Game Developer Murdered

Sunday 3 August 2008 @ 10:15 am | By Quiche

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A very tragic scene unfolded earlier this week in Redmond, Washington state: Microsoft software development engineer Melissa Batten, 36, was murdered by her husband, who then took his own life.

Kotaku says, “Batten, a Harvard-educated lawyer, was a Software Development Engineer in Test for Microsoft, supporting Rare on its 360 titles work.” Her husband had a history of obsessive and verbally abusive behaviors, unsurprisingly. She sought a protection order against him, but to no avail. RIP.

[Kotaku]

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