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For you. that's 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 sherrill's 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 carrying a mail bag filled with guns. >> two days earlier, his supervisor at the post office had threaten...

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 barton's two children in the amount of $150,000. barton and leanne are married in 1995. after barton's atlanta rampage, investigators say they learned from leanne's sister that the money was a source of problems early on in the relationship. >> and he told leanne that she would never benefit from the death of his wife. >> mark barton had another plan for this money. he would use it to fuel hi...

Mark barton's reaction was almost unemotional. >> and the staged appearance of >> and the staged appearance of the crime scene didn't add up either. >> there was an attempted to make it look like a robbery. i believe ms. spivey's 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 refused. that's when he lost control and the assault occurred. but there was just no physical evid...

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. placed on permanent disability at 47, he was angry and ready for revenge. >> he had a job to do that...

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 with him, not because he hated them, not because he was angry, but he wanted to save them from the mis...