"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14 ____ "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
The neuroscientist charged with killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville last week does not remember what happened, her lawyer said Friday. "She just doesn’t remember shooting these folks", said the lawyer, Roy W. Miller, of his client, Amy Bishop. The NY Times
Amy Bishop said she asked her brother, not her mother, for help unloading the gun, and that she was pointing it beside her leg for safety. She said her brother told her to point it up instead. Bishop said she started to raise it when “someone said something to her and she turned and the gun went off.’’ The blast struck her brother as he walked across the kitchen. She said she raced out the door, thinking she dropped the gun as she left, and had no memory of putting on a jacket, carrying the gun outside, or anything else that happened in the aftermath. Her brother was pronounced dead at a Quincy hospital 46 minutes after the shooting, from a ruptured aorta due to a gunshot wound to the chest. bostom.com
It is interesting to see how each different alter has a different EEG profile. One of the primary brain areas affected by the torture and programming are the areas which store event (personal history) memory. These areas are the hippocampus and the cortex of the frontal brain lobes which work with the two thalamus. General knowledge is stored in the neocortex (the grey area of the brain or the outer thin layer. The brain has practically no limit to memory. However, it will select what it wants to remember, and it will decide how it will file what it remembers. Hypnotic suggestions to "forget" something often simply means the person remembers the event--but labels the file "forgotten". The Illuminati Formula 2: THE TRAUMATIZATION & TORTURE OF THE VICTIM.
The next stage is to embed and compress detailed commands or messages within the specified alter. This is achieved through the use of hi-tech headsets, in conjunction with computer-driven generators which emit inaudible sound waves or harmonics that affect the RNA covering of neuron pathways to the subconscious and unconscious mind. “Virtual Reality” optical devices are sometimes used simultaneously with the harmonic generators projecting pulsating colored lights, subliminals and split-screen visuals. High voltage electroshock is then used for memory dissolution.
Ron Patton (Project Monarch: Nazi Mind Control) http://mcvictimsworld.ning.com/forum/topics/mkultra-programming-1?commentId=2301601%3AComment%3A24215
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is the convicted assassin of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
In what is perhaps one of the best cases for proof of successful mind-control, the evidence strongly suggests that Sirhan may have been programmed (by the CIA) with hypnosis and drugs. (Sirhan claims to have no memory of the killing.)
Master hypnotist William J. Bryan, Jr., who allegedly worked for the CIA, bragged about hypnotizing Sirhan prior to the assassination, as well as the serial killer known as the "Boston Strangler," Albert DeSalvo. Bryan, by his own account, had been the "chief of all medical survival training for the United States Air Force, which meant the brainwashing section." He also claimed to have been a consultant for the film "The Manchurian Candidate," which was based on Richard Condon's famous novel about a man who is captured by Communists and hypnotically programmed to return to the United States to kill a political leader. Condon's novel was itself based upon the CIA's ARTICHOKE program (the successor to Project BLUEBIRD), which sought to find a way to create a programmed, amnesiac assassin. Project ARTICHOKE eventually became Project MKULTRA.
Sirhan had been drinking Tom Collinses that night. His last memory was of pouring coffee for a pretty girl, described by a waiter there as wearing a polka dot dress. Had Sirhan been surreptitiously drugged? The use of drugs, or hypnosis, or likely a combination of both, would go a long way towards explaining Sirhan's strange behavior as recorded by the witnesses that night.
The official records from Sirhan's blood test were lost by the Los Angeles Police Department...If the bulk of the witnesses, who gave matching stories, are correct, then Sirhan couldn't have fired the shots, and was in a disassociative state during the shooting. If he was under hypnosis and given amnesia-producing drugs such as the CIA was experimenting with for well over fourteen years by that time, then Sirhan's claims of memory loss and innocence, while strange, may well be true...for seekers of truth, the full record presents the very likely and disturbing possibility that Sirhan was a mind-controlled patsy performing an act of "attempted assassination" to distract from the real killers. http://karws.gso.uri.edu/marsh/mkultra/mkultra.txt
"Here was a psychiatrist willing - indeed, eager - to wipe the human mind totally clean. Cameron justified this tabula rasa approach because he had a theory of "differential amnesia." He postulated that after he produced "complete amnesia" in a subject, the person would eventually recover memory of his normal but not his schizophrenic behavior. Thus, Cameron claimed he could generate "differential amnesia." Creating such a state in which a man who knew too much could be made to forget had long been a prime objective of the MK-ULTRA program. Cameron wrote that when a patient remembered his schizophrenic symptoms, the schizophrenic behavior usually returned. If the amnesia held for these symptoms, as Cameron claimed it often did (evidence seems to suggest a fifty percent success rate), the subject usually did not have a relapse."
Lee Harvey Oswald was assumed the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Throw away assassins - assassins that can't be traced back to anyone or connected to any ideology; assassins that can be made to appear as "crazed lone gunmen"; assassins that can't even remember why (and sometimes even if) they committed the crime - that's what the CIA was aiming at with MK-ULTRA - that's what the "search for the Manchurian Candidate" was all about; and that's precisely what Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and Sirhan-Sirhan appear to have been. All three men fit the CIA's profile for a "throw-away assassin" - i.e., a Manchurian Candidate. All were ner-do-wells; drifters living on the periphery of society; loners; people who wouldn't be missed. And none of them were especially bright. In other words, they were, as psychologist Milton Kline describes, prime candidates for "depatterning" (i.e., brainwashing) and hypnosis.
James Earl Ray was convicted of the assassination of American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.
