John List, Murdered His Entire Family.

[K53]

Allow John to burn in hell for eternity.

[DonB]

I remember how happy I was when he was caught. That scum Brad Bishop really needs to finally be nabbed as well.

[William May]

Did they ever say why he did it? What happened to the house after that?

[Cancun78]

Originally Posted by William May

Did they ever say why he did it? What happened to the house after that?

Forensic files said because of his perception of the "moral decay" of his family (daughter wanted to be an actress ) & felt dominated by women (both his wife and mother) and i think he lost his job and was ashamed of the idea of welfare.

Loser

[Jonescrusher]

Originally Posted by Faline

I looked for him on here and found a post with the pictures removed. So...

John List shot his entire family in their home. He was captured in 1989 after nearly two decades on the loose. List died in prison in 2008.
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John Emil List (September 17, 1925 - March 21, 2008) was an American murderer. On November 9, 1971, he murdered his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. He had planned everything so meticulously that nearly a month passed before anyone noticed that anything was amiss. List killed: his wife, Helen, 45; his children, Patricia, 16, John, Jr., 15, and Frederick, 13; and mother, Alma, 84. He had used his father's 9mm Steyr automatic handgun and his own .22 caliber revolver in the murders. He first shot his wife in the back of the head and his mother once in the left eye, while his children were at school. When Patricia and Frederick came home, they were shot in the back of the head. John, Jr., the oldest son, was playing in a soccer game that afternoon. List made himself lunch and then drove to watch John play. He brought his son home and then shot him once in the back of the head. List saw John twitch as if he were having a seizure and shot him again. It was later determined that List had shot his eldest son at least ten times. List dragged his dead wife and children, on sleeping bags, into the ballroom of their 19-room Victorian home after each kill.
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He then cleaned up the crime scene, turned on all the lights, and switched on the radio. He left his mother's body in her apartment in the attic and stated in a letter to his pastor on his desk in his study that "Mother is in the attic. She was too heavy to move."
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In the letter, List also claimed he had prayed over the bodies before going on the run. The deaths were not discovered for a month, due to the Lists' reclusiveness. Moreover, List had also sent notes stating that the family would be in North Carolina for several weeks to the children's schools and part-time jobs and had stopped the family's milk, mail and newspaper deliveries, he also took money from his mother and his bank account. List then fled in his Chevrolet Impala.

The case quickly became the second most infamous crime in New Jersey history, surpassed only by the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh Baby. A nationwide manhunt for List was launched. His Chevy Impala was found parked at Kennedy Airport, but there was no record of his taking a flight. The police checked out hundreds of leads without results.

A fugitive from justice for nearly 18 years, he was finally apprehended on June 1, 1989 after the story of his murders was broadcast on America's Most Wanted. List was found guilty and sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment, dying in prison custody in 2008 at age 82.
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Just a few more things...
List was a devout Christian who found over time that his wife was drifting from the church.
She was a heavy drinker with tertiary syphilis that was causing mental and phsical problems for her but she kept this from him.
He was pretending to go to work every day but in reality kept getting fired from jobs and then he spent all of his and his mothers money.
Rather than be poor, he murdered all and skipped out.
There was a Tiffany skylight in his home valued at a hundred thousand dollars that he never really noticed, though his wife , Helen, loved it.

[murofhsirgo]

shitbag

[gringo1965]

what kind of entity is that ???

[gringo1965]

strange fella

[xCellarxDoorx]

List was a true nut.

[poopishpolly]

my mom lived a few houses down from this guy during the murders. crazy.