Mark O. Barton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mark O. Barton

American mass murderer

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1955

Place of Birth: Stockbridge, Georgia, United States

Date of Death: 29-Jul-1999

Profession: day trader, spree killer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Mark Orrin Barton (April 2, 1955 – July 29, 1999) was a spree killer from Stockbridge, Georgia, who killed 12 people and injured 13 more on July 29, 1999.
The murders occurred at Barton's home as well as at two Atlanta day trading firms that had employed him previously as a day trader, Momentum Securities and the All-Tech Investment Group.
It is believed that Barton was motivated by large financial losses during the previous two months.
Barton died by his own hand before he could be apprehended by police.Police searching Barton's home found that his second wife, Leigh Ann Vandiver Barton, together with the two children from his first marriage, Matthew David Barton (12) and Mychelle Elizabeth Barton (10), had been murdered by hammer blows before the shooting spree started.
The slain children were placed in bed as if asleep.
According to a note left at the scene by Barton, his wife was killed on July 27 before the children were on the following day.Before the massacre, Barton was a suspect in the 1993 beating deaths of his first wife Debra Spivey and her mother Eloise Spivey in Cherokee County, Alabama; however, he was never charged for their murders and always denied having had any part in them, including in the note he left behind with the bodies of his children and his second wife.
Notwithstanding his denials, authorities still consider Barton a suspect in the 1993 murders.