“The Incident in Alabama”

“I was like, What?” Sullivan told me. He recalled complaining to the captain, “If we let every person go because their mother didn’t think they committed a crime, there would be no point in arresting anyone.” But he was told that Polio had ordered the release, and that he was “to obey that order.”

The New Yorker on the sad and disturbing past of Amy Bishop. For further reading, check out Wired’s “What Made This University Researcher Snap?”