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Forensic Files

The List Murders

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

For 18 years, a man who murdered his entire family eluded the FBI. Investigators used art and forensic science to find the killer.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

For 18 years, a mass murderer successfully alluded the FBI.

0:16.0

He was wanted for the murder of his entire family.

0:24.6

Meo set,

0:27.6

Godine,

0:28.6

and storm

0:33.6

to her a pearl

0:35.6

war Her heart Of course

0:38.3

If I have

0:40.3

He has no

0:43.3

mind

0:44.3

He are to

0:47.3

love

0:49.3

Lord

0:51.3

On earth He has no way.

0:58.0

This is how art and science led to his capture.

1:02.0

The List family lived in this large Victorian home in the quiet, affluent town of Westfield, New Jersey.

1:19.9

John List was a 46-year-old accountant.

1:23.1

He and his wife, Helen, had been married for almost 20 years.

1:27.1

They had three children, 16-year-old Patricia,

1:30.3

15-year-old John, and 13-year-old Freddie.

1:34.3

John List's elderly mother, Alma, also lived with the family

1:38.3

in her own separate apartment on the third floor.

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