hi friends how are you today my name is Bailey seran and today is Monday which means it's murder mystery and makeup Monday if you're new here hi my name is Bailey and on Mondays I sit down and I talk about a True Crime Story that's been heavy on my nogin and I do my makeup at the same time it's just to keep myself busy really I'm getting ready for my day okay if you're interested in True Crime and you like makeup I would say subscribe cuz I'm here for you on Mondays I also list down in the description box um like what products I'm using as well but other than that let me tell you about today's story you know when I do murder mysteries like it's you probably think it's cute I'm just spending like a couple hours doing research no no I get engulfed in these stories and this one again just like Terry shivo just like Sarah Boon like these people are are so I've got another one another one okay hi friends just popping in here really quick to mention a word from today's sponsor Midas merge 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until one of their own stands up pulls out a gun and starts firing it's total chaos survivors flee but three are left dead now this wasn't some just random active violence Nay Nay Nay Nay because when investigators started digging into this Killer's past let me tell you they uncovered something many things so disturbing so deeply buried that it left everyone asking how the hell did no one see this coming listen this is a story of Amy Bishop a Harvard trained neuroscientist with a deadly temper a past full of secrets and a trail of violence that started long before that awful awful awful day and trust me by the end of this you're going to be like what the what in the what in the butt was that cuz that's what I was saying so let me clip my hair back I have my handy dandy notebook just in case I need to reference my notes I take many notes when I do these and a lot of the stuff in this today's story you know I would love to do a three-hour episode but I think four people would probably watch so I had to like leave some stuff out but I kept what I thought was the most important stuff in but I'll refer to my notebook just in case just in case so let me tell you about this Amy lady so Amy was born on April 24th 1965 to her parents Judith or Judy and Samuel Sam Bishop now at the time her father was completing his graduate uh studies in Iowa so Amy was born in Iowa City but in 1968 her father got a job as a professor at Northeastern University in Boston very smart family okay so the family settled in the Suburban town of brain tree Massachusetts that's a hard one for me Massachusetts first of all I was like brain tree what uh what a name huh yeah glad we had that talk so the family moves great that same year Amy's younger brother his name is Seth he was born making the family complete with two children a boy and a girl growing up Amy and Seth were raised in an environment that nurtured education the arts and science it was very important to the family both children were musically talented Amy began playing violin in third grade and became like an accomplished violinist and then Seth her younger brother also took up the the violin it was said that Amy felt like an outsider in brain tree she was gifted she was very smart but she was socially awkward and it was said she was prone to outbursts as Amy's mother put it Amy had her father's temper and that's like literally all that was ever said about the family because Amy's mom Judy she came across from what I've learned as like the the protector of the family she would never say anything negative about her children or her family which is great right but not even after everything happened it's bizarre it's bizarre and then her father Sam like not much was said about him he seemed reserved he didn't talk much and if he did talk or give like an interview it was always like through his wife Judy Judy would have an answer for everything she had an answer for everything but people loved her Judy and the family they were very like involved with the community and um their neighbors and they were just all really close so Miss Amy you know she did really well in school she was very very smart and in the late 1980s uh like she graduated high school and she wanted to go after a career in science now her younger brother Seth incredible okay he excelled in everything he did first of all I was like is this guy real yes her brother Seth excelled as a violinist and was a member of the Greater Boston youth sympathy Orchestra and was going on to study electrical engineering everybody based off what I read I don't know but everyone loves Seth they had nothing but positive things to say about him he was always helping out the community he won so many awards for his achievements I couldn't name him because a lot of the words I couldn't even say I was like this guy's smart smart but a tragic turning point in Amy's early life came in late 1986 let me tell you so December 6th 1986 Amy 21 years old shoots and kills her 18-year-old brother Seth with a 12 gauge Mossberg shotgun in the family kitchen I know right out the gate what yep here's what happened allegedly on the day of the accident Amy's mother the only witness to said accident said that she and Seth were in the kitchen preparing lunch when Amy came down the stairs with her father's shot gun in hand Amy told them she was unable to unload the gun and needed help she's like I don't know how to do it so