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30 Jul 2010 21:53

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16 Feb 2010 23:37

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U.S.: Amy Bishop could’ve gone to jail for shooting brother, but didn’t

  • three the number of charges Bishop could’ve faced as a result of her brother’s shooting death
  • 1992 the year the statute of limitations prevented Bishop from facing any charges source

14 Feb 2010 21:07

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U.S.: Amy Bishop’s history comes back to haunt her again

  • She was a suspect in a 1993 mail bombing at Harvard. A day after it was reported she was implicated in the 1986 murder of her brother, the accused University of Alabama-Huntsville shooter had another skeleton fall out of her closet. Amy Bishop, along with her husband James Anderson, were questioned in a mail bomb case involving Harvard professor Dr. Paul Rosenberg, While Anderson says they weren’t suspects, a more disturbing find at the time was a novel Bishop was writing about a woman who killed her brother and hoped to make amends by becoming a great scientist. Sound familiar? source

14 Feb 2010 09:52

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U.S.: Alabama professor may have another murder to answer for

  • The release of Ms. Bishop did not sit well with the police officers, and I can assure you that this would not happen in this day and age.
  • Braintree, Mass. chief of police Paul Frazier • Regarding Alabama professor Amy Bishop, who reportedly killed three professors on Friday, on a cold case involving Bishop’s brother. In 1986, Seth Bishop was killed during an argument at their home in Braintree. Police are considering re-opening that 24-year-old case as a result of the most recent murders. The shooting was classified as accidental at the time, but an officer at the scene claimed it took place after an argument between the two parties. source

13 Feb 2010 10:58

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U.S.: Did the professor do it? A scary tale of tenure in Huntsville

Amy Bishop, center, reportedly opened fire yesterday after she found out she didn’t get tenure status at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, killing three. source

15 Sep 2009 09:59

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Offbeat: How not to get of of showing your parents a bad report card

  • A kid in Huntsville, Ala., had a terrible-looking report card. He totally freaked out, just like we did when we were 11 and slacked our way through the fifth grade. source
  • To hide the report card, he faked his own kidnapping, saying a man in a beat-up car grabbed him. Now it’s a news story. Good job not hiding the report card, kid. source