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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 7, 2016 4:31:46 GMT -5
Anyone see the May 4th, 2016 visitor post on the FBI Facebook page about Bishop? Of all the photos posted there, it's the closest to looking like Bishop so far imo: www.facebook.com/williambradfordbishop/ |
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jun 7, 2016 11:36:57 GMT -5
I saw it and I will say the resemblance is damning but the neck looks exactly to the bust but in the actual 1970s images it doesn't really show his neck.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 7, 2016 11:39:08 GMT -5
Yeah I mean I say no tip is a bad tip (I mean accurate and inaccurate yeah, but I feel it's the thought that counts) and I appreciate every person who posted there so far with any photo they thought was Bishop or clue they thought related to Bishop, but admittedly I was kind of "meh, I don't see it" right up until that post. It's from a month ago so theoretically it's possible it's still being investigated.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jun 7, 2016 11:40:03 GMT -5
Well should we here on the site post that image?, the similarities are just damning
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Post by Scumhunter on Jun 7, 2016 11:42:39 GMT -5
Oh, duh, why didn't I think of that:  |
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jun 7, 2016 11:44:08 GMT -5
I was about to post it but I didn't know if you were okay with it LOL. But yes that image on the right does resemble his Bust for sure.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jul 13, 2016 19:10:34 GMT -5
Well here's James Bruno's latest article on Bishop from Feb/Mar of this year and in the article it said his therapist (who I will not name unless it's okay with the admin) quit his practice in 1995, because he was so shaken by Bishops crime. Overall the article covers Bishop's mental state leading up to the murders and his take on whether it's time to move on from all this? jameslbruno.blogspot.com/2016/02/william-bradford-bishop-murder-case.html?m=1 |
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 13, 2016 23:46:21 GMT -5
Wow thanks for the update and what a great article by Officer Bruno who is also a forum member here and commented earlier in this thread.  It seems he's not suggesting to give up the search for Bishop but that maybe it's time to remove him from the top 10 list. I can't disagree with that but despite his age giving up after 2 years would be quicker than most removals on the list. I personally felt when the FBI added him back in 2014 that they should have given themselves a 5-year window and after that remove him if he still isn't caught/confirmed deceased. I also find it interesting that Officer Bruno says investigators have discredited Roy Harrell's sighting of Bishop in Sorrento, Italy back in 1979. Why did the man run away if he wasn't Bishop? But like Bruno says, everyone has doppelgangers. He even posted the photo of Charles Bishop that we mentioned earlier. (I hate to even bring up Charles Bishop again and lump a seemingly good family man in with Brad Bishop but it was simply to say I also discounted the theory and just an example how everyone has a twin. So for one more time, may Charles Bishop rest in peace.) Officer Bruno seems to think Bishop is likely deceased. It would be so extremely difficult to confirm this is he died some random vagabond in Europe or even here in the states. And yeah he is right that they shouldn't have waited 38 years to add him to the 10 Most Wanted List. |
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Jul 14, 2016 9:03:56 GMT -5
Your welcome , personally I don't think Bishop will be removed after 2 years, since the FBI has to let their fugitives stay on the list at least 5 years before they are considered for removal which is probably the reason why Mogilevich wasn't removed for 6 years until 2015. Bishop will likely stay on for the next 3-8/9 years, or once the tips run out like it happened with Glen Godwin and Donald Webb. The dilemma of "I wish they could have added him earlier" is echoing right now and part of the reason is that the Montgomery county sheriffs office never reached out to the FBI earlier like say sometime in the 90s or the 2000s but instead they did it in 2014. I agree with James Bruno when he says not to give up on this case and personally I would never give up on this cas regardless if he's a top tenner or not, we shouldn't let off the gas pedal in this case, he Committed a savage crime and he needs to be held accountable for that, like John Walsh said (about Fisher, but it goes with this case too) "you can't kill a mother and beautiful children and still stay at large". |
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Post by eal22 on Jul 25, 2016 16:05:03 GMT -5
I believe that Brad Bishop stayed in the USA, or went to Europe briefly, assumed a new identity, and has kept a low-profile ever since. There is evidence he was planning his crime for a long time and had a get-away plan, so the chances he shot himself in the North Carolina forest seem slim, unless he suddenly came to a realisation after he committed the crime.
