Following up on the previous post, Jules Crittenden suggests that it wasn’t Amy Bishop’s mother’s political connections that got her off, but merely the fact she lived in Massachusetts:
That kind of thing actually happens a lot around here. Killers and rapsists being let off, and going to to kill or rape again. It’s our special gift to the nation.
Updated: Of course, it could be both.
So, let’s see if we can detect a pattern in the following events:
Following Scott Brown’s campaign victory, Delahunt was already considered vulnerable, but the timing on this seems just a little too convenient, don’t you think?
Then there’s this paragraph from that LA Times story about Bishop and her husband: “They were outspoken Northeastern liberals whose political yard signs stood out a little on their suburban lot.” If we were just discussing the Alabama shooting itself, i would call it dirty pool to bring that information up; I don’t think being a liberal makes you any more or less likely to become a spree killer; some people just snap, and politics has nothing to do with it. But I can’t help wondering whether politics may have played a role in her not being charged in 1986. Was she not charged because she, or more likely her relatives or friends, were somehow politically connected to Delahunt? Why is the case file missing, and who took it?
Why did William Delahunt let Amy Bishop get away with murder?
Updated: Belmont Club has more on the story, including links to the DA report in the comments sections, and critiques of same.