200: The Murders of Jennifer Corbin & Dolly Hearn

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Southern fried true crime covers cases that
are not suitable for young listeners, and

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there may also be some explicit language
used listener discretion as advised. The morning

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of December fourth, two thousand and
four and Beauford, Georgia, should have

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been forgettable like any other Saturday morning
in this quaint suburban town. Many of

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Beauford's residents worked in Atlanta during the
week. When Kelly Como woke up that

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day, she probably thought it would
be an easy Saturday, cereal and cartoons

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for her daughter, maybe errands later. The weekend stretched before her with easy

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possibilities until someone rang the doorbell over
and over again. When Kelly opened her

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front door at seven thirty am,
she was shocked. It was a young

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boy dressed only in his underwear.
He was red faced, crying and screaming.

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Kelly immediately recognized the sandy haired boy. He was seven year old Dalton

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Corbin, the eldest of two sons
of the Corbyn family, who lived across

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the street in a brick too story
home. Kelly knew the Corbyn's well.

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The mother of the family, Jennifer, was a preschool teacher for the sugar

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Hill United Methodist Church, and the
father of the family. Bart was a

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dentist. When Bart and Jennifer bought
the house in nineteen ninety nine, Kelly

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and her husband Steve had become incredibly
close with them, so close, in

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fact, the Comos changed their will. In the event of the Como's deaths,

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Bart and Jennifer would take over their
estate and custody of their children.

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But Jennifer and Bart were nowhere to
be seen, just little Dalton and the

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first words out of his mouth were, my daddy shot my mommy. For

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years, lawyers police officers in the
Corbyn family would debate this statement that Bart

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Corbin had shot Jennifer Corbyn, and
in the process of determining this truth,

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many other truths would also be revealed. Welcome to episode two hundred, the

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Murders of Jennifer Corbin and Dolly Hearn. Jennifer Monique Barbar Corbin was born January

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twenty fifth, nineteen seventy one,
and Bowling Green, Kentucky, to parents

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NARDA and Max Barber. Jennifer was
the middle child of three. Her sister

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Ragelle was the oldest and Heather was
the youngest. At some point, the

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Barbers moved from Kentucky. It appears
they spent some time in North Carolina before

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settling in Georgia. Although we don't
have much information about Jennifer's childhood, future

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events will show that the Barbers were
a really close knit family. Jennifer's sister,

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Heather, later described Jennifer as easygoing
and a great listener. She could

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make friends with almost anyone, and
she was fun to be around. You

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always knew that she would be there
for you. Jennifer was also known to

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be a creative soul, a free
spirit. After graduating from high school,

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she attended the Savannah College of Art
and Design. According to the Atlanta Constitution,

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she seriously considered becoming a photographer.
When Jennifer left college. Before graduating,

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she moved to Gwyneck County, Georgia. She had family there. Around

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this time, which would have been
in the early to mid nineties, Jennifer

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was working at Barnacle's Oyster Bar in
Duluth as a waitress. The higher ups

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at the bar saw Jennifer's potential for
leadership right away. She was quickly promoted

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to shift manager. Overall, it
was a good gig for Jennifer. Most

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of the customers were nice. They
were always happy to see Jennifer's dazzling smile.

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One customer in particular was especially nice, and that was Barton Corby,

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who went by Bart. And Bart
was a regular at Barnacles because his brother

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Robert worked there as a bouncer.
And Bart was also a regular at Barnacles

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because his brother Robert had mentioned,
Hey, this really cute blonde works here.

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You should stop by. Even though
Bart was eight years older than twenty

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somethings Jennifer, he was very handsome, six foot three, slim, with

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brown hair and brown eyes. And
it wasn't just Bart Corbyn. He was

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doctor Bart corbyin a dentist, a
full grown man who had his life together,

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who was charming and obviously interested in
Jennifer. So Bart and Jennifer began

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dating, and at first things were
peachy. When Jennifer brought Bart home to

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her family, everything went swimmingly.
Jennifer's parents and sisters could tell that Bart

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was clearly infatuated with Jennifer, and
even though there was a bit of an

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age gap, the barber still decided
to like Bart. After all, he

