<p>“Miller said both Bishop and her husband have IQs of 180, and they think differently than most people do: “Their thought process is not something I approach.””</p>
<p>Certainly people with 180 IQs think differently, but that doesn’t explain Amy’s homicidal behavior.</p>
<p>"He described his wife as a loving and caring partner and mother. She made time for her children despite her busy schedule, and didn’t like to discipline them.</p>
<p>“She preferred to guide them, to hug them, convince them to do what they should be doing,” he said.</p>
<p>The entire family would go to church on Sunday and watch Netflix movies on the weekends and visit relatives at Christmas. She was involved in the PTA and her children’s activities, and was working on three novels, he said.</p>
<p>“She proved you could be a wife, mother and a researcher. That you don’t have to give up the other two,” he said. “There’s no reason why a woman can’t go out there and be a mother, a wife and have a career that means something.”</p>
<p>Anderson hasn’t seen Bishop since her arrest, but in their daily telephone conversations, she asks about their children – three teen girls and an 8-year-old boy.</p>
<p>“She’s worried about the kids, wants to make sure they’re eating right, doing their homework, that we’re all fine here,” he said…"</p>
<p>[Amy</a> Bishop’s Husband: Alleged University of Alabama Shooter Was Loving Mother and Wife - ABC News](<a href=“Alleged University Shooter's Husband Thought 'Somebody Had Gone Crazy at the School' - ABC News”>Alleged University Shooter's Husband Thought 'Somebody Had Gone Crazy at the School' - ABC News)</p>
<p>Yes. But even mentioning the IQ in this context appears to be giving the IQ some sort of causal significance. Why even mention it?</p>
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<p>This is what I find so astonishing.</p>
<p>If one of my family members hit someone in public, they’d be in therapy pronto.</p>
<p>“Yes. But even mentioning the IQ in this context appears to be giving the IQ some sort of causal significance. Why even mention it?”</p>
<p>Amy probably harped on it, and her attorney fell under her spell.</p>
<p>So does Anderson still insist that his wife never had a mental problem? Now, her lawyer, after meeting her for maybe a couple of hours, says that it is clear to him that Amy is likely insane. It is going to be very difficult to have it both ways being mentally sound and smart on one hand, and insane and does not know what she was doing during the murder on the other. I can see why the lawyer might be getting a little frustrated with Anderson going around saying things that may come back and bite them later on.</p>
<p>Anderson probably thought his wife was justified in hitting and cursing at that woman whose child had a booster seat that his wife wanted for their child.</p>
<p>Anderson appears to think that not getting tenure is a logical explanation for killing co-workers.</p>
<p>I think she’s crazy like a fox. </p>
<p>I think the husband is odd also and I get the feeling that she may have constantly thrown her IQ in his face (for instance, saying things like–I’m smarter than you and smarter than you’ll ever be, etc.). Don’t odd people attract other odd people? I don’t think the husband knows what is normal behavior in a person.</p>
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<p>I agree completely. She has an astonishing ability to come up with fairly effective exit strategies after she kills someone. </p>
<p>Think about this, what story would she have told if she had been able to finish reloading her gun and finish methodically shoorting everyone else in that room, leaving no witnesses behind?</p>
<p>I’m sure she had one prepared.</p>
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<p>ttparent–it’s Solimini. Please read the December 6, 1986 reports including that of Solimini. Solimini’s report (the one he hand wrote and signed) does not square completely with his current memory. For instance, there is no mention in any report including that of the officer who gathered the physical evidence and photographed the house that day of a third shotgun discharged into the kitchen ceiling. But, Solomini “recalled” a third shot into the ceiling when he talked before the files were found.</p>
<p>Off. Murphy interviewed the youths at the car place who had the run-in with Amy and the shotgun and Murphy’s report states what he was told. Although he talked to Pettigrew and Doyle (the two guys) and wrote down what they said there is nothing about Amy mentioning “her husband.” </p>
<p>Keep in mind we are talking about people’s memories of events 24 years ago and only AFTER Amy had her fatal tenure tantrum and with the benefit of the contemporaneous records not available at that time.</p>
<p>Solimini’s report describes Amy as “freightened, disoriented and confused” when he found her. He states “I placed the handcuffs on her for her safe keeping and ours.”