her mom instructed Amy to pump the gun which ejected the first shell then Amy pumped it again which she should not have done Amy thinking it was empty pulled the trigger shooting her brother right in the chest tragic as Seth fell to the ground Amy took off she took off still with a shotgun in her hand she fled leaving the family home I was like uhhuh go on tell me uhhuh please come out it's a whole it's a whole thing right Seth sadly passes away Amy was brought in to the police station for questioning where she explained her side of things Amy told investigators that she had been alone in the house at least she thought she was and she was feeling very anxious because about a year earlier there was a Breakin at the family home now these burglar they like stole a bunch of valuables and and stuff just stuff right and it left the family feeling very paranoid according to Amy she was home alone she thought someone was breaking in again so she went to her parents room she grabbed the shotgun and then she loaded it Amy gets the gun she goes back to her bedroom where she said she tried to unload it and like remove the shells but instead the gun had gone off in her bedroom shattering her bedroom mirror Amy said after that happened she heard her mother and and brother in the kitchen downstairs so she brought the gun done with her to ask Seth to help her unload it it was an accident she told them she did not mean to kill her brother that was her version I had some follow-up questions I was like okay so maybe if you're like me you're thinking huh something's not making sense a shotgun going off upstairs and shattering your mirror my first thought was wouldn't you think the family would hear this shotguns are loud as hell I went down a rabbit hole with this specific shotgun and like it was explaining the what's it called decimals or whatever where like anyways this specific shotgun messes up your hearing you're kind of deaf for a minute or or two so it's like she heard her family downstairs wouldn't she like whatever also she mentioned to police that she originally like grabbed the gun right she loaded it and then when she was in her room she was unloading it when it went off and shattered her mirror and I was like what girl well none of of this is making sense but you know what none of it even matters because the Massachusetts State Police in 1986 determined that the shooting was accidental and no charges were brought against Amy and by 1988 detailed records of the shooting or this whole situation had completely disappeared from police records Seth his his death was a obviously major loss to the family but also to the community as well I mean he had like a very bright future ahead and all of it just came to like a very tragic end a very questionable end too you know and after his death the family tried tried their best to move forward like they didn't move you think you would want to move but it's okay they didn't moved the family lived in the same house and they left Seth's room completely untouched like was a constant reminder every single day I couldn't imagine Amy's father uh I guess he seemed to like withdraw after this while her mom was just trying to like keep the family together everything's okay everything's great it was said that Amy was sad like she was sleeping in her parents' bed at the time and like was grieving but she really didn't grieve that much instead she just kind of hyperfocused and put all of her energy into school and education and like that now questions about the thoroughness of the investigation lingered for years the community was like okay but nothing nothing ever came of it now we will Circle back to this because many years later those police records that mysteriously disappeared they resurfaced but for now Seth death was considered an accident and the family had to keep moving forward without their beloved Son and brother oh and there's so much more into it that was uncovered just wait so despite the family tragedy Amy she pressed on with her education she enrolled at Northeastern University in Boston where her father was a professor and she pursued a degree in biology now Amy was known by like her professors and stuff as a like a serious High achieving student and she was really known for her intellectual Focus she was smart according to people at this time so while she's attending Northeastern Amy she met a fellow student his name is James Jim for short Anderson they were in the same program and they met while they were undergraduates I heard they actually met in like a Dungeons Dungeons and Dragons group but I don't know if that's true but they meet and they hit it off and they start dating both Amy and James they earn their biology degrees from nor Eastern in 1988 then the following year Amy and James were married so things are kind of like happening fast they ended up having like a simple wedding ceremony at the same church where Amy's Brother's funeral had been 3 years earlier so they get married whatever Amy continued directly into Graduate Studies where she was accepted into Harvard University's prestigious genetics doctoral program so so she's going to Harvard I was like good for you kind of not really while doing this she and James would go on to have four children together three girls and one boy she's really juggling juggling at all now Miss Amy here she actually earned her PhD in genetics from Harvard in 1993 her graduate research focused on cellular physiology what's