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Site of Breeze Knoll

431 Hillside Avenue, Westfield, New Jersey

The Place in the Story

List killed five family members at Breeze Knoll in 1971. Fire destroyed the mansion in 1972; the current house is a later replacement.

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John List & his family

John List killed his mother, wife, and three children in their New Jersey home in 1971, then disappeared and established a new identity. A television appeal and an age-progressed sculpture helped lead to his arrest in 1989. He was subsequently convicted of the five murders.

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