086 - The Murder of the Bishop Family

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

On March 10th, 1976 a concerned neighbor contacted local authorities. She hadn't seen the Bishop family for more than a week and mail was piling up. It was unlike them to just up and leave without saying anything, and so police sent a detective over to perform a welfare check.

Upon entering the home, the detective found a grisly bloodbath. There was evidence of a brutal and violent crime, but no bodies were found. At first, police believed the entire Bishop family had been murdered but then they learned the horrible truth.

Police in Columbia, North Carolina had discovered five brutally battered bodies dumped in a ditch and set on fire. It would turn out to be Annette Bishop, he three sons and her mother-in-law, Lobelia. Annette's husband, and the father of her children, William Bradford Bishop was missing.

While it was initially believed that Bradford might be a victim as well, evidence would soon begin telling a far more sinister story and a massive manhunt was launched.

Recorded in part Live at the True Crime Podcast festival, alongside Nina Innsted from Already Gone comes Trace Evidence - Episode 86 - The Murder of the Bishop Family.

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0:00.0	The Bishop family moved into a home in a quiet and affluent Washington, D.C. suburb.
0:14.7	William Bradford Bishop worked as a diplomat for the State Department, and the Bishop's
0:19.1	had previously lived in several countries from Africa to Europe.
0:23.7	Bradford, his wife and net, and their three sons moved into a beautiful home and were
0:28.5	soon joined by Bradford's widowed mother, LaBiilia.
0:32.8	On March 10, 1976, a concerned neighbor contacted police.
0:38.4	She hadn't seen anyone at the Bishop home for more than a week.
0:41.8	When authorities arrived for a wellness check, they found a blood bath in the home, but
0:46.7	no bodies.
0:48.4	Later, they would learn that a week earlier, police in North Carolina had come upon a gruesome
0:53.8	scene.
0:55.3	Five battered bodies piled in a ditch and set on fire.
0:59.9	The victims would later be identified as a net Bishop, her three sons, and her mother-in-law.
1:05.8	Bradford, however, was missing.
1:08.6	Initially, investigators suspected that Bradford may have been murdered along with his family,
1:14.3	but when evidence began telling a different story and sightings of Bradford came in,
1:19.4	warrants were issued for his arrest on five counts of homicide.
1:23.9	It wouldn't be easy to track Bradford down.
1:26.9	He had been in the US Army where he trained in counterintelligence, spoke multiple languages,
1:32.6	and was incredibly smart and well-traveled while also possessing a diplomatic passport.
1:38.4	It would become a race against time with Bradford having more than a week's head start.
1:43.7	A rapid lie of alongside Nina from already gone at the True Crime Podcast Festival in
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