She was a personel committee for the town. This was an unpaid position that had 24 members. The mother has dirt or connections but that post can’t absolve murder.
“The mother has dirt or connections...”
was Momma (or even Amy herself) boffing Delahunt-the-DA at the time? it would sure fit into this easily....maybe there was a family discussion about it just prior to the shooting of the brother?
look at the snips that come up on the hit page and then contemplate the possibility:
http://www.google.com/search?q=amy+bishop+brother+father+mother+shooting+1986&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a