At about 9 o'clock on the morning of November 9, 1971, 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 List 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... John made his way up the stairs to the third floor where his 85-year old mother, Alma, wearing a housedress, was preparing breakfast in her efficiency kitchen she was standing near the storage room that adjoined her kitchen when a 9mm bullet ripped through the side of her scull. Alma List was dead before her body crumpled in a heap on the floor?/p> The righteous carnage had begun.

After murdering his wife, mother, and three children, John List lived an unassuming life as Robert Clark for 18 years. Recognized by neighbors, after the popular TV program America's Most Wanted

Unique collection of odd, unusual, strange, interesting facts, and little-known items, vignettes, anecdotes, related to the Pearl Harbor attack. Includes 40 warnings, clues, hints. The most comprehensive collection ever of such material. Entertaining and educational.

Timothy B. Benford's books include: the novels, The Ardennes Tapes, and Hitler's Daughter and in nonfiction: Righteous Carnage; The World Warr II Quiz & Fact Book(2 vols); World War II Flashback; The Space Program Quiz & Fact Book; The Royal Family Quiz & Fact Book. Benford resides in Mountainside, NJ, with his wife Marilyn. James P. Johnson's book include: A "New Deal" for Soft Coal; The Politics of Soft Coal; Westfield, From Settlement to Suburb; and New Jersey: A History of Ingenuity and Industry. Johnson and his wife Carolyn reside in Westfield, NJ.

Christmas Eve, 1944. The Ardennes Forest was thick with blood as the Battle of The Bulge raged on. But in the midst of combat, two hundred troops—Americans and Germans alike—abruptly ceased fighting each other and united to face one common, and unspeakable, enemy. Only two men survived. Now, more than five decades later, one still remains institutionalized and unable, or unwilling, to speak. Then, suddenly, he begins to rant, shrieking in terror about unmentionable horror in the Ardennes… pray that somebody listens!

John Emil List est aimable, discret, toujours prêt à rendre service dixit ses voisins, ses collègues et ses relations. Pourtant, ce 9 novembre 1971, il va tuer méthodiquement les uns après les autres, sa femme, sa mère, sa fille et ses deux fils, avant de disparaître. Il faudra un reality show sur les crimes impunis, dix-huit ans plus tard pour qu'une téléspectatrice reconnaisse en son voisin, un comptable courtois, auteur des cinq meurtres monstrueux. Comment cet ancien professeur de catéchisme, élevé dans le respect de la parole de Dieu, a-t-il pu en arriver là? Portrait fascinant d'un assassin qui avait bonne conscience...