NOT HER FIRST CRIME…
As police investigators began to look into the socially awkward biology professor, they soon made some disturbing discoveries.
Dr Amy Bishop Anderson was not as unassuming as she first appeared…
In 1993, Bishop Anderson and husband James were questioned by police after Paul Rosenberg received a letter bomb in the post. Paul Rosenberg was a Harvard Medical School professor who had been Amy’s supervisor when she worked in the Children’s Hospital neurobiology lab.
The package arrived at Rosenberg’s home after he
had given her a negative review, which led to her resignation. The bomb, comprised nine-volt batteries, two pipe bombs with black powder and two roller lever switches, thankfully failed to explode.
However, despite James talking of taking violent revenge against Paul Rosenberg, no charges were brought against the couple and they both maintained their innocence.
And as they dug further into Bishop Anderson’s past, even more shocking was the ‘accidental’ shooting of her 18-year-old brother, Seth, by Amy herself in 1986. The then-21-year-old Amy had shot him in the chest with her father’s pump-action shotgun at their home in Massachusetts.
Amy claimed the shooting was an accident and told the authorities that the gun went off as she’d tried to unload it.
The case was reopened after the University of Alabama shootings and on 16 June 2010, Bishop Anderson was charged with first-degree murder of her brother, nearly 24 years after his shooting.
However, while prosecutors agreed there was probable cause that Bishop Anderson had committed a crime, they had to drop the case because the incident had taken place so long ago – beyond the statute of limitations.
Now, the only question was, would this violent and dangerous woman face justice