The neighborhood home owners' association's former vice president Kathaleen Moyer said it was unlikely that 514 Villa Drive is the exact place where List was murdered as it's close to the water. Bill List Todville Mansion at 3300 Todville Road leans toward the other end of the property.
Moyer said Thursday, "I do sympathize with the gentleman who leased the house, but this was decades ago. It's not like it's an existing home that someone got murdered in."
Moyer and her husband was said to have lived in the community for five years. They had to move in January this year for reasons not related to the history of Bill List Todville Mansion. Moyer added, "It's a wonderful place to live. I miss living there."
A Houston Chronicle article published in Nov. 18, 1985 states that Bill List Todville Mansion is a three-story mansion divided into two wings. It has an atrium in the center and a catwalk between the wings at the second level. There's also 40-foot swimming pool at the bottom of the atrium. Other rooms in Bill List Todville Mansion includes a ballroon, game roon, dining room, kitchen and master bedroom.
On the night List was shot to death, the young men living with him in the now famous Bill List Todville Mansion reportedly decided to shoot List as they were tired of his mistreatment towards them.
Elbert Ervin "Smiley" Homan was the one who pulled the trigger. He reportedly pleaded guilty to murder and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Bill List Todville Mansion doesn't seem to be the common denominator in List's ill-luck. Apparently, his daughter, Deborah Thornton, was also killed in a pickax murder by Karla Faye Tucker in 1983.
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