that I don't know but that's what she did good for her again by all accounts uh you know Amy was diligent in her studies one former instructor noted that she had been a high achiever since childhood and remained so like through her academic training but there were murmurs amongst colleagues murmur mhm people were talking people were saying that Amy's PhD work wasn't very good one Anonymous Harvard Source called it quote poor quality and that Amy did not not deserve her doctoral degree this same Source even told the New Yorker that the fact that Amy graduated was quote local Scandal number one I was like well I think her murdering her brother was local Scandal number one but okay regardless Amy still got her Harvard degree and then she actually became a professor at Harvard's medical school so you know this is no joke she's working hard whatever I I'll give her that after Amy completed her PhD in 1993 a professor at Harvard Medical School his name was Paul Rosenberg he had actually worked with Amy on her dissertation he Paul gets the mail one day he opens up a package this package is containing two pipe bombs what luckily for him these homemade looking bombs they didn't explode they didn't detonate um so obviously calls the police it's a whole situation investigators they actually quickly identified Amy and her husband James as Persons of Interest why you ask well well let me tell you there were rumors going around that Amy didn't like this Paul guy and she felt that he was actually getting in he was getting in the way of her receiving her doctorate now you know when all this came to light like friends had come forward to investigators saying that Amy and her husband were quote unquote jokingly asking how one might build a pipe bomb lol this happened around the same time as uh the uni bomber was happening which I did em Myster on if you're curious uh so packages containing like homemade bombs were like in the conversation so like it's beli they were like using that as as their cover like oh my God unib bomber right I wonder how like how do how do you make a bomb that's crazy so Amy and James they were questioned by federal agents and of course they denied any involvement and no charges were filed there was no concrete evidence connecting them to the homemade bombs and to this day it's a mystery as to who sent that bomb but people had their strong beliefs that you know allegedly it was Amy and uh James now this incident the whole pipe bomb thing was actually kept quiet it only came it only came to the light like many years later after Amy's name hit the national news for reasons we are getting into we are not there yet but I'm you know we've got signs of crazy lining up teaching wasn't Amy's only passion in life she was really into creative writing Amy believed that her writing would be like her ticket out of the academic world she joined like local writers groups where people would share what they're working on get feedback Etc people in her her writer group they didn't really like her that much no they said that like she was first of all intense and anytime someone describes Amy they always say intense and I was like damn what does that what does that mean but everyone says she's intense she liked to brag to everyone that she had a literary agent unsure if that's true but she told everyone that and she would also brag that she was like uh distantly related to the well-known writer John ning oh and I think she was whatever it's not like she whatever so she was always like bragging about this kind of stuff and people are like okay if someone in the group gave her feedback on her writing or whatever Amy would take it as like a personal attack and then remind everyone in the room that she had a Harvard degree and did you know that I'm related to John Irving how dare you critique me it was like that people were just like yeah we don't like you I know I I was thinking that I don't know how she found the time to do all this but she did she loved writing and by the end of the 1990s she had written three novels and even though like none of them were published she continued pursuing her passion for writing her three novels were dark Thrillers and the protagonist in her stories usually had like a career in science and were haunted by a death in their past but in the end and would be forgiven by God like there was always this theme they were all similar in that kind of way there's literally one story she wrote where the character in the book kills her brother and then God forgives her yeah you could say it was a way for Amy to deal with her own you know life tragedy but knowing what we know now or what you're going to know now it's like girl are these stories like lowkey confessions so Amy's weird some time goes by and there's this one Saturday morning in Peabody Massachusetts Amy her four kids and her husband went to IHOP for breakfast as one does Amy you know she asked the waitress uh for a booster seat for her baby boy the waitress tells Amy oh I'm so sorry the last booster seat has been taken by like this woman uh with her children they're all sitting at a booth already this just set Amy off okay that little tick in her brain it it was ticking so Amy hears this she's like what no booster seat so apparently Amy yelled at the waitress telling her that we had been here first like that's not fair and then Amy her dumbass she Stomps over to the lady who got the booster seat and started yelling at her do you know