Father Wants Us Dead

NJ.com

In 1971, a mild-mannered accountant and Sunday school teacher from New Jersey named John List murders his wife, mother and three children — only to disappear and begin a new life entirely on the other side of the country. Read more

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Our take on Father Wants Us Dead podcast

Father Wants Us Dead talks about one of the Garden State's most infamous mass murderers. The Murderer in question is John List. John list was a monotonous, humdrum accountant who went to church every Sunday. But behind his seemingly mundane appearance laid a much more sinister and twisted plan. He planned on doing what, in his perspective, was best for his family; killing them all. The podcast narrates how he killed his wife and their children, whose bodies were found more than a month later. It follows the 18 years it took the authorities to catch up with him while he hid in plain sight. He had acquired a new name, started a new life a married an unsuspecting woman.