{"id":1668,"date":"2019-12-11T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:52:10","slug":"the-death-of-bill-bishop-was-it-a-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2019\/12\/11\/the-death-of-bill-bishop-was-it-a-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of Bill Bishop: Was it a heart attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second in a series exploring theories into Bill Bishop’s death.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

After developer Bill Bishop was apparently found unconscious with a dog leash around his neck and later died, investigators became suspicious of his teenage son Alexander and charged him with murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alexander has suggested it was a tragic accident caused by the family dog, Winston. Yet Bishop’s ex-wife and family has posed a simpler explanation: Bill died of a heart attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the heart attack theory doesn\u2019t hold up very well. Four forensics experts who reviewed his autopsy report for the 9th Street Journal were doubtful that Bill died of a heart attack. Three said there was no evidence of one, and the fourth said it was unlikely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no evidence of a cardiac event. The defense is just trying to fish,\u201d said Bill Smock, police surgeon for the Louisville Metro Police Department and a staff member of the Training Institute for Strangulation Prevention in San Diego.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Where is the case now?<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear how much Alexander\u2019s attorney Allyn Sharp will rely on a possible cardiac event in her defense. With the case far from trial amid of a backlog of murder cases, she has a lot of time to prepare.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharp did not respond to request for comment in time for publication. She has previously told the 9th Street Journal that she will not speak about the case outside the court record.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a February hearing, Sharp <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> Alexander didn\u2019t kill Bill, never had any issues with discipline, and had no motive to kill his father.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alexander told first responders on April 18, 2018 he found Bill unresponsive in the theater of the family\u2019s Hope Valley home. He said his father was in an armchair with Winston\u2019s leash wrapped around his neck, with Winston still on the leash, according to court documents. Bill died three days later at Duke Hospital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The case was shaken up earlier this fall when Judge Orlando F. Hudson Jr. <\/span>threw out <\/span><\/a>swaths of key evidence that implied Alexander had plotted to kill Bill and reap the benefits of his $5.5 million estate, pending an appeal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you remove those material misstatements and omissions, it is simply a death that is tragic, but not suspicious,\u201d Sharp <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> at a September hearing in her eventually successful bid to exclude evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

There has not been a trial date set in the case. Alexander, who was 16 at the time of his father\u2019s death, is free on a $250,000 unsecured bond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alexander suggests the dog did it; family blames heart attack<\/b><\/p>\n

How will Sharp build her case to defend Alexander? There are clues in his statements to first responders and comments that family members have made to the media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before calling 911 that evening, Alexander<\/span> called his mother, Sharon Bishop, five times<\/span><\/a>. In the 911 <\/span>call<\/span><\/a>, Alexander said he thought that Bill was dead and that he took the leash off his neck.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think my dog got his [leash] wrapped around his throat and his face is purple,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bill Bishop with his dog Winston.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An emergency supervisor at the scene said that Alexander thought that “the dog just happened to freak out and get him wrapped up in it,\u201d according to court documents. Bill died three days later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cdog killed my dad\u201d defense is weak, experts say. The 9th Street Journal <\/span>spoke<\/span><\/a> with four forensics experts who all agreed it was unlikely Winston could have killed Bill. The injuries described in the autopsy report were not consistent with a dog essentially strangling Bill with a leash, they said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like someone took the dog leash and then came up from behind him, wrapped it around one time and strangled him,\u201d said Kendall Von Crowns, deputy chief medical examiner with the Travis County (Texas) Medical Examiner\u2019s office.<\/span><\/p>\n

