The Annihilator: The Reckoning — Ep. 5 | MK Confidential - FINAL Episode on the John List Family Murders

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It is Thursday, June 1st, 1989 Three men walk into a small suite of accounting offices in Richmond, Virginia, two of the officers right off the elevator, and one up the stairs. The receptionist, Sandra Silberman, takes note. Walk-ins do not usually arrive in threes. She hangs up the phone.
One of the men flashes an FBI badge. They are here to speak with Robert Clark. The bookkeeper who comes out to meet them is 63, balding, bespectacled and entirely unalarmed. The man carries himself, according to one of the FBI men, like a school teacher, waiting for a student to explain himself. Special agent Kevin August starts to question him gently. He asks the man's name, Robert Clark. He asks Clark whether he has a scar behind his ear, though August can plainly see that he does, and the man turns his head slightly to show it. He asks whether Clark has had an operation for a hernia, was born in Michigan and works as an accountant. Clark answers all three in the affirmative.
There's a pause, and then August asks the question that he has been waiting nearly 18 years for someone to ask out loud. Are you John Emil List?
No, Clark answers without hesitation and without emotion. August will think about that afterward, that an innocent man would have said, Who in the hell is John Emil List?
The agents pat Clark down. He puts his arms out and leans against the wall without a word of objection. And when it is finished, August tries once more.

**Kevin August** (2:27)
I approached him and I asked him, I said, Are you Mr. Clark? And he said, Yes. And then I said, Are you John List?
And he says, No, I'm Robert P. Clark.

**Megyn Kelly** (2:39)
Reporters would later put the man's exact words as, I know who I am. I'm Robert Clark. Clark seems to force a little indignation into his voice when he says it.
Across the room, the receptionist looks away because Bob Clark is giving her the mournful look of a man who believes he has been betrayed. She notices red blotches breaking out across his face. The blotches are the only thing about him that reveal his panic.
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The agents take Robert Clark to the Henrico County jail and roll his inked fingers onto a card. Clark's fingerprints promptly end the mystery. The prints match the ones John List left on his application for a New Jersey firearms permit in Westfield on October 16, 1971, 24 days before he shot and killed his entire family. The mastoidectomy scar behind his right ear matches the hernia scars match. Every physical marker on the FBI flyer that has been in circulation for nearly 18 years matches the man before them. And Clark still says no.