John List

...(all those franchises started off great, but were losing steam by this time). Based loosely on the story of convicted murder John List, The Stepfather was a chilling portrayal of sociopath Jerry Blake, played to perfection by a pre-LOST...

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...was Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn of "Lost"), a real estate agent whose American Dream has a body count. Loosely based on the story of John List, who methodically canceled his newspaper subscription before butchering his family and neatly...

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John Emil List (September 17, 1925 - March 21, 2008) was an American murderer. On November 9, 1971, he murdered his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. He had planned everything so meticulously...

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...an encouraging pass of the generational torch. Back story: Famed mystery writer Donald E. Westlake's screenplay was inspired by John List, the New Jersey accountant who murdered his family and assumed a new identity in Virginia (later to...

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...to inform it with as much outside material as possible so it would have its own life. For instance, we read a lot about a guy named John List, who the character was loosely based on. Nelson McCormick, who I had worked with before on...

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...which starred Terry O'Quinn ("Lost. ") "We did everything we could to inform this version with outside material. We looked at John List, who murdered his family and moved on and married somebody else. It was important to make this our own.

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"A sinister cabal of superior writers." The Stepfather is a thriller loosely based on the real case of John List. I was a 14-year-old when it was released and remember it being pretty creepy. I haven't seen it in many years and was curious...

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...slayings of his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, N.J., was arrested in Richmond, Va. (List was later sentenced to life in prison; he died March 21, 2008.) Ten years ago: An American Airlines MD-82 landed off-center during a...

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...from behind to spare them knowledge of what was happening until the last moment. Because of a struggle, List wrote, he had to shoot John List, 15, repeatedly. Police said John was shot at least 10 times by .22-caliber and 9mm handguns.

In this article: John E. List, New Jersey, Trenton, N.J, and World War II

...than a month before the bodies were discovered in the 18-room mansion. In a letter he left for the pastor of his Lutheran church, List said he shot his victims from behind to spare them knowledge of what was happening until the last...

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