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For you. thats the height of self-centeredness to think the kids are better off dead than growing up without this depressed, suicidal father. >> depression and anger were also characteristics co-workers noticed in patrick sherrill, a mail carrier in edmond, oklahoma. >> many of patrick sherrills co-workers called him "crazy pat." but they certainly did not see him as a ticking time bomb. >> just after dawn on august 20th, 1986, sherrill reported as usual to the post office in uniform and carryin...

Us. >> the insurance company contests paying off a life insurance policy on debora spivey barton for four years. but in 1994, settles with barton for an estimated $300,000 and establishes a trust fund for bartons two children in the amount of $150,000. barton and leanne are married in 1995. after bartons atlanta rampage, investigators say they learned from leannes sister that the money was a source of problems early on in the relationship. >> and he told leanne that she would never benefit from ...

Mark bartons reaction was almost unemotional. >> and the staged appearance of >> and the staged appearance of the crime scene didnt add up either. >> there was an attempted to make it look like a robbery. i believe ms. spiveys purse was turned over, a couple rings about it and there seemed to be a savageness about the murders themselves to indicated it was not a robbery but more of an anger-inspired crime or hate crime. >> the theory that we had that he asked her for a divorce and she probably r...

Of all-tech investment where he killed 9 and wounded 13 with a hit list. >> just adjacent to our space were several traders who had been there for a long time, who barton knew and had traded with, and beginning with those people, barton just methodically went down the line and killed every one of them. it was a very methodical, malicious assassination. >> not unlike the killing spree of joseph westbecker, a company man with 20 years of service at the same printing plant in louisville, kentucky. ...

And then he took them into the bathroom and bathed their bodies and washed their hair and put them to bed for the rest of their life. >> he wrote, "i forced myself to do it to keep them from suffering so much later." he closes his letter with the chilling words, "you should kill me if you can." >> this is a man who was willing and able to get revenge with a gun. but before he took his own life and got even with all of the people at the stock brokerage firms, he also took his wife and children wi...

Reach him, and he was very proud of that point. i always thought that was very strange. >> and according to leigh ann burke, his marriage was not a partnership of equals. >> mark was definitely dominant. she didnt go anywhere without calling to let him know that she was going or even to ask if it was all right. he refused to let her work. he was the breadwinner. >> two years after joining tlc manufacturing, barton becomes president and leigh ann notices bartons erratic behavior is driving away b...

Himself and his first wife debra, whom he had met and married while attending the university of south carolina. >> mark always prided himself on the fact that nobody knew what he was. no family ever visited them other than her parents. i didnt even know his parents were alive. i just assumed that his parents had died. >> an only child, barton grew up sumter, south carolina, where he attended high school. a loner who excelled in academics, he was one of the few sumter high school students to reac...

Disorder. in hindsight, bartons personality fit clinical patterns of a man on the edge. >> the person that i started to work with and the person that he ended up were two different people. he was not the same person at all. >> secretary leigh ann burke saw mark bartons behavior change over time. she started working with him in 1984 in texarkana, texas, where he was employed as a chemist for tlc manufacturing, a company that made cleaners and solvents. >> he was always kidding around and laughing...

Championship, and at least 13 people were injured, two critically. more news later but now back to the nbc documentary. due to mature and graphic subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. at the center of any criminal investigation is a "dark heart and the iron hand of justice." july 29th, 1999, every police department in the state gunman walks into two buildings and opens fire. when it was all over, mark barton had killed nine of his co-workers and had critically wounded 13 others. in...

Who has managed to evade the killer once, is still hiding in a dark utility closet, terrorized, wondering if she will be mark bartons next victim. >> i heard running and then i heard one shot fire out, and then an incredible, overwhelming stench of gunpowder, which told me that barton had just passed by. >> eyewitness descriptions of the suspect, a man wearing a red shirt and khaki pants, are broadcast on television and radio. from their office tower facing piedmont road, bookkeeper laurie wooda...