Patricia Morris List was 16 when she was murdered at the family home in Westfield, New Jersey, on November 9, 1971. She had been born January 8, 1955.

John List allegedly took steps to delay discovery—canceling mail and newspapers and telling the children’s schools they were on a family trip—then placed the bodies of his wife and children on sleeping bags in the ballroom and his mother in her attic apartment. He removed his own picture from family photographs and left a five-page letter to his pastor explaining his reasons before disappearing. The family went undiscovered for nearly a month until neighbors became concerned.

An arrest came years later after a tip prompted by a television segment identified List living under another name; he was extradited, tried and convicted of five counts of first-degree murder and received five consecutive life terms. He died in 2008.