who I am do you know who I am I'm Dr Amy Bishop yelling it's like okay I couldn't imagine sitting there you're like ma'am I'm just trying to have some pancakes with my kids why are you I don't care who you are so because of this the manager of IHOP is like ple you need to leave please okay and Amy's like fine I'll leave fine but before she left she walked right on over to that lady with the booster seat and I'm not K she she punches her in the head this poor woman in front of her children oh the police were called and Amy was arrested and charged with assault battery and disorderly conduct the charges ended up getting dropped and this incident wouldn't even like appear on her record bizarre and you know it seemed like everyone kind of had an excuse for her behavior they would saying like her husband and even her parents her mom they were like she's under a lot of stress you know she's got four young kids she's got the Harvard stuff writing novels she was also the main bread winner um in the family she's just she just snapped just forgive her and so they did so IHOP attack leave IHOP out of this okay she has that situation happen sure she's stressed out that's fair but you know you can't behave like that people seem to keep excusing it for some odd reason well then in 2003 Amy got a job teaching uh biological sciences at the University of Alabama in Huntsville great opportunity so she James and their four kids moved down to Alabama where she taught five different courses at the college now while here it seemed like Amy starts really going down hill in Huntsville like she had no family or friends like she did back in Massachusetts uh she was working all the time and again kids family her creative writing like it was a lot and she had no sense of community so there was one member of The Faculty who was actually like really concerned with Amy's Behavior this person went on to say that within the first five minutes of meeting Amy they knew that something was off with her and that they were actually worried about her mental health I mean it was said but like you know nothing can be done about that on top of this Amy wasn't even popular with her students just seems like she was not the greatest teacher Amy had dismissed several graduate students from from her lab and many of her other students throughout the years asked to be transferred out of her class side note I know nobody likes the whole bleach brow movement that's going on um but I want to try it just let me just let me have some fun okay if you hate it that's fine it's just makeup it washes off thank you so people don't like Amy as a teacher she's not great then in 2009 it's about six years into Amy's time at UAH University Alabama of Huntsville something like that UAH okay so she's there for about six years several students they actually end up like complaining to administrators about her the students said that like overall Bad Teacher okay she was super off and she had unsettling ways is what was said a petition actually went around and was signed by dozens of students uh asking for her removal they wanted they didn't like this chick it seemed seemed like students had been complaining about you know Amy's teaching methods for for quite a while and even though no immediate action was taken by the university Amy was denied tenure in March of 2009 now to me Bailey San hi I didn't understand the world of tenure and this story alone sent me down this Learning lesson about it let me explain not getting 10 years like it's a big deal in Academia because tenure essentially grants job security and professional standing at a university or a college getting it can take like six or seven years sometimes longer to get tenure there's a certain criteria that you have to meet in order to get it usually publishing research demonstrating effective teaching and other things after that period the professor undergoes a 10year review if you get 10e you're much harder to fire you gain a level of prestige that can impact everything from your salary to research funding your future as a whole now if you don't get tenure like an Amy's case you typically have to leave that institution like oftentimes right away your career might stall and usually most struggle to find a similar position elsewhere it's essentially like spending your years and years or even your whole life proving that like you're the real deal right education publishing stuff teaching researching only to be told nope sorry bye so for like many professors being denight tenure can feel like a huge personal and professional failure leaving them feeling really uncertain about their future because if you try to go to a different college and apply for a job like they're going to be like you were denied tenure no sorry bye after review from the committee Amy again was denied tenure they believed she did not meet the criteria well when Amy found this out it was IHOP all over again she was pissed okay she completely disagreed with their decision and she tried every which way she could to fight it and prove that she deserved tenure you know she goes to her husband James and she's like I was Deni Dan here he was completely shocked by the school decision and stood by his wife's side believing 100% that the school had really done her wrong ultimately though the administration denied her appeal and their decision was Final I know I look crazy right now okay it's just makeup it washes off I'm trying to convince myself cuz I'm