William Bradford Bishop was born in California in 1936. He obtained several masters degrees in various subjects, and was reported to be a highly intelligent person. He married his high school sweetheart, Annette Weis, in 1959. He joined the United States Army, working in counterintelligence. He and Annette had three children, all boys. He was attempting to get a promotion, failed, and told his secretary he was feeling unwell and left work. He stopped at a store, purchasing some items that included a sledgehammer and gas. He went home and murdered his family. Police believe that he killed his wife first, then his mother, then his three sons. After he piled the bodies up and set them on fire, he took the family dog and went on the lam.

This book is available on Audible Plus currently. It was about an hour and a half long, so I listened while I folded some laundry and made dinner. I was not overly impressed with this book, but it was free to listen to, so no harm done. I thought it was interesting that they found his car abandoned not far from where I live. Police think that he took off on the Appalachian Trail. There were several reported sightings of Bishop over the years, but he has not yet been caught. I think I was disappointed because there wasn't a resolution at the end of this book. I thought it was interesting to note that in 2021, some woman discovered through an ancestry DNA test that she was his daughter, so he definitely procreated at least once more after killing his family.