In March 1976 five members of the family of State Department employee William Bradford Bishop, Jr., were found slain in a shallow grave in rural eastern North Carolina. It was determined that the murders had been committed in the family home in suburban Washington, D.C. Bishop was missing, and the authorities quickly named him the one and only suspect in the brutal and seemingly motiveless crimes. The family station wagon was found abandoned at the western side of Great Smoky National Park. Bishop vanished and since that time has allegedly been an international fugitive. The author, Bishop's...
In March 1976 five members of the family of State Department employee William Bradford Bishop, Jr., were found slain in a shallow grave in rural easte...