Episode 3: The man at the train station

Father Wants Us Dead

NJ.com

News, True Crime

4.6 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As family and financial worries mount, John List carries on an elaborate charade — all the while contemplating the unthinkable. ------- '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 endoja, 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.
1:19.4	When I walked in I saw the bodies by the fireplace in the ballroom.
1:25.4	He was much more of a conservative guy and she wasn't and you know they were I believe oil and water.
1:33.4	The biggest issue with them as a neighbor was John List himself and he didn't really want us to be in near near his house or his kids.
1:46.4	I'm Jessica Rimo and I'm Rebecca Everett and this is Father Wonson Stead, a podcast about the John List murders
1:54.4	from NJ.com and the star ledger.
1:59.4	In episode one, Jess and I talked about the killings, how they shook the community of Westfield, New Jersey to the core.
2:06.4	In episode two, we took a deep dive into John List himself, a deeply religious man obsessed with propriety and faith and not showing weakness.
2:16.4	But now we're going to get into what happens when the already unstable John List found himself in the pressure cooker after moving to this well to do suburb, not far from Manhattan.
2:26.4	I think when people think of the list murders, they think of these sensational headlines of a psycho killer story, a purely evil man who just snapped.
2:36.4	And let's be clear, to some degree that might be exactly what this was, but before the murders, this was also the story of a marriage.
2:46.4	One probably ill-fated from the start that just kept souring and souring over 20 years.
2:53.4	But in this case, it doesn't end in divorce, it ends in bloodshed.
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