In December 1993 someone tried to kill Harvard professor Paul Rosenberg with two mailed pipe bombs. The incident as reported by the college newspaper back then [The Crimson]
Now we find that Bishop was allegedly a suspect in the attempted bombing [Boston Globe]:
Bishop surfaced as a suspect because she was allegedly concerned that she was going to receive a negative evaluation from Rosenberg on her doctorate work, the official said.
Result: no charges. Anderson says that they were not suspects and the police “questioned everybody that ever knew this guy” [NY Times].
And meanwhile she wanted to write a novel about a scientist who kills her brother. Sound familiar?
EDIT: Bishop’s dissertation was also published in December 1993. For anyone who is interested and has access to ProQuest, it is called The Role of Methoxatin (PQQ) in the Respiratory Burst of Phagocytes. You can search for it and buy a copy [ProQuest]
The only listed advisor in the full ProQuest summary (only available to subscribers, snapshot here) is the late Harvard professor Paul Gallop, not Paul Rosenberg. Both professors worked at Children’s Hospital Boston and co-authored papers from time to time [NCBI] [Harvard Catalyst]. Bishop and Gallop also shared some publications in the early 1990s [UAH].
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