Took 50 Years for this guy to get caught..
Back then you can hide forever BAS........BAS you remember that guy sicko from Jersey John List....He killed his 3 kids,wife and mother....He stayed on the run for 40 years I believe.
I believe that this guy ^^^ above was accidentally released, and so just went ahead and split. What did he do? Steal a car? As his original charge?
I thought it was something relatively petty. Now after 46 years they wanna throw him back in jail, him near 70 years old and not in the best of health.
Seems to me they should just leave him alone. They get mad though when a guy leaves a jail without authorization, kinda screws up the whole concept.
I thought it was something relatively petty. Now after 46 years they wanna throw him back in jail, him near 70 years old and not in the best of health.
Seems to me they should just leave him alone. They get mad though when a guy leaves a jail without authorization, kinda screws up the whole concept.
Took 50 Years for this guy to get caught..
John E. List, who escaped his drab existence as a failed New Jersey accountant by killing his family in 1971, disappearing and building a new life far away until a true-crime show on television led to his capture almost 18 years later, died on Friday. He was 82.
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John E. List at his sentencing in Elizabeth, N.J., in 1990.
Mr. List died at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton four days after being taken there from the New Jersey State Prison, officials told The Associated Press. The cause was complications of pneumonia.
The larger world had never heard of John Emil List until his neighbors began to wonder why the lights in his family’s house in Westfield, N.J., were going out one by one in the fall of 1971, weeks after anyone had been seen entering or leaving. And the high school drama coach of Mr. List’s daughter had begun to worry about her absence.
When police officers entered the home on Dec. 7, 1971, they heard organ music on an intercom system and found the bodies of Mr. List’s wife, Helen, 46; his daughter, Patricia, 16; his sons John, 15, and Frederick, 13, and his mother, Alma, 85. All had been shot to death.
The police also found a note from Mr. List to his pastor at a Lutheran church where Mr. List sometimes taught Sunday school. Over five pages, Mr. List wrote that he saw too much evil in the world and that he had ended the lives of his wife, mother and children to save their souls.
Mr. List, at 46, had trouble holding a job, was strapped by a mortgage and was apparently taking money from his mother’s account, investigators found.
His car was discovered in a parking lot at Kennedy International Airport not long after the corpses were found, but dozens of F.B.I. agents and investigators from Union County, N.J., found no trace of Mr. List in the United States or overseas.
In 1989, Union County prosecutors asked the producers of the Fox program “America’s Most Wanted” to look at the case. To help, the producers brought in Frank Bender, a forensic sculptor, and Richard Walter, a criminal psychologist.
Studying photographs of Mr. List when he was in his mid-40s, Mr. Bender imagined how he might look in 1989, his face sagging with time. Mr. Walter theorized that Mr. List would still be wearing horn-rimmed glasses, to make him appear successful.
On May 21, 1989, Fox televised the segment and displayed a bust of an older John List. The network estimated that 22 million people saw it. One was a woman in a suburb of Richmond, Va., who thought the bust looked like a neighbor, Robert Clark, a churchgoing accountant who wore horn-rimmed glasses.
Agents went to the home of “Robert Clark,” confronted his stunned wife, whom he had met at a church social, then obtained her help in filling in blanks from the past. They arrested him at his office on June 1. Fingerprints confirmed that he was John List, although he had denied it. As a fugitive, he had lived quietly in Virginia and in the Denver area.
At Mr. List’s trial in 1990, a psychiatrist for the prosecution testified that Mr. List had been suffering only from a “midlife crisis” when he slaughtered his family and that he had enjoyed life in the years afterward.
Mr. List was convicted of murder and sentenced to five life terms in prison. He appealed, unsuccessfully, on grounds that his judgment had been impaired by post-traumatic stress disorder from military service in World War II and Korea and that his letter to the pastor should have been kept confidential.
In a 2002 television interview on ABC with Connie Chung, Mr. List was asked why he did not take his own life if he felt so overwhelmed. Mr. List said that he thought suicide would have barred him from heaven and that he had hoped to be reunited there with his family.
30-40 years ago you had no America`s most wanted to where you were profiled and everyone saw your picture.
Now your picture is on the news and all over the internet.......Can`t run and hide now a days.
Now your picture is on the news and all over the internet.......Can`t run and hide now a days.
John E. List, who escaped his drab existence as a failed New Jersey accountant by killing his family in 1971, disappearing and building a new life far away until a true-crime show on television led to his capture almost 18 years later, died on Friday. He was 82.
