REMEMBER Barbara
Barbara Bitterman
61 YEARS OLD ·
North Naples,
Florida
Barbara J. Nugent-Bitterman was a former educator and longtime Northwest Orient Airlines flight attendant who loved travel, animals, golf, the Adirondacks, and an active community life. Friends remembered her for her warmth, generosity, humor, smile, and enthusiasm for life.
Barbara was born on January 4, 1956, in Lake Placid, New York, the youngest of four children. She graduated from Lake Placid High School in 1974 and studied at Trinity College and SUNY Plattsburgh. She worked in education before beginning a long career as a Northwest Orient Airlines flight attendant in 1981, traveling extensively before retiring after moving to Naples. Her obituary describes her love of travel, animals, motorcycles, golf, the Adirondacks, community events, and the Lake Placid Horse Show. Friends remembered her as outgoing, warm, generous, funny, and deeply engaged with the people around her.
THE RECORD
Barbara Bitterman, 61, died on May 31, 2017 in North Naples, Collier County, Florida. The Violet Thread research record classifies the case as Murder-Suicide. The recorded relationship to the perpetrator is Husband. The recorded method/weapon is Firearm.
RELATIONSHIP CONTEXT
Husband
Available research records identify the relationship to the perpetrator as Husband.
PATTERNS DOCUMENTED IN AVAILABLE RECORDS
These indicators reflect what could be established from available sources. Absence from this list does not establish that a behavior did not occur.
LEGAL / SYSTEM RESPONSE
Public domestic-violence reporting identifies Barbara’s husband, Michael Bitterman, as the person who shot and killed her in their North Naples home before killing himself. Because Michael Bitterman died, there was no criminal prosecution.
SOURCES
INFORMATION LIMITATIONS
Fields marked UNKNOWN were not established by the available coded record and do not mean the behavior did not occur.
TRANSPARENCY / RECORD NOTE
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children identifies Barbara’s death as an IPV murder-suicide and reports that friends said she had talked about divorcing her husband before her death. The Violet Thread does not treat that statement alone as proof that a legal separation or divorce filing was underway.
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