From Family Man to Gunman: The Mark Barton Tragedy

2022-11-26

Send us a textFamily man and chemist with the white picket fence family, but once he starts an affair things in his life begin to unravel. His wife and mother-in-law are killed with no closure on the case. Mark begins a new life with is former mistress and his two kids, but as things continue to go poorly after unwise business decisions create a mounting debt. Mark decides to take things into his own hands via handguns. After killing his wife and kids he goes on to plan and commit two workplace shootings before taking his own life. Sources:...

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Family man and chemist with the white picket fence family, but once he starts an affair things in his life begin to unravel. His wife and mother-in-law are killed with no closure on the case. Mark begins a new life with is former mistress and his two kids, but as things continue to go poorly after unwise business decisions create a mounting debt. Mark decides to take things into his own hands via handguns. After killing his wife and kids he goes on to plan and commit two workplace shootings before taking his own life.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-KdZU1-CSw

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/31/us/shootings-in-atlanta-the-overview-killer-confessed-in-a-letter-spiked-with-rage.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/july99/atlanta30.htm

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/ixxnd2/today_is_going_to_be_visual_the_story_of_mark_o/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/july99/barton30.htm

http://edition.cnn.com/US/9908/01/atlanta.shootings.02/

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