A Professor's Rage: The Chilling True Story of Harvard PhD Amy Bishop, her Brother's Mysterious Death, and the Shooting Spree that Shocked the Nation

Michele R. McPhee

Macmillan, Jun 28, 2011 - True Crime - 272 pages

A devoted wife and mother and a Harvard-educated scientist working as a biology professor at the University of Alabama–Huntsville, Amy Bishop seemed to have it all. But when she was denied tenure, her whole world came crashing down...and she reacted in a way no one ever could have imagined.

On February 13, 2010, Amy was charged with murder for opening fire in a staff meeting the day before, killing three colleagues and injuring others. How could one woman's fury unleash such destruction? While the campus massacre made national headlines, authorities began a thorough investigation and uncovered another chilling episode in Amy's past.

When she was twenty-one, Amy fatally shot her teenage brother, Seth. His death was ruled an accident—and no charges were pressed. But for many involved in the case, Amy's story didn't add up, and law-enforcement officials suspected it was murder...After the Huntsville rampage, the cold case was reopened and Amy would find herself charged with killing her own brother—murder in the first degree. If Amy had been found guilty twenty-four years earlier, three lives might have been saved.
A Professor's Rage is the chilling true story of an intelligent woman with a secret past ... a past that would burst out in a shocking killing.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 15
• Section 3: 24
• Section 4: 43
• Section 5: 55
• Section 6: 70
• Section 7: 75
• Section 8: 79
• Section 9: 87
• Section 10: 102
• Section 11: 112
• Section 12: 127
• Section 13: 138
• Section 14: 146
• Section 15: 159
• Section 16: 173
• Section 17: 182
• Section 18: 186
• Section 19: 190
• Section 20: 194
• Section 21: 200
• Section 22: 206
• Section 23: 210
• Section 24: 215
• Section 25: 218
• Section 26: 221
• Section 27: 226
• Section 28: 232
• Section 29: 236
• Section 30: 244
• Section 31: 251
• Section 32: 254

About the author

Michele R. McPhee is the bestselling author of A Mob Story, A Date with Death, Heartless, and When Evil Rules-all available from St. Martin's Paperbacks. The former award-winning Police Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News, she was the courts and crime reporter for the Boston Herald where she is now a columnist. Currently she is a New England correspondent for ABC News and a Fox 25 TV contributor. A Date With Death was the basis for a Lifetime TV movie that aired in January 2011. She was also story consultant for the Lifetime movie "Who Is Clark Rockefeller?" that aired in 2010.

McPhee's true crime stories have appeared in more than a dozen national magazines, including Maxim, Stuff, Cosmopolitan, New York, ESPN the Magazine, Gotham, Manhattan File, and other international publications. She was the host of two Court TV Mugshot specials and her reporting is also featured in the A&E TV special Crime Ink, and the Discovery series called Rats. Her journalism has taken her to crime scenes across the country and has made her a commentator on breaking news for CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Network. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Professor's Rage: The Chilling True Story of Harvard PhD Amy Bishop, her Brother's Mysterious Death, and the Shooting Spree that Shocked the Nation
• Author: Michele R. McPhee
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2011
• ISBN: 1429968311, 9781429968317
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: True Crime / Forensics; True Crime / Murder / General; True Crime / Murder / Mass Murder; True Crime / Organized Crime