we re learning bishop had been charged with assault eight years ago. police records showing bishop punched another mom at a massachusetts pancake house in a dispute over a child s booster seat. those charges were later dismissed. the newly-discovered document shedding a new light on amy bishop s past. red flags, did anybody see them? what were they? why weren t they picked up on? joining us now by the phone is maria kramer, a reporter with boston globe and not just a crime reporter, the crime reporter that broke the story on the pancake house incident. are you there with us? reporter: hi, yes. thank you for having me. harris harris oh, absolutely. thanks for being with us. first of all, let s start with the bombshell about how charges could have been brought 20 years ago. reporter: right. what the district attorney, the current district attorney said yesterday was that she could have been charged with three charges, three serious ones: assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a da
ammunition. and these all would have stemmed from her fleeing the house where she had shot her brother and holding up someone else in an attempt to get a getaway car. harris: i want everyone to understand why we would talk with a boston reporter when this case happened just last week at alabama university. police and prosecutors are looking into her past, and that looking into her past has led them back to where you are in massachusetts, and there s more today. the pancake house incident. reporter: right. you know, what led police back to massachusetts was the chief of police in braintree saying that this case should have been and could have been handled differently more than 20 years ago. and as you said before in your introduction can, there were new charges that were uncovered against amy bishop back in 2002. she punched another mother in the head when the mother got the booster seat that she wanted for her own child, and as she was punching this woman, she said, i