Crime talk timestamp-6:18

On November 9th 1971 one of the worst crimes to ever take place in America at that time occurred in the safe suburban town of Westfield, New Jersey .

Devout church goer & normal family man John List had decided the best way to solve all of his problems would be to murder his entire family one by one.

Eliminating them all in the most cold blooded fashion before running away to begin a new life under a false identity .

For nearly 20 years List managed to evade capture & settle comfortably into his new persona whilst landing himself on the ‘FBI’s Most Wanted’ list.

That is, he thought he had evaded capture but that was until a very well known American tv show blew his cover by using a new advancement in technology to show what their murder suspect would now look like.

Finally List was identified, tracked down & made to face justice for killing his wife, mother & his 3 teenage children .

And once in prison List began to talk about his reasoning & the mindset that had led to him committing the unthinkable, wicked, cold blooded killings of his own family. His own flesh & blood whom he was meant to protect at all costs .

This case is about a man who really believed he was always one step ahead of the law, that he had committed the perfect crime, & gotten away with murder.

Multiple murders infact that are still so unbelievable that to this day List still remains known as the original & ultimate family annihilator.

It also goes to show that you never really know who you might be married to, & no matter how normal one may seem on the outside, on the inside a dangerous psychopath could be lurking under that fake facade…..

This is episode 79

The Dark Side Of Suburbia:

John List-Family Annihilator

Sources: The Roanoke Times/ Wikipedia / allthatsinteresting.com/ yahoo.com/ Reddit/ The New York Times article/ The Sun/ Murderpedia/

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