Amy Bishop: The Deadly Professor

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Amy Bishop was born on February 4, 1968 (Dunlop, 2010), to Sam Bishop and Judy Bishop. They lived in Iowa City where her father worked on his graduate art work at the University of Iowa. Bishop was a bright and empathetic girl who loved to play with her toys. The family eventually moved to Massachusetts where her father got a teaching job. They settled in Braintree in 1968 and Seth was born later in the year (Keefe, 2013). Amy was an asthmatic and she was sent to the emergency room often which is what led her to her passion of science. In school Bishop played the violin and her brother asked if he could play also. The two of them seemed to have a sibling rivalry and Amy was very competitive. In 1985, the Bishop’s home was burglarized and robbed, which led her father to purchase a gun, which Amy and her mom objective; but her father always kept the gun empty (Keefe, 2013).
To Begin with, growing up Amy and Seth shared a seemingly ideal childhood in Braintree, Massachusetts which was a small town south of Boston. Amy took after her father as a bookworm while Seth took after his mother who was an avid horsewoman involved in local politics. Bishop excelled in school and was an exceptionally good student and a devoted violinist. She was also quiet, almost invisible at Braintree High School. Bishop was very close to her brother claiming that he had saved her life after almost falling off a cliff. Both siblings chose to attend their father’s university when it was time for college. Furthermore, on December 6, 1986, Amy and her father had an argument. Amy upset with her father went into his bedroom where he keeps his gun, which he bought after being burglarized. Amy told her mother that there was a shell in the gun and that she didn’t...

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... Broussard, may ask for a death penalty. Bishop is charged with “one count of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder,” if she were convicted she would be facing life in prison without parole, or death. (Hawkins, 2010).
In conclusion, Amy Bishop also known as The Deadly Professor began a shooting spree at a department faculty meeting. No one knows for sure as to what led Bishop to this chain of events, but her background claims that she had previous experience involved in murder, assault and battery and a possible suspicion of creating a pipe bomb. Her lawyer however, claims that Bishop just could not handle being turned down from tenure and it possibly caused her to snap due to all the stress gained from being the breadwinner. On September 24, 2012, Bishop was charged with capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole (Reeves, 2012).

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