What’s Scarier Than a 33rd Degree Bilderberger?
I write a lot about conspiracies. And you can’t have conspiracies without conspirators. But I’m also interested in the pathological personalities that exist in every community, outside the influence of any shadowy and nefarious organization. Especially the ones who appear “normal” in every way. Until.
The case of John List is more frightening to me than all the 9/11s and JFK assassinations put together. List was a fine, upstanding member of society, a successful accountant who lived in a New Jersey mansion with his family, including his elderly mother. He was a devout Lutheran who also taught Sunday school. After losing his job in 1971, List didn’t tell his family, and pretended to go to work each day. He began skimming money from his mother’s bank account to pay the mortgage. On November 9, List abruptly shot and killed his three children, aged 16, 15, and 13, his wife, and his 85 year old mother. In an incomprehensibly grisly detail, List had gone to his older son’s soccer game, cheered for him, drove him home, and then murdered him. He left a note to his pastor, bizarrely thinking he would understand. List then vanished for eighteen years, before being found through America’s Most Wanted, living under another identity, with a new wife, in Virginia.
Another very religious person, Andrea Yates, committed the most horrendous murder I’ve ever heard of. Yates had supposedly struggled with “post partum depression,” one of those chic maladies no mother could ever have contracted until the late twentieth century. Despite this alleged illness that comes after having a baby, Yates continued to have children. On June 20, 2001, she paraded her five little children, one by one, into the bathtub, where she methodically held them underwater until they stopped breathing. This wasn’t a case where she snapped; the last one fought for his life, but she was bigger and drowned him, too. Then she laid them out neatly on the bed. Like List, she seemed to believe that killing them ensured their place in heaven. I guess she wasn’t worried about her place. Her husband was nearly as nutty, defending his wife, and acting upbeat at the funeral. Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
So how do the John Lists and Andrea Yates of the world lead normal lives, managing to avoid killing anyone for decades, then suddenly snap and murder those closest to them? Is this what the old timers meant by someone being possessed by a demon? How many incidents have happened where a child- almost always a son- suddenly goes off and kills his parents and siblings? A fourteen year old Alabama youth drunkenly phoned the police in 2019, to report that he’d killed his parents and three very young siblings. He’d apparently just found out that his mother was actually his stepmother. Seems like a bit of an overreaction. In 2024, a sixteen year old in New Mexico also drunkenly confessed to killing his family; both parents and two siblings. I suppose you have to get drunk after going full Satanic like that. There are so many cases
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