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Professor Is Charged After 3 Are Killed in Alabama

ericlp

ericlp

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/us/14alabama.html

Well, normally it's the guys that do all the shooting. But a woman? Hmmm, ought to be interesting to see what the motive might of been, altho, don't quote me on this I just have a sneaky feeling that religion is gonna play a part in this.

Interesting, they were working on cell growth technology.
 
Sad story, I knew many scientists that graduated from there when I was working at Redstone Arsenal. I almost went to UAH, but ended up getting a better offer. The daughter of one of my coworkers goes there.

ought to be interesting to see what the motive might of been
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Probably had something to do with this:
she had been denied tenure
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At my undergrad university, one of the professors snapped when one of his tenured buddies was fired. He was shouting / raving outside one of the buildings and started smashing his framed awards on the ground, ripping them up, etc. Thankfully, he did not open fire.
 
I hope the jury doesn't let her slide on some bogus insanity plea. She obviously knew what she was doing and the act was premeditated.
 
RaistlinZ said:
I hope the jury doesn't let her slide on some bogus insanity plea. She obviously knew what she was doing and the act was premeditated.
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You know something we don't? I've read a couple articles about this story today, and have seen people quoted as believing that she, while very smart, showed a pretty marked disconnect from reality. Sounds like there may be something there indicating she ain't quite right in the head.
Maybe we should wait to hear more details before declaring this an obvious case of premeditated murder. If it was just a case of her being pissed at being denied tenure, well then that obviously doesn't fly.

High intellect often comes with a bit of psychosis. Look at Nicola Tesla and his fixation with pigeons, the number 3, or women wearing earrings.
 
Mr. Chittur said Ms. Bishop was a respected scientist who nevertheless had trouble getting along with colleagues. As members of the biotechnology program, students have to pass core classes in biology, chemistry and chemical engineering. But Ms. Bishop became convinced, he said, that the chemical engineering professors were trying to keep biology students from succeeding by making the classes too difficult.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/us/14alabama.html?pagewanted=2&hp
HAHAHAHAHA. That is just too funny.
 
Hacp said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/us/14alabama.html?pagewanted=2&hp
HAHAHAHAHA. That is just too funny.
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I am in my 2nd graduate level chemical engineering class, they are certainly mind benders. I am actually a CS major (BS in CS and working on a MS in CS), but I needed the info for my thesis. I failed the midterm and ended up with a B in the class due to the fact that nearly everyone would have failed the class without a bell-curve based on the anonymous published raw scores.
 
This story is just getting bigger and bigger. This is a premeditated murder that was planned from the start. This woman is more than a little disturbed and should have been put in jail years ago. I think she is some kind of a manipulative monster.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100215/ap_on_re_us/us_ala_university_shooting

So this Woman and her husband both went to the range and she was practicing her murdering skills at the range. This means that he knew that something was going on and he is also guilt of the crime as an accessory before the fact.

Now this professor is also previously suspected in sending mail bombs on other campuses?

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010...legedly-sent-bomb-in-1993/UPI-50581266245517/

Maybe this woman was once part of a terrorist group earlier in her life???
 
piasabird said:
Now this professor is also previously suspected in sending mail bombs on other campuses?

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010...legedly-sent-bomb-in-1993/UPI-50581266245517/

Maybe this woman was once part of a terrorist group earlier in her life???
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I wonder if the FBI considered the Unabomber in that incident. That was exactly the Unabomber's MO, sending mail bombs to university profressors, even down to the use of pipe bombs, and he was in circulation at that time. I have to think that if that wasn't the Unabomber, it was someone copycatting him.

- wolf
 
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cliftonite said:
Im sure it had a lot to do with the killings...
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Most likely nothing to do with the killings. But how involved was political correctness by the people who decided to hire her? Were those involved in the hiring "allowed" to look at her past? Since she was never convicted of killing her brother or mail bombing, she was therefore innocent. If anyone chose not to hire her because of these reasons, I would be thinking lawsuit in this PC culture.
 
JockoJohnson said:
Most likely nothing to do with the killings. But how involved was political correctness by the people who decided to hire her? Were those involved in the hiring "allowed" to look at her past? Since she was never convicted of killing her brother or mail bombing, she was therefore innocent. If anyone chose not to hire her because of these reasons, I would be thinking lawsuit in this PC culture.
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If she was never charged how would those things even show up in a background check?
 
cliftonite said:
If she was never charged how would those things even show up in a background check?
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True. To be fair to those that hired her, they probably never even knew this. The media that dug the info up most likely has more resources than an employer would use in hiring someone.
 
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