like Bailey what' you do any who so um Amy's denight tenure because of this uh in March of 2009 her last semester teaching at UAH would be spring of 2010 that'd be it she'd be done so many of Amy's co-workers had expressed concern over her intense Behavior according to them like she would interrupt meetings with weird rants she would make off-the-wall comments and she was just not liked it was hard to find someone saying something positive about her yeah so after her tenure was denied Amy found out that a cooworker had called her crazy oh yeah so she filed a complaint with the equal employment opportunity commission and in this complaint she said she was a victim of sex discrimination in the fact that this other Professor had called her crazy was proof this other professor in question he didn't back down he stood by the fact that he believed Amy was indeed off her rocker saying that she was out of touch with reality and that she was mentally unwell and yeah he called her crazy maybe not the right word but like he wasn't he did not back down that's what I'm getting at then came February 12 2010 that day Amy taught her class as usual and you know a student later on said like oh she was her normal self in class and then afterwards she headed to a faculty meeting with the biology department so 13 staff members all gathered in a conference room and they all are going to like they all sit down it's like a big oval oval desk you know they're all taking their place and it started off like any other work meeting I guess they had discussed holding like an open house during spring you know and then they talked about like plans for fall Amy sat there quietly she didn't say anything just listening to the conversations and honestly like she didn't have to go to this meeting so it was kind of weird cuz none of it applied to her since she wasn't going to be teaching there anymore but they were like just let her sit in it's fine so Amy sits there for almost an hour and again she says nothing the entire time then she quietly gets up she reaches into her pocket and she pulls out a handgun then she starts shooting she started with the person closest to her then she went down the row of seated professors shooting each one in the head Point Blank a Survivor later said that it it wasn't random this was no like random shooting Amy was going after people execution style not saying a peep people screamed were ducking for cover but Amy was blocking the only exit she instantly killed three people on her side of the oval conference room table while the others like dropped to the floor this woman named Deborah she's a biochemistry Professor who was in the room she Dove under the table she like crawled towards Amy and like grabbed onto her legs and she's looking up at Amy and she's begging for her to stop she's like it's sad it's really sad and Deborah remembers that Amy points the gun at her and Deborah's like you know [ __ ] right Amy then pulls the trigger and all they heard was a click you know like oh [ __ ] it so this moment gave Deborah a chance to freaking run which she did right for the door so Deborah takes off into the hallway while Amy starts following her gunpo pointed right at her and and just click click the gun was jammed Amy kept trying to fire but again it was jammed so she's very frustrated Amy she stops and she tries to unjam it so Deborah she actually took that moment to run back into the conference room where she and another colleague barricaded the door Joseph Ang an associate professor who was also in the room said that Deborah was probably the the reason they were all still alive I'm going to do the other eye really quick I'll be right back just cuz it's hard to talk and do this hold on [Music] BRB if I lean this way you can't tell oh it's driving me bananas my eyeliner is not even okay I try really hard and it's just not going to happen and sometimes you have to accept that and I need to move on because murder mystery people are dead Bailey like if your eyeliner is [ __ ] so on that day six people had been shot three of them were shot fatally the entire episode had lasted less than a minute these victims included Gopi podila who at the time was the chairman of the University's Department of biological sciences the second victim was Maria Davis who was an associate professor of biology and the last victim was Adriel D Johnson Senior who was also an associate professor of biology Amy also wounded three other staff members who were taken to the hospital one got released like the next day and uh there were two other victims who got shot who stayed in the hospital for over two months um but both would go on to recover physically you know but now they had to live with this horrible horrible memory so after getting locked out of the meeting room CU they remember they had barricaded the door Amy acted calmly she went to the lady's room where she rinsed off the gun in the sink then she stuffed the murder weapon and her Blood Stained Blazer into the bathroom's like trash can she then went into one of the science labs and asked a student if she could borrow their cell phone which she does the first thing she does is she calls her husband James who would normally pick her up after class so she calls him up and all she tells him on the phone is I'm done so Amy tried to leave out of like a back door but luckily was quickly arrested by police shortly after being arrested Amy started saying that the shooting didn't happen