that one lashes out at them. >> depression, anger and despondency are traits of the workplace killer and barton was a man who saw no way out from the depths of his depression. "i have been dying since october," he wrote in the letter found near his murdered family, "wake up at night so afraid, so terrified, that i couldn't be that afraid while awake. it has taken its toll. i have come to hate this life and the system of things. i have come to have no hope. i killed the children to exchange for them five minutes of pain for a lifetime of pain." >> he took them out to eat. they went to walmart and bought some little surprises and stuff. and then, he comes home and puts his children to bed and killed them with a hammer.