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5 min readOn December 7, 1971, a drama teacher named Ed Iliano finally made himself do what he had been putting off. He drove up the long driveway of a 19-room Victorian mansion in Westfield, New Jersey, called Breeze Knoll, and with a police officer, climbed through a ground-floor window. The first thing they noticed was the smell. The second was the music—Wagner’s Twilight of the Gods, piped through an intercom into every room. In the ballroom, behind a heavy drape, the officer’s flashlight beam settled on a child’s face. Four bodies lay side by side on Boy Scout sleeping bags, arranged so the edges of the bags met, forming the shape of a cross. A woman and three teenagers. Upstairs, an 84-year-old grandmother. Everyone who lived in the house was dead except the father, John List, who was gone.
The Man Who Blended Into the Scenery
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Episode Introduction** - Megyn Kelly introduces the full MK Confidential series on John List, the "Family Annihilator" who murdered his family in New Jersey and evaded capture for 18 years.
- 2 (02:06) **The Discovery of the Crime Scene** - Drama teacher Ed Iliano, worried about his student Patricia List, enters the List family's mansion, Breeze Noll, and finds the bodies.
- 3 (07:15) **The Setting and Initial Investigation** - Westfield, New Jersey, a quiet town with no murder in eight years, is rocked by the quintuple homicide.
- 4 (13:55) **Who Was John List?** - The portrait of the killer from his neighbors: a quiet, devout, churchgoing accountant who was utterly forgettable.
- 5 (22:01) **The Manhunt Goes Cold** - The initial manhunt for John List goes nowhere, and the case becomes a cold-case legend.
- 6 (25:26) **John List's New Life as Bob Clark** - Jump to 1988: the fugitive, now going by the name Bob Clark, is a mild-mannered accountant loading his car in Colorado.
- 7 (28:37) **The Man in the Suit** - A flashback to a defining moment: John List picking up his daughter from the police station at 2:30 AM in a pressed suit and tie.
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Show Notes
Megyn Kelly brings you the full five episode John List "MK Confidential" series, "The Annihilator," on the suburban family annihilator who escaped justice for nearly 20 years. Tune in to a new edition of "MK Confidential" weeknights this summer on the Megyn Kelly podcast feeds and YouTube channel.
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