she kept saying that there was no way she did it and when police asked her about her dead colleagues Amy said that they were all still alive it's like no ma'am they're not you shot them remember it happened 3 seconds ago so you know Amy gets arrested and then at some point police interview her husband James they're like you know where'd she get the gun all that stuff what's up with your wife you know whatever so James tells the police that they actually bought the gun from a family friend years earlier James also told police that just a week ago he and Amy went to the gun range uh together to target practice why why now it was like they they never did this they never went just shooting ranges based off what I read I could be be completely 100% wrong but like it was it was weird but her husband like you know he had nothing to say they had nothing on him he wasn't allegedly involved in any way and uh so weird guy we'll get to I'll talk about him at the end after Amy was arrested this is when her past came to light especially the accidental death of her brother Seth brain tree police started looking at Seth's 19 1986 death a little differently but the problem was remember all the records of Seth shooting had disappeared so brain tree's 2010 police chief his name was Chief Paul Fraser he had his own theory on what happened with the brother situation he believed that the police chief back in 1986 was in cahoots with Amy's mom to cover up the murder he even said like maybe coverups the wrong way maybe it was more of like the the police chief at the time was looking the other way whatever but according to the police chief Frasier Amy's mom was like a big political supporter of the other police chief at the time of the incident and when Amy first got arrested when she was a kid it was said that Judy came into the police department and said I need to speak to the police chief we're good friends I need to speak to him but she called him by his first name and all the police at the station were were like uh that's kind of weird like why are you on a first name basis with this guy but apparently they spoke whatever and the police officer that was questioning Amy was told that it was an accident and to let her go that's allegedly like what had happened according to Amy's mom Judy you know she denied these allegations saying like that was completely ridiculous that never happened even though there were people who said it did but then 4 days after Amy attack police were able to find the missing files related to Seth's death yeah magically they appeared they actually just went looking for them seems like but whatever after further reveal the district attorney was like yeah this Amy chick she should have been charged let me tell you why cuz there's more okay let me tell you woo let me tell you so remember how she accidentally quotequote shot her brother then she fled the house yeah they kind of like breezed past that I was like what Well turns out there was more to the story so after shooting her brother Seth Amy took off leaving through the home her house like the back door taking the shotgun with her she ended up running through like some wooded area and she ended up in an alley that came to like a a dead end to like an auto dealership place so according to the employees working there Amy came into the shop holding the gun pointing it at them demanding that they give her keys to a car the men they took a chance and they ran we don't know what happened after that but she ends up outside of the dealership so a police officer was in the area actually looking for Amy you know when he came across her outside so according to police notes you know they tell Amy to drop the weapon they're demanding they're calling to her drop the weapon because she's still holding it and she's kind of like she's got a firm grip on it and they said in the notes that she was like pointing it towards them so they keep telling her to drop the we weapon she's not dropping it and this goes on for like a bit of time eventually a police officer like sneaks up behind her points a gun at her and tells her like you know drop the weapon and then she did she finally does she lets go she puts her hands up and then she was arrested so with that information the new police chief was like yeah she definitely should have been charged pointing a loaded gun at anybody anybody let alone uh police officer is grounds for a felony charge that alone so it was like what the you know what was that about so the Massachusetts governor ordered the state police to review the investigation to Seth death and apparently in this new inquest a shocking new detail was found so the day of Seth's death the home wasn't treated like a crime scene so unfortunately they didn't have any proof or evidence they had like a couple of photos and that was was it but in one of those photos uh there was a picture of Amy's room so they're looking at this photo okay it's an enlarged crime scene photo of Amy's room and in it showed a news article on the floor of her bedroom and the news article was like a crime similar to hers in the photo well yeah hold on hold on let me get this eyelash on the article was about an actor named Patrick Duffy ring a bell no me neither I was like who's that well he was on the show Dallas now his parents were killed with a 12 gauge shotgun and then the people who did it they fled after killing the parents they fled and they held up a car dealership where they stole