Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife Irene died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, when his two young children were also found dead in their beds, suspicions were aroused about Barron. Then, when his 52-year-old mother died, also of asphyxiation in her sleep, the four deaths seemed too coincidental to ignore. Barron is the first man known to suffer from Munchausen-by-Proxy disease in which a person causes illness or death to a loved one in order to attain sympathy. Photos.