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No Marital Problems. The police could not offer any explanation for the bizarre slayings. The missing Bradford Bishop was considered by his friends to be hard-working and considerate. A 1959 graduate of Yale, with a master's degree in history from Middlebury College, Vt., Bishop had served in the Foreign Service for half a dozen years in Ethiopia, Italy and Botswana. For the past year he was a $26,000 federal official with a lengthy title: assistant chief, Special Trade Activities and Commercial Treaties Division, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. Neighbors and relatives could recall no marital problems between Bishop and Annette.
Some friends thought Bishop might have resented his mother, who lived with the family and was described by some as domineering. Still others suspected that Bishop might have been a spy and that he and his family could be victims of a rub-out reminiscent of the film Three Days of the Condor. But no persuasive proof was offered to support this theory. In any case, the police let it be known that fingerprints had been found on the gasoline can next to the burial site, and at week's end they issued a warrant for Bishop's arrest for the murder of his wife.