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Barton speaks through the notes that were found lying on the corpses of his murdered wife Leigh Ann, 27, daughter Mychelle, 8, and son Matthew, 12, shrouded in towels and sheets, only their faces showing. He wrote in another note, "I don't plan to live very much longer, just long enough to kill as many of the people that greedily sought my destruction." But Barton also speaks in a 1995 deposition, obtained by TIME, in which he narrates his life in sober and calculated tones. Barton was trying to collect the $600,000 in insurance he had taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...argued his case by talking about his life, appearing to discuss candidly the rootlessness of his life, the deterioration of his marriage to first wife Debra Spivey and his affair with Leigh Ann Lang. The only child of parents in the Air Force, Barton worked as a manual laborer and drifted briefly through one college before settling at the University of South Carolina, where he graduated with a chemistry degree in 1979. That same year, he married Spivey, a fellow student he had met while working as night auditor at a local hotel. After living in Atlanta, where Barton tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Barton moved to Georgia with his wife and, after starting up a firm he compared with a "paper route," he took a job as a salesman for a chemical company. In his new position, he got to know a young receptionist named Leigh Ann Lang. She was married at the time, but apparently not happily. "She liked older guys," Barton said. "She made that known to everybody." By May 1993, Barton and Lang were having an affair. He bought a new wardrobe and began keeping up a tan. Debra grew suspicious. "The key to the whole thing was I started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...June 1993, Barton and Leigh Ann took a trip to Charlotte, N.C., where they had dinner with friends of hers. Over dinner, Barton said he had never loved anyone more than Leigh Ann, and that he would be free to marry her by Oct. 1. At the end of August, Leigh Ann was ready to end her own marriage. She found an apartment and moved in with her sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Paloff's fellow Mather seniors also received a letter from the registrar's office last month saying their diplomas were invalid due to a printing error--the titles of House Master Sandra A. Naddaff '75 and Co-Master Leigh G. Hafrey '73 had been switched--and that the certificates had to be mailed back in exchange for correct ones...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Error Causes Recall Of Mather Diplomas | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

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