Female Professor In Custody Over Shooting Deaths Of Three UAH Faculty Members

[princessgrandma]

Lots of people lose weight in jail. Look at Elisa Baker.

This woman is a whackjob, enabled by whoever did the half-assed investigation in the case of her brother's murder. She got away with that, and she got away with a lot of other stuff (and who knows what else), so it was ok. It seems that at the very least she has anger-management problems and decided that killing is the way to go to solve her problems, to "get" those annoying people who try to trip her up in her life, such as denying her tenure that she clearly (in her own eyes) deserved.

She went into that meeting knowing that they were going to deny her tenure, and she went in carrying a loaded weapon. Maybe the legal system might say differently, but I'd say that's premeditation. She planned to shoot someone. Now, some people are going to whine that she deserves a break as the mother of four kids, being stressed out by her life, and it all came to a head in that room. She shot those people down in cold blood, without a single thought as to their situations, the families they would leave behind. She deserves the death penalty.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Dr. Amy Bishop Anderson is sitting in a cell at the Madison County Detention Center charged with capital murder. February 12 will mark the two-year anniversary of the shooting in which she is accused of killing three of her UAHuntsville colleagues and wounding three more.

Next month, unless there's a delay, Bishop will go before a Madison County jury to learn if she'll live or die. Her trial is scheduled to begin March 19.

To many, it seems like an open and shut case. After all, even her own attorney admits she committed the crime. But her trial promises to be much more complex.

In most murder trials, the burden of proof lies with the state. But because Bishop has decided to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, that burden shifts to her attorneys.
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"There are people in our community who are walking time bombs," said Roy Miller, Bishop's attorney. "There are paranoid schizophrenics that come into this office. I've done criminal law a long time. I'm not worried about the average defendant that comes in here. I've never had a problem. What you worry about is the loaded cannon, the paranoid schizophrenic. They are so hard to identify."

Miller spoke to us in 2010 before a judge placed a gag order on all those involved in the case. Probably what he said that got the most attention during that interview is also the basis of Bishop's defense.

"I think the case speaks for itself," Miller said. "I think she's wacko."

Miller now says he regrets making that comment, but it's just a more blunt version of his client's plea, that's she's not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
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McDaniel says every time the defense produces a witness or evidence that Bishop is somehow insane, Madison County District Attorney Rob Broussard will counter, reminding jurors after the shooting Bishop allegedly hid the gun, indicating she knew she'd done something wrong.

"What the prosecutor will hang their hat on is, did you run, did you hide, did you flee?" McDaniel explained. "What did you do before, during and after this."

When Amy Bishop Anderson goes on trial, the jurors will be asked to do something that none of us would envy. They will have to get inside her remarkable, yet clearly troubled mind and find out what makes it tick.

http://www.whnt.com/news/huntsvillea...,5346899.story

Court documents released yesterday provide a first-hand account of how the parents of Amy Bishop defended their daughter during testimony in a closed-door inquest two years ago, insisting it was an accident when the murder suspect fatally shot her brother in the family’s Braintree home in 1986.

Amy Bishop, then 21, had been traumatized the year before by a burglary in the house, her father testified, and he maintained her fear contributed to events that day.
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Judith Bishop, her mother, testified that Amy Bishop and her brother, Seth, then 18, were putting away groceries in the kitchen when Amy entered with a rifle and asked for help unloading it.

She said that as Seth reached for the weapon, it discharged although Amy Bishop did not have her hand on the trigger.

‘‘The blood was just — it just came in a wave,’’ Judith Bishop said. ‘‘My shoes were full of blood; my hair was full of blood.’’

Though the Bishops have previously issued a couple of statements through their lawyer proclaiming their daughter’s innocence in the 1986 shooting, which had been ruled an accident at the time, they had never spoken publicly. The inquest led to the indictment in June 2010 of Amy for the killing of her brother.

It is a case that may never come to trial.
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http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrode...G0L/index.html

[DamagedGoods]

Are we forbidden posting links to other true crime boards that have info on cases, or am I just remembering things?

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Are we forbidden posting links to other true crime boards that have info on cases, or am I just remembering things?

Officially: http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/s...t-ready-to-die

My PERSONAL view on it is that I don't drive traffic away from D'D. Info posted on any other forum is easy enough to find that I can link to the original reliable sources rather than someone else's forum or blog.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A Harvard-educated biologist was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday after being convicted of going on a shooting rampage during a faculty meeting at an Alabama university, killing three colleagues and wounding three others in 2010.

The jury deliberated for only 20 minutes before convicting Amy Bishop. The former professor at the University of Alabama in Hunstville showed no reaction as the verdict was read. She did not speak in court, but her lawyer said she has often expressed great remorse to the victims and their families.

‘‘She is shattered beyond belief,’’ lawyer Roy Miller said.

Bishop avoided a death sentence by pleading guilty earlier this month to the shootings on Feb. 12, 2010. Before the guilty plea — which she signed with a barely legible scrawl — her lawyers had said they planned to use an insanity defense.

However, she was required to have a brief trial because she admitted to a capital murder charge.

Bishop could also still face a trial in Massachusetts, where she is charged in the 1986 killing of her 18-year-old brother
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A police investigator testified Monday during the brief trial that Bishop denied having anything to do with the rampage. During testimony Monday, Bishop shook her head any time the judge or prosecutors described the killings as intentional.

Investigator Charlie Gray also said police believe Bishop opened fire during the faculty meeting because she was angry over being denied tenure, which effectively ended her career at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

‘‘She would say, ‘It didn’t happen. I wasn’t there. It wasn’t me,’ ’’ Gray said.
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http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/09...GxJ/story.html

[TheFirstZev]

Massachusetts prosecutors have withdrawn a murder charge in the 1986 death of the brother of a former Alabama professor who fatally shot three colleagues.

The announcement Friday by the Norfolk district attorney follows Amy Bishop's sentencing this week to life in prison without parole for the killings at the University of Alabama-Huntsville in February 2010.

In a statement, the office said the life sentence they would seek in the 1986 killing of 18-year-old Seth Bishop was identical to the punishment she received in Alabama, so there was no need to move forward.

Authorities initially ruled Seth Bishop's shooting accidental. That was based partly on claims by Bishop's mother, who said her daughter didn't mean to kill him.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/28...brother-death/