Not Wanted
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Was there something about my old college roommate that I had glimpsed and then banished from my mind? Some curious, twisted, suppressed rage against the world? A desire for some form of “revenge”? Some long smoldering emotions that suddenly burst forth to cause this brutal and unspeakable crime? I remembered reading a disturbing comment by Goethe: “There is no crime so horrible that I do not feel myself in some way capable of committing.” Was Bishop’s crime something lurking in the psyche of all of us?
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In March 1976 five members of the family of State Department employee William Bradford Bishop, Jr., were found slain in a shallow grave in rural eastern North Carolina. It was determined that the murders had been committed in the family home in suburban Washington, D.C. Bishop was missing, and the authorities quickly named him the one and only suspect in the brutal and seemingly motiveless crimes. The family station wagon was found abandoned at the western side of Great Smoky National Park. Bishop vanished and since that time has allegedly been an international fugitive. The author, Bishop's roommate senior year at Yale University, has been haunted by this case and its unanswered questions for many years. In this challenging book he puts forth some interesting theories as to what might have happened.
About the Author
Dayton Lummis was born in New York City, and is a graduate of Yale University. He holds a Master's Degree in American History from San Francisco State University. A professional historian, he has served as a Director of cultural history museums in locations as diverse as Cripple Creek, Colorado, and Santa Rosa, California. Currently he divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Philadelphia suburb of Saint David's.