Righteous Carnage
The List Murders in Westfield
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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…
The righteous carnage had begun.
About the Author
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.