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- <text id=89TT1533>
- <title>
- June 12, 1989: American Notes:Crime
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 12, 1989 Massacre In Beijing
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- CRIME
- After 18 Years, a Bust
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The murders were carefully and diabolically plotted. By the
- time the bullet-riddled bodies of John List's mother, wife and
- three children were discovered in Westfield, N.J., in December
- 1971, the quiet accountant had been missing for nearly a month.
- It took authorities 18 years to catch up with him, and then
- only through a TV crime show.
- </p>
- <p> Last month Fox Television's America's Most Wanted program
- reported on the case, featuring a sculptor's bust portraying
- List, now 63, as he would appear today. A tip to the program's
- hot line led FBI agents to Robert Clark in Brandermill, Va., an
- accountant who bore a striking resemblance to the sculptor's
- guesswork. Fingerprints indicated that authorities had found
- their man. New Jersey prosecutors expect to charge List/Clark
- with five overdue counts of first-degree murder.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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