Murder of Luther Bishop – Need to Visit
ishop was an agent with what was then the Oklahoma State Crime Bureau, the early version of today’s OSBI. He had been involved in dangerous work, including investigations tied to organized crime and the Osage murder era. According to the OSBI, Bishop was murdered in 1926 by an unknown assassin. The agency’s history page says he was “riddled with bullets as he slept.”
The killing happened at his home at 1515 West 28th Street in Oklahoma City. OSBI’s memorial page says an intruder broke in around 2:00 a.m. and shot Bishop seven times. Investigators believed the murder was connected to his work for the State Bureau of Investigation.
His wife, Edith Bishop, was arrested after the murder, but the case against her did not hold. OSBI says she was acquitted after a jury trial, and the murder itself was never solved.
There was one strange twist later. OSBI says that in 1928, an inmate in the Minnesota State Penitentiary confessed to killing Bishop and claimed an accomplice had later been killed in a Texas shootout. Even with that confession, no one was ever prosecuted for Bishop’s murder.
Bishop was buried at Fairlawn Cemetery in Oklahoma City. The reward was never claimed, and nearly a century later, his murder remains one of Oklahoma’s old unsolved lawman killings
Murder site of Luther Bishop
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