How did Va. psychiatrist and patient become entwined in death?

Mark Lawrence stepped out of his home office and went downstairs to tell his next patient he needed a few minutes to finish an earlier appointment. As he headed back up the stairs, Barbara Newman leveled a gun at her longtime psychiatrist and shot at him repeatedly. He fell, dead.

Newman stepped out on the porch, turned the gun on herself and fired again.

It was a mysterious end to the lives of two highly educated, accomplished scientists, both of whom had spent their lives helping others — she by curing diseases of the body, he by curing diseases of the mind.

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Zachary A. Goldfarb 08 Aug, 2011


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