John List murdered his wife, mother and 3 children on November 9, 1971 in his Westfield New Jersey home, then disappeared.
The murders were so meticulously planned that a month passed before anyone suspected the mass murder.
John List assumed a new I.D., remarried, and, eluded justice for 18 years.
List took the name of his college roommate, Bob Clark, moved to Denver, got a job as an accountant, ran a car pool for shut-in church members
and lived a normal life until “America’s Most Wanted” recounted the crime in May 1989.
Two weeks after the broadcast on Fox TV, John List was arrested after a neighbor recognized the description and called the police.
He stood by his new alias until the prosecution matched finger prints at the crime scene to List’s military records.
In 1990, John List was convicted of 5 counts of 1st degree murder sentence to 5 terms of life imprisonment.
“The Boogeyman of Westfield” died in prison in 2008 at age 82.