<p>Did anyone catch the story on Nightline last night? They interviewed the husband at length. He either had very little affect or he is really in shock – and I think I’d go with shock. He said she had no history at all of mental illness (which doesn’t mean she didn’t suffer from a mental illness) and he described arriving at the campus and being told what had happened and seeing her arrested. He talked about his kids. He said he understands she might get the death penalty. I really though he seemed pretty shell-shocked. They also showed a clip where she was being put into the police car and she was saying, “It didn’t happen.” And the officer said, “What about the people who died?” (or something like that) and she said, “They are still alive.” That brief encounter reminded me of jym (I think) asking if anyone wondered about a dissociative disorder. I did (not just DID but others as well) and this exchange brought it into my mind again. However, it’s impossible for us to do anything but speculate regarding this woman’s mental status.</p>
<p>I do not believe the husband is in shock. He didn’t see anything happen. He wasn’t there. He didn’t kill anybody.He didn’t have someone murdered in front of him. Surprised, yes. Confused by his wife’s actions, yes.Upset, yup.Shocked by her actions,yes. In actual physical shock, not a chance.</p>
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<p>I go with little or no affect.</p>
<p>Funny you should mention the Nightline episode, Mimk6. I fell asleep before it was on, and was just watching it on the web. Agreed, her H looks very flat- and also looks like he hasn’t slept. His eyes looked red and glazed (as if he’d been crying). Hopefully he is focused on te needs of his kids.</p>
<p>I was also reading these articles :
[UAH</a> shooting suspect Amy Bishop tells court she’s broke but paid for Huntsville home | Breaking News from The Huntsville Times - al.com](<a href=“http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/02/uah_shooting_suspect_amy_bisho.html]UAH”>UAH shooting suspect Amy Bishop tells court she's broke but paid for Huntsville home - al.com) One place says salary for an assistant professor was $66k. Another says $83K</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) Mot that it matters, as marite said, but to clarify- her H was born in AL but raised in the NE NE
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<p>And yes, it was me who opined about Dissociative Identity Dosirder. It would explain some of the behaviors</p>
<p>James Anderson, the husband, said:</p>
<p>“I suspect somebody in that meeting room was probably an antagonist and I would like to know who that was.” </p>
<p>So the shooting was “the antagonist’s” fault?</p>
<p>On another point:</p>
<p>I found it odd that the husband said that his kids were doing OK; they’re strong; they’re New Englanders. (Not a direct quote, but something like that.) If they’ve been living in Alabama for eight or so years, I don’t know how you can deem them “New Englanders.” I don’t understand what he meant by that.</p>
<p>post 1024: Not that it is relevant to the general discussion, but regarding the two different salary figures: at a lot of schools, the ‘regular salary’ is considered a 9-month salary; faculty who have external research grants can take a certain percentage of the grant and pay themselves a ‘summer salary’ (often limited to the equivalent of two months of the ‘regular salary’).</p>
<p>In any case, there is no standard “assistant professor salary”. There is great variation among departments, and sometimes even within departments depending on field of specialization. That is my experience, anyway.</p>
<p>post 1025: I commented on that same quote about 1000 posts ago. I found it to be pretty extraordinary, but no one else commented on it.</p>
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<p>Maybe this says something about their attitude toward the victims. Not like us tough New Englanders, you know. Just a bunch of Southerners. (I know the victims were of several races and geographic origins. I’m speculating about the perp’s attitude, not stating facts.)</p>
<p>jym:</p>
<p>thanks, but why should he trash the state of his birth and to which he returned–willingly?
But my concern is that some posters are talking up East Coast elitism. I don’t see it. I see two batty people.</p>
<p>Here is perhaps why she asked if she still had a job [Amy</a> Bishop files affidavit claiming indigency, retains job at UAH | Breaking News from The Huntsville Times - al.com](<a href=“http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/02/amy_bishop_affidavit.html]Amy”>Amy Bishop files affidavit claiming indigency, retains job at UAH - al.com)</p>
<p>Filling out the Affadavit of Indegency, she first marked yes, then no, and probably did not know the answer to that question, so needed clarification if they had fired her immediately.</p>
<p>Actually, wasn’t that quote in 1025 from Bishop’s father in law, not her husband? Which doesn’t make it any better.</p>
<p>The speculation that someone in the meeting was “antagonistic” begs the question. Did Amy have ESP and know that someone might be “antagonistic” during the meeting which would be a “reason” for her to bring a gun? And, if one person was “antagonistic,” then why did she shoot several people?</p>
<p>Of course, the whole suggestion that a person antagonized her to the point of causing her to do this horrific crime is ridiculous!</p>
<p>I totally agree with you, Marite. Doesn’t matter if they are from timbucktoo. They are odd. Perhaps (and this is pure specultion) they felt they stood out less in a community with a higher concentration of academes in the NE. The fa in law alluded to her general paranoid mentation-- suggesting that she thought she was being stalked. Maybe she was being stalked by the staff of “what not to wear” for a photo shoot, LOL.</p>
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<p>If, God forbid, someone close to me, especially my husband, committed a crime like that, I would not need to see it or have done it to be in complete and total shock. If I knew that in one moment, he had taken the lives of three people, injured others and forever removed himself from our household and from the lives of our children and effectively destroyed their chances of ever having a normal life, I’d be in shock. If I knew I was suddenly faced with being a single parent to four deeply traumatized children, I’d be in shock. If I suddenly had the press in my face, the eyes of the nation on my every move and was trying every moment to even wrap my mind around the fact that this had happened, I’d be in shock. And my guess is, that while he didn’t see the shooting, the ambulances were still pulling out with bodies when he arrived and that is disturbing. I’ve been numbed and shocked by far less than this in my lifetime. And when I said shocked, I didn’t mean a true physical shock where the body is shutting down, but a psychological one.</p>
<p>^^ Well said, mimk6. Don’t forget his now zero income stream, with perhaps the exception of some funds from the competition they entered a few yrs ago
or grant $ for their lab sample incubator research project , perhaps, as an employee of the “company” (and for all I know the University likely controls all the grant $ too) so this guy has got to be totally overwhelmed.</p>
<p>mimk6: all great points.</p>
<p>Read an article about the five professors who “escaped unhurt”. In my opinion, they may have escaped death, they may not have shed any blood, but they certainly are not unhurt. I cannot imagine what a wreck I would be if I had experienced anything close to what my person-of-the-year, Prof Moriarity (sp?) did - staring at the barrel hearing the trigger click, and then doing what it took to save the dying till help came.</p>
<p>Anyone surprised by this?
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<p>The father-in-law wants to know who the antagonist was in the meeting? OMG. Amy Bishop brings a loaded gun with enough ammo to reload, and he wants to know who the antagonist was??? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING.</p>
<p>I watched the Nightline interview, and Anderson seemed to me to be stunned and trying hard to holding his emotions in control. I didn’t see anything odd about his affect. I can’t imagine being in his shoes.</p>
<p>How is Dungeons & Dragons significant to this case? I suppose it might indicate, if anything, that Bishop and Anderson were somewhat immature when they met.</p>
<p>I just saw a video clip of the husband for the first time, an interview on ABC news. I don’t think he acted or sounded unusual for someone in his position. He just seemed sad.</p>