So true extremism of any kind always seems to hurt some innocent people. John had first moved to Michigan, and then to Colorado, where he took an accounting job in Denver. His sixteen years old daughter and 13 years old son returned from the school at noon. This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. He lined the bodies up on the floor, put music on through the houses intercom system and wrote a confession to his pastor. Born in an extremely strict Lutheran family, John was raised as a single child. He dyed his hair and changed his name to establish new credit accounts and a phony Social Security number. He snapped at me, No family! Wetmore recalled. 'Been Through That Before'. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). ''And I came in to the hotel from the mountains looking for something to do.''. "I feel when we get to heaven we won't worry about these earthly things. His story was made into a hit TV movie starring But, during a four-hour interview, he sought to explain how worries that financial hardship would split his family and turn them away from their faith forced him to make a tough decision. And like Judas I gave her a kiss . I have all the books written on this case but can only put my hands on the one written by Joe Sharkey an excellent read btw! Mr. Delores Miller in Maryland We found 34 records for Delores Miller in Silver Spring, Dundalk and 17 other cities in Maryland. A few months earlier, the couple had moved in together, staying in Miss Miller's two-bedroom apartment at the Somerset Village condominiums in nearby Montbello. P.S. And youre obviously a lib. Love your posts, RR! ''He was living meagerly, said he needed a full-time job,'' Mr. Oldson added. They had been dead nearly a month, and by that time John Emil List was long gone. Why hadnt he just killed himself, Chung asks? ''The tax season was coming up, and we needed somebody,'' Mr. Joyner said. For example, he would generally eat his lunch in his orange Volkswagen in the parking lot, with its windows rolled up and classical music playing on the radio. As always, a great & engaging read. This weeks postwilltake a look athow Lists predicament compares with the kind of woe that affects homeowners in the new millennium and particularly after thesubprime mortgage crisis. ''It's still not true.''. If Lists religiosity were authentic, rather than an effect of his psychopathy, hed have appreciated that Christ on the cross was a failure (in worldly terms), and advocated that the last (the poor; the failures) are in fact first in His Kingdom all standard Christian teaching that List must have known (if not believed). After their divorce, several facts and allegations came up about Ivar Campbell. The neighbours called the police when Johns daughter Patricias dancing teacher came home to see why Patricia was not coming to the classes. His dad used to go to the ball games. Delores Miller Clark (m. 198589) John Emil List (September 17, 1925 March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer [1] and long-time fugitive. ''If he was the last man on earth, he still wouldn't be alone. That was the only time I ever saw Bob show any anger.. On Nov. 9, 1971, after sending his children off to school, List took his two handguns out to the car to load them, then walked into the kitchen and shot his wife from behind as she was drinking coffee. ''There were just some certificates hanging on the wall from a staff accountant we used to have, but who is now deceased,'' Mr. Joyner said. He waited until his wife and children arrivedhome one by one,crept up and shot them in the head at close range, and dragged their bodies into the ballroom. ''I had the impression that he was barely eking out enough of a living to buy weenies and a room somewhere. The general manager of the wholesaler, Jim Roberto, confirmed that Mr. Clark had worked for him from 1977 to 1979. Im convinced hes just pulling my chain, Gluck recalled. Rebecca Everett may be reached at reverett@njadvancemedia.com. She turned pale and kept looking at it, saying, Oh, my! On Nov. 23, 1971, List snapped creeping up behind his wife, Helen, as she was reading at the kitchen table and shooting her in the head. Sometimes, he added, Mr. Clark became so impassioned that sweat broke out on his brow. God is perfect. Fact cannot be objected to unless its status as fact is contested. Records from All Packaging indicate that he married Miss Miller a few months before leaving the company, in November 1985. But as listeners heard in episode 7, when his second wife, Delores Miller Clark, came to visit him in the Henrico County Jail after his arrest, List admitted who he She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond; sons, Larry, Jim granddaughter, Gayle Ballow; siblings, Joyce Clark & Mildred Miller. "I was perspiring like anything," he remembers, but said his wife did not seem to have recognized him. I actually do try to keep this blog politically neutral we all need a break from partisanship. '', By contrast, Mr. Clark would later tell his friend in Richmond that his first wife had been an alcoholic and a spendthrift who had died of cancer and that he had a daughter who ''was somewhat uncontrollable. Ten days after a creepy, glass-eyed bust of John List was shown on Americas Most Wanted, Westfield residents had not heard of a single promising lead. He was 82 years old at the time of his demise. He was apprehended 18 years later in 1989 and was sentenced to five terms of life sentence. Authorities walk John List to a plane in Richmond, Virginia in 1989 before transporting him to New Jersey to stand trial.Steve Helber/AP. They got married in December 1951. ''He said it was all just terrible.''