I found this info in the Sep/Oct 2014 issue of American Handgunner Magazine and I share this here b/c it involves a S&W Model 10 and perhaps someone knows something.

This guy is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and a revolver was taken from the crime scene back then in 1976.

S&W Model 10

S/N C981967

FBI ? WILLIAM BRADFORD BISHOP, JR.

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Jorge

Some agency wants their spook back. Spoke 5 languages and worked out a lot in the 1970s? M'kay.

Sounds like another spook gone awry!

I know right?! Guess he's after me now since I shared his name/pictures here. Gotta blend in with all the illegals dropped off here at Ft. Sill... that should work.

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Jorge

Steve to add fuel to the fire. No employment history listed. An avid outdoors man, and learned to fly in Africa. Also note the differences in the two photos, both are listed as circa 1970 - 1975.
And last but least Yale has a history of turning out spooks for assorted government divisions.

Can't help but wonder?????????????????

How come all spies, mass murderers, serial killers, child molestors, and assorted nutjobs always have 3 names?

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Sure you did

Please don't glorify Bishop in any way that presumes he was other than a social misfit and a total failure in all aspects of his pitiful existence.

Be safe.

Seems to have enjoyed some success evading the po-po for 38 years...

The first and middle often being "John Wayne."

Reading this post I am reminded of a another case of a very successful fugitive from justice back in the 60's....John William Clouser, former detective Sgt, Orlando PD....Clouser was a unique fugitive, his history was, expert shot, black belt in Karate, and a high IQ ...I remember well the stories as a rooky cop in St. Louis the stories of his love of the Cardinals ball team...A little background....Clouser was a successful detective with Orlando PD, in the early 60's...He was fired due to some of his less than acceptable acquaintances. He went into a very successful bank robbing career. Caught and certified mental case he BS'd his way out of confinement and continued his second career.. He became a federal fugitive and was very successful at the new job. So successful that he began to write Hoover and twist his tail..Hoover himself put him on the 10 most wanted list..The stories of his travels and his almost capture were famous if not always true..One story that I had heard of was...He was in the St. Louis main post office one day looking at the 10 most wanted poster and a FBI agent was also looking at the poster...Clouser struck up a conversation with him....After he left he called Hoover and mentioned how nice the agent was to talk to...Agent reportabley was sent to some out of the way office. Agents later on a tip I think it was in Oregon interviewed him and decided he wasn't who they wanted. they took his prints and sent them off to DC for classification..Whoops it was him two more transfers to east podunk...It has been mentioned in Clouser's book that he had been in 44 states and two countries during his over ten years as a top ten fugitive. to make a long story a little shorter Clouser turned himself in on NBC's today show live....Made some kind of a deal and later wrote a book "The Most Wanted Man in America" Clousers nick name was the "Florida Fox"..I don't think the FBI even to this day will admit that Clouser was on the 10 most wanted list..I tried to look up past members of that list and couldn't find his name..Clouser would be in his late 80's now if he is still alive...The book..The Most Wanted Man in America, J. Clouser and Dave Fisher" tell his story......I doubt Hoover posted a cover for the book.....Interesting reading.....