The Horrible Mass Murderer

John List House:

In this palace on December 7th, of 1971 the police were called. The detached family that lived in this palace had not been seen. Due to their essence, this was not extraordinary. They weren’t highly social people. The lights remained on throughout this time, but neighbours started to believe something was wrong when one after another, the lights burned out.

 

The police came at a dark house that had all the entrances locked, and no reaction from the inhabitants inside. Searching for a way in, an unlocked window was found, and police made his way inside.

 

Icy cold air basted from the air conditioner, and gospel music sounded through the darkness on the intercom system. The house oppositely was still, and stale. An odour hung in the air, as the officers made their way through the nineteen room palace. When they entered the ballroom, they found out the basis.

 

John List

 

 

That is John, his wife Helen, and their children

 

And his lovely family:

Patricia List

John List, Jr.

Frederick List

This is Alma List;

 

 

John's mother

John was an accountant that by all summaries did fairly well. The family seemed to be the resemblance of the American Dream. They were a close-knit, and devoutly religious family of Lutherans, obeying church each Sunday. John assisted as a Sunday school teacher.

 

John bought the outstanding Victorian home called Breeze Knoll for his family, it was said to be the most costly house in the neighbourhood. John worked at a bank to give until one day, at age forty-six, he lost his job.

 

No matter what he attempted, he was incapable to ensure another and declined steadfastly to ratify welfare. His father had infused in him rigorous principles of self-reliance. When no other jobs come out, he started a habit that imitated his daily schedule of going to work.

 

He would evacuate the house at a similar time each day, go to the train station, and read the paper to pass the time, returning home at night as though nothing were amiss. He couldn’t assume to tell his family of their current dilemma, so he started to brush money from his mother’s bank account. As John drop deeper into deficit, and further into suffering, he understood his difficulties and took action.

 

On November ninth, 1971 John List waited for his children to evacuate for school. He took his 9mm Steyr semi-automatic handgun, and his father’s colt .22 revolver to legislate his plan. First, he shot his wife in the kitchen as she was sipping her morning coffee. He then clambered the steps to the third floor of the house. These were his mother’s quarters. He shot her in her bed. He then paused for the children to come home.

 

Patricia came first, followed by Fredrick. Both were shot in the back of the head. John then made himself a sandwich, drove to the bank, cleared his accounts and his mother’s accounts. He made his way to the high school where he saw his eldest son, John Jr., play in a soccer match, taking him home after the game.

 

John Jr. was the only member of the List family that had a chance to fight back against his father’s enactment and did so. For his difficulty, he was shot numerous times in the chest and face. John Senior kept firing until he was distinct that the boy was dead. The next order of business was cleanup.

 

He compiled sleeping bags that were used for Boy Scout outings with his sons and put them out in the ballroom. He carried the bodies, one by one and put them out on top, save for Alma’s. She was too huge for John to govern to move. She was found in the hallway outside her apartment. He wrapped his family members’ faces and followed to the blood.

 

 

He abolished all deliveries, wrote notes to the children’s schools noting that they would be away attending a sick relative, turned on all the lights, and turned on music that he thought was adequate to issue his family’s souls to heaven, wrote a five-page letter to his pastor heeding the killings, and left. He was not discovered again for eighteen years.

 

After, the case grew extremely cold, and it appeared as though it had no possibility of ever being unravelled. The police department would call the newspapers every year on the anniversary of the casualties and clasp them to rerun the story to keep the case alive. They did this relentlessly until they had another idea.

 

 

They contact America’s Most Wanted and begged them to take the case. The show agreed and began a procedure that would switch the end for John List and his time on the run. They hired Frank Bender. Frank had an unusual set of abilities as an autodidact forensic artist and fine artist. He could do an age succession figure, or reconstruction of a people degraded stays to show what they would look like, either as they would seem now, or how they seemed in life. His skills in this case were incredible.

 

John List Bust:

 

 

This is John List at the time of his arrest:

The similarity is remarkable. John List was specified as an accountant living in Richmond, VA going by the name Robert Clark. He was trapped at his place of work.

 

When queried as to why this was the way he took things, he first illustrated the money problems and job loss as his main motivation. John also said that he felt his family was pulling away from God and may abandon the church. He was upset with his daughter’s tendency to go into acting.

 

He also declared that his wife was an alcoholic, and underwent from tertiary syphilis that she had hidden from John. Helen had leased the disorder during her first marriage and convinced John to wed in Maryland, where a blood test wasn’t essential to attain a wedding license.

 

He was sentenced to all five killings on April 12th, 1991. He was punished to five life terms to be fulfilled successively. He requested because he endured PTSD from his military service. The appeal was refused.

 

John List died in jail on March first, 2008 due to complications from pneumonia. In the years before his demise, he conveyed some guilt for his actions, stating;

 

“I wish I had never done what I did.”

 

and;

 

“I've regretted my action and prayed for forgiveness ever since”

 

When asked why he didn’t perpetrate suicide himself, he reacted that he thought that suicide would be a sin, and he would be banned from Heaven and that he wished to reunite with his family one day after he died.

 

In the end, the killing could have been completely averted. The house, and the very room that John left the stays of his treatment to his difficulties, held within it, or rather above it, his very redemption. The ballroom had a very unique characteristic, and that was a Tiffany ceiling worth almost $100,000, or in the present day, $600,000. In this aerial picture you can see the whole house, comprising the ballroom’s ceiling;

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