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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ROBERT MEYER DENIES 1976 KAREN ADAMS SLAY

SOLVED?

'NO IDEA'

THE man accused in the 1975 slaying of Karen Adams has denied having anything to with her murder, claiming he had "no idea" why his DNA was found on her clothing. As we reported here investigators claim Robert W. Meyer's DNA matched with the semen found on the underwear and body of the youngster, who was found viciously strangled to death in a ditch near her home in Columbus, OH. But the 70-year-old denied having anything to do with the killing. He told 10TV: "I have no idea. I have never met her. I don't recognize
her face. I had nothing to do with it."
But according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, Meyer came up as a match when the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation Laboratory  compared the DNA on her clothing, with that from convicted offenders.
An additional sample was taken and it confirmed that Meyer, 70, was the contributor of semen found on Adams' body, investigators have claimed.
Despite his frail appearance, Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott said that Meyer was released from prison months before Adams was killed.
He had killed a man with a hammer in 1963 and served 10 years for the crime.
After being released he moved to the street where Adams lived, just months before her murder.
Then in 1976 he was convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman, a crime which he served 25-years for, before he was released in 2001.
The date for Meyer’s trial was not immediately scheduled.

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GUILTY PLEA IN 1976 DARLENE STACK SEX SLAY

THE SUSPECTED killer in the notorious 1976 murder of Darlene Stack is set to plead guilty, his lawyer revealed. Michael Whitney will receive a life sentence for the killing. Whitney was charged in early August after cops revealed DNA at the scene linked Whitney to the crime. Whitney and Stack lived in the same boarding house in suburban Chicago. Stack, 28, was found raped and murdered (she had been stabbed to death) and although Whitney was eyed at the time, the case went nowhere and gathered dust. Whitney is already serving a 60-year sentence for another 1982 murder. He was going to be paroled next year. Not now. He is back in court Sept. 8. FOR A BACKGROUNDER, CHECK OUT OUR LINK

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MICHAEL WHITNEY ADMITS DARLENE SACK '76 SEX SLAY

A CONVICTED  killer told a Chicago judge he plans to plead guilty to the long unsolved 1976 sex slaying of Darlene Sack, 28. Michael Whitney, now 58, told the judge: "I am going to plead guilty" adding he "didn't want" a public defender. Darlene Sack, a medical technician, was found stabbed 33 times in the boarding house where she lived. She had been raped. Whitney had long been eyed as the killer but there wasn't enough to put him away--except his own conscience. He is currently in prison for a 1982 homicide. But DNA testing is like an unwelcome blast from the past for a killer and that scientific noose slowly tightened around Whitney's
neck. He had also lived at the boarding house.

 Semen from Sack's bed was the magic bullet. In 1976, his terrified girlfriend gave him an alibi.
But the damning DNA evidence convinced her to change her tale.
She had seen and heard everything. The rape. The murder. The bloody knife being disposed.
Stack had been engaged to Dwight Omi, who died in 2004 at just 56. His brothers said he never got over her death. Omi never married and did not leave behind any children, according to Paul and Dan Omi.
Paul Omi said:  "It think it had quite an impact on my brother, he tried to get past it but a certain joy seemed to have left his life." KILLER CONFESSES TO '76 MURDER

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