The Glove on Brennan Street: How a Button Began a Murder Trial

The Glove on Brennan Street: How a Button Began a Murder Trial

Cold metal and a buttoned jacket forty feet in the air-nothing else-and a man found dead nine-tenths of a mile away with a single iron pipe blow to the skull. The jacket carried a laundry mark “W.B. 14” that led investigators to Wayne Bishop, chief transmission engineer at WOHL, but the scene held contradictions that refused an easy answer: who climbed the tower in a Wisconsin winter night and why was the station’s carrier off for seventeen minutes? What single decision turned a routine engineer’s disappearance into a staged message?

In this episode, we walk through the timeline and physical evidence that tied Bishop’s disappearance to the WOHL transmitter and its external reset, following detectives from the jacket on the tower to the drainage easement where his body was found. How did a seventeen-minute carrier gap, two keys to the external reset, and a deliberate placement of clothing above the ground point investigators toward the person responsible?

Person: Wayne Bishop
Date: March 6-10, 1937
Location: Tallow Hill Road and WOHL transmission tower, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Cause of death: Single blunt-force trauma to the back of the skull from an 18-inch, 3/4-inch iron pipe
Item recovered: Brown herringbone jacket with laundry mark “W.B. 14”

- At 5:45 a.m. on March 9, 1937, Bruce Green found Bishop’s jacket buttoned to the second service platform 40 feet above ground.
- Bishop had been missing since the evening of Saturday, March 6; medical examiner placed time of death that evening.
- A smeared, compressed channel roughly 18 inches wide led away from the tower base, consistent with something heavy being dragged.
- The station’s transmission log showed a 17-minute gap between 11:41 and 11:58 p.m. on March 6 when the carrier went silent.
- Bishop’s notebooks recorded that the transmitter had no internal reset and that the external reset required a key; two keys existed-one belonging to Bishop, the other to Albert Tice.

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