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John E. List at his sentencing in Elizabeth, N.J., in 1990.
Mr. List died at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton four days after being taken there from the New Jersey State Prison, officials told The Associated Press. The cause was complications of pneumonia.
The larger world had never heard of John Emil List until his neighbors began to wonder why the lights in his family’s house in Westfield, N.J., were going out one by one in the fall of 1971, weeks after anyone had been seen entering or leaving. And the high school drama coach of Mr. List’s daughter had begun to worry about her absence.
When police officers entered the home on Dec. 7, 1971, they heard organ music on an intercom system and found the bodies of Mr. List’s wife, Helen, 46; his daughter, Patricia, 16; his sons John, 15, and Frederick, 13, and his mother, Alma, 85. All had been shot to death.
The police also found a note from Mr. List to his pastor at a Lutheran church where Mr. List sometimes taught Sunday school. Over five pages, Mr. List wrote that he saw too much evil in the world and that he had ended the lives of his wife, mother and children to save their souls.
Mr. List, at 46, had trouble holding a job, was strapped by a mortgage and was apparently taking money from his mother’s account, investigators found.
His car was discovered in a parking lot at Kennedy International Airport not long after the corpses were found, but dozens of F.B.I. agents and investigators from Union County, N.J., found no trace of Mr. List in the United States or overseas.
In 1989, Union County prosecutors asked the producers of the Fox program “America’s Most Wanted” to look at the case. To help, the producers brought in Frank Bender, a forensic sculptor, and Richard Walter, a criminal psychologist.
Studying photographs of Mr. List when he was in his mid-40s, Mr. Bender imagined how he might look in 1989, his face sagging with time. Mr. Walter theorized that Mr. List would still be wearing horn-rimmed glasses, to make him appear successful.
On May 21, 1989, Fox televised the segment and displayed a bust of an older John List. The network estimated that 22 million people saw it. One was a woman in a suburb of Richmond, Va., who thought the bust looked like a neighbor, Robert Clark, a churchgoing accountant who wore horn-rimmed glasses.
Agents went to the home of “Robert Clark,” confronted his stunned wife, whom he had met at a church social, then obtained her help in filling in blanks from the past. They arrested him at his office on June 1. Fingerprints confirmed that he was John List, although he had denied it. As a fugitive, he had lived quietly in Virginia and in the Denver area.
At Mr. List’s trial in 1990, a psychiatrist for the prosecution testified that Mr. List had been suffering only from a “midlife crisis” when he slaughtered his family and that he had enjoyed life in the years afterward.
Mr. List was convicted of murder and sentenced to five life terms in prison. He appealed, unsuccessfully, on grounds that his judgment had been impaired by post-traumatic stress disorder from military service in World War II and Korea and that his letter to the pastor should have been kept confidential.
In a 2002 television interview on ABC with Connie Chung, Mr. List was asked why he did not take his own life if he felt so overwhelmed. Mr. List said that he thought suicide would have barred him from heaven and that he had hoped to be reunited there with his family.
yeah remember this wacko
I agree it's not the same Today as it was back then.
I did think like others, with the way they got out... they should have just as good plan when they got out. But who knows
[h=1]Escaped killers' driver went to hospital instead, source says[/h]
<cite class="el-editorial-source"> (CNN)</cite>[Breaking news update, posted at 8:10 p.m. ET]
Investigators think a woman who worked with Richard Matt and David Sweat at the Clinton Correctional Facility planned to pick the pair up after they escaped, but changed her mind at the last minute, a source familiar with the investigation tells CNN.
Joyce Mitchell went to a hospital this weekend because of panic attacks, the source said. She has not been charged.
Her son, Tobey Mitchell, told NBC that she wouldn't "risk her life or other people's lives to help these guys escape." He said his mother was in a hospital with severe chest pains about the time of the escape.
<cite class="el-editorial-source"> (CNN)</cite>[Breaking news update, posted at 8:10 p.m. ET]
Investigators think a woman who worked with Richard Matt and David Sweat at the Clinton Correctional Facility planned to pick the pair up after they escaped, but changed her mind at the last minute, a source familiar with the investigation tells CNN.
Joyce Mitchell went to a hospital this weekend because of panic attacks, the source said. She has not been charged.
Her son, Tobey Mitchell, told NBC that she wouldn't "risk her life or other people's lives to help these guys escape." He said his mother was in a hospital with severe chest pains about the time of the escape.
Might hear of an arrest in a day or 2.......Somebody had to give them the tools.....We`ll see.
