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December 17, 2022
The true account of the person who murdered his household of their New Jersey mansion—and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.
Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vp of a Jersey City financial institution and had moved his mom, spouse, and three teenage kids right into a nineteen-room residence in Westfield, New Jersey. But all that modified when he misplaced his job. Raised by his Lutheran father to consider success meant being a great supplier, List noticed himself as an utter failure. Straining underneath monetary burdens, the stress of hiding his unemployment, in addition to the worry that the free-spirited Nineteen Seventies would corrupt the souls of his kids, List got here to a shattering conclusion.
“It was my belief that if you kill yourself, you won’t go to heaven,” List instructed Connie Chung in a tv interview. “So eventually I got to the point where I felt that I could kill them. Hopefully they would go to heaven, and then maybe I would have a chance to later confess my sins to God and get forgiveness.”
List methodically shot his total household of their residence, managing to hide the deaths for weeks with a rigorously orchestrated plan of deception. Then he vanished and began over as Robert P. Clark. Chronicling List’s life earlier than and after the grisly crime, Death Sentence exposes the reality in regards to the accountant-turned-killer, together with his revealing letter to his pastor, his years as a fugitive with a brand new title—and a brand new spouse—his eventual arrest, and the main points of his high-profile trial.
Revised and up to date, this e-book additionally contains photographs.
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