Assistant Professor Goes on a Killing Spree

SirJosephPorter

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Speaking of the woman who went bonkers, it is apparent she was bonkers as far back as 1986 when she killed her brother in Braintree, Massachusetts.

With these killings this old case has come to the forefront.

On the day she killed her brother, actually within a few minutes of killing her brother she fired the shotgun through her bedroom door. Her mother and brother were in the house at the time. Her mother said she did not hear the first shotgun blast because their house was very well insulated. After putting a hole in her door she supposedly went down stairs to ask her brother how to load a shotgun. But instead she blasted a hole in his chest killing him. One Braintree Police officer said there was another shotgun hole in the ceiling that was ignored. Three blasts.

She then went to a Ford Dealership brandishing the shotgun and asking for a car to get away from an abusive husband, although she was not married at the time. The Car Salesman said he would get her a car and was showing her the models on the showroom floor while others at the dealership called the Police. She was apprehended there.

Her mother was a Massachusetts State Worker...a big shot. The Braintree Police Chief at the time stopped the investigation fairly quickly and District Atty James Delahunt refused to press charges.

Delahunt is now Democrat Congressman Delahunt representing Massachusetts in Washington.

The current Braintree Police Chief on reviewing the case says he does not want to say the word but... as he said... "the word coverup comes to mind."

I understand the file on the case has been lost.
 

EagleSmack

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Possibly including one illustrious fellow from Mass. who died recently. :lol::lol:

No cover up there JLM! :lol:

A couple years back Massachusetts released a violent criminal against the professional advice of Prison Doctors. Nevertheless he was released.

Released, went to Washington state, killed a newlywed couple and that was that.

A judge in Newton Mass released a British Au Pair after she was convicted of first degree murder for shaking and smashing the head of the baby in her care. Yup, convicted of First Degree Murder by a jury and the Judge simply let her go during the sentencing. He did not agree with the jury so instead of sentencing her to life in prison he said...

"Time served"
 

JLM

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No cover up there JLM! :lol:

A couple years back Massachusetts released a violent criminal against the professional advice of Prison Doctors. Nevertheless he was released.

Released, went to Washington state, killed a newlywed couple and that was that.

A judge in Newton Mass released a British Au Pair after she was convicted of first degree murder for shaking and smashing the head of the baby in her care. Yup, convicted of First Degree Murder by a jury and the Judge simply let her go during the sentencing. He did not agree with the jury so instead of sentencing her to life in prison he said...

"Time served"

Yes, I remember the case of the British Au Pair, several years ago now. I thought possibly there was some doubt about her guilt.
 

EagleSmack

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Yes, I remember the case of the British Au Pair, several years ago now. I thought possibly there was some doubt about her guilt.

There was no doubt at all. Shaking baby syndrome and a smashed skull while in her care. She was convicted by a jury.

What happened was it was a very public case and televised internationally. Protests here in Massachusetts and England swayed the judge.

I personally believed her crying out when she was convicted of first degree murder caused the judge to put aside justice and chose political correctness.
 

EagleSmack

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As stated earlier she was a suspect in the delivery of a mail bomb in Newton Mass. A doctor was critical of some of her research and recieved a pipe bomb in the mail.

The FBI had her as one of the main suspects but was unable to prove it. One thing that I found interesting with Law Enforcement is the way they craft questions. So the FBI Agent asked her...

"Have you ever attached a stamp to an envelope or package for something other than delivering a message or gift?"

She grinned.

That is what the agent said. She went no further and the agent said he did not know what the grin was for, but that she did.

I think she is going to find herself on Death Row.
 

JLM

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I can't help thinking "Job for life." is a bad idea. I don't know the exact limits we put on our judges but we have some dandies.

You have that right #Juan, Air India trial comes to mind- that was heard and decided by judge alone. It's not the judge that was so bad there as the system, I think the judge just happened to arrive at the right conclusion to ensure his own longevity...:smile::smile:
 

#juan

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You have that right #Juan, Air India trial comes to mind- that was heard and decided by judge alone. It's not the judge that was so bad there as the system, I think the judge just happened to arrive at the right conclusion to ensure his own longevity...:smile::smile:

Oh yes. I remember Air India. That's the case where we convicted the raghead who built the bomb but not the guy he built the bomb for. If I remember right that stupid trial took years and cost us about twenty million dollars for no real results.
 

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Oh yes. I remember Air India. That's the case where we convicted the raghead who built the bomb but not the guy he built the bomb for. If I remember right that stupid trial took years and cost us about twenty million dollars for no real results.

Yeah....I read about his criticism of the woman's testimony in the case (the most important prosecution witness)......either the judge is completely out of touch with reality.......or the radical Sikhs got to him with threats.

And I will always believe the latter.
 

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Oh yes. I remember Air India. That's the case where we convicted the raghead who built the bomb but not the guy he built the bomb for. If I remember right that stupid trial took years and cost us about twenty million dollars for no real results.

"raghead'? Your name is 'Juan'. Do I call you 'wetback'? Just curious.
 

#juan

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"raghead'? Your name is 'Juan'. Do I call you 'wetback'? Just curious.

Call me anything but call me for dinner......;-)

I can think of all kinds of names to call a$$holes who would blow up an airliner and kill 329 people they didn't even know. Are you worried about their feelings? I'm not...
 

JLM

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Call me anything but call me for dinner......;-)

I can think of all kinds of names to call a$$holes who would blow up an airliner and kill 329 people they didn't even know. Are you worried about their feelings? I'm not...

Right on #Juan. All this political correctness when carried to the extreme is far more sickening than any disparaging names for scum. :lol: