Righteous Carnage Ebook

At about 9 o’clock on the morning, soon after sending her three children off to school, Helen List sat in the kitchen drinking a cup of coffee. She was still in her nightgown and slippers. John came up behind her and put a 9mm German-made Steyr automatic pistol to the side of her head and fired once. She died instantly. The bullet smashed into the opposite wall. Warm blood formed a pool on the tabletop around her head and began to drip onto her slippers. The righteous carnage had begun. He then went up to the third floor where his 85-year-old mother, Alma, in a housedress, was preparing breakfast in her efficiency kitchen. She asked, “What was that noise?” A bullet ripped through the side of her skull. Alma List was dead before her body crumpled to the floor. John closed the storage room door and left her there. Then, one by one, he killed his three children when they came home from school. The deeply religious murderer had fallen on bad times financially. He was afraid the family would have to go on welfare and mingle with undesirable people who could lead them into sin. He decided he should send them to heaven while they were in the ‘state of grace.’ But suicide was out of the question. God would not forgive that. So he vanished for 18 years and started a new life knowing God would forgive him. The List family murders were the most infamous unsolved crime in New Jersey until the story became the oldest ‘cold case’ broadcast on America’s Most Wanted. He was captured a week after the show aired. ‘Righteous Carnage’ is considered a true crime classic and has been the inspiration and source material for no less than five different television documentaries that are still being repeatedly broadcast. This eBook edition contains 27 photos, several that were not in the Scribner’s hardcover or trade paperback editions. If true crime interests you then ‘Righteous Carnage’ is an absolute must-read.