Richard Lee Bishop, 38, was shot dead inside a home in the 6000 block of Big Otter Highway in the Ivydale area of Clay County, West Virginia, along with his partner, 54-year-old Brenda Lee Dennis. When West Virginia State Police reached the residence after the occupants could not be contacted, investigators found Bishop with three gunshot wounds and Dennis with one; a local account described wounds to Bishop’s chest, back and head and Dennis’s wound to the chest. Multiple spent 9mm casings were recovered from the living room and police later recovered a Sig Sauer P250 after a search consented to by the primary suspect.

Witnesses told investigators that Michael Wayne Adkins spent considerable time around Dennis and that Adkins and Bishop had a hostile relationship; Dennis’s son reported past statements by Adkins that he would someday kill Bishop. Adkins was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder in both deaths.

Did anyone in the Ivydale area see or hear anything unusual around the home in late March or early April 2025?