In my opinion, William Bradford Bishop (born August 1, 1936) looks Satanic, but that may be because I know what he did to his family: His dreams of living a glamorous and free James Bond-like life made him kill his mother, his wife and their three sons, using a blunt instrument which makes this mass murder even more brutal.
It seemed to him that he had a much more interesting and fulfilling job as an American diplomat in Europe, but then he was sent back home and was put behind a desk to do what he may have seen as "menial work". That was not what he wanted, and when he didn't get the promotion he had hoped to get, he decided to start a new life. However, to him that meant doing away with his family, namely five family members: His mother, wife and three children. It must have been something that he had started to plan some time back in time. Anyway, as he succeeded in escaping and not being found, it was well planned. Staying a fugitive ever since 1976, there is still nobody who knows what life he got after the murders. Did he find something that fulfilled his dreams? Hardly, and he is still wanted by FBI, which must be a strain on him as it would for anybody else.
His crime is so gross that it seems unique, but it's not: Most of those who commit what's called "familicide" - namely "killers of what may be an entire family" - are men, but there are female family killers too. One of these women is Andrea Yates, who, suffering from a severe post-partum depression, drowned her five children. She had been committed several times to receive treatment for her psychological problems. Her doctor had warned her that she ought not to have more children, as the many responsibilities of motherhood were too much for her fragile psyche. However, being very religious, she - and her husband - had the idea that "they should have as many children as God would give them".
In 2018 a lesbian couple killed their six adoptive children in a murder-suicide incident which is known as the Hart family-murder. Why? Nobody really knows, but six kids may have been too much of a financial responsibility for the couple. Not that that is a valid excuse, because it's not, but it may be a sort of explanation or at least a valid theory.
One of the, in my opinion, worst cases of a family killing is the Watts-murders in 2018: Just like William Bradford Bishop, Christopher Watts wasn't satisfied with his life. He and his wife, Shannan, had two young daughters, and, against his wishes, she was pregnant once again, this time with a son. As Chris was dreaming of starting all over with another woman, he decided to kill his family, thus murdering four people without obtaining anything but life in jail. In court, he gave a chilling account of his killing of the girls, who loved and trusted him, but ended up, stuffed down crude oil tanks after being suffocated by their father.
According to research into the subject of family killings, it seems that men who murder their entire families are driven by the same urges as those who harass and maybe kill their wives after a divorce: They feel obliged to "teach them a lesson" as they hate to lose control over them. However, when I read about cases like e.g. the ones of William Bradford Bishop, Chris Watts as well as Scott Peterson, John List and many others I get the impression that one concept stands out: "The idea of getting a new life". These men hate the social and/or family situation they are in and wants to start all over, often with another woman. Of course, women may feel the same urge to start all over again, but no matter what there are fewer female family killers, and most of these suffer from a mental disease or have been abused by their husband before they "snap" and do what they do to free themselves.
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