Report: Bishop Suspect In Newton Mail Bomb Attempt

Woman Accused Of Killing 3 Alabama Professors Was Suspect In 1993 Attack On Harvard Professor

BRAINTREE (WBZ) ― The female professor accused of gunning down three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday, was once a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard professor, the Boston Globe reports.

Back in 1993 Dr. Paul Rosenberg opened a package containing two pipe bombs in his Newton home. Because Rosenberg cut open the box rather than lifting its flaps, the bombs did not detonate. Nobody was ever arrested.

Sources tell the Boston Globe that Amy Bishop, a Harvard medical student at the time, was questioned in the bombing attempt. According to the Globe sources, Rosenberg may have been concerned she was about to get a bad review for her doctorate work.

Bishop's former medical school lab co-worker, Sylvia Fluckiger, told WBZ that she remembers the bombing incident, and recalled Bishop telling her that she was being questioned by police. Fluckiger said that there was animosity between Bishop and Dr. Rosenberg.

This is the second local revelation about Amy Bishop in as many days. On Saturday police in Braintree said that Bishop had shot and killed her brother back in 1986. That shooting was ruled accidental, though police reports from that day can not be found.

On Friday authorities in Alabama say Amy Bishop, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, opened fire inside a faculty meeting. She recently learned that she was not being granted tenure at the school. Three professors were killed and three others injured.

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