This Is Actually A Sad Day, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                             

                            Who could have foreseen that November 9 would become a twice iconic date for tragedy?

                            Eighty-six years ago, in Germany, Kristallnacht. the "Night Of Broken Glass," took place.  People who were technically Nazis, destroyed the businesses of Jewish merchants by shattering the windows of their stores, curtailing their livelihood.  It was the start of the horrors to come, and while history may prove me wrong, I personally consider this event as the start of the Holocaust.

                         Then, thirty-three years later, another horror took place in Westfield, New Jersey. A horror that went global.

                             The John List Murders are still the gold bar set for family annilhation.   they took place on this date, in 1971.  I don't know if List was aware of the Kristallnacht connection, though he was of German descent.  The event was to take place on November 1, which is why he let his eldest daughter, Patty, who would be my age if alive, have a Halloween party at the house.  But for reasons I can't fathom, he could not go through with his plan on that day.

                               Eight days later, List did--murdering his mother, wife, and three children--Patty, John, Jr. and Frederick--with a shotgun. He laid the bodies out serenely in the ballroom.  He did this because he was a failed businessmen who wanted to save his children and family from what he called "the horrors of the world."  Like, he couldn't give them a choice?  He planned to kill himself, and the whole family would be found dead.  He did not have the courage of his convictions and went on the lam for well over a decade. Eventually he was captured, thanks to John Walsh's program "America's Most Wanted." He died on March 21, 2008 at St. Francis Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey.

                                I hope his family each gave him a good smack in the face, when he got to the other side.

                                He set the gold standard for family annilhators.

                               Unfortunately, these type of crimes still go on.

                                Today, we remember both events!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!