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The house that he killed in is located in Westfield, New Jersey. While John List, who inspired Graff, didn’t live at 657 Boulevard and committed his crimes long before the Broaddus family moved into the home, there are a lot of similarities between his case and Graff’s. So where is John List now and what is the true story about his murders? Read on for what we know about where John List is now and how his real case is much more chilling than what was told in The Watcher.
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As reported by The New York Times, on Nov. 9, 1971, John List shot and killed his wife, Helen; his 16-year-old daughter, Patricia; his 15-year-old son, John; his 13-year-old son, Frederick; and his mother, Alma, aged 85. So far John had rushed through relatively clean execution style killings. “I approached all of them from behind so they wouldn’t realize at the last moment what I was going to do to them,” he later said of the murders. All did not go as smoothly with his last remaining son, fifteen year old John. John did realize what his father was going to do to him, and caught on to his father’s evil intentions before the senior List could surprise him.
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WESTFIELD -- The tony home in this leafy suburb is the image of comfortable upper middle class life, but a terrifying presence stalks the grounds. Neighbors walking by know exactly where it is, and as time goes on the suburban legend grows, a real-life haunted house. If they believed in anything other than their father's faith, he reasoned, they would go straight to hell.
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He then went to Colorado, where he settled in Denver in early 1972 and took an accounting job under the name Robert Peter “Bob” Clark, which was inspired by one of his college classmates. (The real Bob Clark later claimed that he never knew List.) List then worked as a comptroller at a paper box manufacturer outside of Denver from 1979 to 1986. He married Delores Miller, an Army PX clerk he met church, in 1985. The couple moved into a house in the Brandermill neighborhood of Midlothian, Virginia, in 1988, where List took a job as an accountant at the accounting firm, Maddrea, Joyner, Kirkham & Woody. Dean encounters a man named John Graff (Joe Mantello), who previously lived in 657 Boulevard. John Graff is based on John List, a Westfield resident who killed his wife, mother and children in 1971, then disappeared for 18 years.
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According to NJ.com, Patty and Frederick were killed as they returned from school, both felled by one shot to the head. "I approached all of them from behind so they wouldn't realize till the last minute what I was going to do to them," List told ABC News. As he told ABC News in 2002, John List concluded that any financial downsizing would split up the family and lead the children further away from their strict Lutheran lifestyle. Helen had even threatened to resign from the church (via "Righteous Carnage").
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He also had tone-deaf aspirations, as when he told neighbor Dr. Bill Cunnick that he wanted to sell insurance. Cunnick, who knew John List to be the textbook embodiment of "antisocial," was floored (via NJ.com). Fire inspectors said the blaze was of a “suspicious nature.” Three weeks after the fire, the house was demolished and it was suspected that arsonists had decided to torch the place.
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As time went on, it became clear that the aging building was a money pit, with costly repairs looming over an already burdensome mortgage. According to "Righteous Carnage," at the time of the murders, John had only $200 in cash and a horde of bills due. The mansion in New Jersey where the List family was killed burned down several months after the murders. Authorities never found the cause of the fire, and a new house was built on the property years later. That night, a man named Robert P. Clark was attending a church function in Midlothian, Virginia.
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In February, the oldest of Boebert’s four sons was arrested and charged with identity theft and other crimes. The Millard House, also known as La Miniatura, located at 645 Prospect Crescent in Pasadena, sits on an acre of gardens and offers beautiful views. This is the first of the textile block house designed by Wright who was, at the time, experimenting with concrete building materials and using Mayan and Aztec symbols and designs to decorate them.
It is the List house in the List neighborhood, a piece of dark town lore not cited by a historical marker, but handed down, word of mouth, as a ghost story. One of those kids was Zoe Zachariades, who was a Westfield middle-schooler six years ago when her parents told her they were moving into a 1912 craftsman-style home near "the List house." But, during a four-hour interview, he sought to explain how worries that financial hardship would split his family and turn them away from their faith forced him to make a tough decision. "I finally decided the only way to save them from that was to kill them," he said.
He then killed Alma, who was 84, by shooting her above the left eye. When Patricia, who was 16, and Frederick, who was 13, came home from school, List also killed them both by shooting them in the back of their heads. List then made lunch for himself before he drove to the bank to close his and his mother’s bank accounts. He then drove to Westfield High School to watch John, who was 15 at the time, play in a soccer game. List shot and killed John as he drove him home from the soccer game. Evidence showed that List shot John repeatedly because he kept misfiring as his eldest son attempted to defend himself.
According to the timeline later assembled by investigators, John List probably started planning the murders in mid-October. According to NJ.com, List would later claim that he hadn't really made up his mind to kill his family until the day of the murders. Yet, he had applied for a gun permit on October 14 and, shortly after, began target practice at a local shooting range. He also concocted a series of excuses, most centering on the fictional illness of his mother-in-law.
…Utah's farmers and ranchers, for generations have worked on this land, leaving it better than they found it. They understand how to live in a way that strengthens the landscape, but allows them to provide for their family and their community. I like to tease them that they're the original environmentalist. Ironically, this rule also undermines the work of these individuals who keep the land in good health and help prevent for the risk of wildfires, to instead lock the public out of Utah's lands.
Some are turn-of-the-century mansions, like the old List house was, and the Victorian mansion where the late artist Harry Devlin and his author/wife, Wende, lived a few doors down. There are Tudors with leaded glass and wrought-iron door hardware. Mark Di Ionnio -- a staff writer for The Times' sister paper in New Jersey, The Star-Ledger - wrote about the memories left behind.
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