Trailer: Father Wants Us Dead

Father Wants Us Dead by NJ.com

Apr 29, 20225:26True Crime

In 1971, a mild-mannered accountant and Sunday school teacher from New Jersey named John List murders his wife, mother and three children — only to disappear and begin a new life entirely on the other side of the country...

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