For example, take James Earl Ray: Ray was nothing more than a down-and-out petty thief: his criminal career was typified by such offenses as taxicab holdups and grocery store robberies, for which he usually got caught. The question arises, then, how could such a man pull off a complicated crime such as a sniper-fire assassination and make his way to London via Atlanta, Toronto and Portugal? How could he afford the travel expenses, much less plan the convoluted getaway in advance? And how could he concoct such an elaborate scheme, yet still be dumb enough to leave the murder weapon at the scene of the crime with his fingerprint on it? It fits perfectly the pattern of a CIA manufactured "hit" modeled after the design of a Manchurian Candidate. And the same is true of the other two: Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan-Sirhan. Moreover, while there is little doubt that all three participated in the crimes they were ultimately charged with, all claim to have been in a kind of a trance at the time and had trouble remembering what happened. All claimed later to have been patsies. Certainly this is what Lee Harvey Oswald claimed shortly before he was shot by Jack Ruby. And that's exactly what Sirhan-Sirhan claims too. He cannot remember the assassination at all. It's as if a segment of his memory had been entirely erased. The last thing he remembers is having coffee with a woman. Investigators later found a notebook in which he (i.e., Sirhan) wrote that he had to kill RFK - but the writing had obviously occurred as a result of what psychologists call "automatic writing" - writing which occurs in a trance-like state. http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000179.htm
"TRAINING OF UNCONSCIOUS ASSASSINS ALSO KNOWN AS 'U-BOATS,' INCLUDING OSWALD, SIRHAN, possibly RAY, & MANY OTHERS LIKE THEM: The subject cannot possibly [be] treated in the short space I have left. Bare bones: Victims are drugged into regression to early childhood. They are subjected to incredible pain, many expiring in the process. The natural response to the levels of pain DR. MENGELE had perfected was dissociation of the conscious mind. In that state they were given new, GERMAN names and trained as one would train a killer guard dog. They kill on command. THEY ARE ARTIFICIALLY-PRODUCED 'MULTIPLE' PERSONALITIES. One of the top people in their development appears to have been Sirhan Sirhan's psychiatrist, DR. DIAMOND. There were other prominent psyche folks in on it. They have no memory of the kill, except when prompted by the proper stimuli. MENGELE told my informant THAT HE personally did the training on Oswald. Location unknown, but we suspect Mexico City in Summer, 1963. http://www.angelfire.com/ut/branton/green.html
The Army and the FBI were not the only spooks looking at this “technology”. In his book, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, John Marks described an early attempt by the CIA to create a “programmed assassin”. He wrote that Morse Allen, who he described as the CIA’s first behavioral research czar, conducted an experiment with two of his secretaries. One secretary, the “victim,” Allen put into a deep trance and told her to keep sleeping until he ordered otherwise. The second, the “killer”, was hypnotized and told that if she could not wakeup her sleeping friend, “her rage would be so great that she would not hesitate to kill.” An unloaded pistol was placed nearby. Even though the second secretary had expressed a fear of firearms of any kind, she picked up the gun and “shot” her sleeping friend. After Allen brought the “killer” out of her trance, she had no recollection of the event and denied that she could ever have shot anyone. Haarp: The Utimate Weapon of the Conspiracy by Jerry E. Smith
April 6, 2010 UPDATE
Found this article VERY interesting:
Eric Schultz/Huntsville Times. Amy Bishop, with her attorney Roy Miller, at right, looks to the back of an Alabama courtroom during a March 23 preliminary hearing She has been charged with killing three University of Alabama colleagues and wounding three others during a Feb. 12 shooting rampage.
Man who bought gun Bishop used isn’t talking
By Robert Aicardi
GateHouse News Service
Posted Mar 26, 2010 @ 12:13 PM source
Braintree —
A Florida man whom police say bought a gun more than 20 years ago that was used when Amy Bishop, a 1983 graduate of Braintree High School, allegedly killed three colleagues and wounded three others at a Feb. 12 University of Alabama faculty meeting is declining to comment, the Huntsville (Alabama) Times reported on March 24.
Donald Proulx, who e-mailed the Associated Press to say that he had been told not to discuss the matter, referred questions to law enforcement.
Charles Gray, a police investigator, said in a Madison County courtroom on March 23 that Proulx bought the gun in New Hampshire in 1989 for Bishop’s husband, James Anderson, who wanted it because of problems he was having with a neighbor.
Anderson was not in the courtroom.
Bishop, a former biology professor, made her first public court appearance since her arrest wearing the red jumpsuit of a “high risk” inmate as she listend to a police witness describe the case against her.
Bishop, 45, is charged with three counts of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder.
District Judge Ruth Ann Hall found probable cause at the end of the 25-minute preliminary hearing and ruled that Bishop should remain in custody without bail and her case should be presented to a grand jury.
Under Alabama law, Bishop, who has yet to enter a plea, could face the death penalty if she is convicted of capital murder.
During an interview with police shortly after she was arrested, a reportedly calm Bishop denied that she attended the faculty meeting.
“I wasn’t there. It wasn’t me,” she said, according to Gray.
Roy Miller, Bishop’s attorney, has said that Bishop told him she doesn’t remember opening fire. He intends to argue insanity in his defense of Bishop.
Norfolk County District Attorney William Keating revealed last month that Bishop was being booked at the Braintree police station for the Dec. 6, 1986 murder of her brother when the procedure was halted and she was released from custody.
Keating made this statement during the Feb. 25 press conference in which he announced that he had asked Judge Mark Coven, the first justice of Quincy District Court, to conduct an inquest into the killing of Seth Bishop, 18, by his then-20-year-old sister at their Hollis Avenue home.
Coven has scheduled court time for April 13, 14, 15, and 16 for the inquest, which will be closed to the public.
Keating is now questioning whether the fatal shooting of Seth Bishop was accidental, as police and then-District Attorney (now U. S. Rep.) William Delahunt ruled at the time.
Murder is the only charge that could be filed against Bishop in connection with her brother’s death since the statute of limitations has run out on all other offenses.
Questions were raised following the Alabama shootings about why charges were never brought against Bishop nearly 24 years ago after she ran out of her home with a shotgun following the shooting of her brother, walked to the former Dave Dinger Ford auto shop a couple of blocks away, and demanded a car and a set of keys immediately.
Following a standoff with two police officers during which she was ordered three times to drop the shotgun, Bishop was arrested and brought to the police station.
Frank McGee, the lawyer of one of the officers, told the Boston Globe that after Bishop arrived at the station, her mother Judith, the only witness to the shooting, demanded to speak to then-Police Chief John V. Polio.
A short time later, Polio or another senior officer called to stop the booking process and allowed Bishop to go home with her mother.
Polio, 87, has said that he did not order Bishop’s release and never spoke to her mother at any point subequent to this incident.
Inconsistencies have been found in the original police reports and interviews.
For example, officers who went to the Bishops’ home after the shooting noted the position of Seth Bishop’s body alternately as face up and face down.
A crime scene photograph taken in Amy Bishop’s bedroom showed a newspaper clipping about a well-publicized murder lying next to a shotgun shell on the floor.
A few weeks before Seth Bishop’s death, the parents of “Dallas” star Patrick Duffy were killed at their Montana tavern by two teenagers who used a shotgun and proceeded to steal a Jeep from a car dealership.
Material from GateHouse News Service was used in this story.
Copyright 2010 Braintree Forum. Some rights reserved
Back in 2009, John Kilpatrick, former pastor of Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola Florida, made a prophetic prediction given to him by the Holy Spirit...so he would have us believe.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew 7
As one who was very much into all this nonsense, I post these videos so others will see the truth of the matter!
Spiritual Warfare promises much, but when push comes to shove doesn't actually deliver. Why? This video produced by someone who was involved with Youth With A Mission for several years, discusses why.
Spiritual Warfare, unlike how it is presented, is NOT a new concept or practice. Here are some key facts about spiritual warfare, prayer walking and identification repentance that the third wave charismatic church do NOT want their followers to know.
Since I trust/believe LITTLE if any of the what we are told in the news, what do you make of this tragic incident?
Items:
•The shooter's husband was also taken into custody but no reason why given
•There are a couple of photos of a blond woman being handcuffed and put in a police car but no name nor explanation.
•The shooter is Dr. Amy Bishop, professor at the university who graduted from Harvard and previously taught there.
•Both Huntsville and Harvard have been/are involved in mkultra/mind control.
•Huntsville is home to the nasa nazis which is a cover for the cia which is another cover for the illumanti.
•There was another shooting at a jr high school a week or so ago in the Huntsville area.
Any thoughts?
thanks!
praying for the families...
Cathy
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Hmmmm, hadn't even heard about this... we don't have a TV anymore and if we don't happen to see it on internet news, we miss it. Really weird and really tragic.
There are lots of "questions" that people are asking on the comments section. Many feel there is something else going on there. Kinda interesting.
