Who Is John List?

John Emil List was born on the 17th of September in the year 1925 at Bay City, Michigan. He is basically an American Mass Murderer who murdered his mother, his wife and three children on the 9th of November in the year 1971. He was described as a cold hearted man who had very few friends. His parents were basically German and were very strict; List had a social problem and had a history of loosing jobs. List first killed his family and then dragged the bodies of his wife and children in the ball room of the house. He left his mothers body up in the attic where he had killed her. He planned everything so carefully that the bodies were not discovered till a month which gave him time to run away and disappear.

He remained hidden and missing for a period of 18 years till his name and a picture sketch appeared in the famous American television show, Americas Most Wanted. On the 11th of June in the year 1989, a total of eleven days since the show was broadcasted, List was arrested as one of his friends identified him. Since his disappearance he had changed his name to Robert Peter Clark and had started a new life by getting married again and working as an accountant in Midlothian, Virginia. On the 1st of May in the year 1990 he was awarded five life term sentences in prison.