''He was an introvert galore, if there is such a thing,'' Mr. Oldson said. The Star-Ledger reporter, who loved to chat about the infamous murderer with the locals on his Union County beat, was grabbing a sandwich for lunch when he got a tip of his own. But the wife was face up (albeit with a cloth covering placed later), indicating contempt. I dont wish death on the CIC. When they entered the house, music was still playing on the intercom, but List was long gone. On Oct. 4, 1979, Mr. Clark was hired as the comptroller of the All Packaging Company in Aurora, a suburb southeast of Denver, at a starting salary of $300 a week. Even from his jail cell in Virginia, where he is accused of being the fugitive John Emil List and awaits extradition to New Jersey to face charges that he murdered five members of his family in 1971, he has neither protested his innocence nor confessed his guilt. Once, when I asked him, he said he was from Michigan.. Another great post and one of my all time favourite murder stories. There are no complaints in his file, no notices, no record of repairs, no nothing.. Obituaries can vary in the amount of information they contain, but many of them are genealogical goldmines, including information such as: names, dates, place of birth and death, marriage information, and family relationships. Way roomy. List was a member of the U.S. Army during the Second World War. He married Helen and raised three children with her, while working as an accountant in many places, such as New York and New Jersey. Sick minds only justify their inconsistent philosophy and thoughts because their logic is egocentric, and lacks logic ( logic as we normal people know it). List, including an old picture and a bust created by sculptor in Philadelphia, Frank A. Bender, that showed how Mr. A 2005 Freddie Mac-Roper poll also flagged by the FDIC concluded that more than 6 in 10 homeowners delinquent in their mortgage payments are not aware of services that mortgage lenders can offer to individuals having trouble with their mortgage., Hardly atypical. It may be more than coincidence that Miller is the former name of Mr. Clark's wife, Delores, He snapped at me, No family! Wetmore recalled. Listlowered the temperature in the house, cued up some organmusic on the intercom system, and told his kids teachers that the family had gone on a trip to North Carolina. The rationalization for killing them was his way of eliminating an inconvenience and his own stress. P.S. A favorite television program was ''America's Most Wanted'' on the Fox network. ''He would say that he'd been married before, but that his wife had a terminal illness and took years to die and that he had taken care of her. As of 2018, Peggy, Dolores, and Connie are still alive. David glad to hear from you! He was a graduate of the University of Michigan. He says today he felt he was letting the family down. Johnand Helen List, both 46, lived with their three teenage children and Johns mother, Alma, in acavernous home in the affluentUnion County town. Moreover, his wife was a heavy drinker and she had also contracted Syphilis from her first marriage. For all I knew, Delores was in danger. He began living with a new identity in Virginia, where he was spotted by a local and got arrested. The morning of November 7, 1971 began in a usual fashion. He said he found Mr. Clark ''a little strange.'' But even if it's all true, this is still not a man with a history of murder, but a man with a murder in his history. Spooky landmark. But his defence was rejected and he was imprisoned at the New Jersey State Prison. Her friend mentioned recurring financial problems and said she might have made a mistake leaving Denver. Id hate to see the heatingtab for the 19-room mansion that occupied 431 Hillside Avenue in Westfield, New Jersey. Shes not a strong person and I dont think she felt she could have faced the truth, so she just let it lie.. Thats what Ive often wondered, he says. Mr. Joyner said Mr. Clark did not contend he had an advanced degree or a C.P.A. . Where was John from? But ''around 1973'' he was working as a night cook at the Holiday Inn West in Golden, Colo., west of Denver, said Bob Wetmore, one of the few friends Mr. Clark would make in the next few years. After finding an old 9 mm pistol he had bought as a souvenir of World War II, and a .22-caliber target pistol, he purchased new ammunition and went to a shooting range for target practice. If he says, 'God bless you,' he's not just saying it. He had told her he had no children. It meant living above their means, and List eventually had to take out a second mortgage. Bust the case. By then, he owned a 1974 Volkswagen and had gotten an accounting job working for a company that made cardboard boxes. God is perfect. Reporters Rebecca Everett and Jessica Remo explore the impact of the capture, meeting people in Virginia who saw List unmasked and tracking down Lists second wife one side of the infamous story thats never been told. Undiscovered jackpot? First, a recap of theForensic Filesepisode The List Murders with some additional research from the internet. WebFrom 1979 to 1986, he was the comptroller at a paper box manufacturer outside Denver. ''I've seen him angry, really angry, only one time,'' he said. Following the gruesome death of his family. Jeanne, thanks for the kinds words and the research! He was arrested in 1989 after a former neighbor recognized him from a profile on the syndicated TV show America's Most Wanted. ''That's all there was to it. At one Moran said the first two killings occurred sometime in the morning. He dyed his hair and changed his name to establish new credit accounts and a phony Social Security number. If he did it once, he could have done it again, especially since they were having financial problems.. He simply killed them to eliminate the problem and his own stress. Internet research turned up a number of statistics that surely would have providedList with some consolation if he faced his sameproblems post-2000. Clark held several cooking jobs in the early 70s and moved frequently, Wetmore said. What on earth has your comment got to do with the price of fish? Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Mrs. Clark is 47. The accounts of Mr. Clark's life as a fugitive - that for instance at a job in Denver he would take his lunch hour alone in his car listening to classical music -describe someone whose mien and manner hardly suggest a capacity for savagery. For example, he would generally eat his lunch in his orange Volkswagen in the parking lot, with its windows rolled up and classical music playing on the radio. What a sorry attempt at humor using President Trump at the end. COVID origins? Yes, and the problem is that some facts are inconvenient to some people, or they infer from the citing of fact that ones making a swipe (and in this case, if the latter, it was a pretty mild one!) ''And I came in to the hotel from the mountains looking for something to do.''. The house was bought in Mrs. Clark's name. From New York, he had traveled overland to Denver, where he began a new life under the name Robert P. Clark, working first as a hotel fry cook and later as an accountant for H&R Block. ''It's still not true.''. Info about the house is hard to come by. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. Clark left Denver in February, 1988, to take the new job, just as the company was getting busy with tax season. I believe it was 1895 or possibly 96. It was so methodical, so cold-blooded, Moran said. That he didnt just walk out, never to return was were his psychopathy entered. John had a very normal childhood and he did not show any signs of psychological troubles. I have to say though the wife had it coming for duping him and belittling him throughout the marriage. So true extremism of any kind always seems to hurt some innocent people. "It was my belief that if you kill yourself, you won't go to heaven," he said. But he fled to Colorado, assumed a new name and remarried, managing to elude a nationwide manhunt for 18 years. Im convinced hes just pulling my chain, Gluck recalled. '', Mr. Clark is deeply religious and law-abiding. John List would be 97 years old if he was alive today. Setting Up From Cooking Back to Accounting. He didnt have much stuff then, but later, when I helped him move again, he had begun to acquire more possessions.. You can ask for redemption List, but the wise person doesnt put God to the test and He just may not be too interested about being a part of your puny plan. He did not mention his wife, his mother, or his children. All the pieties in the letter masked his real motives, both for the public and in his own mind. The neighbor had been suspicious about Mr. Clark for two years, after seeing a report on the List case in a supermarket tabloid. Its not much of a swipe if its true and it IS true that Mr Ts businesses declared bankruptcy a number of times (not him personally). WebHe began living with a new identity in Virginia, where he was spotted by a local and got arrested. They attended church each week with List's mother, a strict Lutheran who lived with them. He lost the bank job, and a succession of subsequent jobs. He said, ''We were dealing with a gentleman who certainly had the academic credentials,'' but he acknowledged that no attempt was made to ascertain whether Mr. Clark had, in fact, attended the University of Michigan, as he had stated. By 1971, he was still leaving for work every morning, but unknown to his family he was unemployed and unable to pay the bills. The job was for an entry-level staff accountant at a salary of $24,000. His free time was spent with Delores Miller and volunteering at church. After the murders, investigators around the world began hunting for Mr. Ive done heaps of research on this property and can only seem to narrow it down to early 1900s. '', By contrast, Mr. Clark would later tell his friend in Richmond that his first wife had been an alcoholic and a spendthrift who had died of cancer and that he had a daughter who ''was somewhat uncontrollable. What an absolute tragedy for a family that died because of a religious zealot. . She had been previously married and had a daughter. John packed off his children to school and loaded both of his handguns. ( I think he did remarry while on the run)? Its first entry is R. C. Miller, a business he said was in Wheatridge, Colo., a suburb north of Denver. Episodes, photos and other information are also available at fatherwantsusdead.com. If things had gone on who knows if that would be the case," he wrote. He was behind by $11,000on the houseand had been secretly dipping into his mothers accounts. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Meanwhile, back at Breeze Knoll, investigators found the For conservatives, will the fact that nearly half the voters wanted Trump elicit a seemingly somewhat disconnected, arrogant liberal media to modify its stance, pausing to consider whether it adequately reflects and represents ALL the people rather than around just half or so? 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