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Author of: "Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders." The true story of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey home, and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.
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Today, fifty years ago, John List shot and killed his family in their home in Westfield, New Jersey.
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.
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 and started over as Robert P. Clark. Chronicling List’s life before and after the grisly crime, Joe Sharkey exposes the truth about the accountant-turned-killer, including his revealing letter to his pastor, his years as a fugitive with a new name—and a new wife—his eventual arrest, and the details of his high-profile trial.
Presenter and Author: Joe Sharkey is a journalist and author who was a columnist for the New York Times for 19 years, from 1996 to 2015. His newspaper career as an editor, and reporter spans nearly 50 years.
He is the author of five books, four non-fiction, and a novel.
Before his association with the New York Times, Joe was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal; the executive city editor at the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union; the investigations editor at the South Jersey Courier-Post; a columnist and reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and an assistant city editor and reporter at the now-defunct Philadelphia Bulletin.
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