197. MURDER: Amy Bishop’s Tenure was Denied

Amy Bishop was a neurobiologist and professor at the University of Alabama in 2010 when she took a gun to a faculty meeting and took aim at those whom she held responsible for her professional failures. Amy didn’t have a criminal record before the shooting, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some huge red flags in her personal history.

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Sources: 

https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bishop-amy.htm 

Sarah Wheaton - The New York Times

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts District Attorney's Office - State Police Office

Wikipedia.org

Boston.com By Jay Reeves

Boston.com By Donovan Slack and Shelley Murphy

Article Jay Reeves and Gregg Bluestein

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html 

https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/2021/05/30/braintree-native-amy-bishops-son-seth-shot-death-alabama/5254998001/ 

https://www.waff.com/2020/02/11/whats-changed-years-after-deadly-uah-shootings/ 

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