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Professor accused in Ala. slayings shot her brother in Mass. 24 years ago
Boston Globe ^ | February 13, 2010 01:46 PM | John M. Guilfoil and Martin Finucane

Posted on 02/13/2010 10:53:08 AM PST by pillut48

The University of Alabama biology professor accused of slaying three of her colleagues fatally shot her brother in an apparent accident in Massachusetts more than two decades ago, a local police chief said.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: amybishop; yankee
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Apparently she allegedly 'accidentally' offed her colleagues as well?
1 posted on 02/13/2010 10:53:08 AM PST by pillut48
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To: pillut48

Might have to look into that earlier incident a little
better.


2 posted on 02/13/2010 10:54:16 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: pillut48

good thing she’s out of there before she shot her students


3 posted on 02/13/2010 10:54:33 AM PST by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: pillut48

I think we’ll see an insanity defense.


4 posted on 02/13/2010 10:58:15 AM PST by freespirited (Congratulations Senator Brown. One down, 59 to go.)
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To: freespirited

Heard on the news this morning it may have been related to tenure...she has been fighting for tenure for 2 years..


5 posted on 02/13/2010 11:01:10 AM PST by celtic gal
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To: pillut48
In Friday's shooting, Amy Bishop, 42, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, allegedly shot and killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others in an apparent tenure dispute at the Huntsville campus."

Man, I knew tenure was coveted by professors, but mass murder?

6 posted on 02/13/2010 11:01:54 AM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: tet68

Sounds like Mom might have covered up for her daughter.


7 posted on 02/13/2010 11:01:56 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: pillut48

Maybe it’s just me but, if I had ever accidentally shot & killed someone, I doubt that I would ever touch a gun again. Makes me wonder if the first incident was really an accident.


8 posted on 02/13/2010 11:02:43 AM PST by elli1
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To: tet68

The 1986 fatal *accident* as described sounds like a story concocted by the mother and daughter. Strange too, how the younger brother was perhaps more accomplished.

There should be a full investigation.

How was she able to have a gun license?


9 posted on 02/13/2010 11:03:09 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: celtic gal

She’ll get tenured (or ten years) in state prison


10 posted on 02/13/2010 11:04:50 AM PST by Pajama Blogger
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To: pillut48

Guilty.

11 posted on 02/13/2010 11:05:08 AM PST by magellan
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To: freespirited

I agree, another look at the first shooting is warranted.

You’d think that after the first shooting,that is, if it had been accidental, she wouldn’t want to be around guns at all.
I wonder if the first shooting really wasn’t accidental, but since she got away with it then she thought she would get away with it this time.
Either way, she’s in Alabama now, not Massachusetts. An insanity defence might work to keep her off death row, but it’s unlikely she’ll see the light of day anytime soon.


12 posted on 02/13/2010 11:05:39 AM PST by Radagast the Fool ("Mexico-Beirut with tacos!"--Dr. Zoidberg)
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To: magellan

Is it just me, or do all liberals look alike?


13 posted on 02/13/2010 11:06:43 AM PST by kara37
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To: pillut48
Apparently some sources say she was a socialist. The accusation is raising complaints from liberal bloggers, of course. I'm sure they would be much happier if she was some deraged conservative instead of a deranged liberal.

Even more, Walker notes that she might have been a "fish out of water" on the UAH campus given her Ivy-League roots and her fairly liberal ideologies. More from her students:

After classes ended last spring, a RateMyProfessors.com user said Bishop "is hot but she tries to hide it.And she is a socalist but she only talks about it after class." In 2008, someone described her on the site by saying: "she's a liberal from ‘Hahvahd' and let's you know exactly how she feels about particular subjects."

Finally, Walker found that she was a member of the "Clergy Letter Project," which is devoted to connecting scientists with clergy members who "have questions about the science associated with all aspects of evolution."

source: http://gawker.com/5471149/university-of-alabama-shooting-suspect-dr-amy-bishop-a-politicized-composite-emerges?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gawker%2Ffull+%28Gawker%29

14 posted on 02/13/2010 11:06:46 AM PST by highlander_UW (Obama has lost or not saved over 4 million jobs!)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
Man, I knew tenure was coveted by professors, but mass murder?

Well, you know how entitled the average liberal feels.

15 posted on 02/13/2010 11:06:47 AM PST by Redcloak (Messin' up threads since 1998)
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To: magellan

Definitely a "separated at birth" with Emo Phillips

16 posted on 02/13/2010 11:07:14 AM PST by Troublemaker
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To: pillut48

Poor woman! Those darn guns just keep going off! /s


17 posted on 02/13/2010 11:09:05 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: kara37
Is it just me, or do all liberals look alike?

LOL - I was thinking the same thing. I truly believe it's their deep seated hatred that gets manifested in their outward appearance...and behaviour.

18 posted on 02/13/2010 11:09:28 AM PST by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: tet68
Might have to look into that earlier incident a little better

. . .yes, nothing like muderously adding three more notches to give one pause re the first.

It was reported that she was crying/screaming, that they 'could not be dead'. Stuart Varney/FOXNS thought she was alluding to a possible 'someone else'. I concluded she was already prepping for her defense. (She only meant to scare them(?). . .'wing them'(?); superficially, of course. ..) Or; she MEANT to kill herself!

Well; she may be stupid; but she is a smart stupid. She never planned to waste ALL her education; even though 'stupid wins' and smart loses all here.

19 posted on 02/13/2010 11:09:49 AM PST by cricket (Proud to be in the 'Party of NO')
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To: tet68

But, but ... she went to Harvard. Clearly she is enlightened and would not kill anyone without just reasons!


20 posted on 02/13/2010 11:10:34 AM PST by whitedog57
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