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Post by Scumhunter on May 24, 2022 16:54:58 GMT -5
I’ve watched the UM segment on this for the past few days i have doubts he’s alive and that the Italy sighting was even legit i really don’t like How UM portrayed that but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to make a segment but i felt that Robert Stack was rolling his eyes the whole time while having to read about the Italy sighting. Assuming Bishop got out of the Appalachian Mountains and actually lived probably a quiet peaceful life it makes you wonder what he did or how he hid out so well he had a average look and could blend in easily and he certain had training by the government to do so. My grandpa was born in April of 1937 so he’s 16 months younger then Bishop and still Alive of course he’s not a fugitive who had to run from the FBI either. I’ve looked at a few John Doe cases over the past few years but besides the 1981 Alabama Car Crash victim i haven’t found anything that resembles Bishop. I do believe he left the country for a short period of time if he got out of Tennessee so while i don’t think the Italy sighting was legit i do think the 1978 Stockholm Sweden sighting was and the 1994 Basel Switzerland Sighting was probably the most legit one. Of course neither can be proven to be true chances are Bishop did stay or return to America at some point and one of us here has possibly passed him on the street and didn’t even realize it but that’s just a guess. Also am i the only one who thinks that killers like John List, Bishop and Robert Fisher just basically copy each other but go from one extreme to another? John List. Shoots his family at home but leaves them there and gets a one month head start and is captured thanks to AMW 18 years later Brad Bishop. Kills his family put their bodies in the trunk and then throws them in a North Carolina Coastal Park and sets them on fire but gets a week ahead start Robert Fisher. Goes to what some would call the ultimate extreme by shooting his wife then Slashing his children's throats then ten hours later his house explodes and like Bishop, Fisher car is found near a rural area with reported sighting of him soon after. I truly feel that John List started it then Bishop copied him but took it to a certain extreme then Fisher Copied Bishop and List and did the unthinkable when he blew the house up for the ultimate extreme of someone killing their family. Sorry to ramble on like this but these family murders have really caught my attention lately just how somebody can do that I’ll never understand. I don't think family killers copy other family killers, it's just the sad nature of their type of crimes. Also John List was unique because he basically had a sick religious justification for what he did. While Robert Fisher at least seemed motivated by pure rage (and probably Brad Bishop as well). |
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Post by Maddog on Nov 22, 2022 23:38:44 GMT -5
I have found the sketch that Roy Harrell helped police make following his reported sighting of Bishop in 1979. It is attached below.
Interestingly, police felt Bishop was close to death based off of Harrell's description. He described Bishop as being jaundiced, and that is usually indicative of liver problems (perhaps excessive drinking or maybe even liver cancer). I have always given great weight to what Harrell has said regarding the sighting. As astronomical as the odds must have been that Harrell would run into him, Harrell could have gotten into hot water if his story was debunked or if he had lied.
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 23, 2022 19:33:45 GMT -5
I definitely think Harrell thought he saw Bishop- it's just a matter of whether he actually did. He did know him- but the guy could have been a spitting image, Harrell's imagination over the case overtook him etc...
It's definitely intriguing. It turned out to not be the case but I would have loved the explanation had the Scottsboro John Doe actually been Brad Bishop lol.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jan 17, 2023 19:55:57 GMT -5
To be honest, this is probably going to be my last post on this case, unless something major happens, but logically I don’t see how this case can get solved even if Bishop died under an assumed name, we’ll probably never know what ever happened to him as we can’t dig up every grave in the world, and even the chances of bringing him alive are getting slimmer as the years go by, especially since Bishop if alive would be 86/87, has been missing for nearly half a century and getting an understanding for the life he lived around the time of the murders, the guy was super unhinged that he could’ve met an untimely death through his own hand, a freak accident, or he may have had an outburst on someone who was a true tough guy and could’ve killed him.
The development that Bishop has a daughter was good, but realistically I feel like this case has reached the end of the line in a way.
