Bethesda, Maryland: The Chilling Story of William Bradford Bishop, Jr.

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On March 9, 1976, the screaming banner story of “The Washington Post” read: 

“Five members of a Bethesda family — the wife, mother and three sons of a missing State Department official — were beaten to death in their home last week and then driven to North Carolina, where their bodies were set afire in an open grave.” The five bodies found at a burning pit in a woods in Columbia, North Carolina were later connected to deplorable murders in a split-level house in Bethesda, Montgomery County in Maryland on March 1, 1976. The wasted lives belonged to William Bradford Bishop’s family – touted as a barometer of an ideal American family in their community during the 1970s. But what their neighbors and the public didn’t know was the troubled figurehead of the Bishop family, Bradford, who when stripped of his prestigious title as an American diplomat revealed a shocking persona – that of an unhinged murderer.  

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