The sightings in Europe in my opinion are either mistaken, or in the case of Roy Harrell, bogus. The FBI used an old-trick on Harrell by asking him to recall details of a fictitious person's connection to Brad Bishop. Harrell said he would need to check his notes. On his next meeting with police, Harrell conveyed a story about this fictitious person. His lying and attention-seeking behaviour makes him non-credible in my view. The two other sightings seem too much of a coincidence and not really all that confirmed. What are the chances three friends of Bishop would separately run into him in Europe over such a long period of time?
Bishop may have been skilled with languages and other cultures, but it is almost impossible to pass off as a local if you stay anywhere long-term. I guess my only question is how well known is his story in Europe? Would your average Italian or Croatian recognize him and know his story or would they just think he was an American immigrant?
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 25, 2016 17:56:33 GMT -5
I believe that Brad Bishop stayed in the USA, or went to Europe briefly, assumed a new identity, and has kept a low-profile ever since. There is evidence he was planning his crime for a long time and had a get-away plan, so the chances he shot himself in the North Carolina forest seem slim, unless he suddenly came to a realisation after he committed the crime. The sightings in Europe in my opinion are either mistaken, or in the case of Roy Harrell, bogus. The FBI used an old-trick on Harrell by asking him to recall details of a fictitious person's connection to Brad Bishop. Harrell said he would need to check his notes. On his next meeting with police, Harrell conveyed a story about this fictitious person. His lying and attention-seeking behaviour makes him non-credible in my view. The two other sightings seem too much of a coincidence and not really all that confirmed. What are the chances three friends of Bishop would separately run into him in Europe over such a long period of time? Bishop may have been skilled with languages and other cultures, but it is almost impossible to pass off as a local if you stay anywhere long-term. I guess my only question is how well known is his story in Europe? Would your average Italian or Croatian recognize him and know his story or would they just think he was an American immigrant? Hi eal22, Welcome to the forum! If this is true about Harrell, it would explain the sighting. He seems credible at least on camera and considering he had a somewhat distinguished profession (then again Bishop had the same profession and wound up killing his family). I guess my concern is what are the odds of discovering it if he passed away, USA or Europe. It would be very hard to do so unless say, he was in the U.S.A, didn't keep to himself and gained some sort of new family that one day sees his story and recognizes him as a man they used to live with. |
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Post by eal22 on Jul 25, 2016 18:36:45 GMT -5
Thanks, great to be here. The Harrell info is definitely legitimate, but perhaps he feels he really did see Bishop and then got intoxicated with all the attention from the FBI, Unsolved Mysteries, etc and started making things up to stay in the limelight?
The supposed sighting in DC recently by that author seems just bizarre. Nothing in that incident really confirms that it was Bishop he saw. Could have just been an old guy who was angry that someone was looking him up and down.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 25, 2016 18:41:16 GMT -5
The theory about Harrell could be possible.
As for the sighting, that is possible as well. The FBI seems to get lots of tips of that nature about Bishop, but unfortunately most if not all of them are dead ends. It's a matter of one of those similar types of tips finally panning out.
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Post by eal22 on Jul 25, 2016 18:50:57 GMT -5
I do know that lead investigators on the Bishop case seriously doubt all three "confirmed" sightings in Europe. I think his extra-marital affairs hold the key to his escape plan.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Aug 4, 2016 23:14:03 GMT -5
So Monday was Bishops 80th birthday and I just wanted to say how it's becoming harder and harder each year to bring him in. The window is quickly closing shut unfortunately, but let's hold out a little bit of hope that Bishop will be put in cuffs before he's 85 or 90. Whitey Bulger was arrested at age 81 and I still hold out hope that even a longer running fugitive like Bishop can go down, but as I've stated its getting very difficult as he may be a few years from passing or may already have gone to the next world, but we won't give up till he turns 100.
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