FBI: Body resembles alleged 1976 family killer

The body of a John Doe who bears a "strong resemblance" to a former state department employee accused of the gruesome 1976 sledgehammer murders of his wife, mother and three sons, is being exhumed by the FBI.
Investigators believe the unidentified man who was killed by a hit and run driver in 1981 may well be William Bradford "Brad" Bishop Jr., a mainstay on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitive's list for years.
He allegedly bludgeoned his family members to death at their home in Bethseda Md. in 1976. Their burned bodies were found in a shallow grave in Columbia N.C..  
They day after they were killed Bishop's last confirmed sighting was at a sporting goods store in Jacksonville N.C..
Two weeks later his station wagon was found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which encompasses more than 500,000 acres.

An avid outdoorsman, Bishop, "could have remained in the North Carolina/Alabama/Tennessee aread for many years without being discovered," according to an affidavit written by FBI agent.  
Investigators will test Bishop's DNA to see if it matches that of the John Doe, but the FBI could not give a timescale for when the results will be known.

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Second man named in Lyon's sisters disapperance

Cops have named a second person of interest in the 1975 disappearance of two young sisters who vanished from a Maryland shopping center.
Investigators at Bedford County Sheriff's office said they were "very confident" they are close to finding out what happened to Sheila and Katherine Lyon, aged 12 and 10.
They also confirmed they were assisting Montgomery County Police with a homicide investigation.
Cops have been searching a property that was once owned by the family of Lloyd Lee Welch Jr., who is also known as Michael Welch. He was named as a person of interest in February.
He has been in prison since 1997 after he was convicted of assaulting a 10-year-old girl.
Now cops have named his uncle Richard Allen Welch Sr. who they believe either owned or still owns the property being searched.
With less than $4 in their pockets on March 25, 1975, the sisters left their home in Kensington, Md., to get some pizza for lunch.
A friend saw them with an older man who had a tape recorder and a briefcase, according to missing persons reports.
Although they were later seen walking home, they had not arrived by their 4 p.m. curfew but they did not arrive and by 7 p.m. the cops were called.
What happened to the girls has remained a mystery ever since.

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'Cold blooded' Paul Curry guilty of wife's 1994 murder

A "vicious, cold blooded" former nuclear engineer who was driven by an "insatiable appetite for money" was convicted of the 1994 murder of his wife.
Paul Curry gave a sleeping pill to his wife Linda and then poisoned her with a shot of nicotine because he wanted the $547.695 payout from her life insurance policy, prosecutors said.
The 57-year-old was questioned by cops after her death but it wasn't until 2010 that prosecutors put a case together and alleged that he murdered her.
Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh said she had a level of the sleeping aid Ambien, in her system after she was found at their San Onofre, Calif. home. This had not been prescribed to her, he said.
She also had injection marks on the temple behind her ears, he added.

"He had to make sure she was completely sedated before he injected the nicotine," he said, adding that high doses induce vomiting.
Curry admitted to fiddling his insurance but denied any role in her death.
However a California jury disagreed and he will sentenced for first degree murder at a later date.

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Still missing a month on, 14-year-old Adelle Burns

A 14-year-old Florida girl is still missing more than a month after she disappeared from the bed she was sharing with her sister.
Adelle Burns left a note telling her mom that she would be with friend's in Mississippi, but there has been no word from her since.
Her mom Glenna Phillips told the Tallahassee Democrat that the family "just want her home."
"We want her home and we hope she is sage wherever she's at," she said. "Somebody is helping her. A 14-year-old cannot run away and survive on her own without money or anything. There are so many ifs in this situation."
The family is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to her return.
The Leon County Sheriff's Office said they did not consider Burns to be at risk, but spokesperson James McQuaig told the paper, "there's a great concern for this child's safety."

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Stephanie Low's body found in shallow grave

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 The body of a woman missing for nearly four years has been discovered in a shallow grave in the national forest near Wabeno, Wis., cops said. 

Stephanie Low was found Friday around 80 miles northeast of the Wausau apartment where she was last seen on Oct. 10, 2010, Police Chief Jeff Hardel said. 

At the time cops found blood droplets, missing bedding and the smell of bleach in the 22-year-old's home. 

Hardel told WSAW that a person of interest reportedly confesses to six people that he went to Low's apartment with the intention of ripping her off. 

No criminal charges have been filed in relation to the case, but cops say they will be coming. 

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Mother fears Hannah Graham victim of serial killer

Gill Harrington has been down the terrible road the family of missing University of Virginia Hannah Graham is now traveling -- and fears a serial killer is hunting in the area. Her daughter Morgan was kidnapped and murdered in 2009 after a Metallica concert -- and now she's seeing chilling similarities between the two cases. MORE AT COLD CASE USA

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Cops resume search in 1975 Lyon sisters cold case

Maryland police have resumed their search for two sisters who vanished in 1975 at a rural cemetery in Virgin

ia. Sheila Lyon, 12, and her sister Katherine, 10, disappeared on March 25, 1975 when they went for lunch at a local mall in the Washington, DC suburb of Wheaton. But last February, cops identified convicted child molester Lloyd Lee Welch as a person of interest in the tragic case. He was living nearby when the girls went missing and is currently doing a jolt in the big house. The property being search was once owned by Welch's relatives. Cops say they placed him at the mall the day the girls went missing.  MORE FROM FOX NEWS

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