Medical examiner says homicide;\u00a0 family says heart attack<\/b><\/p>\n

The state medical examiner determined Bill’s death was a homicide caused by strangulation with a \u201cligature,\u201d or a cord-like object.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This conclusion was based upon a mark on Bill’s neck that signaled strangulation, cartilage fractures in his neck, and hemorrhages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bill also had an enlarged heart and an 80 percent blockage in his heart\u2019s left main coronary artery and a second left coronary artery, the report found. The report added that Bill had a history of depression, a recent divorce, and prostate cancer, in addition to an injury to his right arm in 2012 that rendered it “largely functionless.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bishop family hired a pathologist, Dr. Jonathan Privette, who studied the autopsy report and <\/span>argued<\/span><\/a> that the medical examiner should have ruled the cause of death \u201cundetermined\u201d instead of a homicide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Privette <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> that blockages higher than 75 percent can lead to “sudden heart ‘events’ and death.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That supports the family\u2019s previous statements. An <\/span>attorney<\/span><\/a> for Alexander and his brother in the estate matters told the Durham Herald-Sun last year that the family thinks a heart attack killed Bill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHis physicians told the family that Bill had suffered a heart attack and never told them otherwise,\u201d Idol said. \u201cWe believe this was the actual cause of his death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And shortly after Bill\u2019s death, Sharon Bishop <\/span>told the Tampa Bay Times<\/span><\/a> that Bill had suffered a heart attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts: Unlikely Bill died from a heart attack, blockages insignificant<\/b><\/p>\n

Experts agreed that the blockage was enough to cause cardiac events, but that didn\u2019t mean the cause of death was likely a heart attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Springer, a Louisville forensic pathologist, and Kendall Von Crowns, deputy chief medical examiner with the Travis County (Texas) medical examiner\u2019s office, agreed that his coronary arteries were blocked enough to cause some sort of cardiac event. All four experts said Bill had heart disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But the evidence in the autopsy didn\u2019t indicate that a heart attack caused Bill\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got coronary artery disease, as probably everyone in (the future jury will have) coronary artery disease. (Yet) the blood is still flowing to the heart. That\u2019s normal,\u201d said Bill Smock, police surgeon for the Louisville Metro Police Department who is on the staff of the Training Institute for Strangulation Prevention in San Diego.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people walking around with 80, 90, or even close to 100 percent blockage of it. When it gets blocked, a heart attack is when blood doesn\u2019t get to an area of the heart. At some point, if you live long enough, it\u2019ll probably get completely blocked. But it has nothing to do with why he is dead. There\u2019s no evidence that this is a cardiac event. Zero.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Springer said that Bill could have had a heart attack during to the strangulation, but the cause of death still would have been strangulation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a man is found dead (in the basement chair) with a leash wrapped around his neck and has the autopsy findings Mr. Bishop had, he did not simply suffer a heart attack,\u201d Springer said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe still has ligature marks around his neck. Those wouldn\u2019t be caused by a heart attack,\u201d said Katherine Maloney, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner for the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office in New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All four experts pointed to a lack of an \u201cacute thrombus\u201d or infarction in Bill\u2019s arteries, meaning there was no blood clot blocking a vein. That is a tell-tale sign of a heart attack, they said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Evidence of heart attack can\u2019t be seen unless the victim survives for more than 24 hours after suffering the attack, Crowns said. But Bill survived longer than that, assuming the cardiac event happened on the day Alexander said he found Bill unresponsive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maloney suggested that the family may be using the term \u201cheart attack\u201d loosely to make it more understandable. She suggested they may be referring to a fatal cardiac arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat that could be a complication from his heart disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But even in this case, it would be unlikely that killed him, Maloney said. In the case of fatal cardiac arrhythmia, people aren\u2019t usually found sitting comfortably in a chair. In these cases, the victim\u2019s heart stops beating suddenly, leading them to \u201chit the floor\u201d wherever they are standing, she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And the evidence of strangulation and where Alexander said he found Bill don\u2019t match that theory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s sitting in the chair with a dog leash, how does the leash get up in the air and around his neck? The dog jumps up and wraps the leash around his neck?,\u201d Maloney said. \u201cThe leash would have to defy gravity to get up around his neck.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Maloney was also suspicious of the timing. Once a strangulation or arrhythmia victim loses oxygen to the brain, they have six minutes (10 maximum) before they die.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With that narrow window, she said it was more likely that Alexander was there when it happened and then called 911. Otherwise, Bill wouldn\u2019t have been able to survive for three days on the ventilator; he would have died at the scene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo coincidentally, as either the dog was strangling him or he was having a heart attack, within 10 minutes of that happening, his son finds him? That\u2019s pretty good timing,\u201d Maloney said. \u201cHis spidey senses must have gone off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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