exception to the rule. after killing 8 and wounding 13, westbecker shoots himself in the head with a pistol. and when police arrived, not only do they have the murder victims but they ve got the perpetrator s body. they ve got plenty of physical evidence. they may have a confession. they have everything they need. but will mark barton, now on the run, follow the pattern and commit suicide? or does he have more killing in mind? that s a coffee and two pills. the afternoon tour begins with more pain and more pills. the evening guests arrive. back to sore knees. back to more pills. the day is done but hang on. her doctor recommended aleve. just 2 pills can keep arthritis pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is lara who chose 2 aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. [ female announcer ] get an aleve coupon in this sunday s paper.
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 with an ak-47, started roaming through the corridors looking for his enemies, particularly
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 misery of this world. i don t want you growing up in a world without me. i m so important that you shouldn t live if i m not there
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 didn t 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 barton s erratic behavior is driving away business. then he would do things like change formulas without telling anybody or without telling customers or which would always cause a problem. according to leigh ann burke, barton was deliberately trying to run the company into the ground so he could take it over. he was photocopying reports from the company, like at night he would come in. he was taking all of our
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 didn t 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 reach the national merit scholar semifinals, but mark barton kept his past shrouded in mystery, preferring to keep even his accomplishments a secret. he would be so proud that nobody from his high school, nobody from college knew where he was. nobody from his past knew how to