William Richard Bradford

I won't pretend there's anything to admire here. William Richard Bradford was a California-born killer convicted of the 1984 murders of a 15-year-old neighbor and a barmaid, and suspected of far more. What strikes me is how little remains beyond the crime itself, and how that absence feels almost fitting. I keep this entry not to memorialize him but to anchor the names of the lives he ended. In a database full of glittering careers, a record like this is a sober reminder that fame and notoriety are not the same thing, and that some stories deserve to be remembered only as warnings.

Name (English)

William Richard Bradford

Name (Japanese)

ウィリアム・リチャード・ブラッドフォード

Reading

うぃりあむ・りちゃーど・ぶらっどふぉーど

Born

May 18, 1946 – March 10, 2008

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dog

Origin

Pleasanton, California, United States

Occupation

serial killer

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Bradford%20(murderer)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3377721

Tags

• California
• serial killer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.