. So the police deliberately withheld this info from the DA’s office?? WHY? They covered up for this nut? WHY? Come on, Delahunt. You’ll have to do better than this.
The "accidental" shooting explanation might "fly" if there was a single, unintended discharge that hit Seth. Three rounds sounds like intent to kill with a couple "practice shots" to get familiar with the weapon. The follow up taking the shotgun out and threatening other parties to "get away" sounds like a complete understanding that she committed a criminal act and was seeking to avoid apprehension by law enforcement.
She clearly "mastered" her 38SPL. Assuming it was a typical 6 shooter, she successfully shot 6 persons...3 of them fatally.
“Three rounds sounds like intent to kill with a couple “practice shots” to get familiar with the weapon.”
First time she fired it she had to have learned how powerful it kicked, how LOUD the discharge is, etc. Then she went to the kitchen and, at a minimum, leveled it at her brother, braced herself, and fired with deadly intent.
Some accident.
“You imply rationality on Judith’s part. I think she may have been just as unhinged as Amy turned out to be”
It’s virtually incomprehensible thinking about how that family worked. And there’s a continuum of sorts from Bishop’s mother to Bishop’s husband.
In sequence, Amy Bishop kills her brother, and they are both students at Northeastern. Surely her bother had friends who wanted to know what really happened. Surely professors knew, and wondered too.
Yet 22-year old Amy Bishop likely would havee been a senior, and would have been applying to graduate school. But - nobody in the administration at Northeastern stepped in the way to say, “wait a minute, we can’t be silent here”. Clearly no mention of any of this appeared in her grad school applications, or recommendations.
How could that be?
So Harvard gets a murderer as grad student, and next Amy nearly murders her professor with a pipe bomb. And this time, suspicions about her husband’s involvement arise.
Roll forward, we now learn that her husband borrowed the gun Amy used to mow down the Biology department, borrowed so that Amy could take the gun to the range and practice — all after hearing that she was being denied tenure. Surely her husband, after all those years, had heard the dark story in the family about the missing brother, how he died. And he still ‘borrowed’ the gun for Amy.
SO — Amy gets a threateningly bad grade at Harvard which may impede her degree progress, and she goes into “kill” mode, with the suggestion that her husband was complicit.
The same thing happens in Alabama — her career path is threatened — and her husband borrows a gun. And she goes to the practice range.
What a family !! There’s a horror movie script in here somewhere.
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