John Barton had been honoring the unwritten rule: he could visit his two daughters, but then he would have to leave; there would be no staying over. His wife Terry Lynn expected that of him. She had stopped counting on him for anything else. Their marriage had failed. His friends and family say he had been verbally abusive; they complained about his drinking ("mean, ugly," said his brother) and that he found it difficult to deal with her commitment to her part-time job as a forest ranger. "He just wanted her devoted to him," says a friend. She wanted a divorce...
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