One of the first things I like to ask is what is going on behind the scenes that this is drawing attention away from (so it goes on undetected - sometimes stuff in Congress or even on the State level) and the other thing I presume is that it's another attempt at changing the Constitution to outlaw weapons.
Weird that two happened in Alabama so near in time to one another. Of course, Alabama is a strong "gun rights" state. Not real surprising.
Interesting about the MKUltra thing. Didn't know that Huntsville and Harvard are both involved in that. I thought that was dead now and not taught/implemented??? Oh well, we will certainly find more of this in the future, I am certain. The world is evil!
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MY RESPONSE
Yes, I agree with your analysis. I also wondered what else may be going on - probably many agenda items with this, most of which are behind the scenes no doubt.
It was odd (but not too surprising) that when I went back to find a couple of photos of a blond woman, heavy set, glasses, 40's, curly hair, in handcuffs being put in a police car, they are gone now - can't find them.
Also, the look on Amy Bishop was so strange to me. If she is a victim of mkultra type of mind control, she would have multiple personalities with the killer one triggered by her handler, like in the book/movie 'Manchurian Candidate'. In this article, (see below) it says:
She was taken Friday night in handcuffs to the county jail, and said as she got into a police car: "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive."
Strange words... but not if she was/is under mind control.
I know there are a lot of weird things going on - always have - but we/I must not get distracted but stay focused on our wonderful Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ while obeying His Word and sharing the message of the cross, death and resurrection to give hope to the lost
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ARTICLE
Professor charged in university shooting
Colleagues, students describe her as bright, ‘very weird’
source Msnbc's Alex Witt reports. msnbc tv updated 1 hour, 15 minutes ago 2/13/10
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A biology professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville accused of gunning down three of her colleagues during a faculty meeting in an apparent tenure dispute was known as a bright woman who some students said had difficulty explaining complicated topics.
Three others were wounded in the incident Friday — a rare instance of a woman being accused in a mass shooting. Amy Bishop, 42, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist who became an assistant professor at the school in 2003, has been charged with capital murder.
She was taken Friday night in handcuffs to the county jail, and said as she got into a police car: "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive."
Bishop's husband was also detained for questioning but police did not call him a suspect.
On Friday, Bishop presided over her regular class before going to a biology faculty meeting where she sat quietly for about 30 or 40 minutes, one University of Alabama faculty member told the New York Times. Then, she pulled out a gun and began shooting, firing several rounds before her gun either jammed or ran out of bullets, said the faculty member, who had spoken to people that were in the room.
After she left the room, he said, the remaining people barred the door, fearing she would return. She was arrested outside the building without incident.
'A really big nerd'
Students' assessments of Bishop varied. Some recalled an attentive, friendly teacher, while others said she was an odd woman who couldn't simplify difficult subjects for students.
Sammie Lee Davis, the husband of Maria Ragland Davis, a tenured researcher who was killed, said his wife had described Bishop as "not being able to deal with reality" and "not as good as she thought she was."
In a brief phone interview, Davis said he was told his wife was at a meeting to discuss the tenure status of another faculty member who got angry and started shooting.
Maria Ragland Davis was killed along with two other biology professors, Gopi K. Podila, chairman of the biological sciences department, and Adriel Johnson. Another two biology professors and a professor’s assistant were wounded and were at a Huntsville hospital in conditions ranging from fair to critical.
Bishop and her husband, Jim Anderson, had created a portable cell incubator, known as InQ, that was touted as a replacement for the old-fashioned petri dish and less expensive than its larger counterparts. The couple won $25,000 in 2007 to market the device.
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.
Bennett described Bishop as being "very weird" and "a really big nerd."
"She's well-known on campus, but I wouldn't say she's a good teacher. I've heard a lot of complaints," Bennett said. "She's a genius, but she really just can't explain things."
Student complaints
Amanda Tucker, a junior nursing major from Alabaster, Ala., had Bishop for anatomy class about a year ago. Tucker said a group of students complained to a dean about Bishop's classroom performance.
"When it came down to tests, and people asked her what was the best way to study, she'd just tell you, 'Read the book.' When the test came, there were just ridiculous questions. No one even knew what she was asking," Tucker said.
However, UAH student Andrew Cole was in Bishop's anatomy class Friday morning and said she seemed perfectly normal.
"She's understanding, and was concerned about students," he said. "I would have never thought it was her."
Nick Lawton, 25, described Bishop as funny and accommodating with students.
"She seemed like a nice enough professor," Lawton said.
The Huntsville campus has about 7,500 students in northern Alabama, not far from the Tennessee line. The university is known for its scientific and engineering programs and often works closely with NASA.
The space agency has a research center on the school's campus, where many scientists and engineers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center perform Earth and space science research and development.
The university will remain closed next week, and all athletic events were canceled.
Female shooters rare
It's the second shooting in a week on an area campus. On Feb. 5, a 14-year-old student was killed in a middle school hallway in nearby Madison, allegedly by a fellow student.
Mass shootings are rarely carried out by women, said Dr. Park Dietz, who is president of Threat Assessment Group Inc., a Newport Beach, Calif.-based violence prevention firm.
A notable exception was a 1985 rampage at a Springfield, Pa., mall in which three people were killed. In June 1986, Sylvia Seegrist was deemed guilty but mentally ill on three counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder in the shooting spree.
Dietz, who interviewed Seegrist after her arrest, said it was possible the suspect in Friday's shooting had a long-standing grudge against colleagues or superiors and felt complaints had not been dealt with fairly.
Gregg McCrary, a retired FBI agent and private criminal profiler based in Fredericksburg, Va., said there is no typical outline of a mass shooter but noted they often share a sense of paranoia, depression or a feeling that they are not appreciated.
(7/02/2007) source For more information: Phil Gentry, (256)824-6420
A company created to bring to market the portable cell incubator invented by a UAH biology professor and her husband placed third in a recent statewide university business plan competition and won $25,000 to help the company get started.
Intelligent Cellular Systems (IntellCell) is developing a commercial product from technology created by Dr. Amy Bishop, an assistant professor of biology, and her husband Jim Anderson, and patented through UAH.
In the short term, the system has possible applications as a low-cost replacement for larger and more expensive immobile incubator systems. Since it is portable, the small incubator might also be used for research growing cells in situ, with long-duration exposure to microgravity, radiation or industrial pollution. It might also be used for long-term microscope studies, in which cells are grown under constant scrutiny.
"This also opens the door for the automation of specific biological and biomedical research," Bishop said. "We found out that there is a huge demand for this product."
Led by recent UAH business school graduates Aaron Hammons and Tod Opichka,
IntellCell was one of 61 teams and companies that entered its business plan in the inaugural Alabama Launchpad Initiative, a statewide business plan competition affiliated with six state universities and the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama.
Halo Research, a team led by recent UAH engineering graduate student Chris Otto, finished second and won $50,000. A startup led by an Auburn University alumnus took first place and the $100,000 grand prize.
Another finalist, AT Biosciences, LLC, includes Dr. Maria Davis, also an assistant biology professor. AT Biosciences developed molecular biomarkers for academic research and clinical diagnosis using a new patent-pending technology.
Although UAH had only 14 of the original 61 teams that started the competition last fall, it had eight of the 26 semi-finalists and half of the eight finalists. Auburn and UAB each had two teams reach the final round.
