61: Mark Barton: Family Annihilator & Spree Killer

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In July of 1999, a day trader named Mark Barton went on a killing spree in Atlanta’s financial district. He murdered 9 people that day, wounding 13 more. Two days before this massacre, he murdered his second wife and two children. But he was also suspected of murdering his first wife and her mother six years earlier. Mark Barton is a family annihilator, spree killer, mass murderer and possibly, a serial killer. He fits into every classification or none of them.

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Suggested Reading: “Murder at the Office” by Brent Doonan and “Delivered from Evil” by Ron Francell

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0:32.6	Southern Fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners and
0:37.7	there may also be some explicit language used.
0:40.5	Listener discretion is advised. Family and I-lators are not a new phenomenon, but with
0:48.6	advances in psychiatry and criminology we have come to understand them better.
0:53.5	With the 24-hour news cycle now in the palm of our hands, these monsters dominate
0:58.1	the headlines, despite the fact that Famila's side is actually quite rare.
1:03.1	It's because these crimes are horrific, it's because we have difficulty imagining it
1:07.5	happening to someone we know or love, and especially to ourselves.
1:11.9	And while experts can point to warning signs or factors, it is always in hindsight.
1:17.6	Spree killers or mass murderers are also rare, despite also dominating our media.
1:23.8	And it isn't unusual for a spree killer to annihilate his own family before he goes
1:28.2	on a rampage. Mark Orrin Barton is a family annihilator and a spree killer.
1:34.3	He does fit some of the statistical molds we characterize these killers by.
1:38.8	But by definition, a spree killer is someone who kills two or more victims in a short
1:43.2	time in multiple locations without a cooling off period.
1:47.5	Barton did do this in Atlanta on July 29, 1999, killing nine people and wounding 13.
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