Episode 278: The List Family Murders

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

John Emil List committed the cold-blooded murder of his entire immediate family in his Westfield, New Jersey mansion in 1971. He then evaded authorities for almost 18 years, during which he started an entirely new life working as an accountant, getting married, and being active in his church. This is the story of the List Family Murders and how John List got caught.

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true crime podcast Oh, Welcome back everybody.
0:27.0	Everybody.
0:28.7	Happy new week.
0:30.2	I can't believe we're literally in the last week of January or last half of
0:36.4	January already like yeah it's like simultaneously the longest month ever but
0:41.9	it's also like flying by at the same time it's like a weird it's going so fast
0:45.9	Inception
0:48.4	But today I have a really crazy story for you guys and it was suggested by one of our
0:54.0	listeners a while ago so thank you for the suggestion I had never heard it and
0:59.9	it's pretty wild and I was literally researching it while in the car with my husband and like telling my husband all about it and then he'd ask me a question and I'd be like I don't know I'm not at that point in my research yet.
1:11.5	So it is a crazy story and yeah let's just get into it.
1:18.2	Sounds good. Today we are going to be talking about a man who murdered his entire family and then started a new life that he lived for nearly 18 years.
1:29.6	Wow. Yeah, so this is the List Family Murders, aka the murders of Helen, Patricia, Frederick, John, and Alma List.
1:40.0	Okay. John Emmel List was born on September 17th, 1925 to John Frederick and Alma List in Bay City, Michigan.
1:50.4	After he graduated from high school in 1943, he enlisted in the United States Army, and so he served as a laboratory technician during World War II.
1:59.0	Then he was
2:05.0	like I'm going to be discharged in the University of Michigan.
2:06.0	So after being discharged from the Army, he was like I'm gonna go get a business degree.
2:10.0	So he got a business degree and then he also got a master's degree in accounting. So he was very
2:16.8	smart, well educated. After finishing school, List was commissioned a second lieutenant through ROTC and then in 1950 he was recalled
2:27.1	to active military service to serve in the Korean War.
2:31.9	This time he was stationed at Fort Eustace in Virginia and there he met a woman named Helen Morris Taylor.
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