. I'd tell him I wasn't going to get into that kind of mess again, and he said he wasn't going to either. While List wouldnt meet the legal threshold for madness, he was unquestionably deeply disturbed: mass murder as well as a later life of lies and deceit. The Downturn Laid Off and Late With the Mortgage, Gradually, Mr. Clark became less and less of an asset to All Packaging. Photographs of Mr. He and his mother were very close, Werner said. They'll either have forgiven me or won't realize, you know, what happened," List told Downtown's Connie Chung in an interview at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, where he is serving five life sentences. The first seven episodes of Father Wants Us Dead are available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts, and you can subscribe on those platforms to be alerted when new episodes drop every Tuesday through June 21. Mr. But their love story came to an end within 14 months. What on earth has your comment got to do with the price of fish? Its people who in every single act of malfeasance, twist religion to some self-serving end. The pastor, the Rev. Bob didnt talk much about his past, Wetmore said. Following the gruesome death of his family. It is still unclear where or how Mr. Clark spent 1972. He spent his days at the train Superior Court Judge William LE. Once, when I asked him, he said he was from Michigan.. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. And when they did, he shot them, one by one. The unlikely story of his capture, the tip that led to it and the wild coincidences Gluck encountered as he followed the story are told in the latest episode of Father Wants Us Dead, an investigative true crime podcast about the List killings from NJ Advance Media. Prosaic Life of Suspect in '71 New Jersey Murders, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/09/nyregion/prosaic-life-of-suspect-in-71-new-jersey-murders.html. Finally, Delores shook her head and said, Thats not my husband. I then dared her to show it to Bob and ask him, but I dont think she ever did. His anxiety grew with his inability to keep up withmortgage payments and other bills. Mr. Reed declined to specify which companies were called. His father was a devout Lutheran who also taught at a local Sunday School in Bay City. At the time, said Robert Wetmore, a 72-year-old retired ranch hand, Clark was working at the Holiday Inn in Golden, just west of Denver. If it werent for the mother and kids, Id feel a little sorry for him. ''Bob's job grew, but he didn't,'' Mr. Bassler said. I agree he wanted a fresh start. In 1974, Mr. Clark's name appears for the first time in a Denver telephone directory. Then he drove to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, where he left his car as a false lead and took a bus into the city. WebFrom 1979 to 1986, he was the comptroller at a paper box manufacturer outside Denver. Mr. Joyner relied on the employment agency to verify Mr. Clark's resume. Any prospective John Lists of the new millenniumsurely could see that their problems were shared by countless homeowners around the U.S. and the world. List, who says he remains deeply religious today, acknowledges that his crimes violated one of the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not kill.". What a sorry attempt at humor using President Trump at the end. After being out there that long, List says, I guess I got to the point where I thought well, maybe I wont be caught., In 1989, one of Lists Virginia neighbors recognized him on Foxs Americas Most Wanted.. (Although largely irrelevant to this blog, I regard the US media as overwhelmingly anti-Trump, simply unable to acknowledge that he achieved anything positive, which he certainly, objectively, did. He now says he was too ashamed to tell his wife, Helen, that hed lost his job and would go to the train station each morning, pretending to be at work. He was a devout Lutheran layman and his fingerprints matched those of the fugitive John E. List. John had a very normal childhood and he did not show any signs of psychological troubles. He was arrested 11 days later, and, after a jury rejected his diminished capacity defense, convicted and sentenced. Northwestern UniversitysInstitute for Policy Researchfound that during the subprime-mortgage-induced Great Recession,8 million Americans lost their jobs and each year lenders foreclosed on4million homes. Sick minds only justify their inconsistent philosophy and thoughts because their logic is egocentric, and lacks logic ( logic as we normal people know it). Dr. Sheldon Miller, who examined List after his arrest last year, described him Friday as a man who had already been hit by the loss of his job and then learned that his In Loving Memory: Obituaries February 20-26, 2023 ROBERTSON COUNTY TENNESSEE: (Smokey Barn News) *Refresh this page for updates and newly listed obituaries for this week. He was apprehended 18 years later in 1989 and was sentenced to five terms I guess I finally decided the only way to save them from that was to kill them.. John was a strict Lutheran and hence, when he came to know about Helens pregnancy, he right away proposed to her for marriage. His picture was also shown on television, which led one of his neighbours to notify the authorities. He was actually employed at the time of the murders, at State Mutual Life, and could have found other work. A person who called a telephone number printed on the screen was a son-in-law of a neighbor of Mr. Clark when he lived in Colorado. Dolores Sheeran is now Dolores Miller, 55, a former medical secretary