John List - "The Annihilator": The FULL MK Confidential Series

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Hey, everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show in today's mega episode. Today we are bringing you every episode of our MK Confidential series, The Annihilator, on the horrifying killings in suburban New Jersey by family annihilator John List. We get into the crime itself, how List was able to escape authorities and start a new life for 18 years and how it took John Walsh and America's most wanted to finally bring him to justice. I love this one. You're going to love this. I had never heard of John List prior to doing this. And it was my favorite up until we did DC Snipers. That's now my favorite. I don't know. Maybe I just like everyone that we're working on at the moment. But you're going to love John List, not him, the man, the story. Enjoy, and we'll see you Monday where we begin a new MK Confidential series, this one on Scott Peterson. See you then.
It is the night of December 7th, 1971 A drama teacher and military veteran named Ed Ileano turns his car up a long winding driveway in Westfield, New Jersey and puts the vehicle in park. Finally, he's making himself do the thing he's been putting off.
He leaves his headlights on and point it at the house. It is a stately Victorian mansion, 19 rooms, dark green shutters, set back on more than an acre behind tall hedges. The family that lives here calls it Breeze Knoll. Night after night, Ed has driven past it on his way home, slowing at the bottom of the hill, telling himself, everything's fine, but it has not looked fine for a while.
The lights have been burning in every window, day and night, and lately they have begun going out one by one as the bulbs die.
He has knocked on the front door and gotten no answer. He has rung the bell. He even tests the door handle. The lock holds, sparing him for the moment from deciding whether to enter alone. He has gone to the Westfield police twice, and both times has been sent away, because Ed cannot tell them exactly what crime he believes has occurred. All he has is a feeling and a promise he once made to a frightened girl.
The girl is one of his drama students. Her name is Patricia List. She is 16 She sings in the church choir, and she wants more than anything in the world to be an actress. Days before she disappeared, sitting in Ed's parked car late at night, Patricia told him her father was going to kill her. Not rhetorically and not in some vague way, but that she and her two younger brothers would be killed. Patricia is not a girl given to hysterics. She said it the way a person reports, a fact. Ed told her, no one is going to kill you. Patricia looked at him like he was a fool. It wasn't just the drama teacher to whom she had said it. She had predicted the same to a friend her own age, a girl who has never been able to shake it.

**Rhonda Hanson** (4:11)
At some point, she had told me that she knew her father wanted her and her brother's dead.

**Megyn Kelly** (4:17)
A neighbor has already called the Westfield police about the strange car in the driveway. Two patrolmen pull up within minutes and after they hear Ed's concerns, one of them, an officer named George Selesnik, walks the outside of the house. On the side porch, he finds a tall ground-floor window, unlocked. He and Ed push it up and climb over the sill into a dark dining room. The first thing they notice is the smell. The second thing is the music. Somewhere in the house, music is playing. It is loud and orchestral and grand. It seems to be coming from everywhere at once, piped through an intercom into every room. It is a radio, tuned to a New York Classical Station the way it always is in this house. And tonight, by chance, it is playing Wagner, a composer known for his anti-Semitic writings, whose opinions in music will later become a soundtrack for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It is an ominous sound inside an unsettling scene.