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was smart and funny. Jennifer's sister
Heather told NBC News He's got a very

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quick wit and it people I think
are drawn to that. If you know

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him, crack on him. He
has a crack that's five times better than

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yours. And Bart was always around. According to Jennifer's father, Max,

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in interviews with NBC News, we
loved Bart Corbin. He came into the

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family very quickly. He did a
lot of traveling with US vacations. He

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spent most of his weekends with us. So Jennifer's family approved. They thought

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Bart was a good match for their
free spirited daughter. He brought her down

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to earth, which they appreciated,
though Jennifer's father, Max told the Atlanta

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Constitution that he was never comfortable with
how much Bart swore. On September first,

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nineteen ninety six, thirty two year
old Bart and twenty five year old

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Jennifer were married. It was,
according to the Atlanta Constitution, a spectacular

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garden ceremony. The bride'smaids carried red
roses and wore stunning black, black and

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white gowns, but the hem of
Jennifer's beautiful white dress did get stained with

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red Georgia clay. Of course,
that didn't matter. Nothing mattered except the

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union of two adults who were happy
and in love and already anticipating the birth

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of their first child. Seven months
later, on April third, nineteen ninety

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seven, Jennifer gave birth to her
first son, Dalton. Two years after

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Dalton was born, around nineteen ninety
nine, Jennifer and Bart had another son

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named Dylan. At this point,
their relationship and family was experiencing a roller

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coaster of ups and downs. On
the one hand, Jennifer adored her family.

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She loved being a mom. According
to her sister Heather in interviews with

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NBC News, she was born to
be a mom, and when she became

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a mom, she did at one
hundred and ten percent. She became Miss

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Pta, the SGV driving Baseball Toading's
supermom. But on the other hand,

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Bart was getting more and more difficult
for Jennifer to handle. On the outside,

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he appeared to be as devoted as
Jennifer, a superdad to her super

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mom. He coached the kids' sports, he took smiling photos with the family,

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but Jennifer complained to her father Max, that Bart could be harsh with

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her. He would get mad,
call her names and yell, and as

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the boys got older, Bart would
yell at them too. He held his

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sons to high standards, incredibly high, as in impossible to attain. Jennifer's

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sister Heather remembered that once Bart screamed
at one of the boys during a little

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league game. Bart called his own
son a loser and an idiot in public

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and at full volume. On a
different occasion, he berated his children so

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furiously that Jennifer's dad, Max,
stepped in. Max told Bart he had

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to stop cussing at his own kids. According to Jennifer's sister Heather, one

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minute he has had to go lucky. The next minute, it's just like

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he goes into a rage. But
things weren't all bad. Bart made good

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money as a dentist, and because
of that, they had a beautiful,

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large home. Jennifer was able to
be a full time mom. She just

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worked part time at her church's preschool, and honestly, that seemed like it

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was more for fun than anything else. Bart was able to take Jennifer and

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the kids on lavish vacations. They
went to Europe, they took a Caribbean

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cruise. Depending on your personal views
on money, maybe Bart's high paying job

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doesn't seem like a good enough reason
to stay with him, and that's fair,

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but it is a reason that Jennifer
might have considered staying with him.

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And I'm sure there were good moments
in the Corbin household too, moments where

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Bart wasn't raising his voice or criticizing, where the family was cuddled on the

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couch watching a movie, or happily
eating dinner while telling stories from their day.

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That's how all relationships go, even
toxic ones. The good moments can

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be really really good, even when
the bad ones are really really bad.

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And Bart and Jennifer weren't oblivious to
their relationship troubles either. According to Jennifer's

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family, marriage counseling had been brought
up, but during Thanksgiving of two thousand

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and four, things turned south for
the Corbyn family in a big way.

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At that point, marriage counseling was
not going to save this marriage. I'm

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going to pause now for a short
commercial break. Thursday, November twenty fifth,

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two thousand and four, was Thanksgiving
Day. Bart Jennifer, and their

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two sons were at Heather's house to
celebrate. At this time, Barton Jennifer

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had been married for about eight years. Their sons were ages seven and five.

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Bart was forty years old and Jennifer
was thirty three, and to put

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it mildly, things were not going
well for Barton Jennifer. He had been

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cheating on her for a lot time. He had actually started a relationship with

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a woman before he had even married
Jennifer, and he had continued that same

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relationship during his marriage. It's unclear
if Jennifer knew about the affair. Meanwhile,

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Jennifer was also kind of cheating on
Bart. She had recently started having

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an online relationship with a man named
Chris from Missouri. At least that's what

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this person told Jennifer. In reality, it was actually a woman named Anita.

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Jennifer was being catfished when she found
out that her online romantic partner was

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a woman. She was angry at
first, but eventually she accepted it and

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continued to communicate with Anita. Around
this time, Jennifer shared with her mother,

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Narda, that she no longer wanted
to be married to bart She was

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frustrated with his constant anger towards her
and the boys. According to Narda,

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as reported by NBC News, Jennifer
said, I am ready to leave,

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and I'm ready to get on with
my life. While we're unsure if Jennifer

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knew about Bart's cheating, Bart definitely
knew about Jennifer's cheating, and it all

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came to a head during the Thanksgiving. During the festivities, Jennifer's family noticed

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that Bart was acting strange. He
spent a lot of time in a room

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by himself. He wouldn't engage in
conversation. For a man who was known

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for being the center of attention and
his ability to tell a funny story,

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this must have stood out to everyone. Suddenly, at six pm sharp,

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Bart wanted to leave. According to
the Atlanta Constitution, Dalton and Dylan protested,

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but Jennifer quickly agreed and hurried the
boys into the car. When Bart

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and Jennifer got into the car,
he began screaming at her. He was

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angry about her online relationship with Anita. He called her a slut in front

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of their children, who were both
terrified in the back seat. Then,

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according to Jennifer's family, Bart punched
Jennifer in the face, and, according

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to Jennifer's sister, Heather, Jennifer
responded by telling Bart not to hit her

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in front of the children, to
which he said, I've never touched you.

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It's your word against mine. Later, after talking to a lawyer,

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Bart would allege that he had not
punched Jennifer, that it was an accidental

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slap when his hands slipped. Her
sister, Heather, was married to a

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man named Doug, and shortly after
arriving home from this Thanksgiving from Hell,

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Jennifer called several family members, including
her father, her sister, and her

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brother in law Doug. As Jennifer
told Doug that Bart had punched her,

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he said he heard Bart in the
background. According to Doug, Bart said,

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whatever she says is a lie.
I didn't hit her. She can't

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prove anything. Dalton's a juvenile anyway, he can't testify. Upon realizing that

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Bart had abused Jennifer, her family
urged her to return to Heather's house,

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and an hour later she did.
The boys were with her too. The

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next day, Bart called Jennifer's father
Max. He told his father in law

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that he was filing for divorce and
that he was going to take what was

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his, which seemed to be coded
for I'm going to take everything, including

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the kids. The next Monday,
November twenty ninth, Bart officially filed for

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divorce. He wanted the house then
worth two hundred and seventeen thousand, now

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estimated on Zilo to be worth over
five hundred thousand, and he also wanted

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full custody of the boys and child
support payments from his stay at home mom

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slash part time preschool teacher wife.
It's so clear that he was preparing for

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battle. He wanted Jennifer to know
that this divorce was going to be ugly

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and that he was determined to come
out on the other side victorious. Two

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days later, on the morning of
Wednesday, December first, Jennifer and Bart

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were both at their home at about
six am. Bart had taken a shower

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and was wearing only a towel,
and then, for some reason, he

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decided to go through Jennifer's purse.
When Jennifer caught him rifling through her items,

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Bart through the contents of her purse
across the kitchen. Then, still

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wearing only his towel, he got
into his yellow Mustang and drove away.

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Jennifer quickly realized that Bart had stolen
her phone and personal journal. He had

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also taken a shotgun. Jennifer called
nine to one one to report the situation,

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and during the call, she told
the nine to one one operator that

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she suspected Bart was seeking evidence.
She believed he was going to use any

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personal information he found against her in
their divorce. Three police cruisers arrived at

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the Corbin home only nine minutes after
Jennifer called, but eight minutes later they

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left without filing a police report.
According to the authorities, that was standard

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operating procedure. They were checking out
a potential domestic violence situation. There was

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no domestic violence, so they left. According to Jennifer's family, Bart drove

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over Jennifer's foot as he fled the
driveway, but either the police didn't care

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about that or Jennifer didn't tell them. Later, Jennifer would refuse to go

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to the hospital for her injuries,
so it's unclear how severe they were.

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That week, Jennifer was really going
through it. She called her father Max

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and her sister Heather every single day, but not on Friday, December third,

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two thousand and four. That day, according to Heather, Jennifer was

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busy. She had gone to Dalton's
evening basketball game while Bart stayed home with

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Dylan. He was still living in
the house with Jennifer and the boys.

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When Jennifer and Dalton came home.
Bart left he got some drinks with friends

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at the Wild Wing Cafe in Swanee. Jennifer stayed home with her sons,

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made dinner, and put them to
bed at about ten pm. As she

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tucked her eldest son into bed,
Jennifer told seven year old Dalton that they

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were going to get him a haircut
the next day. Then she spoke on

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the phone with Anita until about twelve
thirty am, and then she got into

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bed and went to sleep. The
next day, Dalton woke up at about

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seven thirty in the morning. He
went into his mother's room and he saw

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that his mom was very clearly dead. He ran across the street to seek

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help from his neighbor and family friend, Kelly Como. Kelly ran to the

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Corbin home and immediately called nine one
one. According to NBC News, this

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is a portion of that call.
Kelly, my girlfriend's dead. Operator.

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Okay, what do you mean by
that, Kelly, she's been shot.

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Her son just ran over and got
me. They live across the street from

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me. Operator. Okay, do
you think she can be helped? Kelly?

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No. Further in the conversation,
the nine one one operator spoke to

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Dalton. Here's an excerpt from that
portion of the conversation, as provided by

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NBC News, operator Oka, was
there anybody home last night? Was your

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dad home? Dalton? Yeah,
he's the one who killed my mom.

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They were fighting for a long time. Operator, It was a long time

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Dalton. Yeah. It's like you're
like for today and like the other and

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like yesterday in the day after that. Operator, So they've been fighting a

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lot lately, Dalton. Yeah,
it's so heartbreaking. How sure Dalton was

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that his dad killed his mom?
According to NBC News, Dalton did not

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actually witness his mother's death. He
was making an assumption based on his recent

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experiences with his parents. After Kelly
called nine one one, she got ahold

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of Jennifer's sister, Heather. Upon
hearing the news of Jennifer's death, Heather

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described herself as quote hysterical. In
interviews with NBC News, Heather said,

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it's like somebody took the engine of
a jet and put it on backwards and

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just sucked the air out of my
lungs. Never in a million years did

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I ever think I would have to
life my life with out my sister.

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Next, Heather called her mom Narda, and Narda called Jennifer's father, Max,

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Max was working at a car dealership
when he received the news at eight

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forty am. He promptly jumped in
his vehicle and went to Jennifer's house,

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but he couldn't get inside. The
Gwynet County authorities wouldn't let him in,

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so Max went to the neighbor,
Kelly's house to pick up his grandson's He

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felt sick and sad for his eldest
grandson, Dalton. He later told journalists

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from the Atlanta Constitution that he knew
Dalton would never forget the traumatic experience of

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finding his mother dead. Meanwhile,
Bart was nowhere to be found. He

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hadn't come home after a night of
drinking with his male friend and a female

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friend at the Wild Wing Cafe.
In fact, Bart would not contact his

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Heather, was flabbergasted by Bart's lack
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matter the bad blood that had festered, this was his wife, the mother

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of his children, and she was
dead. It's unclear if Heather knew at

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first what Dalton had said to Kelly
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initial reaction would be something along the
lines of, oh my god, where

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are my children, Oh my God, where's Jennifer? Oh my god,

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what happened? There was not a
peep, There was not a word.

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Jennifer was found in her bedroom,
lying on the bed in her nightgown.

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She had suffered a single gunshot wound
to the head, and there was a

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revolver tucked underneath the sheets near her
hands. Also on her bed were the

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divorce papers. Initially, the police
believed that Jennifer had died by suicide.

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That's what it looked like. The
pressure of the divorce, the ensuing custody

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battle, the threat of losing everything, and Jennifer had just found out that

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her online lover, whom she thought
was a man, was a woman.

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That had to be jarring. Perhaps
Jennifer was at her wits end and succumbed

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to suicide, but Jennifer's family balked
at this explanation. They knew in their

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hearts that Jennifer would not have left
her two sons alone in this world of

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her own will, and four days
later, on Wednesday, December eighth,

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the authorities reported that Jennifer's death was
now the subject of a homicide investigation.

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And that's because only a few days
after Jennifer's death, her mother Narda,

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received an unexpected phone call from someone
who chose to stay anonymous. The anonymous

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caller informed Narda that this wasn't the
first a woman had died after being romantically

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involved with Bart Corbyn. Fourteen years
earlier, Bart's then girlfriend, Dorothy Dolly

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Hearn had also died by suicide in
a startingly similar fashion. Now everyone was

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wondering who was Bart Corbyn really.
Barton Thomas Corbyn was born on December twenty

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second, nineteen sixty three, in
Gwinnett County, Georgia, to parents Anne

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and Eugene. Bart was three minutes
older than his fraternal twin brother, Bradley,

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and they were four years older than
the youngest brother, Robert. During

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Bart's childhood, his family lived in
the small city of Snellville, yet another

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Atlanta suburb. There, Bart's father
worked as a military policeman and his mother

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was a bank teller. In his
teen years, Bart attended South Gwynet High

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School. His grades were above average. He played football once he was cast

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in the school play, but that
was out of ordinary for Bart. He

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was the kind of guy who was
more sports than arts. Bart graduated from

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high school in nineteen eighty two,
and afterward he enrolled in the pre dentistry

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program at the University of Georgia.
While there, Bart's brother, Robert,

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said that Bart joined the UGA football
team as a walk on. According to

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Robert, it was competitiveness that drove
Bart to do that, But according to

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the University of Georgia, Bart was
never on the football team, not as

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a walk on or anything else.
The Atlanta Constitution suggested that perhaps Bart joined

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after the official roster came out,
or maybe he just lied. Bart received

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his bachelors degree in pre dentistry in
nineteen eighty seven. Then he made his

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way to dental school at the Medical
College of Georgia and Augusta. There Bart

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made friends and enemies. Some knew
him to be a gentleman, while others

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knew him to have an incredibly short
fuse with an explosive temper. One classmate

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said that Art through a class project
against a wall, and honestly, that's

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so freaking weird. This isn't elementary
school, not even high school. This

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is a twenty five year old man
behaving poorly in public. Amongst his academic

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peers, peers who would one day
soon be his professional colleagues. But according

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to his classmates, when Bart wasn't
quick tempered, he was hilarious. One

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person told the Atlanta Constitution that Bart
was quote one of the funniest guys you'll

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ever meet. He's been known to
embellis using the art of words you probably

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wouitness around your grandma. Now let's
jump to nineteen eighty nine. Bart was

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in dental school and that's where he
met a pretty young woman named Dolly.

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This was twenty six year old Dorothy
Carlyle Hearn. She went by Dolly.

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Dolly was born on July sixth,
nineteen sixty two, in Atlanta, Georgia,

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to parents Barbara and Carlton. She
had two brothers, Gilmour and Carlton

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Junior. Dolly was a vivacious young
woman with the ark care and a gorgeous

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smile. According to her family,
she was an outgoing woman who loved to

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have fun and support others. She
made the people around her feel like they

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could accomplish anything. And maybe that's
because Dolly knew she could accomplish anything.

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Her father was also a dentist.
He started his own dental practice in Washington,

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Georgia, the same year that Dolly
was born, nineteen sixty two,

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and Dolly, ever the daddy's girl, was eager to follow in doctor Carlton

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Senior's footsteps. After she graduated from
dental school, she planned to return to

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Washington, Georgia, and she was
going to work alongside her father in that

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same office he had founded twenty seven
years earlier. But then she met Bart

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Corbin. Friends of Dolly say that
she and Bart met during Dolly's third year

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of dental school. They dated for
about a year, and just like Bart's

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relationship with Jennifer, things between Bart
and Dolly started off great, but soon

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his temper revealed itself, and before
long he was downright hostile towards Dolly.

