Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Good Hunch. That same morning, a policeman from Montgomery, Md., investigated the home of William Bradford Bishop Jr. in Bethesda, just outside of Washington, D.C. There had been no signs of life there for a week, and a worried neighbor in the close-knit community had called the police. In four bedrooms of the Bishop home and on the stairs, the policeman discovered blotchy splatters of blood. Otherwise there were no signs of forced entry or physical violence. None of the Bishops' neighbors could later recall any screams heard in the night, and none had any idea about what...
...Montgomery police had heard about the unidentified bodies unearthed in North Carolina, and the flyer that had been posted at Poch Hardware. On a hunch, they took the flyer from the store and showed it to a young woman who had been a babysitter for the Bishops. Shown the grisly photos, she cried out: "That's the Bishop family!" The flyer showed Annette Bishop, 37, her husband's mother, Mrs. Lobelia Bishop, 68, and the Bishop boys, William Bradford III, 14, Brenton, 10, and Geoffrey, 5. The only missing member of the family was Bradford Bishop, 39. Says...
...Marital Problems. The police could not offer any explanation for the bizarre slayings. The missing Bradford Bishop was considered by his friends to be hard-working and considerate. A 1959 graduate of Yale, with a master's degree in history from Middlebury College, Vt., Bishop had served in the Foreign Service for half a dozen years in Ethiopia, Italy and Botswana. For the past year he was a $26,000 federal official with a lengthy title: assistant chief, Special Trade Activities and Commercial Treaties Division, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. Neighbors and relatives could...
Some friends thought Bishop might have resented his mother, who lived with the family and was described by some as domineering. Still others suspected that Bishop might have been a spy and that he and his family could be victims of a rub-out reminiscent of the film Three Days of the Condor. But no persuasive proof was offered to support this theory. In any case, the police let it be known that fingerprints had been found on the gasoline can next to the burial site, and at week's end they issued a warrant for Bishop...
...time the orchestra was silent, the presidential party was seated and a bishop was on his feet, speaking at awful length, as bishops will. This holy man favoured peace, commerce and God, in that order...