an unlikely killer. for more than a decade, he worked as a professional chemist, testing cleaning compounds and developing new products before deciding to start day trading, opening accounts at both momentum securities and all-tech investment group, where he traded for two years. day traders are not generally long-term investors. they make large daily investments in stocks hoping for quick profits on small changes in the stock s price. some of these individuals are risk takers looking to make a fast buck in a high-stakes arena many consider gambling. even in this risky game, barton gained a reputation as a high roller. his trading style was a much more gambling, much more swing for the fence type of trading. mark did not trade that style that we had really taught. mark was gambling but he was playing with his family s future during a time when the stock market was fluctuating wildly
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.
longer and that bothered me even more than mark barton s face was the image of this beautiful woman there on the floor. meanwhile, back in stockbridge, georgia, where barton has killed his wife and two children before embarking on his workplace rampage, detectives renee swanson and richard hill photograph the crime scene and obtain a list of all vehicles owned by the couple. the investigators are about to learn they are not the only ones looking for mark barton. congratulations. congratulations. today, the city of charlotte can use verizon technology to inspire businesses to conserve energy and monitor costs. making communities greener. congratulations. . and buildings as valuable to the bottom line. whoa ! . as the people inside them. congratulations.
name mark barton, my reaction was frustration, anger. i screamed. i knew instantly when they said mark barton, that it was going to be this mark barton. david mcdade was convinced mark barton had gotten away with murder yourself before, the murders of his first wife and mother-in-law at an alabama campsite. mcdade was part of the investigating team because the barton family lived in his county at the time. and he became even more certain barton was his man when he heard him protest his innocence in the letter he left behind after killing his wife leigh ann and two children. there may be similarities with these deaths and the death of my first wife, debra spivey, barton wrote, however, i deny killing her and her mother. and the only way he could know there were similarities is he had to, in fact, commit the first crimes. alabama law enforcement officials like danny smith had
the run after going on a murderous rampage in two separate office buildings. he has killed 12 so far, including his wife and children in the two days before the office massacre. from the outside looking in, mark barton and his family seemed picture perfect. to some of his neighbors, he seemed like a doting family man. hi. but those who knew him as an adult knew little of his past. his public smiles masked the turmoil that was brewing beneath the surface, probably escalated by his day trading losses which reportedly amounted to over $100,000 in the weeks before the killings. mark barton and his two children from a previous marriage had only recently moved back into his wife s apartment after a separation. and the letter found alongside his murdered family paints a portrait of a deeply disturbed, distraught individual. i don t plan to live much longer, he wrote. just long enough to kill as many of the people that greedily sought my destruction. according to one newspaper account,