Don't Mess Around with Slim?

I was listening to a song by Eminem called Slim Shady when I began to wonder about Slim and what the name means.  That led to a memory of "You don't mess around with Jim" where the lyrics change to, "You don't mess around with Slim".  That was produced by Jim Croce in 1972.

The song is about a pool hustler who has a "mark" named Slim who challenges him.  At first it talks about not challenging Jim but later Slim cuts him to pieces and now you don't mess around with Slim.

To test if the song is related to me, I converted the word SLIM into numbers and got 1394.  Then I added that number of days to my birth date and got November 9, 1971.

On this day in WESTFIELD, NJ, an employee of a life insurance company and Sunday school teacher named John List murdered his entire family, mother, wife and children.  Westfield, New Jersey?  Sounds vaguely familiar. Didn't Truman work in life insurance too??  You know, I was being hounded by AFLAC to work for them.  They would call and send emails, I am so glad I didn't respond to them.  

Coincidentally, November 9th is the date I believe a very important person in my life was conceived.  It was during a leap year making that the 314th day.  Just like pi.

Jerry Blake was a character based on John List in the movie "The Stepfather".  That would clear up where Jerri Blank probably got her name in the comedy series "Strangers with Candy".   One of our renters left me the DVD collection, I'm guessing just so that I could eventually figure all of this out.

If I'm right about all of this, how could I have anything to do with John List committing these crimes?  I can see how there is a link to my biological grandfather being from Westfield and that other person possibly being conceived on November 9th.  But that's where the connection ends.  I did not make this man kill his family.  I was only a child, hundreds of miles away.  It makes no sense.