Episode 2: The boogeyman of Westfield

Father Wants Us Dead

NJ.com

News, True Crime

4.6 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

John List moved his family to New Jersey seeking a better life, but this seemingly ordinary accountant will turn out to be the scariest neighbor his town has even seen. ------- 'Father Wants Us Dead' is a serial investigative true crime podcast from NJ.com and The Star-Ledger about John List, the accountant and Sunday school teacher who killed his mother, wife and three kids in their Westfield, New Jersey mansion 50 years ago. John List left behind a confession letter, explaining why what he'd done was right, and disappeared to start a whole new life, eluding authorities for nearly two decades. The loss of those innocent lives, the horror and the fear, forever scarred this quiet New Jersey community. New episodes will be released each Tuesday through June 21. For more about the show or to see photos of the List family and the crime scene, visit www.fatherwantsusdead.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.
0:07.0	It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up
0:12.7	but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it
0:16.4	and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now
0:21.6	so for that one change me a little.
0:23.8	Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
0:44.8	Celebrate Italy not qualifying for the football with spicy Italian flavors.
0:49.4	The ultimate spicy sausage topped with endoia, a sausage more fiery than a disappointed Italian fan.
0:56.4	subject to availability.
1:00.4	A note to listeners the following podcast contains material that may not be appropriate for all audiences.
1:07.4	Previously on Father Wants a Stead.
1:11.4	Okay when I walked in I saw the bodies by the fireplace in the ballroom.
1:17.4	The tag marks were they put sleeping bags in drafts into the, I guess it's more like a ballroom than anything else.
1:24.4	And seeing that there were three of them were kids and it was nothing like anything I had ever seen before.
1:38.4	It was terrible so I can say it was one of the most terrible dark days of my life.
1:44.4	I don't know what kind of monster this was but it certainly was a monster.
1:51.4	I'm Jessica Remo and I'm Rebecca Everett.
1:55.4	This is Father Wants a Stead.
1:57.4	A podcast about the John List murders from NJ.com and the Star Ledger.
2:04.4	In episode one we told you about the gruesome crime scene police uncovered 50 years ago in the ballroom of Breeze Noel, a beautiful mansion in Westfield, New Jersey.
2:17.4	The bodies of a mother and three children lined up on sleeping bags and the grandmother lying dead upstairs.
2:24.4	And the punch the killer was in fact the father of the family, John Amel List.
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