Man Who Killed Family formerly CIA??

[LeighAnn]

Anybody heard this about that guy who killed his family out in California?

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/21/FOURDEAD.TMP

Morrissey told several neighbors and acquaintances that he had served in the CIA. An online resume said Morrissey served in the Army Special Forces and was a foreign service officer.

From the Argus

http://origin.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_6184336

They were also checking a report the father suspected in the tragic event, Kevin Morrissey, 51, had a background with the Central Intelligence Agency. His resume, posted online, says he served in the U.S. Army Special Forces and worked for the U.S. diplomatic corps for many years.

???

[lynnertic]

1. Ho boy, cagey ex-military IT guy with powerful wife and control issues

= not an easygoing life.

How weird that he referred to his wife as his bride after years of marriage. 'Bride' is diminutive and connotes a girl, whereas 'wife' puts a woman on more of an equal footing.

But there was a 10 year age difference between Morrissey and his wife. That means different things to different people, but at 51 he might be less accepting of a failed business than at 40.

I think that the fact that his last job was as the manager of his wife's practice is important but can't put my finger on why. Maybe it points to the difficulty of working with your spouse? Maybe it illustrates "the controlling nature" of his personality that his neighbor talked about. Maybe his toxic personality drove away customers or he otherwise sabotaged his wife's business. Maybe he didn't but she made him the scapegoat.

This need to explain himself with multiple letters and a typed 1.5 page note in his pocket seems consistent with his need to brag to neighbors about being in the CIA.

The urge to control perceptions even after his own death points to a narcissistic personality. It apparently made sense to him that if he couldn't hack life anymore (because other employment opportunities were 'unattractive'?) then surely his wife and children couldn't either. I wonder if she was threatening to leave him.

Morrissey thought about this for at least two months: he purchased his weapon in mid-April, picked it up May 1, refinanced June 1, (too little, too late?) killed family mid-June. I wonder what it feels like to live with someone who plots your entire family's death for two months? His neighbor at the park got the creeps just from standing closeby.

I saw another neighbor of theirs on my local TV (I live in CA). It appeared that he was an older man without a family of his own, they had adjacent yards or something. He expressed his fondness for the girls and kind of choked up. I bet he would have done many things to help, were he given the opportunity. This to me illustrates a problem with modern life - even in Berkeley - televisions and privacy fences keep people apart and it takes an incredible amount of effort for neighbors to get to know each other well enough to be comfortable helping each other out.