Mark Barton: Family Destroyer and Mass Murderer

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Six years before he became known as the Day Trader that went on a murderous rampage, Mark Barton was the suspect in the death of his first wife and her mother while they were camping at a lake in North Alabama. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan will share personal memories of working the homicides in Atlanta as well as breaking down the murders of Mark Barton’s first wife and her mother in the camper as well as his second wife and children in their apartment in metro Atlanta. Dave Mack will fill in the back-story on how Mark Barton may have gotten away with murder and child molestation, but he couldn’t escape himself.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:08 Introduction of geography, family killer, mass murderer

00:02:46 Discussion of Mark Barton

00:07:21 Discussion of murderers and weapons

00:11:44 Talk about day traders in Atlanta

00:16:04 Discussion of murder in camper trailer on lake

00:21:17 Discussion of “robber” that left behind cash and jewelry

00:26:26 Talk about blood in the Camper

00:31:02 Discussion of Mark Barton cheating on his wife

00:35:57 Discussion of timeline of family murders and Buckhead massacre

00:39:49 Discussion of Barton killing second wife and children with a hammer

00:43:06 Discussion of murders at Momentum and All-Tech

00:46:20 Conclusion, Barton shoots himself in the head

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0:00.0	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:06.0	I've always been a fan of geography.
0:10.0	I was a fan of maps for years.
0:12.0	I would look at any map and I think that that may have
0:16.5	translated over to my son because now my son is a GIS major you know he does
0:22.4	the geospatial information system stuff and finishing up college right now I'm so proud of him and he makes maps. That's kind of cool, I think.
0:33.9	And he studies satellite imagery and all of that.
0:36.0	But one of the things I've always been fascinated with
0:39.9	regarding maps are looking at the origins of things and specifically you say
0:45.2	well Morgan how can a map have an origin well the map itself has an origin but what
0:50.1	I'm talking about are bodies of water, particularly moving bodies of water.
0:57.2	And those are most of the time where they originate from. Those are called headwaters. Today I want to talk
1:08.0	about the headwaters of one of my favorite locations in the world and my buddy Dave Mack will attest to this and that's the Kusa River.
1:20.0	The Kusa River starts way north of where I live now, but I enjoy it all the time in my old boat that I've got.
1:29.0	But the Kusa River flows through a lake and it's a world famous lake actually for a very specific kind of fish called
1:40.0	crappy. Yeah, you heard that term right.
1:43.0	Crappy, sauwisiana, we call them saucule.
1:47.0	But what I want to tell you about is something that happened in an RV park many many years ago involving one of the most
1:58.8	notorious mass killers in the history of the South.
2:06.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags.
2:12.0	Dave always talk about it, you know, I love my boat man. I love my boat. I love my wife.
2:18.0	I love my son and my daughter. I love my grandbabies. But your feelings for your boat go even deeper don't they? I tell you what. But you know the case that we're
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