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|fullname = John Emil List | |fullname = John Emil List | ||
|alias = Bob Clark<br>The Boogeyman of Westfield | |alias = Bob Clark<br>The Boogeyman of Westfield | ||
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|crimes = Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Familicide]] | |crimes = Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Familicide]] | ||
|hobby = | |hobby = | ||
}}'''John List''' was an American mass murderer who, on November 9, 1971, murdered his mother, three children and his wife in their sparsely furnished 18-room mansion in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. | }}'''John List''' (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer who, on November 9, 1971, murdered his mother, three children and his wife in their sparsely furnished 18-room mansion in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. | ||
He had planned everything so meticulously that nearly a month had passed before anyone noticed that anything was amiss. A fugitive from justice for eighteen years, he was ultimately apprehended on June 1, 1989 while living under the pseudonym Robert Peter "Bob" Clark, after the story of the murders was broadcast on the television program ''America's Most Wanted.'' | He had planned everything so meticulously that nearly a month had passed before anyone noticed that anything was amiss. A fugitive from justice for eighteen years, he was ultimately apprehended on June 1, 1989 while living under the pseudonym Robert Peter "Bob" Clark, after the story of the murders was broadcast on the television program ''America's Most Wanted.'' | ||
List was found guilty and sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment, dying in prison custody in 2008 at age 82 | List was found guilty and sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment, dying in prison custody in 2008 at age 82. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
===Family history=== | ===Family history=== | ||
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List died from complications of pneumonia at age 82 on March 21, 2008, while in prison custody at a Trenton, New Jersey hospital. In announcing his death the Newark, New Jersey, Star-Ledger referred to him as the "boogeyman of Westfield". His body was not immediately claimed, though he was later buried next to his mother in Frankenmuth, Michigan. | List died from complications of pneumonia at age 82 on March 21, 2008, while in prison custody at a Trenton, New Jersey hospital. In announcing his death the Newark, New Jersey, Star-Ledger referred to him as the "boogeyman of Westfield". His body was not immediately claimed, though he was later buried next to his mother in Frankenmuth, Michigan. | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*He was at one point suspected of being [[D.B. Cooper]]. | *He was at one point suspected of being [[D.B. Cooper]] making him to disappear. | ||
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