Other universities participating in the business plan competition were The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University.
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Beta
Survivors Cathy O'Brien and Brice Taylor were also subjected to Beta, or sex-slave, programming. They, like actress Marilyn Monroe, were called "presidential models", mind-controlled slaves for the use of high-level politicians. According to Springmeier's book, "...in 1981, the New World Order made training films for their novice programmers. Monarch slave Cathy O'Brien was used to make the film How To Divide a Personality and How To Create a Sex Slave. Two Huntsville porn photographers were used to help NASA create these training films." Sullivan recalled: "I was used both as a child and as an adult in those alter states, and I had more than one. In those alter states I would not resist. I had no anger. I was an absolute sexual slave and I would do whatever I was told to do." MIND CONTROL SLAVERY & The NEW WORLD ORDER - by Uri Dowbenko
Source: MKULTRA Programming
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Excerpt from Confessions of a White House sex slave, MKULTRA victim source
Our first destination would be Huntsville, Alabama. This southern U.S. city is famous for its tourism centerpiece, the NASA owned U.S. space and Rocket Center. The town also boasts of being home to more Pentagon, black-budget, U.S. dollars per capita than anyplace else in America. Cathy harbors a very different opinion of this town, its police force, and the NASA research facility. For Cathy and Kelly, Huntsville had been a place they were regularly taken to by Alex Houston for hi-tech torture and the production of child and adult pornography films.
This trip to Huntsville would be different for Cathy, except for one aspect of her previous experiences. Both she and I would receive our first threat to our lives in our pursuit of justice from law enforcement. This was surprising to me and "normal" for Cathy.
The lead-up to this threat began with my phone call to a Huntsville based legal aid group known as the National Association of Child Advocates. This organization publicized that it was formed through the leadership efforts of the local district attorney 'Bud' Crammer, who is known to his constituents as "Gun Ban Bud." After supplying this advocacy center with Cathy's recollections of her past experienced in Huntsville, we were contacted by two Huntsville City Police Department "vice" detectives. Their names were Jeff Bennett and Chuck Crabtree.
Upon our arrival into Huntsville, these two vice cops escorted us and our trailer to a local apartment used for staging drug buys. The place was furnished, complete with audio and video bugs throughout every room. When I asked Bennett if the "place was bugged," he flatly denied it. From this lie I knew with certainty that Cathy and I were there to be specimens for whomever to study. I knew "who," and we gave them our best performance to mislead them. This action probably saved our lives.
After weeks of "delays", the two vice cops sat down with Cathy and me for discussion. She supplied them a myriad of testimony including detailed physical descriptions of two particular perpetrators, their names, and location maps of where they lived and allegedly produced child and adult pornography. The two perpetrators, themselves Huntsville policemen, were also helpful assets in the campaign for electing District Attorney Bud Crammer. Their names were Audie Majors and Sergeant Frank Crowell.
After Cathy had exhausted all of her recollections, Crabtree and Bennett ordered us to "leave Huntsville now while we were still alive, and shut up if we intended to stay that way!"
Later, Cathy and I would learn that Crabtree and Bennett had notified every law enforcement officer in over five states to whom we had provided information. They reported that we were a pair of "professional con artist criminals." . . .In addition, the Nashville office of the FBI was responsible for perpetrating Crabtree's and Bennett's discrediting lies. This FBI action ceased after resident-in-charge Ben Purser was told by a friendly district attorney that I now could prove the identity and prosecute those responsible for character assassination. The harassment stopped.
It is interesting to note that 'Bud' Crammer would in less than a year, be elected to Congress. Within months after his election, Bud was rewarded for years of alleged containment practices. Allegedly Bud has been covering up investigations for the intelligence community, DOD, and of course his number one financial supporter, NASA.
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Shooting stuns Bishop’s husband By Eric Moskowitz Globe Staff / February 15, 2010 source
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - His voice heavy, James Anderson said last night that he has not been able to read or watch the news accounts about his wife, Amy Bishop, her past, and what might have caused her to allegedly open fire at a university faculty meeting Friday. But he has received distilled reports from friends, he said.
“I’m sorry for those guys,’’ said Anderson, referring to the three colleagues of Bishop who were killed and the three others who were wounded. “I haven’t even looked to see who was killed. Because I worked with those people.’’
Adriel D. Johnson, Maria Ragland Davis, and Gopi Podila were killed in the shooting. Two of the wounded - Joseph Leahy and Stephanie Monticciolo - were in critical condition early yesterday. The third, Luis Cruz-Vera, had been released from the hospital.
Anderson, an Alabama native who was raised in New England, is a freelance scientific researcher who specializes in biology. He met his wife at Northeastern University more than two decades ago, when they were undergraduates, he said.
He stood on the doorstep of the house where he and Bishop have lived for nearly seven years, a Colonial 12 miles southeast of the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus.
Speaking in a muted voice, Anderson said he had been surrounded by close friends and family since Friday. He sounded distressed when he talked about what had happened, but he also smiled warmly, occasionally punctuating his words with chuckles.
Anderson said his wife’s attorneys, whom he did not name, had advised him not to speak publicly but he wanted to “clear the air’’ on what he called some misconceptions in the media, including a report that Bishop was considered a suspect in the investigation of a mail bomb sent to a Harvard Medical School professor in 1993.
Neither he nor his wife was a suspect, Anderson said, calling it “just a matter of questioning, being bothered, harassed’’ by investigators.
He said he wants to piece together what happened on the Huntsville campus Friday. “Why’d she snap? That’s my question,’’ he said. “I’ve got to get to the bottom of that.’’
He added, “Everybody loves her. And everybody, including myself, we’re shocked. We don’t know what happened. They don’t know what the university did to her.’’
Anderson said the couple’s four children were holding up better than he was. “They’re all New Englanders,’’ he said, his oldest child, 18, out of sight but within earshot.
After about seven minutes, he brought the interview to an end.
His daughter called from inside, and he moved to close the front door. “OK, I’m getting the signal,’’ he added. “One of my kids needs me.’’
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And yet one more...
Quincy man recalls 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 Boston Hearld Monday, February 15, 2010 - Updated 4h ago source
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!”
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.
READER'S COMMENT
The mother was head of the police personnel board and that is key. She allowed placement of applicants who are desired by the police department and herself I am sure swept under the rug any disciplinary charges against connected or 'needed' officers.
What is astounding is we are talking about small potatoes here, yet murder by the daughter of this public employee is tolerated.
More is going on here.
It is not hard to consider the possibility that the Bishops were government informers. Perhaps they worked for the Feds.
The Feds did not care if you murdered as long as you were a good informer ( a la whitey bulger)
Political corruption is one thing violence to carry out corruption is quite another.
Braintree public employees who migrated to other towns to work should be reviewed by the receiving town.
