Where Is John List Now? 'The Watcher' John Graff True Story, Real Murders

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• John List: Murderer who killed his wife, mom, and three kids… then vanished for 18 years
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• The Grisly Murder Of The List Family

He left the lights on and played music over the intercom "to deter burglars", and wrote a chilling note to his pastor confessing to his crimes and attempting to explain his actions. Afterwards, List said he prayed before carrying out his most calculating act. He tore himself out of every family photo, burning them along with his passport in his Weber grill, so police couldn't use it for their manhunt. One by one, he picked up his children, drove them home, and once they were inside, he shot each of them in the face.

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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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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.

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This would mean that the whole family would need to leave for North Carolina on short notice and without a return date just yet. On the rare occasion someone noticed John List, he struck many as odd. According to NJ.com, a few people recalled him mowing the mansion's lawn on a hot summer day — in a suit and tie. He also dressed up to collect his daughter, Patty, from the local police station in the middle of the night. She'd been picked up for the benign offense of wandering around town with her friend, but John's fury lingered in witnesses' memories (via "Death Sentence").

‘America’s Most Wanted’ killer John List remains infamous bogeyman in his Michigan hometown - MLive.com

‘America’s Most Wanted’ killer John List remains infamous bogeyman in his Michigan hometown.

Posted: Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:00:00 GMT [source]

John List: Murderer who killed his wife, mom, and three kids… then vanished for 18 years

“657 Boulevard has been the subject of my family for decades now and as it approaches its 110th birthday, I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming. My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. The letters to the modern-day Westfield Watcher house haven't been released in full, but the ones that have been public didn't mention the List murders. Several similarities to the List murders were included in John Graff's storyline. Per the New York Times, the List family's Westfield home was a large "19-room ramshackle Victorian" with a Tiffany skylight.

Unable to walk, she was the only woman John was ever intimate with. Their marriage was a shotgun one, caused by a pregnancy fear which turned out to be a false alarm. This relationship was an unhappy one, and John felt resentful towards Helen for this. The 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, held on April 27 at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., welcomed journalists and many celebrities on its red carpet. The rapper rose to stardom as one-third of the hip-hop group Migos, which also featured his nephew, Takeoff. In 2022, Takeoff was shot and killed while attending a private party in Houston with Quavo.

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.

The Grisly Murder Of The List Family

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 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.

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.

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.

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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