Bradford Bishop

The FBI hopes the identification of a daughter of William Bradford Bishop will lead to more clues and tips in a 45-year-old cold case that has rocked the D.C. region for decades. News4’s Shawn Yancy reports investigators hope the discovery will help explain why Bishop killed his family.

The FBI hopes the identification of a daughter of William Bradford Bishop will lead to more clues and tips in a 45-year-old cold case that has rocked the D.C. region for decades. Investigators hope the discovery will help explain why Bishop killed his family

A heinous crime committed 40 years ago still haunts a Montgomery County community, and the whereabouts of the alleged perpetrator remain unknown.

A john doe who died in 1981 is not William Bradford Bishop Jr., the FBI said Wednesday. News4’s Tisha Thompson has the story.

A John Doe who died in 1981 is not William Bradford Bishop Jr., the FBI said Wednesday.

News4 I-Team’s Tisha Thompson has the latest information in the FBI’s plans to compare the DNA of a “John Doe” buried in Alabama to that of William Bradford Bishop, who has been wanted for decades in the deaths of his family members.

We could know in just a few weeks if a body exhumed today in Alabama matches that of William Bradford Bishop, one of the D.C. area’s most wanted men.

News4 I-Team’s Tisha Thompson has details on the FBI’s plans to exhume the body of a man killed in a hit and run, after it was revealed he resembled murder suspect William Bradford Bishop.

Investigators who continue to probe the decades old murders of a Maryland family have exhumed a body in Alabama, after authorities noted the dead person’s resemblance to suspect William Bradford Bishop.

Thursday, the FBI added 77-year-old William Bradford Bishop to its 10 Most Wanted List. He’s wanted for killing his mother, wife and three children 38 years ago in Potomac, Md. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

William Bradford Bishop, who police say murdered his family in Potomac, Md. 38 years ago, has been added to the Ten Most Wanted List.

To get on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List takes a horrendous crime, a notorious fugitive and a team of investigators determined to get their guy on the Bureau’s most famous list of names. Here’s how Bishop was added.

How do you piece together the parts of a man capable of murder? Some of the answers lie in the evidence collected in the case in the Montgomery County Police Department’s Cold Case Evidence Room, where the Bishop investigation takes up more space, and more evidence boxes, than any other case.

Police believe William Bradford Bishop, Jr. used a sledgehammer to murder his wife, Annette, his mother, Lobelia, and his three boys, 14-year-old Brad, 10-year-old Brenton and 5-year-old Geoffrey, back in 1976. The search for him has never ended.

Almost four decades have passed since anyone saw William Bradford Bishop, Jr. The FBI hopes new attention to the case will help someone to recognize him.

The News4 I-Team takes you inside one of the area’s most infamous murder mysteries, almost 40 years old. On March 1, 1976, investigators say State Department employee William Bradford Bishop killed his entire family in Potomac, Md., dumped their bodies in Columbia, N.C. and then abandoned his vehicle in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. He was never seen again.

Investigators believe William Bradford Bishop could be living in plain sight, anywhere in the country. The News4 I-Team breaks down what he might look like today at the age of 77 and what activities he might be doing. The FBI wants everyone to look out, to see if that quiet neighbor or even a relative might actually be Bishop.

Few have seen the Montgomery County Cold Case Evidence Room. Evidence from the case against William Bradford Bishop takes up more space than any other in the room. The News4 I-Team gained access to evidence from the case never before seen.

“He’s been living a lie, keeping this great secret for more than three decades”: The FBI tapped one of the country’s best forensic artists to create a new bust of what William Bradford Bishop might look like after almost 40 years. Karen Taylor talks about the intense research she did to create Bishop’s new face and what the case...

The News4 I-Team obtained never-before-seen home movies of the Bishop family in the years just before the murders. The family is seen as they go on vacation to Puerto Rico, celebrate birthdays and go about the ordinary moments of their lives, swimming and playing tennis. You can also see Bishop as a young man in home movies News4 first aired…