March 2024 Title - Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders by Joe Sharkey
\n"Until 1971\, life was good for mild-mannere
d accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey City bank and ha
d moved his mother\, wife\, and three teenage children into a nineteen-roo
m home in Westfield\, New Jersey. But all that changed when he lost his jo
b. Raised by his Lutheran father to believe success meant being a good pro
vider\, List saw himself as an utter failure. Straining under financial bu
rdens\, the stress of hiding his unemployment\, as well as the fear that t
he free-spirited 1970s would corrupt the souls of his children\, List came
to a shattering conclusion.
\;
&ldquo\;It was my belief th
at if you kill yourself\, you won&rsquo\;t go to heaven\,&rdquo\; List tol
d Connie Chung in a television interview. &ldquo\;So eventually I got to t
he point where I felt that I could kill them. Hopefully they would go to h
eaven\, and then maybe I would have a chance to later confess my sins to G
od and get forgiveness.&rdquo\;
\;
List methodically shot h
is entire family in their home\, managing to conceal the deaths for weeks
with a carefully orchestrated plan of deception. Then he vanished and star
ted over as Robert P. Clark. Chronicling List&rsquo\;s life before and aft
er the grisly crime\, \;Death Sentence \;exposes the truth about t
he accountant-turned-killer\, including his revealing letter to his pastor
\, his years as a fugitive with a new name&mdash\;and a new wife&mdash\;hi
s eventual arrest\, and the details of his high-profile trial." (Amazon)\n
April 2024 Title - Behold the Monster \;by Jil lian Lauren
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