<p>Midmo:</p>
<p>I am familiar with the process; I assume that departmental proceedings would be kept confidential, though Bishop might have learned that the vote was not unanimous–even that would be a breach of confidentiality. It seems she targeted specific individuals, so I wonder on what basis she made her choice.</p>
<p>The whole story is mind-boggling.</p>
<p>^^^(post 240) The publication date was May 2009, which would have been after the initial tenure denial, and was probably one of Bishop’s submissions in defense of her appeal. No wonder the Dean rejected the appeal.</p>
<p>Who funded that paper? All I saw was the abstract, with no details about the source of funding.</p>
<p>If the other authors are her children, that’s pretty funny, and also pretty sad. How does someone get something like that published without it being reviewed?</p>
<p>This is beginning to sound like Alice in Wonderland!</p>
<p>I know academics are often “peculiar” or “eccentric” but this is off the wall.</p>
<p>Update on my friend’s H’s condition… From the victim’s son…</p>
<p>He is heavily sedated, yet responsive (thumbs up and head nods), the bullet entered through the jaw, fragmented, and made it up to his eye (which we believe will be lost).</p>
<p>However, the neurosurgeon said that no fragments entered his brain. He also has a skull fracture, which I was told is likely a good thing because it prevented his brain from swelling in on itself.</p>
<p>Sorry for the misinformation earlier. Another relative told us that the bullet stopped in his neck, but that was wrong.</p>
<p>It sounds like he was ducking sideways to get out of the way of the bullets and she shot him and the bullet entered thru the jaw (by the neck) and went up.</p>
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And I like the part about his children holding up well because “they are New Englanders”. *</p>
<p>I thought that was bizarre, too. As if “New Englanders” are used to having their moms kill other people, so they’ve learned to “tough it out.” Crazy!!!</p>
<p>The victims must have known that there was something off about her. The science blog I linked before has a comment from someone who went to graduate school with one of the victims, who sounds like a wonderful person. The whole thing is sickening.</p>
<p>I have to wonder about the bombing, though. There is a big difference between shooting someone openly (which Bishop has done on two occasions) and sending a bomb with enough cunning that the Feds could not prove anything. And if people at Harvard really thought she had been responsible for the bombing attempt, would they have continued to keep her around for 10 more years?</p>
<p>The husband is beyond bizarre. Besides his other strange statements, I read that he said something about needing to figure out why his wife had done it, because if he knew why she’d done it, he could “clear the air.” In other words, she must have had a good reason!</p>
<p>Edit: I just saw your post, mom2collegekids. I am so glad that there is no brain damage! What a sickening situation.</p>
<p>Quite a long list of deaths: an 18-year-old promising scientist and violinist, three professors; I hope the injured recover and the list does not lengthen.</p>
<p>If the other authors are her children, that’s pretty funny, and also pretty sad.</p>
<p>I could be wrong, but it could be suggested that she was having her kids put their names on research papers so that they would have “hooks” for their ivy college applications.</p>
<p>Lest we forget - one of the more bizarre of this made for TV plot-line… in the fed investigation of the attempted murder by bombing, the report (up-thread, I believe) was that her computer was searched. A manuscript of a novel about a scientist who murdered her brother but was making amends with her research was recovered.</p>
<p>I’d like to see how that murder was described in the manuscript.</p>
<p>I appalled that someone would leak that kind of private information in a Federal computer search. I think that most people would be upset if all of their personal information was thrown out on the web because their computer was searched.</p>
<p>This story is getting more bizarre by the minute. I hope that some agency of authority recommends that the children be evaluated for mental health issues. These kids have been hit with weirdness from both sides of their genetic pool.</p>
<p>BTW, I am not attesting that the computer was searched or to what, if anything, was recovered. Simply that it was reported…somewhere …by someone…and adds to the craziness that is coming out about the acts and the investigations.</p>
<p>**mom2collegekids **, I am so glad that your friend apparently did not suffer brain damage, and hope that he is able to recover well. Please do keep us posted on his progress.</p>
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<p>Calling the police on kids and freaking out over an ice cream truck? What is she, a comic book villain? Did she practice an evil laugh in front of the bathroom mirror too?</p>
<p>This story certainly proves that fact can be stranger than fiction.</p>
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<p>Someone get those kids out of there. :(</p>
<p>Midmo, I’m so sorry about your friend. So glad he’s responsive, though.</p>
<p>Glad to hear your friend’s H is doing better, mom2collegekids. This professor really sounds like a very disturbed lady. Scary how her abberent behavior went on for so long. Maybe now, in comparison, those in-home alum interviews don’t seem any more risky or predictable than attending a college faculty meeting. Just can never know what goes on in the minds or computers of others.</p>
<p>mom2college, it sounds like your friend missed a much, much worse outcome by inches. Best wishes for his recovery, both physically and psychologically, and please continue to update us.</p>
<p>Thanks…we’re all waiting by the minute for more updates.</p>
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<p>I agree with that post that the kids should be removed until that dad can be examined. He sounds nutty, too.</p>
<p>That must have been some marriage. If “She seemed fine” translates to three killed and three wounded you kinda wonder how things must have seemed on her bad days. In short, I agree that (at minimum) counselors should speak with the husband and older kids ASAP. NOBODY knew about the gun? And based on that authorities are convinced there aren’t any other guns in the house? This whole episode is just too bizarre … aside from being tragic for all involved of course.</p>
<p>mom2collegekids - Glad to hear your friend’s husband is doing better. Prayers to all the families suffering unjustifiably.</p>
<p>BTW, I feel fairly certain that further investigation will turn up evidence that Amy Bishop has been preparing for this attack for some time. Not only was there the procurement of the pistol (and concealment thereof), but she proved a remarkably good shot for someone who hadn’t fired a weapon in twenty years. Pistol marksmanship isn’t a genetically-linked ability … it takes practice.</p>
<p>BCEAGLE91: “I appalled that someone would leak that kind of private information in a Federal computer search. I think that most people would be upset if all of their personal information was thrown out on the web because their computer was searched.”</p>
<p>A previous post said that Bishop was writing a novel in which the main character killed her brother. The word murder was not used. She did kill her brother, the issue was murder or accident.</p>
<p>As for this leaking to the media: If the 1993 incident was a closed investigation, are the results in the public domain??? I have read the pdf copies of the state police report from the 1986 shooting on here. It apparently is a public document. Could the FBI report from 1993 be a public document too???</p>
<p>Any lawyers reading this care to comment?</p>