NC Woman Finds Out Her Long Lost Father Is On FBI Top 10 Most Wanted List

It’s safe to say that Kathy Gillcrist’s quest to find her birth parents did not go as planned. Kathy grew up in an adopted home, at 61 she decided to take a 23andme to see what her biological parents were up to. During her search for knowledge she met her third cousin, Susan Gillmor, who just happened to be a geneaolgist up in Maine. Kathy was off to a lucky start.

Susan was able to track down Kathy’s parents and broke the news in maybe the meanest way ever.

“She said, ‘Okay I found your father. All I’m going to do is give you his name.’ Gillcrist recalled. ‘I said, Is it someone famous?’ She said ‘Um yeah.’ ”

Meet William Bradford Bishop Jr., Kathy’s dear old dad. Currently top 10 on the FBI’s most wanted list and on the run since 1976. Bradford speaks five languages, has his bachelor’s degree from Yale, his Master’s in Italian, was an avid camper in Africa, where he also learned to fly as an amateur pilot in Botswana. He was built for living on the lam. Not to judge a book by it’s mugshot but I was not expecting this kind of resume from his picture. 

Ok I kind of feel like I was hyping up a murderer back there so I need to remind you this guy’s a piece of shit. He’s wanted for bludgeoning his wife, mother, and three young sons to death in Bethesda, Maryland. He then brought their bodies to Columbia, NC to bury them in shallow graves. Then Bradford lit the graves on fire. Quite literally overkill. He’s 85 now though, so I promise if I ever run into him I’ll beat the brakes off this old man.

Imagine being a normal person and now you know you’re rooted by a sadistic murderer. Is that in you somewhere? Will you unlock something the next time someone pisses you off? Like if someone you know visits Paris and comes back pronouncing it “Par-ree”. Will your inner bludgeonor surface?

This is a good lesson in quitting while you’re ahead. You don’t want this shit on your conscience. Poor Kathy thought for a second that she was getting Al Bundy for a father and wound up with Ted. The never ending battle of nature vs nurture ends with a tally for the nurture column. I mean, Kathys doing great. She’s a teacher, she grew close with long lost family she just met, she wrote a book, and she hasn’t murdered anybody...yet.