<p>Analyzing every word the husband says is rubbish…not only do different reporters not ask him the same sets of questions - so inconsistencies in the way he appears to answer things may simply be due to the phrasing of the question or later editing done on the article - but this man is undergoing huge emotional turmoil. How COULD he ever live up to everyone’s expectations? </p>
<p>It may very well turn out that he was involved in the murders in some way and is also unbalanced. But that is something the courts should be left to decide.</p>
<p>I think the media and newspapers are an EXCELLENT resource…but you have to be a discerning reader and understand that quotes can be put into weird contexts, articles can be edited heavily (leaving a disconnect between the reporter-the story), reporters aren’t police officers, and not everyone knows how to deal with tragedy and the press at the same time.</p>
<p>umcp11, that is why he should not be talking, stay low key and concentrate on getting his kids through this very difficult time. Why is that not clear to anyone with half a common sense? Or, oth, if he was planning on create a media circus and draw more interest to the case in hope of future financial gain, then he might be doing the right thing.</p>
<p>Her oldest daughter is a student in the biology department at UAH.</p>
<p>Her youngest child is named after the brother whom Amy Bishop killed. I wonder if before last week’s murders that boy knew how his uncle had died.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the father is off giving media interviews.</p>
<p>I hope there is some stable, sane person who is attending to the children during this time.</p>
<p>ttparent, It’s not even clear that he’s been talking extensively to the press…even a 1-2 minute interview could yield some of those quotes. And certainly he doesn’t need to be “off” doing interviews - reporters show up at doors, call your house, call your work, etc. And of course he must be feeling an urge to clear his wife’s name, place blame elsewhere, etc. I don’t believe he’s in a good mental state right now, and I don’t think anyone would be after such an event. I would hope I would have the common sense to keep quiet if something similar ever happened to me, God forbid, but the reality is I have no idea how I would react to a situation like this.</p>
<p>I also hope the children have someone stable to turn to, but I can’t blame the husband for not being able to think logically.</p>
<p>I am surprised no one has yet postulated Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder) amongst the many diagnostic possibilities, especially with her claim that she has no memory of the shooting. Likely a mixed bag of narcissism, HFA-aspergersish social awkwardness and schizotypal or schizoaffective dosirder, with an occasional episode of acute psychosis. Don’t believe she is paranoid schiz. Doesnt really fit her history as it is reported.</p>
<p>HUNTSVILLE, AL – Dr. Amy Bishop’s court-appointed attorney said in their first conversation in jail, the biology professor - who is charged with last Friday’s killing of three colleagues - asked if she still had a job…</p>
<p>“She doesn’t remember shooting those folks,” said Huntsville attorney Roy W. Miller. “… Her history … speaks for itself. Something’s wrong with this lady.”</p>
<p>Miller, who talked with Bishop in jail for two hours on Wednesday, said at a Friday morning press conference that his new client is one of “the nicest people you could ever want to meet” though he does question her sanity.</p>
<p>“I’m an attorney, not a psychologist,” he said. “… but the facts of the case speak for themselves.”</p>
<p>Miller said even though Bishop can’t recall murdering her friends and co-workers in the faculty meeting, “she’s eat up with what she’s done.”</p>
<p>Bishop’s husband, 45-year-old Jim Anderson, has been outspoken since his wife’s arrest, talking to reporters from across the country. Miller said he’s advised Anderson to stop talking to the meeting, but “I cannot get him to shut up… He’s a grown man with a full set of teeth.”</p>
<p>I don’t comment on this Psychiatry stuff because I know absolutely nothing about it. But the lawyer did say paranoid schizophrenic and that got me thinking about Seth shooting where she ran out and claim that she was running away from her husband, then she snapped at IHOP saying “I am Amy Bishop”. So does Dissociative Identity Disorder involve staying with the same identity (Amy Bishop) but a sudden transfer of oneself to a different situation or alternate reality?</p>
<p>I know, but it will probably be strange (I would assume that all the kids are still going to school, or at some point they will have to go back?) to be around classmates, knowing that your mom is a school shooter.</p>
<p>I cannot imagine any scaenario where that poor girl would feel comfortable or welcomed in that department. Granted many probably have sympathy for her, especially with having had the mother that she did, but still…</p>
<p>*** edit *** a grown man with a full set of teeth in Alabama!! Oh-- there are so many-follow up lines that could be said, but…nah…</p>
<p>I assume that the university will allow her to just drop all her classes and withdraw from school as though she didn’t take anything this semester? This is such an odd situation, that I don’t know what they’d do in these circumstances. And I’m assuming she is a freshmen, since the news articles have said she is 18, so she is probably not taking all her classes in that department.</p>
<p>“I know, but it will probably be strange (I would assume that all the kids are still going to school, or at some point they will have to go back?) to be around classmates, knowing that your mom is a school shooter.”</p>
<p>I doubt that many classes are being held in the UAH bio department.</p>
<p>I bet that many if not most students in the department will be given incompletes. Many also probably will decide to transfer, and more than likely UAH will help with that.</p>
<p>“I cannot imagine any scaenario where that poor girl would feel comfortable or welcomed in that department. Granted many probably have sympathy for her, especially with having had the mother that she did, but still…”</p>
<p>With their family background, all of Amy Bishop’s children are going to have a difficult time finding any place that welcomes them. This includes finding any kind of social groups.</p>
<p>Yes, he is a lawyer, and maybe he knows exactly what he is doing. Bottom line, I don’t know, why yell at me for paraphrasing what he said. Ok, may be you were yelling out loud at him.</p>
<p>This kind of statement (from the attorney) really bothers me. They “think differently” because they’re smart? NO! They think differently because they have a screw loose.</p>