Nearby Norfolk county towns need to protet themselves against these employees because they are working hand in glove with developers and possibly 'mafia type' crime
ID Number: 0064007
Name: AMY BISHOP ANDERSON
Date of Birth: 02/04/1968
Sex: F
Height: 5 feet 08 inches
Weight: 171
Race: W
Location: MXBK -- MAIN BOOK
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NO BOND
I also think hubby knows more than he lets on & his stories already have holes. He told the police he drove her to, & she called him to pick him up, but today to media he reported "the last time he saw her was Friday morning before class." He also told police he didn't know where she got the gun, that they don't have a gun, but tonight he reports that prior to the shooting she suddenly wanted to go to a firing range with a gun he'd never seen before, and he accompanied her NO QUESTIONS ASKED. Assuming he believed the shooting of her brother WAS accidental, wouldn't you be concerned she suddenly takes an interest in guns after all these years (of not owning a gun) & wouldn't you at least ask why, not to mention "where's the gun permit, honey?" If I, a virtual stranger, knew she was upset about tenure (from 1 email), you KNOW her husband knew. Especially as they had reportedly hired a lawyer about it!! And what about the neighbor's statement they loaded packed duffel bags into the car (as if for a trip) at 3pm, 1 hr before the shooting? What's in the duffel bags, what were they for, where were they going (and where's the evidence of a planned trip), & why the holes in his story? He also claims (this morning) that he was hoping the bomb story wouldn't break. Seems odd he was hoping THAT story, over the brother story wouldn't break. Seems I'd rather the story of me being one of 20+(allegedly) "persons of interest" (according to him) in the bombing break rather than the 1 where I had undoubtedly and admittedly shot & killed my brother (whether accident or no) break. Neither one is pleasant & I guess he could argue that it concerned him because it was focused on faculty (versus an innocent bystander) & eerily similar, but it was also the one in which HE was implicated as a co-conspirator.(I read they questioned him about buying the materials). Perhaps he knew Amy's state of mind (obviously upset, obviously considering gun shooting and obtaining a gun) even if he didn't pull the trigger or give her the gun, & did NOTHING to stop it. Perhaps he wanted her out of the way so he could take sole credit & get sole $$ for the joint invention?! Divorcing Amy would affect his access to Amy's daddy's millions and potentially the invention money also - this way Amy is locked away forever & he still has access? After all, he is the guardian of their 4 minor kids now & they will stand to inherit a lot from Amy's elderly (and well-connected) parents! Let's face it - something is clearly amiss when he was questioned about the bombing - no guilt by association. He was a suspect / POI. Lots of crimes happen where the spouse is completely innocent & never even considered a POI. And he seems unstable and not as smart as he thinks he is because he clearly has loose lips (that are opening up the holes in his story) even now. I said the first day that he will be arrested - just wait. He even was advised to quit talking (presumably by a lawyer) & then goes on to tell about going to the firing range with Amy & the mystery gun before the shooting. These people aren't idiots - any kid would find that to be a big red flag! Drastic change in behavior - you can't get much more drastic than that. Just like Amy in 1986 supposedly was afraid of guns, but then decides she needs to learn to shoot. If she needed to learn, why didn't she wait and get her experienced dad or brother to teach her? And I don't know guns, but how do you accidentally fire 3 shots from a pump-action style gun? Most people would freak & drop the gun after it went off the first time anyway. It'd be interesting to see if somehow her brother had surpassed her in something - some science contest or honor or something.
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February 16, 2010 UPDATE
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
UAH biology faculty describes scene in meeting, tries to come to grips with deadly shooting
By Steve Doyle February 16, 2010, 7:22AM The Huntsville Times source
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- One of the survivors of Friday's deadly shooting said he is confident the University of Alabama in Huntsville's decimated biology faculty will get past the tragedy and get on with the business of educating students.
But it's going to take time, Dr. Joseph Ng said Monday.
"It's quite devastating," said Ng, who was inside the third-floor conference room at UAH's Shelby Center when three of his colleagues were shot and killed with a 9 mm handgun. Police arrested Dr. Amy Bishop, another member of the UAH biology faculty who had failed to earn tenure several months ago.
"One day, you have all these great people working with you," Ng said. "Next day, they're gone."
Ng sent an e-mail to a friend in California on Sunday describing the chaotic scene inside the conference room. According to his e-mail, Bishop stood up about 30 minutes into the meeting and pulled out a gun.
"She started with the one closest to her and went down the row shooting her targets in the head," Ng wrote. "Six people sitting in the rows perpendicular were all shot fatally or seriously wounded. The remaining 5 including myself were on the other side of the table (and) immediately dropped to the floor.
"During a reload, the shooter was rushed, and we pushed her out the hall way and closed the door. Thereafter we barricaded the door and called 911."
Ng said he never intended his e-mail to be made public. But it wound up on the Orange County Register's Web site on Monday, when Ng's friend forwarded it to the California newspaper without asking his permission.
He politely declined Monday to talk about the specifics of the shooting or his thoughts about Bishop.
"We're key witnesses," Ng said. "I don't want to say anything that might compromise the investigation or the whole process that's to come."
Dr. Robert Lawton, another professor who survived the shooting, also declined to talk about the incident when reached at home Monday.
"I just don't want to go into what happened in that room," Lawton said. "Why would you want to describe a car wreck?"
Ng, an associate professor who coordinates UAH's biotechnology doctorate program, said the shooting happened during an otherwise "mundane" faculty meeting about budgets and schedules.
UAH's 13 full-time faculty members are a tight bunch, Ng said, that often has dinner together in each others' homes. He said it's more like a family than the "all business" biology departments where he has worked in the past.
"There's Southern hospitality here, I've got to admit," said Ng, who grew up in Los Angeles.
In the aftermath of the deadliest shooting episode on an Alabama college campus, Ng said the uninjured members of the biology faculty are trying to be strong for the families that are preparing to bury their loved ones. The first funeral, for Dr. Adriel Johnson, is Friday.
Department assistant Stephanie Monticciolo, who suffered a gunshot wound to the face, is listed in serious condition in Huntsville Hospital's surgical intensive care unit. Microbiology professor Dr. Joseph Leahy remains in critical condition in the neuro ICU.
"Right now," Ng said, "we're just trying to find out how we can work best with the families and the ones still in the hospital."
When classes at UAH resume Monday, Ng said he expects biology professors to come from as far as Birmingham and Tuscaloosa to help out. HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology may also play a role in getting the department back on its feet, he said.
Ng, who came to the Rocket City 11 years ago, said he hopes the deadly school shootings on back-to-back Fridays haven't shaken people's confidence in Huntsville. There's a reason this area scores high in just about every national survey of the best places to live, he said.
The UAH shooting "is an outlier," Ng said. "It has nothing to do with the degradation of society here in Huntsville.
"It was just an event that was completely unpredictable."
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New Look at Death of Alabama Professor’s Brother
By KATIE ZEZIMA and SHAILA DEWAN Published: February 16, 2010 New York Times source
BRAINTREE, Mass. — Amy Bishop, the Harvard Ph.D. accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, could have been charged with assault in connection with the shooting death of her brother in 1986, law enforcement authorities here said Tuesday.
After finding a set of missing police records concerning the death of Dr. Bishop’s brother, Seth Bishop, the Norfolk County district attorney released a statement saying there had been probable cause to charge Dr. Bishop with assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of ammunition.
