On April 18, 2018, 16-year-old Alexander Bishop called 911 to report a tragedy in his Durham, N.C. home: His 59-year-old father Bill was unresponsive, with a dog leash wrapped around his neck with the dog attached to it.
“I think my dad is dead,” Alexander told the 911 dispatcher.
The teen added that his “dog got his, like, collar wrapped around his throat. His face is purple, and his heart’s not beating.”
The successful land developer — who moved from Florida to North Carolina in 2008 to get a doctorate — died three days later at Duke Hospital.
In a search warrant affidavit, Durham police investigator T. Huelsman alleged Alexander told an EMS supervisor that “he wasn’t going to be upset about his father dying. He explained that his father verbally abused him and his mom for a number of years.”
From left: Bill Bishop, Alexander Bishop.Facebook
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Huelsman also alleged in the affidavit that investigators found a purchase order for gold bars totaling $462,773 on Bishop’s desk — but they never found the gold itself. What they did allegedly find were searches on Alexander’s cell phone on “the price of gold per ounce” and “how to calculate the value of an estate.”
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In one of the motions, Sharp said the purchase order for the gold bars “clearly” showed the bars had been sold in 2016 and weren’t missing. Sharp said that the footage from the officer’s body-worn cameras also contradicted some of Huelsman’s claims and that responding officers could be heard speculating that Bill may have had a heart attack and startled the dog that was attached to the leash, inadvertently strangling him.
source: people.com