<a href=“http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/02/16/braintree.reports.pdf[/url]”>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/02/16/braintree.reports.pdf</a></p>
<p>You do realize that the report to DA Kivlan was not made by a Braintree police member. It was made by State Trooper Brian Howe who took part in the December 17, 1986 interviews of Amy and her Dad and Mom. If you read the December 6, 1986 reports, the Braintree police secured the scene until the State Police were notified (by Solimini), but thereafter Trooper Howe of the State Police called the Braintree police station to inform them that “the STATE Police would not respond.”</p>
<p>Hard to see how the LOCAL cronyism argument can account for the State Police Report of Trooper Howe to the DA omitting the Pettigrew incident since (1) it was Howe who declined to become involved at the inception of the investigation, (2) the local officers’ reports mentioned the events after Amy left the house and (3) State Trooper Howe attended the interviews of Amy and her parents and either did not ask Amy about these issues or decided not to include these issues in his report to the DA. </p>
<p>Did Howe bother to read the local officers’ reports? Sort of hard to blame the locals for this, isn’t it?</p>
<p>07DAD, I know and understand just about everything you say. Still your point that there is absolutely no cover up or special treatment or the police acts properly with no questions to be asked is very weak. I can’t see any reasonable person that look at this and not have one single doubt about the investigation with you as an exception, of course. I am not suggesting that the investigation that went on during that day is bogus, I am suggesting like many others that there are more questions and more investigations need to be done to make sure that the Bishop is not lying about the accident. There is really no need to regurgitate the info in the reports, they are fine but more needs to be done. As far as I know, all the officials that read the report agree with this.</p>
<p>As for Howe, that is another big question mark. Why did he not report everything? What is his excuse? If the locals are not corrupt, and he is the one weak link where everything breaks down, then let’s see what he has to say. How could you say the locals are definitely not involved, how do you know this, Howe could have easily collude with the local police.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to pick on you, but 07DAD, please read this and tell me that William Keating is out to lunch or is he just basically conducting a witch hunt? On second thought, maybe you should not answer that.</p>
<p>[DA</a> probes '86 Bishop investigation for ?elements of criminality? - Quincy, MA - The Patriot Ledger](<a href=“http://www.patriotledger.com/news/state_news/x1487802049/DA-probes-86-Bishop-investigation-for-elements-of-criminality]DA”>http://www.patriotledger.com/news/state_news/x1487802049/DA-probes-86-Bishop-investigation-for-elements-of-criminality)</p>
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<p>I agree. I’ll bet a “masked gunman” would have run in and shot everyone except lucky Amy Bishop, who somehow managed to escape his nefarious grasp and bravely escaped to find help.</p>
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<p>If her lawyer is savvy, he’s building a case for insanity by playing the genius card, so to speak. The public tends to have similar attitudes toward geniuses and the insane, something along the lines of, “They think so differently than we do that we can’t possibly understand their motives.” And we’ve all read about extraordinary people throughout history who existed in the fuzzy space between genius and madness. So, if the lawyer can get everyone thinking about her as preternaturally intelligent, it won’t be too far of a leap to think of her as crazy, and hence not deserving of normal prison or death.</p>
<p>^^^I think you’re on to something.</p>
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<p>Finish shooting everyone, then wipe gun clean of prints, put into hand of said prof and fire round or two into wall (leaving gunshot residue on prof’s hand and clothing), then pick up gun, leaving her prints on top of other person’s. Claim that other person shot everyone, missed her, and she then managed to take gun from killer in struggle and shot killer.</p>
<p>Unless tripped up by spatter issues, this might provide a reasonable forensic trail. Certainly enough to introduce major reasonable doubt in the hands of a good defense attorney.</p>
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<p>So, for the one crime for which the statute of limitations has not run (murder), seems nothing indicates a “botched” anything.</p>
<p>On Amy not dropping the shotgun when the police approached and said drop it, I have ridden with a policeman and seen drawn knives being brandished around and the policeman talked the situation down and didn’t charge the kids. </p>
<p>According to Solimini himself, Murphy had the drop on her from the beginning, she was freaked and she did not threaten to nor did she fire at the police. Heck, Solimini was of the opinion at that time that Amy needed the handcuffs for her well-being. Police discretion. </p>
<p>Out to lunch?, witch hunt? or – political grandstanding? I don’t know. Heck, the article seems to imply “Why are you doing this?” Can you imagine what it is going to cost the taxpayers?</p>
<p>When 07dad was still a young student, he would always take the anti side of the debate, because he loves a good argument. 
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<p>I feel for the children of Amy Bishop, but I feel much more strongly for the families of the victims. I am sort of interested in the fact that the husband keeps iterating how concerned Amy Bishop is that her children are eating and doing thier homework. I’d be more compelled by a remorseful and overwrought, “what have I done” version of this woman than by the current “concerned mother in prison” version we are being given. IQ of 180 or not, the attorney ought to put this husband in a soundproof room. </p>
<p>“She was proof that a woman can do all these things…”??? What?</p>
<p>Update on Dr. Joe Leahy’s condition…</p>
<p>Another good day in the fight – solid progress but no dramatic breakthroughs and, more importantly, no setbacks. Joe’s sodium level continues to come down and is now at or near the range the doctors want. He remains responsive to commands (e.g., “lift 2 fingers” or “wiggle your toe”), but the strength of the response varies depending on the area of the body involved and the level of sedation that he’s under at the time. As of late afternoon, his temperature was back up a couple of degrees, but the nurses do not seem overly concerned – results of the cultures taken yesterday weren’t back the last time I talked to [wife & sister], but white blood count is still good. Physical therapists have been working with Joe regularly – [wife] says it’s mostly involved deep massages of his limbs to try to maintain muscle tone, etc.</p>
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It is time for you to put forth facts that show cronyism, cover-up, corruption. Reading the reports indicates that both the Braintree PD and the state police were in agreement that this was an accidental shooting. Are you saying that Bishop’s parents had their tentacles in both the local and the state police department?</p>
<p>Here is another fact from the reports. Both Amy and her mother were interviewed immediately after the shooting. The police officer who responded to the call talked to Judy Bishop on her porch and asked her what happened.</p>
<p>When Amy was brought into the PD, she was read her Miranda rights and she agreed to answer questions. She told the police officer what happened and her account agrees with that of her mother’s. Judy Bishop walked in later and told Amy to stop answering questions.
So both mother and daughter, who were devastated and in shock, interviewed by different police officers soon after the shooting, managed to tell the same story.</p>
<p>After reading the reports, I am persuaded that this was an accidental shooting. Certainly Amy was devastated by it. Dan Shaw, a friend of Seth Bishop, recalls that Amy was “bawling her eyes out, being held up by her parents”. Her husband says that they broke up after the shooting because she was so distraught. They did not get back together until she had received some counseling.</p>