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DEATH SENTENCE : the inside story of the john list murders by Sharkey, Joe is a true crime available to read on EtoBox.
What is DEATH SENTENCE : the inside story of the john list murders about?
The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion—and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years. Until 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 meant 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 children, List came to a shattering conclusion. “It was my belief that if you kill yourself, you won’t go to heaven,” List told Connie Chung in a television interview. “So eventually I got to the point where I felt that I could kill them. Hopefully they would go to heaven, and then maybe I would have a chance to later confess my sins to God and get forgiveness.” List methodically shot his entire family in their home, managing to conceal the deaths for weeks with a carefully orchestrated plan of deception. Then he vanished an
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Sharkey, Joe
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781504041751
- Category
- true crime
- Subjects
- True Crime, Crime, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.28 / 5 (118 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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