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Their relationship became especially tense after Dolly
tried to break up with Bart. The

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details of that conversation aren't clear,
but essentially Bart knew Dolly wanted to leave

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him, he had somehow convinced her
not to. But Bart was going to

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make Dolly pay for her trying to
leave him, or at least that's what

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it seemed like to Dolly and others, because starting from when Dolly attempted to

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end things with Bart. Strange things
began happening to her bad things. Someone

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broke into her apartment and destroyed her
screen door in the process. Someone slashed

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her tires, poured paint in her
gas tank, and smashed her car lights.

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Someone stole a package from her mailbox, someone stole her school project,

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someone put hairspray in her contact solution, and someone even stole her beloved cat,

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Tabitha. According to a dental school
classmate, Travis Hampton, it took

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Dolly a little while to realize that
it was Bart who was actively sabotaging her

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life, he told NBC News.
At first, she thought she was just

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unlucky, but after a while she
realized that luck had nothing to do with

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it. She was being targeted.
Dolly filed at least four police reports with

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the Richmond County authorities regarding these incidents, so the police knew that somebody was

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harassing her, and they also knew
that Dolly suspected it was her own boyfriend,

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Bart Corbin. And even though Richmond
County officers verified that Bart was considered

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quote a person of real concern in
the case, nothing ever came of it.

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Years later, Richmond County indicated that
Dolly had chosen not to prosecute some

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of the instances she had reported,
and authorities would also allege that they must

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have not had enough evidence to go
forward with the rest they claimed. When

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these unfortunate things were happening to her, some kind of action would have been

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taken if there was any evidence to
support them. But back then, the

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authorities were pretty natoire warrious for not
taking stalking and similar behaviors seriously, and

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what else were they going to say? Sorry, our bad. At some

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point, Bart admitted to doing at
least some of these things to Dolly.

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According to a friend, Bart confessed
to Dolly that he had taken her cat,

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Tabitha. He had dropped her off
miles away from Dolly's apartment. Luckily,

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Dolly was able to go to that
location and find Tabitha. At one

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point, she tried to record Bart
admitting to doing some of these things,

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but Bart caught on quickly and refused
to say anything more. According to Travis,

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Dolly was trying to wait Bart out. She wasn't going to break up

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with him because she didn't want to
anger him further. After all, Bart

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was going to graduate in just a
few months. He told the newspaper.

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She was trying to get on his
good side, hoping he would just graduate

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and then get out of her life. But Bart became obsessed with Dolly so

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much so that she feared him.
Travis said that Dolly asked to stay at

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his house one night because she did
didn't want to sleep at her house alone.

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Dolly's brother Gil told NBC News,
I would describe him as Juckalinhde.

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He was obviously bright, He could
perform well academically, he could relate to

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people. He could fool a lot
of people. But Bart wasn't fooling Dolly's

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friend, Travis. Travis urged Dolly
to get a gun to protect herself,

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but Dolly didn't buy one. She
did borrow a gun from her father,

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though. Travis told NBC News,
I know that her father had told her,

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you need to get away from him, or you're going to wind up

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in a dumpster one day. Suddenly, the summer break of nineteen ninety,

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Bart seemed to back off. Dolly's
plan looked like it was working. Bart

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was almost done with his studies.
He would move to a new town,

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get a job, start his career
as a dentist, and Dolly would finally

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Uncommon Goods were all out of the
ordinary. On the afternoon of Wednesday,

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June sixth, nineteen ninety, Dolly's
roommate found her body. Twenty seven year

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old Dolly was in the living room
on the couch. She had died from

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a single gunshot wound to the right
side of her head, and the gun

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her father had loaned her, a
thirty eight caliber pistol, was in her

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lap. Dolly's roommate held her cat, Tabitha as the medics rolled her body

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out of the apartment. Dolly appeared
to have died by suicide. However,

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the local authorities did investigate the possibility
of foul play due to the troubled nature

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of Bart and Dolly's relationship. They
interviewed Bart corbyin twice and he was considered

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a person of interest, but Bart
quickly lawyered up and stopped talking to the

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authorities. Travis told the Atlanta Constitution
that the police interviewed him very briefly about

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Dolly's death. It was a twenty
minute phone call. Travis explained that quote.

