By Paul Shepard on Oct 1st 2010 11:17AM
Filed under: News, Profiles

When authorities in Alabama charged University of Alabama-Huntsville professor Amy Bishop with shooting three colleagues earlier this year, authorities in Massachusetts thought they saw an opening to solve a cold-case mail bombing that had confounded them for almost 20 years.
Prosecutors in Boston were looking to charge Bishop, the prime suspect, for sending two pipe bombs through the mail to a supervisor at a noted Boston hospital that luckily did not detonate but still sent shivers through the university community.
But sometimes a cold case grows too cold for an indictment, and that was the case in the Boston pipe bomb investigation. Authorities have decided not to charge Bishop.
It must have been frustrating to Boston prosecutors to drop the case, after getting permission to reopen the investigation when Bishop was charged in February with the University of Alabama-Huntsville shootings. Bishop was also charged in June with her brother's 1986 killing in Massachusetts.
Bishop and her husband were questioned about the 1993 pipe bombing of Dr. Paul Rosenberg, who had given Bishop a poor work review at Children's Hospital at the time. Neither Bishop nor her husband were ever charged, though.
At the time, Bishop's husband, James Anderson, said that "he wanted to get back at victim Dr. Rosenberg and that he wanted to shoot him, bomb him, stab him or strangle Rosenberg," said one witness.
If you think the words "bomb him" in the threat were a coincidence, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you cheap.
But is the threat from her husband, Bishop's violent history and reports of her bizarre behavior at work enough to convict her of the 1993 pipe bombing? Probably not. Too bad, though, because in the court of public opinion, I'm pretty sure Bishop would be found guilty.
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By: poetrysez on 10/01/2010 1:32PM
Sell the Brooklyn Bridge to the authorities who failed to see the seriousness of such a threat :{
I'm going to roll the dice and throw the race card on the table for a second! If these folks weren't Caucasian-the background check would've been so extensive that the Bishops would've felt the pain all the way up to their intestines!
How could she work for a university as a "Professor"-without them giving her the anal probe? Those background checks are very in-depth and even a child could've found out about her past craziness!
This is pure negligence and the families of the victims should sue the folks that just purchased the Brooklyn Bridge and the University for neglecting to do a proper background check :{
And for the record-if the University had known about her past-they would never have hired her because to be quite honest-her past behaviors show signs of huge character flaws :{
Because ain't nobody in their right mind would hire someone who was accused of such things and the crazy comments that her husband made about the guy who gave his wife an unflattering progress review!
You gonna want someone dead for a bad progress report???? And allegedly send them a mail bomb??????
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By: Karl on 10/02/2010 6:56AM
A background check only shows criminal convictions and possibly court proceedings. Since she was not charged with anything it the past it would have come back clean. If the CIA was doing a background check something would show up I suppose, however we are not talking about the CIA. So nice race card thrown there. Keep throwing and one will eventually stick -although the stack of false ones make the real ones seem less credible. No need to yell racism every chance you get.
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By: rasfanta on 10/02/2010 7:52PM
Another example of white privilege in full effect. If this privilege were not extended to this sick woman, innocent lives may not have been lost at her hands. shame on american injustice and white privilege. equal application of the law for all people.
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By: poetrysez on 10/02/2010 1:10PM
Ironically-after the university murders now she's officially charged with her brother's death? Is there new evidence pertaining to her brother's death or is the authorities now looking closer at the same evidence?
Too much time expired-so these authorities couldn't reopen the mailbomb case! Why would they even think about reopening a case where there were no evidence? Or was there?
Maybe this is also a case of Class. If these folks were also in a lower Class of Caucasians-then there wouldn't be a blog about what transpired because the authorities would've looked "closely" years ago ;}
Now that I think about it-Class does play a role in how authorities sometimes handle cases ( we all know that :{
Either way you slice it-the authorities and all involved dropped the ball on this one :{
And if they don't know that-then I got some $3 dollar bills they can have for a dollar each :}
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By: gmb on 10/04/2010 11:19AM
Now was that necessary?
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