On February 18, 1985, five-year-old Matthew Bishop was found dead in his bed in Rutland, Vermont, along with his 7-year-old sister Dawn and their 31-year-old mother, June Bishop. The deaths occurred at the family’s apartment on the corner of Crescent and Grove streets.

Authorities say the children and their mother were shot while asleep. The person responsible was their 31-year-old father and husband, Donald Alan Bishop, who had reportedly been upset about a separation. He had let himself into the apartment in the early morning hours, carried out the shootings, and then took his own life. Investigators reported no signs of a struggle and recovered a handwritten note in Donald Bishop’s car in which he said he could not cope with the loss of his family and wrote that if he couldn’t have the children, no one would.

If anyone knew Matthew, Dawn, or the family, or has information about the events that night, please share what is known.