a truck and they fled investigators believe that that article in the crime scene photo of her bedroom maybe proof of like inspiration because they kind of you know so they saw that and they were like that's kind of interesting huh on top of that in the police report it said that they found a box of 25 rounds on Amy's bed one was fired in her room a second round was used to kill Seth then there was a third round that was found after Amy's arrest in her jacket pocket and then police found a fourth round in the chamber ready to fire so according to police at some point point after shooting Seth Amy must have racked the slide I think that racked the slide is that how I say wrong she must have like done that and then loaded a fresh uh round before being arrested which I'm sure we can all agree here is odd behavior if this was all just an accident right right well just three days after the shooting at UAH Amy was charged with one count of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder so she's sitting in jail right a few months later in June of 2010 Amy was indicted for the 1986 killing of her brother uhoh and this is really when like all of the information started to come out like about the pipe bomb belief you know situation the IHOP incident her being shady when she was trying to get tenure so all this is coming out and I guess Amy is just having a hard time because two days later uh you know when she finds out just she's being indicted for the killing of her brother Amy attempts to end her life in jail she wasn't successful but she tried you know Amy told her friends that she didn't want to spend the rest of her life in a tiny box oh God I freaking roll right I was just like shut the f maybe you shouldn't have killed anyone you dumb [ __ ] what a stupid comment I hate stupid comments like like don't no shut up okay thank you there's more just youi once am me was in jail her coure appointed lawyer went you know to go visit her her lawyer literally said quote something is wrong with this lady end quote I was like yeah I think something is wrong that is valid and correct I think Amy entered a plea of Not Guilty by reason of insanity the defense hired a ton of different psychiatrists you know to evaluate her but they could not conclude that she had like a certain mental illness a few months later in November of 2010 two the survivors from the University shooting excuse me filed lawsuits against Amy and James and then in January of 2011 two of the victim's families filed wrongful death suits against Amy James and the university I know I was like James too but I couldn't figure out how he was like involved I wanted more information but like her husband is just something ain't right there but whatever okay Amy's lawyer urged her to plead guilty in exchange for the prosecution not to seek the death penalty technically Amy wanted the death penalty and she said that out right but her lawyer told her like look even if you get the death sentence it takes forever for them actually to kill you so don't do that so in September of 2012 Amy changed her plea to guilty there was still a short trial you know per Alabama Law in which the jury heard like a a short version of the evidence so Amy was taken to court in her red jail uniform she's looking like Lord far quad okay she got that haircut all right she's yep she had her feet Shackled she sat between her two defense attorneys and when the trial began Amy would just shake her her head anytime someone said that her Killing Spree was intentional and this like upset the district attorney the district attorney was like it doesn't make sense for Amy to be shaking her head in denial like that you can't just take a loaded gun and shoot it at like a person's head and then say you didn't mean to do it makes no sense during the trial an investigator testified that police believed Amy open fire during that faculty meeting because she was angry over being denied tenure the ones that were targeted the ones that she murdered were the ones who voted against her receiving tenure after the short hearing the jury deliberated for 20 minutes before finding Amy guilty of course Amy was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and though like Amy did not speak in court her lawyer said that she often expressed great remorse for what she did saying she was quote horrified by the UAH incident end quote which pissed me off because she never referred it as like a like what she did she kept saying it was a UAH in incident she kept calling an incident like [ __ ] you murdered people what are you talk anyways she was horrified by the UAH incident and also you know she told people that she had no memory of it none it's crazy in February of 2013 Amy filed an appeal the thing is Amy didn't realize that with a guilty plea she had also waved her right to an appeal so then cuz she's exhausting and she never gives up in her appeal she claimed that she had not been told of the rights she'd be waving with her guilty plea it went back and forth for quite some time but the court essentially rejected it she's still trying to this day really and so with this in mind Amy decided to try and and clear her name for something else her brother's death she told the public defender that she wanted to be tried for her brother's death because she wanted the truth to come out and she wanted for her and her family to finally get closure it looks like it was going to happen but the courts decided not to