The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion--and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.
He and his wife live in Tucson..
The author of four books of nonfiction and one novel, Sharkey is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona.
Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer .
Joe Sharkey was a weekly columnist for the New York Times for nineteen years.
Revised and updated, this ebook also includes photos.
Chronicling List\'s life before and after the grisly crime, Death Sentence exposes the truth about the accountant-turned-killer, including his revealing letter to his pastor, his years as a fugitive with a new name--and a new wife--his eventual arrest, and the details of his high-profile trial.
Clark.
Then he vanished and started over as Robert P.
List methodically shot his entire family in their home, managing to conceal the deaths for weeks with a carefully orchestrated plan of deception.
Hopefully they would go to heaven, and then maybe I would have a chance to later confess my sins to God and get forgiveness.
So eventually I got to the point where I felt that I could kill them.
It was my belief that if you kill yourself, you won\'t go to heaven, List told Connie Chung in a television interview.
Straining under financial burdens, the stress of hiding his unemployment, as well as the fear that the free-spirited 1970s would corrupt the souls of his children, List came to a shattering conclusion.
Raised by his Lutheran father to believe success meant being a good provider, List saw himself as an utter failure.
But all that changed when he lost his job.
He was vice president of a Jersey City bank and had moved his mother, wife, and three teenage children into a nineteen-room home in Westfield, New Jersey.
Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List.
The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion--and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years
