Bishop's Gambit: A Story of Rage and Revenge

Richard Rohr once wrote, “The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to failing or changing or dying.” And he was just talking about your garden variety, Joe Average ego. Not the supercharged, steroid-pumped kind that our villain today was cursed with. What’s at the core of an ego like that is a quivering little wad of insecurity, so fragile that the tiniest disagreement can feel like a humiliating slight. And all the ego can do to make its sad little wad feel better is get angry…or maybe take revenge. And if it decides to carjack the rest of the brain and go on a joyride, everybody within a hundred miles better run. <br /><br />Sources:<br /><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/02/11/a-loaded-gun" rel="noopener">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/02/11/a-loaded-gun</a><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" rel="noopener">https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html</a><br /><a href="https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bishop-amy.htm" rel="noopener">https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bishop-amy.htm</a><br />Investigation Discovery's "Fatal Encounters," episode "Deadly Genius"<br /><br />Follow us, campers!<br />Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): <a href="https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfire" rel="noopener">https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfire</a><br />Facebook: True Crime Campfire<br />Instagram: <a href="https://gramha.net/profile/truecrimecampfire/19093397079" rel="noopener">https://gramha.net/profile/truecrimecampfire/19093397079</a><br />Twitter: @TCCampfire <a href="https://twitter.com/TCCampfire" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/TCCampfire</a><br />Email: <a href="mailto:truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.com">truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.com</a>