go through with it be uh saying that she's already serving like a life sentence you know she's already Ser like they just didn't see the point in doing it so to this day she is still serving her sentence at the Julia tutweiller prison did I say that right let me know I probably didn't it's a prison for women and it's in with tumka Alabama she's there she's still trying to appeal I read in one article was recent whatever and I was like girl stop it's not going to happen for you okay stop you murdered people stop get a new haircut and that's where she sits but get this because my God talk about another tragic twist my brain kind of lowkey was like what so remember Amy and her husband sketchy James had four kids three girls and a boy so Amy's youngest son was literally born on her brother's birthday remember it was still all an accident at this point and so you know what she named her son Seth after her brother in April of 2021 Amy's in prison her son and a few friends were hanging out in a parking lot in a friend's car so one of the kids had a gun yep one of the kids they're like 17 or 18 years old these kids one of the kids has a gun was like look you know start showing it off well the gun accidentally went off and Amy Sun Seth was killed instantly I was like the lord giveth and the lord taketh away right according to police like her son's death had nothing to do with her mom's crimes at all Point like period but my God what are the odds of that right tragic the kid who accidentally shot the gun I believe is still a away waiting his trial um I couldn't find any updates on that uh but yeah so yeah that's a story about Amy Bishop and what a crazy ass [ __ ] she is I have some ending thoughts because I didn't know how to end this there was so much more I want to say so her parents have like remained quiet obviously that's that's fair as valid and they only speak highly of Amy even after the shooting going on to say that Amy is should I find the direct quote hold on let me find the direct quote shut up everything's a mess over here after the shooting spree Judy specifically her mom said to the media that Amy Amy is a brilliant brilliant girl and she just snapped and that's literally all they said about their daughter I love that I busted this out for that one thing can you tell by that one comment that maybe like you know they they they have a hard time accepting truth the family it seems in my personal opinion I could be completely wrong but whatever her husband James I was trying to figure out what the hell was up with him cuz I believe personally in my opinion he was involved in some way he truly seemed like her main hype man like uh if Amy was mad at someone he was like yeah yeah that guy sucks yeah yeah you know what I'm saying like that person who you could be completely wrong but that hype person is like yeah you're right yeah that was her husband and I think we can all can say like it was odd that they went to a shooting range together literally the week before and it was like why now like what did he know he was allegedly not involved in any way shape or form or had no idea that his wife was going to do this but it was just like I had so many more questions with the guy Amy literally said that like her husband's too smart to work so he didn't and I think that kind of says a lot too I don't know what I'm getting at exhausting story okay I think we can all agree here that Amy should have been arrested for her brother's death luckily that police chief the original one and all that they're all out of there uh and have passed on I believe I think we can all agree that she should have been arrested for her brother's death period right now listen to this now this was rumor so I didn't know where to put it there were rumors going around that the morning of her brother's death Amy and her father father got into a heated spat there were beliefs that Amy thought it was her father coming home and not her brother slother the newspaper article that was found on her bedroom floor made me think like oh she was going to kill her parents or maybe just her father and maybe not her brother and literally those are all just rumors but I wanted to kind of believe that because the only information you would hear from Amy's mom Judy was that like oh Amy's got a temper like just like her dad Amy and her dad would bump heads but it was nothing like it was nothing oh no no no no no no but there was definitely some there was something ma'am there was something Amy has never given like a clear answer as to why she did anything any of this down to the IHOP situation and she doesn't remember anything the one thing she has said to the media she's complained that since being in prison she feels like her IQ is dropping due to everyone's poor vocabulary and that is the story of Amy Bishop so many victims so many opportunities for her to get arrested and potentially like not lead to this situation but unfortunately I don't know what the [ __ ] was going on behind the scenes I don't know if she was sucking dick I don't know if people were getting paid off I don't know but isn't it weird that she kept getting off weird huh probably won't get any answers there and I think all we can do is hope that the justice system does better next time right well you guys thank you so much for hanging out with me today um I'm laughing because I don't know um thank you let me know who you want me to 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