Arthur Gary Bishop (September 29, 1952 – June 10, 1988) was an American convicted sex offender and serial killer.

Bishop was arrested for embezzlement in February 1978[1] and given a five-year suspended sentence, but he skipped his parole and fled to Salt Lake City, living under the alias "Roger Downs."

[1]: 2  After attempting to sexually assault Daniels, Bishop took him to the bathroom, hit him on the head with a hammer, and drowned him in the bathtub.

He put Daniels into a box and carried him out, walking past the boy's mother, who was frantically calling her son's name.

Bishop molested Peterson's corpse, mutilated him in a fit of anger, and buried him, close to the body of Alonzo Daniels.

Police launched one of the biggest searches in Salt Lake County history:[1]: 4  teams of searchers scoured neighborhoods, divers dredged ponds and lakes, shoppers at the supermarket where Davis vanished agreed to undergo hypnosis to dislodge greater details of the abductor, fliers were printed offering a $20,000 reward, and the FBI were contacted, but were unable to find any trace of the boy.

However, almost two years later, on June 22, 1983, Bishop abducted 6-year-old Troy Ward while the boy was waiting on the corner near his home for his mother to return from the store with ice cream and cake; it was his sixth birthday.

[7] One month later, on July 14, 1983, 13-year-old Graeme Cunningham was set to go on a trip to California with a friend and his father: "John" and Roger Downs (Arthur Bishop).

[7] Local police looked into their past reports and found that Bishop (Roger Downs) lived in the vicinity of four of the abductions and knew the fifth child's parents.

Police were able to identify and interview 21 boys he photographed and molested, but Bishop said that their estimate was low and to "double or triple" that amount for a more accurate total.

[8] During his trial, Bishop claimed that an addiction to child pornography molded his violent sexual fantasies and eventually drove him to act them out.

Certain bookstores offered sex education, photographic, or art books which occasionally contained pictures of nude boys.

My conscience was desensitized and my sexual appetite entirely controlled my actions.Bishop was executed by lethal injection at Utah State Prison in Point of the Mountain on June 10, 1988.

Before his execution, he again expressed remorse for his crimes:[13] I want to offer again my most profound and heartfelt apologies to my victims' families.