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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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