and a realtor, according to her Facebook page. Where was John from? Delores called me on this past Mothers Day, Flanery said. Little is known of Peggy, who stopped talking to her father in 1975 and hasnt spoken out about him since. The accounts of Mr. Clark's life as a fugitive - that for instance at a job in Denver he would take his lunch hour alone in his car listening to classical music -describe someone whose mien and manner hardly suggest a capacity for savagery. He had told her he had no children. ''I learned not to ask people personal questions, or you get your head blown off,'' Mr. Wetmore said. Moran said the first two killings occurred sometime in the morning. She had a young daughter from her previous marriage. Picture in Supermarket Tabloid. He took the name Robert Clark, eventually got an accounting job, and remarried. Of course, facts can be used selectively. When they found him, John Jr. had been shot nine times.. Thanks much, Jean so glad youre enjoying the blog! Mr. Clark, he said, was living in a trailer park across the street from the hotel. Info about the house is hard to come by. The rationalization for killing them was his way of eliminating an inconvenience and his own stress. Bank Vice President and Sunday School Teacher. Delores had mixed emotions about leaving, recalled Flanery, who said they had been neighbors and friends for five years. Delores Miller Clark lived a simple life in Denver before she met and married John List, who then went by the name Robert Peter Bob Clark. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, 11-year-old reads aloud from 'pornographic' book he checked out from library at school board meeting, Influencer refuses to switch business class seats so family can sit together, Chicago's top cop quits one day after woke mayor lost re-election bid, Family raises 250-pound 'dog' for 2 years then realizes it's a bear, RHOA star Drew Sidora accuses ex Ralph Pittman of cheating, mental abuse, Original Gone With The Wind script reveals secret war over slavery, cut scenes, Drake regrets disrupting someones life by name-dropping exes in his songs, Kanye West and 'wife' Bianca Censori look surprisingly happy on dinner date. After gruesomely murdering his entire family, John List had begun living a normal life again. Sometimes we ought to be discomforted to rouse us from complacency. We all made a lot of assumptions, such as the fact that he didn't have any children, since his wife had been so sick. On their cul-de-sac, the Clarks were described as pleasant but distant. Hence, his severe lack of social skills cost him jobs after jobs. The Star-Ledger reporter, who loved to chat about the infamous murderer with the locals on his Union County beat, was grabbing a sandwich for lunch when he got a tip of his own. She and his wife were still in their bedclothes. Maybe not. He resembledthe sculpture. The couple had three children together, while Helens daughter Brenda left home in 1960 after her marriage. It was the biggest story he could remember, and the local fervor for information was immediate. JOHN List the quiet New Jersey accountant who murdered his entire family in 1971, took on a new identity and a new family and went undetected for 18 years says the killing were merely his assignment for the day., In his first TV interview since the infamous murders, tonight on 20/20 Downtown, List tells Connie Chung: Eventually I got to the point where I felt that I could kill [his family], hopefully they would go to heaven, and then maybe I would have a chance to later confess my sins to God and get forgiveness.. John Lists friend wrote a book where it mentions they divorced and she was living in poverty. Human name disambiguation pages. As of 2018, Peggy, Dolores, and Connie are still alive. That was the last I heard from her before Bob was arrested.. He means it. Getting his hands on all of his mothers money was part of the escape plan. I took the paper next door and showed it to Delores. List have appeared on Federal Bureau of Investigation ''wanted'' posters since then, along with a description of him as an accountant, ''a neat dresser'' and a man who ''may be armed and should be considered very dangerous.''. Gary Morrison, a former chef at the motel, remembered Clark saying he had once been married but his wife had died of cancer. On June 2, 1956 she was united in marriage to Ralph L. Miller at Gethsemane Lutheran Church. If things had gone on who knows if that would be the case," he wrote. After making the decision, List says, there was no turning back. He died in prison as a result of pneumonia. The case turned cold until18 years later, whenthen-newTV showAmericas Most Wantedcommissioned forensic artist Frank Bender to sculpt a bustthat aged List. After that, she was always cautious around him. Mr. Clark kept nothing personal in his office. To the right of the Chinese red front door is an Amish plaque inscribed, ''Bless This House.'' Yes, at the age 85 Clark is still performing all her hits, touring the U.S., and releasing a new album. One night after dinner, he even asked his family what should be done with their bodies after they died. "I finally decided the only way to save them from that was to kill them," he said. If he says, 'God bless you,' he's not just saying it. The family attendedthe Redeemer Lutheran Church, where John taught Sunday school. I did what I thought was best, she said. One Memory of Anger, The Richmond friend dismissed that image of Mr. Clark as exaggerated. John List met Helen Morris Taylor, a young widow of an American enlisted man who had died in the Korean War. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. '', Mr. Clark, the friend added, showed no particular sensitivity about his past and tended to be even tempered. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Wetmore said Clark then lived in a ramshackle trailer park on the outskirts of Golden. He lost the bank job, and a succession of subsequent jobs. WebAccording to sources, during the initial days of their relationship, the couple claimed that both of them had very strong feelings for each other which are more than enough for them to keep their bond. I dont think he was a psychopath. The greatest psychopathic distortion: that his suicide would be a sin, but murder and of children wasnt, of a degree excluding him from the God he claimed to seek. I was going to subscribe and refer until I saw that swipe at Trump. ''He would say that he'd been married before, but that his wife had a terminal illness and took years to die and that he had taken care of her. The Undoing 'Most Wanted,' A Favorite Program. Over the years, the John List murders have been featured in films such as Judgment Day: The John List Story and The Stepfather. ''He didn't take them down.'' Bustthe case. ''His father was Germanic, so he had an interest in things Germanic,'' the friend said. Authorities said two of the tips--one from Richmond, Va., another from Denver--led them to a mild-mannered accountant in Midlothian, Va. To much rationalizing. It became apparent to me they would soon foreclose on the home and the questions of where would we go. Undiscovered jackpot? But he fled to Colorado, assumed a new name and remarried, managing to elude a nationwide manhunt for 18 years. . Doubts From a Friend. They married in 1985. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Shes not a strong person and I dont think she felt she could have faced the truth, so she just let it lie.. It meant living above their means, and List eventually had to take out a second mortgage. meticulously murdered his mother, wife and three kids. List (born 1968), American economist. But his defence was rejected and he was imprisoned at the New Jersey State Prison. He did not mention his wife, his mother, or his children. Little of this past did List, as Clark, ever reveal. A favorite television program was ''America's Most Wanted'' on the Fox network. At one Anyway, theres no rationalising the psychopathic mind which is why the bail-out stuff that RR mentions probably wouldnt have made a jot of difference to him or the situation. David glad to hear from you! At the time, I remember my roommate coming home and asking, Did you hear they caught John List? Shed grown up in Westfield, where kids made the List propertytheir No. John and I were classmates and were on the same baseball team. Indeed, Trumps rescinding the moratorium on federal execution is an example (and some need informing that he didnt impose death a judge and jury did but merely removed the block to its enaction.). He was vice president and comptroller of a nearby bank, and his family lived in an 18-room mansion with marble fireplaces and an elegant ballroom. Meanwhile, back at Breeze Knoll, investigators found the bodies after neighbors summoned police because they hadnt seen anyone enter or leave the house in a month. (The List Murders,Forensic Files). If you read any of the books and anything on the Internet, it clearly says she neglected the kids. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. 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 house was bought in Mrs. Clark's name. ''He came in from the other room wide-eyed,'' as if to indicate that she was not to say anything. By killing his family, he hoped to spare them shame, save their souls, and guarantee they could all spend the afterlife together. Clark left Denver in February, 1988, to take the new job, just as the company was getting busy with tax season. Starting in 1968 and through at least the summer of 1969 she was an original member of the Los Angeles production of Hair. It rippled through the county and state: John List, the man who had meticulously murdered his mother, wife and three kids in their Westfield mansion and disappeared without a trace, was in custody. Attorney David Baugh, who represented List in Virginia, offers support.AP Photo/Steve Helber. If List simply admitted to his family and creditorsand the IRS thathe was in crisis, a solutionthat didnt involvehomicideand pseudonymscould have beenhammered out. He didnt have much stuff then, but later, when I helped him move again, he had begun to acquire more possessions.. Because the records are accessible just to executives and are not discarded, ''Bob must have taken it out of the file when he left us,'' a vice president, Robert Bassler, said. Born In: Bay City, Michigan, United States. Its not much of a swipe if its true and it IS true that Mr Ts businesses declared bankruptcy a number of times (not him personally). '', See the article in its original context from. Although he sincerely believed in heaven and that his dead family would be saved, his own survival is proof of false consciousness. Little is known of Peggy, who stopped talking to her father in 1975 and hasnt spoken out about him since. However, today we are not here to talk about the legendary singer but about his son Tamon Pendergrass. The letter will be used as evidence if he goes to trial. The man who calls himself Robert P. Clark is charged with five counts of first-degree murder. Thats all for this post. Johnand Helen List, both 46, lived with their three teenage children and Johns mother, Alma, in acavernous home in the affluentUnion County town. The List murders were among the most grisly and puzzling