{"product_id":"9781504049498","title":"Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion—and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey City bank and had moved his mother, wife, and three teenage children into a nineteen-room home in Westfield, New Jersey. But all that changed when he lost his job. Raised by his Lutheran father to believe success meant being a good provider, List saw himself as an utter failure. Straining under financial burdens, the stress of hiding his unemployment, as well as the fear that the free-spirited 1970s would corrupt the souls of his children, List came to a shattering conclusion.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “It was my belief that if you kill yourself, you won’t go to heaven,” List told Connie Chung in a television interview. “So eventually I got to the point where I felt that I could kill them. Hopefully they would go to heaven, and then maybe I would have a chance to later confess my sins to God and get forgiveness.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e List methodically shot his entire family in their home, managing to conceal the deaths for weeks with a carefully orchestrated plan of deception. Then he vanished and started over as Robert P. Clark. Chronicling List’s life before and after the grisly crime, \u003ci\u003eDeath Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the truth about the accountant-turned-killer, including his revealing letter to his pastor, his years as a fugitive with a new name—and a new wife—his eventual arrest, and the details of his high-profile trial.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevised and updated, this book also includes photos.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42834734841917,"sku":"9781504049498","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781504049498_p0.jpg?v=1774704644","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781504049498","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}