<p>If Bishop was home in Ipswich during after-school hours, to complain about kids’ noise, I wonder whether she was working then?</p>
<p>She should have been in prison or dead for previous crimes, then innocent lives would have been saved.</p>
<p>Insane, no. Sociopath, yes.</p>
<p>This woman is a calculated killer. She has probably gotten away with murder and attempted murder in her past and truely believes she is smarter than everyone else and will not be found guilty. She is the scariest type of persona.</p>
<p>Sociopaths have no empathy. They can only think of themselves and getting what they want at all costs.They manipulate those around them, taking on whatever role they need to to get to their desired goal. Even her kids did not matter to her. </p>
<p>I think she really believes she has “won” this round with the deaths of those who got in her way.</p>
<p>mom2 - no more open containers while driving here in Texas.</p>
<p>But we do have drive-thru liquor stores. I believe there is one called “Party Barn” that looks like a large garage. You literally drive right in.</p>
<p>sorry to go OT</p>
<p>"This woman is a calculated killer. " - Yep, and apparently has always been as her past has proven. She should have been isolated from the rest of us, that is the reason for law, prison, police…did not work, and 6 innocent ppl paid for it.</p>
<p>mom2ck, no, Texas no longer allows open containers in cars.</p>
<p>"Before the gunfire broke out Friday, the meeting was tranquil enough that ecology professor Robert O. Lawton was working on a manuscript about trees instead of paying full attention to the discussion.</p>
<p>“It was an ordinary faculty meeting. Then it became unordinary,” Lawton said Monday, declining to elaborate on what he saw.</p>
<p>Associate professor Joseph Ng, who was also present at the meeting, told the Associated Press that the meeting had been going on for about half an hour when Bishop “got up suddenly, took out a gun and started shooting at each one of us. She started with the one closest to her and went down the row shooting her targets in the head.”"</p>
<p>[Alabama</a> Prof. Went to Range Before Shooting - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586024,00.html]Alabama”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586024,00.html)</p>
<p>[Shooter</a> Amy Bishop Fought With Neighbors, Was Odd Ball With Colleagues and Just Different With Family - ABC News](<a href=“Accused Alabama Shooter Fought With Neighbors, Told Family She Was Stalked - ABC News”>Accused Alabama Shooter Fought With Neighbors, Told Family She Was Stalked - ABC News)</p>
<p>Here’s an account from a faculty member who was in the room but was not hurt…</p>
<p>* We were 12 all together (including the shooter) sitting around an oval table in a modest size conference room . There were only one door to enter/exit.</p>
<p>The shooter was a disgruntled faculty member who didn’t get tenured after several appeals and a law suit.</p>
<p>About 30min into the meeting, she got up suddenly, took out a gun and started shooting at each one of us. She started with the one closest to her and went down the row shooting her targets in the head.</p>
<p>Our chairman got it the worst as he was right next to her along with two others who died almost instantly.</p>
<p>Six people sitting in the rows perpendicular were all shot fatally or seriously wounded. The remaining 5 including myself were on the other side of the table immediately dropped to the floor.</p>
<p>During a reload, the shooter was rushed, and we pushed her out the hall way and closed the door. Thereafter we barricaded the door and called 911.</p>
<p>At the time, I saw 2 dead bodies already and several wounded. Blood was everywhere with crying and moaning. I was on the phone with 911 reporting what had happened and while waiting we tried to stop the bleeding of those who we thought were still alive.</p>
<p>In about 5 min, the campus and city police, ambulance and a SWAT team arrived. We were in a pool of blood in disbelief of what had happened.</p>
<p>There were 5 of us who got out relatively unscathed – I was one of them.*</p>
<p>How terribly traumatic for those who survived. How dare her think she had any right to do this to these people! How dare her! It makes me very angry.</p>
<p>From an interview with a professor who helped stop her:</p>
<p>[Alabama</a> University Shooting: Hero Professor Tried to Stop Amy Bishop - ABC News](<a href=“Professor Credited With Saving Lives in Amy Bishop's Alleged Rampage - ABC News”>Professor Credited With Saving Lives in Amy Bishop's Alleged Rampage - ABC News)</p>
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<p>I feel like Momlove. Very angry. You just know that Bishop’s going to claim temporary insanity.</p>
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<p>That sounds more like something from a movie script than something you’d say as people are being shot before your eyes.</p>
<p>Wow, what a brave woman! Sounds like she definitely saved some lives. (Kind of funny that her name is Professor Moriarty, like Sherlock Holmes’ archnemesis. Not that it matters, it just adds another layer of unreality when I read these articles.)</p>
<p>Thank goodness for cell phones, too.</p>
<p>“You just know that Bishop’s going to claim temporary insanity.”</p>
<p>I read that she’s on suicide watch now at the jail. If she really had wanted to kill herself, presumably she would have done that after killing her co-workers.</p>
<p>I fear copycat murders. College faculty meetings may become the next places known for having disgruntled employes go “postal.”</p>
<p>Interesting what they have in common–Harvard education and perhaps bombs and IQ</p>
<p>Amy Bishop, IQ–160 per her husband</p>
<p>Theodore Kaczynski (unabomber), IQ–167</p>
<p>Question–do college HR departments attempt any screening for stability?</p>
<p>This whole situation is so weird. I wonder what disorder she has.</p>
<p>So, apparently her background check when she was hired showed nothing amiss: [Quick</a> Takes: Criminal Check Wouldn’t Have Flagged Amy Bishop - Inside Higher Ed](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/16/qt/criminal_check_wouldn_t_have_flagged_amy_bishop]Quick”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/16/qt/criminal_check_wouldn_t_have_flagged_amy_bishop)</p>
<p>"Accused University of Alabama at Huntsville rampage murderer Amy Bishop was on a suicide watch yesterday - stripped of even her underwear - as her beleaguered husband said he was sticking by her “so far.”</p>
<p>Madison County Sheriff Blake L. Dorning told the Herald that Bishop, 44, a neurobiology professor and Braintree native, was forced to wear a knee-length smock “as a precaution” and is on “an hourly watch program,” deprived even of her undergarments.</p>
<p>But Dorning stressed the jailhouse psychiatric nurse, who’s been meeting with Bishop since Friday’s faculty meeting slaughter, has not reported any suicidal behavior “that would raise our attention.”…"
[Alleged</a> killer professor on suicide watch - BostonHerald.com](<a href=“http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/south/view/20100216alleged_killer_professor_on_suicide_watch/srvc=home&position=0]Alleged”>http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/south/view/20100216alleged_killer_professor_on_suicide_watch/srvc=home&position=0)</p>
<p>No surprise to me that her background checks wouldn’t reveal anything amiss. She had never been charged or convicted of a crime. </p>
<p>Being an oddball isn’t enough to keep a person from getting a faculty job if they have a strong educational and research background. There are lots of odd, but very productive and well respected, professors.</p>
<p>she’s a psychopath. She went methodically around the room and shot each person in the head in order. Nothing emotional. She has no ability to feel or consider the existence of others as valid. definitely a psychopath. I can’t imagine what that must have been like for the other faculty members. Talk about terror.</p>