Also Tuesday, The Boston Globe reported that Dr. Bishop was charged with assault in 2002 after punching a woman in the head at an International House of Pancakes in Peabody, Mass. According to a police report, Dr. Bishop was angry that the woman had taken the last booster seat in the restaurant, which Dr. Bishop wanted for one of her children, The Globe said. It added that Dr. Bishop was sentenced to probation and that prosecutors recommended she take anger management classes, though it is not clear whether she did.
Dr. Bishop was not charged in the shooting death of her brother, which was ruled accidental. Her mother told police investigators that Amy Bishop, then 20 years old, had been trying to unload the shotgun when it went off.
The newly discovered documents throw a new light on a violent episode in Dr. Bishop’s past that was hidden from her colleagues in Alabama, where she was seen as having a promising career in neuroscience. Had Dr. Bishop been charged with the serious crimes listed by the district attorney on Tuesday, their presence on her record might have changed the course of her career, even if she were eventually acquitted.
As the district attorney’s office noted in its statement, the documents do not contradict the statements of Dr. Bishop’s mother, Judith Bishop, who was the only witness to the shooting of her son. They also do not explain why no charges were filed at the time.
The mayor of Braintree, Joseph Sullivan, said in a statement that Judith Bishop was one of 240 elected members of the town meeting, representing Precinct 3 from 1980 to 1993.
In the hours after the shooting death of her brother, Dr. Bishop tried to use the shotgun to steal a car from a nearby Ford dealership, said Tom Pettigrew, an employee of Dave Dinger Ford at the time. In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Pettigrew said a woman who he soon realized was Amy Bishop approached him with a shotgun and told him to put his hands up.
“She was distraught,” Mr. Pettigrew said. “She was hyperaware of everything that was going on. She said: ‘I need a car, I just got into a fight with my husband. He’s looking for me, and he’s going to kill me.’ ”
Mr. Pettigrew, whose account was first reported in The Boston Herald, said Dr. Bishop looked at some cars, then left the dealership carrying the gun and was arrested a few blocks away.
“She didn’t look like she was comfortable holding the gun,” Mr. Pettigrew said. “My impression was that this girl didn’t really have intimate knowledge of firearms.”
John Polio, the former police chief of Braintree, said Tuesday evening that if he had known about the incident at the car dealership, he might have considered pressing assault charges against Dr. Bishop. He said he saw the newly released police reports for the first time on Tuesday.
“I wasn’t privy to any of these reports,” Mr. Polio said. “Whether one hand didn’t know what the other was doing, I don’t know.”
Ray Garner, a spokesman for the university in Huntsville, said that the university knew nothing of Dr. Bishop’s violent past when she was hired, and that there were no indications of trouble in her personnel file.
“We did the normal academic background checks,” Mr. Garner said, adding that Dr. Bishop had letters of recommendation from Harvard and elsewhere. “She seemed pretty impeccable.”
Mr. Garner said Dr. Bishop filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year, accusing the university of sex discrimination. The case has not been resolved, he said, but the university denied the accusation.
In Huntsville on Tuesday, a witness to last week’s shooting said that the assailant did not seem to be singling out any specific person in the faculty meeting where three professors were killed and three others wounded.
“This wasn’t random shooting around the room, this was execution style,” said Debra Moriarity, a biology professor who was in room at the time. “In my mind, as I saw it happen, she was just going to go around and shoot everyone.”
But Dr. Moriarity, who is also the dean of the university’s graduate program, said she was not going to let that happen. Crawling across the floor, she grabbed for Dr. Bishop’s legs, yelling at her to stop, she said. Dr. Bishop turned, pointed the gun down at her, and fired — but it did not go off.
“You can’t write this up like I’m some hero, because I’m not,” Dr. Moriarity said when asked to recount the events of Friday. “Everyone in the room played a part.”
The meeting began normally enough. Dr. Bishop was uncharacteristically quiet, but Dr. Moriarity chalked that up to the fact that it was the beginning of Dr. Bishop’s final semester at the university.
Dr. Bishop had lobbied for a reconsideration of the department’s decision to recommend against tenure, faculty members said, and had tried to conduct straw polls to see who might favor her if a revote occurred.
But none of that seemed to matter when Dr. Bishop rose, pulled out a 9-millimeter handgun, and with no preamble began to fire, Dr. Moriarity said.
In an e-mail message describing the event, another professor, Joseph Ng, wrote, “She started with the one closest to her and went down the row shooting her targets in the head.” He continued: “Blood was everywhere with crying and moaning. We were in a pool of blood in disbelief of what had happened.” The message was published on the Web site of The Orange County Register after Dr. Ng, who had not intended to make it public, sent it to a friend.
Dr. Ng, Dr. Moriarity and the others on the far end of the room dove under the conference table. Dr. Moriarity crawled over to Dr. Bishop and grabbed her by the leg, yelling, “Amy, think about my grandson! Think about my daughter! I helped you, I helped you before, and I’ll help you now,” she said.
Dr. Moriarity said she had often acted as a “sounding board” for Dr. Bishop and had given her advice when she came up for tenure.
But in the room, any such relationship seemed forgotten. Dr. Bishop shook Dr. Moriarty off, turned, and pointed the gun down at her. “She looked at me and fired — and it clicked,” Dr. Moriarity said.
Dr. Bishop did not speak, Dr. Moriarity said. “She just looked angry,” she said. “The expression on her face never changed. Until the gun jammed — the last expression I saw was more of a perplexed look.”
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Jersey Shore native details confrontation with Alabama shooter
By GREG HAYES and MIKE MANEVAL - ghayes@sungazette.com, mmaneval@sungazette.com POSTED: February 17, 2010 source
A Jersey Shore native who relocated south is being called a hero in the aftermath of last Friday's shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville that left three dead and three others wounded.
Debra Moriarity graduated from Jersey Shore Area High School in 1972 and now is the university's graduate school dean and a member of the biology faculty. She has a bachelor's degree from Penn State and a doctorate from Temple University's School of Medicine.
The fatal shootings occurred at a faculty meeting for biology instructors. The meeting had been going on for about half an hour when Amy Bishop, a university professor, allegedly suddenly got up and methodically began shooting people in the head around the table, starting with those closest to her.
Moriarity and Joseph Ng, an associate professor who worked with Bishop in the biology department, were among those in the room. According to Associated Press reports, about a dozen teachers and staff members were sitting elbow-to-elbow at a long table when Ng heard the "pop-pop-pop" of a 9 mm handgun.
He and the rest of the survivors dived under the table, desperate for cover.
Moriarity said two thoughts raced through her mind consecutively as the shooting occurred: This can't be real, and this has to be stopped.
Within seconds the shooting stopped and during the lull, Moriarity confronted Bishop, trying to talk her out of the rampage and shoving her back out into a
hallway. When Bishop persisted in aiming at Moriarity and pulling the trigger, the gun did not fire and Moriarity slammed the door as the shooter rummaged through a bag. Moriarity and her colleagues then barricaded the door with a table.
"Everything happened very quickly," Moriarity said.
Bishop was arrested moments later outside the building.
"Moriarity was probably the one that saved our lives. She was the one that initiated the rush," Ng told AP reporters. "It took a lot of guts to just go up to her."
Moriarity said she knew Bishop "pretty well" and the two used laboratories next to each other.
Moriarity said the university and community have been "wonderful" in the shooting's aftermath and have been respectful of the emotional toll on the victims and witnesses. "It's a great place," she said.
