4 Police Reports Mention Bishop Family ‘Spat’ Before ’86 Shooting (Interactive)

By David Boeri
Mar 2, 2010, 1:03 AM
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BOSTON — After Amy Bishop shot and killed her brother, Seth, in 1986, four police officers reported that Bishop’s father, Samuel, spoke of an argument with his daughter beforehand. Yet none of the reports indicate that anyone, either a Braintree police officer or the state trooper assigned to the case, ever asked Samuel Bishop or his daughter Amy what the argument was about. A number of veteran detectives say that basic failure to ask an obvious question is stunning.

Excerpts of the original police reports are presented here.

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Elizabeth Kelly

The argument was supposed to be over a “comment” she’d made to her father? Maybe the comment was something like: “You think Seth is sooo GREAT! All I ever hear about is Seth’s music, Seth’s prizes! What about meeeeeeeeee?!”
Jealousy of someone else’s achievements, resentment that her “genius” wasn’t sufficiently recognized, anger at competition …
Doesn’t this sound just like the emotions of a wack prima donna professor going postal of failure to get tenure?
She should have arrested and TREATED long ago. What a waste.

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