in modern American crime because of the quiet methodical way that List killed his wife, mother, and three children in a day-long ritual of slaughter all because he was deep in debt and feared the family would break up under the burden of his financial woes. The years at All Packaging appear to have been tranquil. Mr. Clark started doing work on the side for H & R Block. WebDelores Hazel Miller, age 82, went to heaven, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. And of course both presidential candidates have strengths and weaknesses but so polarised are the positions of even intelligent and well-informed people (it would be fair to regard a good proportion of those who work in the national media as such) that there is little no attempt to be even-handed; and defence of one being regarded as attack of the other. He says today he felt he was letting the family down. Although Helen reportedly suffered from the effects of syphilis contracted from her previoushusband, the family appeared stable and high-functioning to their friends and neighbors. Delores Clark, right, tells reporters at a press conference on June 8, 1989 that she did not believe her husband was John List. He recollected that Mr. Clark wore ''things that didn't match'' and seemed to have been ''living hand to mouth, doing bookkeeping work. He later moved to California, and then Detroit, where he worked as an accountant in a local firm. He was also, the friend added, ''a man who obeyed the speed limit.''. By then, he was assigned to the finance corps, from where he was discharged in 1952. That he appeared functional, maintaining a relationship and holding a job down, doesnt change this. "I remember talking about funerals and cremation and burials. List left a confession letter at the scene, so police had little doubt as to who was responsible for the killings. Another great post and one of my all time favourite murder stories. And he yelled, 'Put that thing down before your eyeball falls out.' Setting Up From Cooking Back to Accounting. John Emil List was born 63 years ago in Bay City, Mich., the son of a wealthy German immigrant grocer who had married, for the second time, late in life. Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Following the end of the war, he resumed his studies and enrolled into the University of Michigan, from where he completed his bachelors degree in business administration. Just as the kids entered from the main door, he shot both of them in the heads as well. LOL. However, he was a loner who was not socially active and had very few friends in school and his locality. His father-in-law had heard from the county sheriff: After nearly 18 years, List had been caught. Meanwhile, back at Breeze Knoll, investigators found the Mrs. Clark's job at a warehouse at the Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center did not pay enough to support the two of them, and they began to fall behind on their mortgage payments. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Finally, with the prospect of foreclosure threatening to expose his financial failure, List made his terrible decision to kill his family but not himself. In April, 1986, Clark was laid off. Mr. ''I don't say people can't change, and maybe God will forgive Bob. The good news is, they *are* all in Heaven no doubt. After her husbands arrest, Delores Clark told the FBI she couldnt believe he was a murderer. ''I spent a lot of my life on skid row and in cow camps,'' Mr. Wetmore, 71 years old, said in an interview this week. After cashing in his mothers savings bonds and pocketing the money, heskipped town. Unlike the others, John didn't go quietly, his body jerking as List emptied both the 9 millimeter and the .22 into his son. Butin a pre-Antiques Roadshowworld, he didntthink to get an appraisal and try to sellthe glass if it really existed, that is. I thought I was being real clever," he said. At a church singles party in 1977, Clark met Delores Miller, a 40-year-old divorcee. Later, John took a lucrative job at Xerox and moved to New York and lived there with his family for a few years. Mass Murderer, Overextended Homeowner Education. He went to the post office to stop the family's mail, then to the bank, where he cashed his mother's savings bonds, checking that he got the correct interest to the penny. He stayed around the house, and ''Delores told me a couple of times that if Bob didn't go out and get a job, she'd go crazy or leave him,'' Mrs. Flanery recounted. The resume Mr. Clark used to find a job in Richmond begins in 1972. It was one day out of all these many many years.'' Mrs. Clark also has relatives nearby, in Maryland. Bob was in the kitchen, working as a fry cook, Wetmore recalled. A couple of years ago I bought a supermarket tabloid that contained an article on the List murder case, she said. He then drove his son back to the house and emptied both the guns on him, shooting him in his head and chest repeatedly. And I picked up a typewriter, and Bobby saw me. Thats what Ive often wondered, he says. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. The Pilgrim Fathers could be described as extremists but theyre a fundamental part of American colonial history. In the years after the methodical murders of his wife, mother and three children in New Jersey, John Emil List painstakingly created a new identity for himself in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. He joined the Army in World War II and later attended the University of Michigan. Four months later, his wife joined him in Midlothian, a suburb southwest of Richmond. 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