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Word: spivey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 »

...went to Alabama to spend Labor Day weekend with her mother in a lakeside trailer. Barton stayed home with their children Mychelle and Matthew--or at least that was what he told the authorities. By the end of the weekend, the bodies of Debra Barton and her mother Eloise Spivey were found in a trailer, hacked to death by an axlike tool that police never recovered...

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

...heads with a hammer while they slept, then held them underwater in a bathtub to ensure they were dead. He placed a teddy bear on Mychelle's body, a video game on Matthew's. "There may be similarities between these deaths and the death of my first wife, Debra Spivey," he wrote. "However, I deny killing her and her mother. There is no reason...

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

...come to stud and go off to do something else. In 1910 the Birches move from Pasquotank to Raleigh, where matriarch Charlie Kate raises her daughter and granddaughter, practices medicine and becomes a Wake County legend: "Remember when she got Tessa Jerrod's arm out of the wringer? . . . Buttercup Spivey's dropped kidneys rose. Malcolm Taylor stopped wanting to scratch his missing leg. Everybody saw the miracles all around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine Woman | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

Senior John Tribolet, Mayhew's backup for the past two seasons, is the favorite to take over the quarterbacking duties. He will be looking to hook up with juniors Scott Spivey and Mike Sardo on the receiving...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: Take Your Pick in the Ivy League | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

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