William Bischoff

Death by Force

On December 21, 1958, William Henry Bischoff, a 26-year-old white male from the Phoenix, Arizona area, was shot to death and left in the desert scrub of Papago Park near Tempe. Contemporary accounts and later reconstructions describe him as an ex-convict and parole violator from Washington state, whose life had become transient and precarious by the time of his death. His body, eventually found lying off a dirt road in the park, bore two gunshot wounds in the back, and investigators believed he ...Read More

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William Bischoff - National Gun Violence Memorial