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Post by billsfans568 on Jan 17, 2023 23:11:02 GMT -5
To be honest, this is probably going to be my last post on this case, unless something major happens, but logically I don’t see how this case can get solved even if Bishop died under an assumed name, we’ll probably never know what ever happened to him as we can’t dig up every grave in the world, and even the chances of bringing him alive are getting slimmer as the years go by, especially since Bishop if alive would be 86/87, has been missing for nearly half a century and getting an understanding for the life he lived around the time of the murders, the guy was super unhinged that he could’ve met an untimely death through his own hand, a freak accident, or he may have had an outburst on someone who was a true tough guy and could’ve killed him. The development that Bishop has a daughter was good, but realistically I feel like this case has reached the end of the line in a way. Agreed this guy is more then likely dead or sitting in a nursing in his rocker waiting for his life to end. |
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Post by Maddog on Apr 21, 2024 0:05:54 GMT -5
I was watching an old AMW episode online, and they refer to this sighting of Bishop. Does someone have more information on this? This is the very first time I have ever heard of this sighting. Attachments:
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Post by Scumhunter on Apr 21, 2024 6:14:20 GMT -5
Don’t know much about that unfortunately but it seems he was sighted in every possible country in Europe throughout the decades.
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Post by Maddog on Apr 21, 2024 10:35:22 GMT -5
Don’t know much about that unfortunately but it seems he was sighted in every possible country in Europe throughout the decades. Agreed. I am guessing they thought it was a great tip, because the two sightings that preceded it were in Stockholm, Sweden and Serrento, Italy, as well. |
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Post by outlawtaco on Apr 21, 2024 11:33:00 GMT -5
I also heard a couple years back that they were rumors that he was reported to have died in France and even as far in hong Kong but they were not true and they were dispelled but if the slim margin that he is alive he's probably in a nursing home under and alias but as for where given that he was federal government employee and could speak several languages such as French and Italian he could being living basically anywhere in europe
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Post by Maddog on Apr 21, 2024 18:51:16 GMT -5
I also heard a couple years back that they were rumors that he was reported to have died in France and even as far in hong Kong but they were not true and they were dispelled but if the slim margin that he is alive he's probably in a nursing home under and alias but as for where given that he was federal government employee and could speak several languages such as French and Italian he could being living basically anywhere in europe There is a rumor on Reddit that an investigator in Maryland says the Italians have a body they are convinced is Bishops, but no one has followed up on it for whatever reason. I would love to find out more about this 1991 Spain sighting. Remember: he did speak Spanish, so I do find some credibility with this sighting based off of what we currently know. |
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Post by outlawtaco on Apr 21, 2024 19:19:01 GMT -5
Wow if that's true wonder why the American law enforcement and it's Italian counterparts haven't tested the body for the individuals DNA but as you said it is just a rumor but I do think hes dead I mean he was sighted as far as hong Kong and even was sighted back in the states now this statement is directed to both scumhunter and Maddog well maybe more of a question but have either one of you have been to North Carolina not only is it my home state well I was born in Florida but I digress I actually live in the town where Eric Rudolph was caught and I even know some of the people involved in that case but our town is in the smokey mountains which is a virtual fortress of untouched natural beauty and there have been a lot of cases where people disappear around here and are never found but I have also heard of people living on the Appalachian trail so this might be a crazy insane theory but I would say he might have been hiding in the maze of trails and caves or he could have never made it out of the of the Smokies he may have died and his body could have never been found
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Post by Maddog on May 20, 2024 0:46:56 GMT -5
youtu.be/pI2ynW_WJOU?si=KUzDZnMAiFWoIWOHere is the April 10, 1999 broadcast of William Bradford Bishop. More insight is provided on the Alicante, Spain tip from August of 1991. A couple there met a man that the FBI says matched Bishop’s description. The FBI wasn’t able to verify the tip, but if it was aired on this episode, the FBI must have felt it was a good tip.
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