A North Carolina woman who had been adopted as a baby took a DNA test and discovered her biological father is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for murder.
Kathy Gillcrist began her journey to learn more about her biological parents in 2017.
“It took a long time to uncover the mystery of who my birth father was,” she told FOX Television Stations. “I’m thrilled that I found out.” But the road to discovery was a challenging and shocking one.
“It took almost a year for me to definitively discover which twig of my tree contributed a parent to Kathy’s heritage. There were dozens and dozens of possible candidates and I was checking out all of them,” Gillmor shared.
But Gillmor said the clue that finally shifted everything into perspective came from an obituary that another match of Gillcrist’s sent her.
It turns out, Gillcrist’s father was William Bradford Bishop Jr., a man accused of brutally murdering his wife and three children in 1976 before fleeing.
Can you imagine the confusion that would happen if someone living in downtown Baltimore did a DNA test?