About this episode
The episode discusses the chilling case of William Bradford Bishop, who murdered his family and vanished without a trace.
Today's True Weird Stuff - Bloody Bishop In 1976, a respected U.S. diplomat named William Bradford Bishop murdered his wife, mother, and three sons. He drove their bodies 275 miles to a swamp and set them on fire. Bishop vanished soon after, abandoning his car near the Great Smoky Mountains. He spent nearly 42 years on the FBI’s Most Wanted list and was never captured. No one knows if he died in those mountains…or if he simply became someone else.
Topics covered
- murder
- disappearance
- FBI Most Wanted
- family tragedy
- unsolved case
Keywords
- William Bradford Bishop
- murder
- disappearance
- FBI Most Wanted
- family tragedy
- unsolved case
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Great Smoky Mountains
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