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This is Not a Whodunit

Mickey J. Corrigan

In the novel, the protagonist is a biologist at a university trying to track down the source of a global pandemic. A Harvard PhD, she’s suicidal because she might lose tenure—even though the rest of the world is facing obliteration.
In the real life version, the biologist loses tenure when her students complain and the committee sees her behavior as erratic, crazy.
In the novel, the young protagonist shoots her friend’s brother by mistake while trying to scare her friend. In the real life version, the biologist shoots her younger brother, then runs to a used car lot brandishing the gun. In the newspaper version, actor Patrick Duffy’s parents were killed by someone who did this. In the real life version, a newspaper clipping about Duffy’s parents is in the protagonist’s bedroom on the day she kills her brother.
In the novel, the protagonist spreads a fatal virus by creating a viral bomb. In the real life version, the biology department is afraid she might have actually done this with herpes, the focus of her post-doctoral work.
In the real life version, the woman stands up at a faculty meeting and begins to execute her peers, shooting them in the head one by one. When the handgun jams, the survivors rush her, shoving her out of the room.
In the movie version, the protagonist punches another mother in the head when the woman takes the last booster seat at IHOP.
In the video game, the killer sends letter bombs to her old boss after he questions her research skills.
In the prison version, the protagonist tells her writing group her novels are her ticket out.
In the tragic version, the protagonist says, “It didn’t happen. There’s no way. They’re still alive.”
And she believes it.

On February 12, 2010, a biology professor at University of Alabama, Huntsville, stood up at a routine faculty meeting and began shooting her peers. She had been denied tenure and was in her final semester at the school. She killed 3 and wounded 3 before her gun malfunctioned. Research into her past unearthed previous violent acts including shooting and killing her brother, an act which was ruled accidental at the time. Her unpublished novels cover themes that echo her own life story.

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