Amanda Bishop was 22 years old when she was found dead on Sunday, June 22, 2008, in the 1300 block of Nanticoke Street in Baltimore. She died of asphyxiation. The Baltimore Police Department investigated her death, and the Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists it as a homicide.
The Baltimore Sun reported in July 2008 that she "was found strangled in the 1300 block of Nanticoke St." the month before.
A community list of 2008 Baltimore homicides records her full name as Amanda Marie Bishop and names no suspect in her case. No obituary, memorial page or family fundraiser could be found for this story, and no detective or relative appears to have spoken publicly about her life.
Her death was one of several deaths of women in Baltimore during the spring and summer of 2008. In the same July article, the Sun noted that Nicole Sesker had been found strangled in Northwest Baltimore the month before and that Yolanda Brown had been found strangled in April. The paper reported that, because of the recent homicides, police had "formed a task force of detectives to review unsolved homicides of women in the past decade, but they have not drawn any connections." In August 2008, the crime-mapping site SpotCrime named Yolanda Brown, Elizabeth Garrett, Amanda Bishop, Nicole Sesker and Brenda Hatfield and said they "were found naked or partially undressed by the police." A case page about her on the site Uncovered links to Washington Examiner coverage from that August about fears among women working on Baltimore's streets, which suggests her death was discussed in that context, though no source found for this story describes her own life in detail.
A man was later charged in Nicole Sesker's death, but no public source located for this story connects that case, or any other, to Amanda Bishop. The record does not say whether she was attacked by a stranger or by someone she knew, what time she died, whether she was killed where she was found or whether anyone saw what happened.
Nanticoke Street is a residential street in Baltimore, and the 1300 block is the location recorded for her death. Anyone who lived on or regularly passed through that block in June 2008 may remember people or vehicles that seemed out of place.
Baltimore recorded roughly 200 to 280 homicides a year between 2007 and 2014, one of the highest rates of any large American city, and many of those killings were never solved. Her case drew a brief burst of attention as part of a wider worry about the safety of women in the city, and then faded from the news.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Amanda Bishop could be found in news archives or public records. More than 18 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. People who knew her, and anyone who was near the 1300 block of Nanticoke Street in June 2008, may have information that could help detectives finally explain what happened to her. Even a small detail, such as a name overheard, a vehicle seen nearby or a conversation remembered, can help detectives move a case forward. Anyone with information can call Baltimore Police homicide detectives at 410-396-2100, or leave an anonymous tip with Metro Crime Stoppers of Maryland at 1-866-7LOCKUP (1-866-756-2587).
