A Fine Line Between Genius and Insanity: Amy Bishop Day 3: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

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Today, we are going to the University of Alabama at Huntsville. It was February 12, 2010, and the day commenced like any other typical school day. The campus bustled with activity, featuring a mix of young students envisioning their future and more mature individuals returning to complete degrees they had embarked on years earlier.

On that morning at UAH, Instructor Amy Bishop conducted her science classes, and her students later described the course as uneventful and routine. Meanwhile, a meeting for the biology department was slated for Room 369 in the Shelby Center for Science and Technology, which housed both the Biology and Mathematics departments. Amy Bishop joined her colleagues at the meeting, and for approximately 40 minutes, she sat silently among them.

What would happen next would shock the academic community, leaving three families grieving and many asking why.

Join Cam and Jen of Our True Crime Podcast to discuss A Fine Line Between Genius and Insanity: Amy Bishop: Day 3: The 12 Nightmares Before Christmas.
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Sources:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/02/11/a-loaded-gun

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

https://www.al.com/news/2022/08/amy-bishops-son-seth-anderson-died-in-unintentional-shooting-huntsville-teen-indicted.html

https://www.al.com/topic/Amy%20Bishop/index.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/amy-bishops-son-seth-bishop-200037215.htm

lhttps://criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com/types-of-crime/school-violence/amy-bishop/

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/amy-bishop-husband-alleged-university-alabama-shooter-loving-mother-wife/story?id=9883895

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3280081/Former-Alabama-professor-shot-6-3-fatally-apologizes.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/02/amy_bishop_alleged_uah_shooter.html

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