John List is a coward and an idiot. He murdered his entire family including his mother because why?...apparently his obsessive compulsive mind compelled him to.
Don't get me wrong, he is also an extremely scary person. Considering after murdering five people, he sat down for a meal, as he did in the military. And felt for once a great weight had been lifted off his shoulders.
He dodged law for 17 years before a neighbor had spotted him on "America's Most Wanted" to which he calmly went with authorities and eventually was thrown in prison, for which will be the rest of his life. What makes John List REALLY scary is that his situation isn't that far off from the normalcy of domestic life. In his mind, he was bullied into starting a family, with a overbearing mother and wife. There are jokes batted about between married folk how it would be like a boulder off one's shoulders to leave them all and start new (by the way, it's no surprise to horror movie fans List was one of the inspirations for "The Stepfather" played pitch perfect by Terry O'Quinn).
As List was incarcerated, he simply felt nothing for the people he murdered. And that prison was actually a relief from the rest of the world, for which he felt (ironically) was harsh. In the wake of all the recent shootings...I'm not so sure he's wrong.
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