Moriarity was back at work on Monday at her office as dean, while the Shelby Center - both scene of the shooting and the facility in which her second office as a biology professor is located - remains closed. Her day Tuesday was filled with inquiries from the media, which she described as exhausting, with a national network news crew waiting in her driveway this morning.
Moriarity told the Chronicle of Higher Education, a weekly magazine, she grew up in a hunting family in Lycoming County - one she described as loving and close - and had been around guns often. While another member of the faculty at the scene found the gunshot "deafening," Moriarity did not. But a familiarity with guns is not the only experience from her childhood Moriarity draws upon as Huntsville grieves the three lives lost.
Moriarity also draws upon her strong faith in God, saying her family taught her to be strong and to deal with adversity with grace - a trait she said her mother, Hannah Moriarity, epitomized.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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James Anderson and his wife, Amy Bishop, show off a prototype of their invention that aims to replace the petri dish in 2007 source
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Web Exclusive: interview with Amy Bishop's husband
What about the comments that a 9mm gun does not make a clicking noise? Who knows about guns?
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February 23, 2010 UPDATE
Witness reported talk of revenge in bomb case
Bishop spouse was described as angry
By Shelley Murphy Boston Globe Staff / February 23, 2010 source
After two pipe bombs arrived at the Newton home of Dr. Paul Rosenberg in December 1993, a witness told investigators that Jimmy E. Anderson Jr. had said he “wanted to get back at’’ the doctor by shooting, bombing, stabbing, or strangling him, according to files released yesterday by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Nothing in the files indicated whether investigators found the unidentified witness credible. But the files confirmed that Anderson and his wife, Amy Bishop, were questioned in the attempted mail bombing. The documents also provided more details about why investigators may have focused on them - although they were never charged.
Rosenberg, a Harvard Medical School professor and physician at Children’s Hospital, told investigators that weeks before the attempted bombing, he played a role in Bishop’s resignation from her job as a postdoctoral research fellow in the hospital’s neurobiology lab because “he felt she could not meet the standards required for the work,’’ according to the documents.
Rosenberg said Bishop’s co-workers felt she had “problems with depression,’’ that he thought “she was not stable,’’ and that there had been growing concerns because she had “exhibited violent behavior.’’
The case remains unsolved. But yesterday, former US attorney Donald K. Stern, who presided over the office when prosecutors oversaw the attempted mail bombing investigation, said the case should be reviewed, following Bishop’s arrest in the Feb. 12 shooting death of three of her colleagues at the University of Alabama at Huntsville.
“There’s a reason to take a fresh look because you want to make sure things were done properly,’’ Stern said. “I have no reason to believe that they weren’t, but sometimes it’s useful to take a look back because it could suggest improvements.’’
In a telephone interview from Huntsville last night, Anderson’s father, Jimmy Sr., identified himself as the family spokesman and said he could not comment on documents he had not seen.
He appealed to the media to back off of stories about Bishop, Anderson, and their past until after she is tried in the Alabama slayings, which occurred during a faculty meeting over her denial of tenure. Three other colleagues were wounded in the shooting. He said he sympathized with the victims, but the probing news stories, damaging comments posted by readers, and speculation from bloggers were rendering his son unemployable, damaging the family’s emotional stability, and straining its finances.
“Treat us like human beings,’’ he said.
In an interview last week, Bishop’s husband told the Globe that he and his wife were questioned about the attempted mail bombing, but insisted they were not suspects.
Huntsville attorney Roy W. Miller, who represents Bishop in the Alabama shooting case and is pursuing an insanity defense, said that Bishop and Anderson weren’t the only people looked at in the 1993 case.
He discounted the idea that Anderson could have been involved, saying, “He’s just so gentle and kind and worried about his family. Every time I call, the dishes are clanking and you can hear the kids . . . he’s just not the type of person I can see under any circumstances being involved with violence.’’
Rosenberg had just returned home from a Caribbean vacation with his wife on Dec. 19, 1993, when he began opening a package addressed to “Mr. Paul Rosenberg M.D.’’ that had been brought in with the mail. When Rosenberg saw wires and a cylinder inside, he and his wife fled the house and called police.
The files obtained yesterday by the Globe said the investigation identified “two suspects, a married couple,’’ and that one of the pair “had quit employment . . . and was reportedly upset and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, according to witnesses interviewed.’’
The names are blacked out in most of the files, but three people familiar with the investigation have confirmed on condition of anonymity that the documents refer to Anderson and Bishop. In one document, Anderson’s name is not redacted, and he is identified as the person who allegedly told a witness in 1993 that he “wanted to get back’’ at Rosenberg and wanted to “shoot him, bomb him, stab him or strangle Rosenberg.’’
The files indicate that the witness said someone had purchased a 9mm pistol years earlier, but it was unclear whom he was referring to because portions of the document were redacted.
The files reveal that federal authorities searched seven sites related to the couple. Bishop allegedly refused to open the door when investigators arrived with a warrant to search the couple’s Braintree home in April 1994, prompting them to break a window to enter.
During the search of the home and an office, investigators found items similar to those used to construct the pipe bombs, including a partially used tube of DuroMend epoxy and an Avery Dennison five-column Analysis Pad, according to the files.
However, laboratory analysis of physical evidence seized during the searches were “unable to tie any of the items’’ to the explosives mailed to Rosenberg, according to the files.
Investigators also obtained receipts of items purchased at Radio Shack stores in Braintree and Cambridge, but the names of the customer were blacked out.
During a search of a desk in the couple’s living room, investigators found a business card for “Chalkville Bait & Tackle’’ in Birmingham, Ala., described in documents as “headquarters for black powder pistols, rifles, shotguns, and supplies.’’
But investigators did not find any black powder or black-powder pistols, the files say.
Investigators conducted electronic surveillance as part of the investigation, and a federal grand jury was convened, but those files remain sealed because grand jury proceedings are private.
Bishop and Anderson were photographed and fingerprinted and forced to provide handwriting samples, the files indicate.
“Both suspects have retained an attorney and have refused to participate in further interviews, have declined to give consent to a search of an unattached garage to the rear of their house, and have refused to take a polygraph,’’ according to the documents.
The investigation was closed on May 25, 2001, according to a page from an ATF management log contained in the files that says, “closed no potential.’’
Christina DiIorio Sterling, a spokeswoman for the US attorney’s office, declined to comment yesterday on the investigation. Assistant US Attorney S. Theodore Merritt, who handled the investigation, did not return calls.
But Stern, who led the US attorney’s office from Nov. 1993 through 2001, said that even though he believes the investigation was thorough and professional, it merits another look.
“You don’t necessarily dust off every old case and review it,’’ said Stern, adding, “Sometimes you take a fresh look at things in the past in light of current events. You can’t blind yourself to current events, especially when they are as tragic as what happened.’’
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From the Archives: Sister kills teenager in shotgun accident
The Patriot Ledger Posted Feb 14, 2010 @ 04:18 PM Last update Feb 17, 2010 @ 11:00 AM source
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.
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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.
Attorney: Bishop's parents to cooperate, have 'nothing to hide'
February 26, 2010 02:23 PM By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff source
Judith and Samuel Bishop will cooperate in the judicial inquest into the fatal shooting of their son by their daughter in 1986, but they are sticking by their original assertion that it was an accidental shooting, their lawyer said today.
