Bishop is wanted for allegedly beating his wife, mother, and three sons (aged 5, 10, and 13) to death in 1976 in Maryland. The FBI says he then brought their bodies to North Carolina, where he buried them in a shallow grave and lit them on fire.
Bishop graduated from Yale University and has his master's degree in Italian from Middlebury College in Vermont. He also had extensive camping experience in Africa, and enjoyed canoeing, fishing, swimming, jogging, tennis, skiing, and riding motorcycles. He even learned to fly as an amateur pilot in Botswana.
Before the killings, Bishop was reportedly under psychiatric care and was using medication for depression.
The FBI notes that Bishop was "described as intense and self-absorbed, prone to violent outbursts, and preferred a neat and orderly environment."