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View Poll Results: Did Roy Harrell see Brad Bishop in Italy?
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Old 01-27-2026, 09:12 PM   #46
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I can certainly see the merit of the theory that William was a victim rather than a perpetrator and it was a frame job.

Bishop was a Yale grad (Skull and Bones), had worked in counterintelligence operations, and had been posted to Italy, Ethiopia, and Gaborone in Botswana.

Certainly this raises questions of a foreign intelligence connection, did he spy for the Soviets or Chinese and get caught? That might be one way to end up missing and framed as a mass murderer. Wouldn't necessarily conflict with some of the official version either, demanding mother-in-law living off him might have made him financially vulnerable to an offer of some additional money in exchange for information, that was and is a common tactic.

The fact the FBI put him on the most wanted list later is the most dissuading evidence for the theory in my book, had he been taken out they would not want to draw attention to him.

But you are quite right about UM cases of people who knew too much disappearing or turning up dead. Danny Casolaro, Charles Morgan, Doug Johnston (mistaken for Don Devereux) all belong on that list too.
Correct. It is something to ponder for sure. But it ought to be a good option to think about. We all agree that a cop can be killed if he knows too much or even a regular citizen. People kill their own family all of the time. But it seems there are people that all of the sudden will clam up and deny that it is not possible that the government could ever be involved in murder. The things the government knows would make the hair on the back of our neck stand up, and the things they keep from us are not exactly things they'd want to have get out. Did Bishop know something? We'll never know.
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Whether it was Bishop or not, or whether the encounter even happened in the first place, we still got one of the greatest UM re-enactment moments of all time out of it

And for that, I'm thankful.
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Just an interesting note.. I'm not sure why this is popping back up in the news, but Kathy Gilchrist did an interview with WRC in Washington that aired yesterday

The FBI confirmed she was his daughter back in '21.. Not sure if this is the first time she's speaking publicly or what..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ogoyu__MAg
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Whether it was Bishop or not, or whether the encounter even happened in the first place, we still got one of the greatest UM re-enactment moments of all time out of it

And for that, I'm thankful.
The run up the men’s room stairs, little bottles of fancy soap and towels flying every which way, the actor tripping at the start of the chase, that part of it was timed perfectly. I hope that was done in one take. Since UM often went on location I have to wonder if they high-tailed it to Italy just to get 4 minutes of footage.

I do question if this event happened the way Roy Harrell explained it. If at all. We are learning more and more that UM liked to leave out some of the truth in order to make room for reports like this that make the case seem more mysterious.
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I don't know, but i do know that world has a strange way of playing out...

I dated a girl here in NY for about 18 months and we split in 2008, about 10 years later i went to spain on vacation and it wasn't even a well known resort, but one day we walked past a water park, well they do that thing where they take your picture when you go on some ride and then try selling it to you later.

outside the waterpark framed behind a type of glass/plastic were some display pictures of random people going down the waterslide.. one of the people in the pictures was my ex! i mean this wasn't like madrid or barcelona, it was a small town. we hadnt been there when we were a couple, never spoken about this town or even spain. but there she was..

what are the chances? the world does these wierd things, were you can live in the same town as someone, never bump into each other and then had some encounter on another continent..
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