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\nToday\ , fifty years ago\, John List shot and killed his family in their home in Westfield\, New Jersey. \;
\nUntil 1971\, life was good
for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey
City bank\, and had moved his mother\, wife\, and three teenage children
into a nineteen-room home in Westfield\, New Jersey. But all that changed
when he lost his job. Raised by his Lutheran father to believe success mea
nt being a good provider\, List saw himself as an utter failure. Straining
under financial burdens\, the stress of hiding his unemployment\, as well
as the fear that the free-spirited 1970s would corrupt the souls of his c
hildren\, List came to a shattering conclusion.
List methodically sho
t his entire family in their home\, managing to conceal the deaths for wee
ks with a carefully orchestrated plan of deception. Then he vanished and s
tarted over as Robert P. Clark. Chronicling List&rsquo\;s life before and
after the grisly crime\, Joe Sharkey \; exposes the truth about the ac
countant-turned-killer\, including his revealing letter to his pastor\, hi
s years as a fugitive with a new name&mdash\;and a new wife&mdash\;his eve
ntual arrest\, and the details of his high-profile trial.
Presente
r and Author: Joe Sharkey is a journalist and author who was a columnist f
or the New York Times for 19 years\, from 1996 to 2015. His newspaper care
er as an editor\, and reporter spans nearly 50 years.
He is the autho
r of five books\, four non-fiction\, and a novel. \; \;
Be fore his association with the New York Times\, Joe was an assistant nation al editor at the Wall Street Journal\; the executive city editor at the Al bany (N.Y.) Times-Union\; the investigations editor at the South Jersey Co urier-Post\; a columnist and reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer\, and a n assistant city editor and reporter at the now-defunct Philadelphia Bulle tin.
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