The Bishops, who have refused to speak publicly since their daughter allegedly killed three people earlier this month in a shooting rampage in Alabama, declined to speak with State Police investigators reviewing the death last week but will testify in the inquest, the lawyer, Bryan Stevens, said.
"They have nothing to hide," he said.
Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating initiated the inquest yesterday after he said the Bishops -- the only witnesses to the 1986 shooting -- refused to cooperate and his investigators discovered evidence that suggests their daughter, Amy, may have shot and killed her 18-year-old brother on purpose. Keating said crime scene photos show there was a newspaper article in Amy Bishop's bedroom that chronicled a crime spree that closely mirrored her activities that day. In addition, Keating noted discrepancies in the Bishops' statements to police.
The lawyer who is defending Amy Bishop in the Alabama shootings also said today that he believes the judicial inquest could turn up information that will help him to mount an insanity defense. He said the same of a federal review initiated this week of an attempted mail bombing of one of Bishop's graduate professors. Bishop had been questioned in the 1993 incident but was never charged.
"My position on this is, if you ever got right down to the truth of the matter of what occurred in those areas up there, I think I would be in a better position to prove she's got a horrible mental defect and has had it a long, long time," said the lawyer, Roy W. Miller.
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lorddrek wrote:
Three shots fired accidentally with a pump shotgun? Yeah OK...
2/26/2010 2:36 PM EST Recommend (7)
WhizKid07 wrote:
What else do you expect them to say? It's been 20 years - are they really going to come clean now? That would be admitting they lied in the first place. Back then they probably rationalized it by saying we've already lost one children and don't want to lose another etc.
2/26/2010 2:44 PM EST Recommend (3)
bills64 wrote:
Good luck with the insanity defense, Mr. Miller. She clearly has the ability to know right from wrong. She is calculating and on some level very intelligent. Whatever happened to someone being sane but just plain evil.
2/26/2010 2:46 PM EST Recommend (5)
evildave wrote:
24 years later, I doubt their recollection of specific details will be terribly sharp.
2/26/2010 2:53 PM EST
moe2378 wrote:
Sure, they have "nothing to hide" if you add the word "anymore."
DNA test Amy and DNA test the old chief Pulio.
2/26/2010 2:55 PM EST Recommend (3)
westwitch wrote:
Keep hiding from the truth Bishop family...but it's going to come out sooner or later.
Eitherway, there's no "getting out" this time for your daughter and her crime down South.
Not buying the "insanity" plea either. Try again.
2/26/2010 2:56 PM EST Recommend (4)
Highandinside wrote:
"Mental defect" does not equal "legally insane". She's a classic narcissistic sociopath. She clearly was able to "conform" her behavior when it was necessary to meet her goals and when things were going her way. She did get a Ph.D. from Harvard. Amy is "crazy like a fox". She learned very early in life that it was okay to lie, cheat, and, yes, kill, to get her way. She had the presence of mind to make up the lie about her "husband" trying to kill her when she showed up at Dave Dinger Ford with the shotgun.
Good luck, Mr. Miller. I don't think any thinking person is going to buy your insanity defense.
2/26/2010 3:04 PM EST Recommend (6)
anklebender wrote:
She was insane to walk around with that face-have you ever seen this broad---horrible looking
2/26/2010 3:04 PM EST Recommend
BambinosMom wrote:
I would like to see the parents tried for perjury. It would be interesting to know exactly what the fight with Daddy Bishop was actually about to enrage her enough to shoot her brother. I still find it very odd that the family owned a shot gun because their home was broken into. Braintree circa 1986 was a sleeply little suburb-not exactly an urban shooting gallery. Most people would use a hand gun for protection. Is there a police report from 1985 re: a robbery at their home? This family has a lot of secrets. It makes you think Mom and Dad covered for Amy so she wouldn't spill the family secret.
2/26/2010 3:06 PM EST Recommend (4)
boatwrote wrote:
The more info that comes out the weirder this case gets. BaCk in '86, Moms Bishop supposedly leveraged Amy out of the hoosegow with no record, even tho Amy had just blasted her brother to death with a shotgun. Now Amy awaits legal action in a capital punishment state for three more killings. How come Moms... and even Dads... aren't in Huntsville to at least visit the grandkids and Amy's hubby? A case of Moms and Dads being told not to leave Massachusetts? Nah, their offenses, whatever those might be in a legal sense, are not that encumbered. Not visiting the grandkids... Imagine what life is like for Amy's four kids. And Moms and Dads don't visit the grandkids....
2/26/2010 3:08 PM EST Recommend (4)
dejaeprouve wrote:
"I would be in a better position to prove she's got a horrible mental defect and has had it a long, long time".
Horrible mental defect? You mean vindictive nature and uncontrolled anger timed by narcissism? And parents? Still clinging to accident motif. Improbability of mother’s account: didn’t hear first shot in the bedroom, etc. should be used against her legally.
Investigators should be able to reconstruct the murder day.
2/26/2010 3:11 PM EST Recommend (1)
bubbalouie1 wrote:
Insanity defense for Emu, er Amy? Cmon...she was pissed off that she was not tenured for God sake, so she murdered in cold blood. It's time for Amy to go buh-bye for good. She got away with murder once, lets not let it happen again...she needs the death penalty.
2/26/2010 3:13 PM EST Recommend (1)
bdu wrote:
three shots from a shot gun, one dead on the kithen floor followed by an armed car jack attempt followed by an armed stand off with cops, followed by an arrest, followed by an
unarrest and a declaration of an accidental death and no state police detectives for eleven days - the Bishops might not have anything to hide but someone sure does - this all flunks the smell test Lives in Alabama could have been saved - shame on everyone involved. Obvious fix was in.
2/26/2010 3:18 PM EST Recommend
JimFar wrote:
Amy's attorney will no doubt make a good faith effort at pushing the insanity defense, but that's not likely to be successful. He may be able to make headway later on after conviction at mitigating her sentence. I think it's unlikely that she will get the chair.
2/26/2010 3:23 PM EST Recommend (1)
ckphotodigital wrote:
It does say that intensely ambitious, highly degreed people are just as nuts, just as bad, and just as problematic, as the rest of us. Credentials don't mean much outside of a human resources office.
2/26/2010 3:25 PM EST Recommend
fiveangels wrote:
Hmmm, Amy's mother was once the secretary for Polio. Polio was rumored to have a multitude of affairs around town. Doesn't take dick tracy to figure out what the incentive was for charges to be dropped.
The last domino to fall? What leverage did Polio use on Delahunt to get him to drop the investigation and let it go?
What a swill pit. I feel bad for the cops that wanted to do their job - the chief has besmirched their reputations based on his crappy judgment.
2/26/2010 3:31 PM EST Recommend
KN4EVA wrote:
Lots of questions in this, lots of questions. Never thought I would be hooked into wanting to know the conclusion.
2/26/2010 3:32 PM EST Recommend
moe2378 wrote:
Too bad they did not "cooperate" 24 years ago. If they did, perhaps more people would not have suffered Amy's twisted revenge.
2/26/2010 3:32 PM EST Recommend
