MacDill Intruders Named (Not RoP)

Well, my rule of thumb (if the police don't tell you, they're actually telling you) didn't apply this time.

The man and woman arrived at MacDill Air Force Base as it cleared out for the day. They slowed the sport utility vehicle and showed identification. In the Honda were six guns, ammunition and military-style clothing. The man, active duty military, reportedly was absent without leave.

But the military security guard didn't know that.

Only the IDs raised a flag. They appeared to be fake, base officials said Tuesday.

Authorities identified the pair who tried to enter the base's Bayshore Boulevard gate about 5 p.m. Monday as Spc. Christopher Paul Kilburn, and Micah Goodier of Palm Beach County.

Kilburn had been stationed with Alpha Company, 1-16th 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan. He was charged with desertion and will be turned over to the Army.

Oh, and remember Amy Bishop? And how current US Representative William Delahunt dropped the ball on that investigation? (PS, good luck tracking down mentions of Delahunt's role in MFM articles.)

U.S. Rep. William Delahunt today stood by his office’s handling of a 1986 shooting in Braintree...

“The real tragedy here is an opportunity for a psychiatric evaluation of Amy Bishop could have been done,” Delahunt told the Herald today.

She'll be charged for that shotgun murder.

- Amy Bishop has been charged with murder for the 1986 shotgun slaying of her 18-year-old brother in their Braintree home, according to Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating.

"The grand jury has indicted Amy Bishop for murder in the first degree,'' Keating told reporters today."Here in Massachusetts, we had evidence of a murder. We proceeded with that, as we should have."

The slaying of Seth Bishop was declared an accident by Norfolk County authorities at the time. But questions were raised about the investigation after Bishop, a college professor, was charged in February in a shooting rampage at the University of Alabama Huntsville. Three of Bishops' colleagues were fatally shot and three wounded in that case.

Keating said an indictment warrant has been lodged with Alabama authorities. He indicated that he would give the Alabama triple murder case priority. Asked if Amy Bishop would ever be tried in Massachusetts for murder, Keating said, "you never know.''

posted by Ace at 04:37 PM

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