on after jennifer s death. as gwinnett county authorities investigated jennifer s death, prosecutors down in augusta indicted bart corbin in the murder of dolly hearn. police arrested him in a very dramatic and public fashion. dolly s brother heard about it from his wife. she said bart corbin is on the ground on tv and he s being arrested. i m watching it live. that was one of the best moments of our lives since, you know, the day dolly died. two weeks after his arrest in dolly s case, he was also charged with murdering his wife, jennifer. when we return, the defense claims there was a reason jennifer corbin might have wanted to take her own life. a secret about to be revealed. when this information came out in a divorce proceeding, it seemed pretty likely that dr. corbin would win custody of the boys.
yeah, hi, i m sorry. this is jennifer corbin. i called there a few minutes ago about my husband taking off with some of my possessions and he s probably going to take them and use them as evidence against me. we re in the process of going through a divorce. what s more, the prosecutor had not directly tied bart corbin to the gun used in his wife s death, a major weakness in the case against him. all of which the defense contended added up to reasonable doubt for a jury. as the trial approached, jennifer s family braced for the possibility her reputation would be tarnished in the courtroom. but they said they weren t concerned about the e-mails. she was exceptionally lonely. she just wanted a friend. somebody. and she had had a marriage that was void for years. he was having an affair. she just was dying for some companionship, and she found someone that listened to her. and somehow it gave her comfort.
december 4th, 2004, this wasn t suicide, it was murder. i said, have you arrested bart corbin? and his reply to me was, why? since we first spoke with jennifer s family, they have become much more outspoken about what they think really happened that terrible day. when it happened, i knew that there was no one else that could have done it but bart. i just could not understand how they could possibly not realize what we knew. it s what even jennifer s 7-year-old son dalton assumed right from the moment he found his mother s body and ran to the neighbor who called 911. was there anybody home last night? was your dad home? yeah. he s the one who killed my mom. in reality, dalton didn t see or hear the fatal shot, but he clearly remembered how his parents fought and how at times his dad s temper would just explode. they were fighting for a long
that would be critical to the case. but a weapons check could only trace it to a gun dealer in alabama way back in 1957, years before bart was born. the d.a. did know bart had a friend in troy, alabama, named richard wilson. so i dispatched investigators to alabama for the first time on december the 15th of 2004 to talk to richard wilson in troy, alabama. he initially says that the only thing he knows is that he had talked to bart and learned that jennifer had died. and he tells us he doesn t know anything about a gun. investigators also used bart s cell phone records to map his movements on that fatal night. bart said he was at his brother s house around 2:00 a.m., jennifer s estimated time of death. but cell phone records put him right near the house where jennifer died.
to the investigators in augusta, georgia, back in 1990, it looked like suicide. there were not crime scene technicians working the case as we do today. all the medical examiner had at the time was simply that it was a female with a gunshot wound to the head and the gun was found in front of her. is there any way your sister could have taken her own life? there s absolutely no thought in my mind or any of the family s mind that she would have done that. like jennifer s family, the hearns were adamant that dolly had not taken her life. because of the troubles bart and dolly had in their relationship, authorities investigated the possibility of foul play in 1990 and interviewed bart corbin, but they couldn t find conclusive evidence of either a homicide or suicide, and no one was charged. the hardest part has been having no official closure, having a case that was just casually ruled suicide and