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Harvard-educated biology professor Amy Bishop, who was charged with a shooting at Alabama University in February, was indicted for the killing of her brother in 1986, prosecutors announced today...
Earlier this year, Bishop had shot six of her colleagues and killed three, prompting authorities to reopen the case of her brother's death. Bishop had originally told the police investigating the incident that she had accidentally shot him, and the case—ruled as an accident—fell quiet for more than two decades...
After recent further investigation into the case, Bishop has been charged with first-degree murder of her then-18-year-old brother, Seth. Roy Miller—Bishop's attorney during the case of the Alabama shootings—indicated that he is considering an insanity defense for his client...
Then-Norfolk District Attorney William Delahunt said that Braintree police reports of Bishop’s actions after shooting her brother were never mentioned in state police detective reports. Bishop had allegedly tried to steal a car at gunpoint from a local car dealership, then refused to drop her 12-gauge shotgun until officers ordered her to do so repeatedly...
...self-confirmation. Words help to explain the traumatic reality of war, to make sense of it, and then to live in it and to live in its wake—whether it be John Singleton Copley’s letters from Europe to his half-brother Henry Pelham back in America or Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead. As I read these things, I learned something about reading the literature of war (or really, any reading): It is an act of self-validation. I didn’t live through the American Revolution or World...