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They were pretty clearly looking at it
as a suicide at the time.

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They said Bart was probably doing those
things, but that doesn't make him a

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murderer. They told me they thought
she was frustrated at the time and she

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killed herself. No one interviewed Travis's
older brother, Derek Hampton. He was

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another dental student and a close friend
of Bart's. Derek had been at Dolly's

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apartment on the same day that she
died, and he had witnessed Dolly and

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Bart have a fight. On June
tenth, nineteen ninety Dolly was buried in

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Rest Haven Cemetery in Washington, Georgia. For years after Dolly's untimely death,

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her family pushed local law enforcement to
continue investigating her case. They felt that

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she could not have taken her own
life. She was too excited about too

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many things, she was looking forward
to her future, and she hadn't expressed

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any mental health struggles besides those caused
by Bart. The Hearns hired a private

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investigator to look into her case,
and a friend of Bart's gave some very

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interesting information to that PI. A
man named Eric Rader said that his friend

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Bart had come to him very agitated. He asked Eric not to tell the

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investigators a very crucial detail that Bart
knew Dolly's father had lent her a gun,

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So Eric didn't tell the authorities,
but he did tell the PI,

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and the PI gave that information to
the Richmond County detectives, but apparently they

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didn't think that was important. After
that, the detectives felt they didn't have

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definitive evidence of either suicide or homicide. According to NBC News, despite Richmond

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County authorities investigating for months, the
case remained open. No one was charged,

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and for fourteen years, Dolly's case
went cold. Her landlord told the

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Atlanta Constitution. It was never in
the paper, never on the radio.

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Nobody questioned the investigation. Most people
just went on with their lives. Bart

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graduated from dental school three days after
Dolly's death, and he moved on with

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his life too. Before an anonymous
tipster told Narda and the authorities about Bart's

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involvement with Dolly Hearn, Jennifer's family
had never heard of her, which seems

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a little peculiar. Wouldn't your son
in law mention that he had had a

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girlfriend who had died. Wouldn't he
at least tell his wife of eight years.

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I feel like most relationships have that
point where you go through the details

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of your dating history, and this
seems like it would have been a big

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detail, and it seems like something
that Jennifer would have told someone, her

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father Max, her sister Heather,
her other sister Ragelle, anyone, especially

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once her marriage went sour following Jennifer's
death. This key phone call and the

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realization that Dolly's death might be related, Dolly's family connected with Jennifer's family.

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The Hearns even attended Jennifer's funeral and
solidarity at the funeral, which was held

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on December tenth, two thousand and
four, at the sugar Hill United Methodist

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Church, the two families hugged.
Someone else, unexpectedly, also attended Jennifer's

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funeral, Bart Corbin himself. He
sat in the front pew with his mother,

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and understandably that really pissed off some
of Jennifer's family. Only a few

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hours earlier, District Attorney Danny Porter
had named Bart as a suspect for Jennifer's

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murder, and that same day,
the authorities had resumed investigative efforts for Dolly

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00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:45.480
Hearns's case. And yet here was
Bart like nothing had happened. He didn't

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speak to hardly anyone at the funeral, but as he left he made sure

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to call the journalists asking him questions, vultures and scum. When Jennifer's case

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became a homicide investigation on December eighth, the police had tried to question Bart,

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but just as he had with Dolly's
death, he quickly lawyered up and

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based on his lawyer's advice, he
refused to speak with the police, which

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is his legal right, even if
it looks shady as hell. So the

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investigation continued without Bart's help, because
when the detectives really started to look at

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Jennifer's death, it was clear that
this was not a suicide. Here are

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the facts. Blood dripping out of
Jennifer's nose went directly down her face toward

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the floor, meaning she was lying
down when she was shot. That suggests

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that she was asleep, not that
she was taking her own life. There

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was also no gunpowder residue on Jennifer's
hands, and there were no fingerprints on

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the gun. Also, the medical
examiner determined that Jennifer had been shot in

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a specific area of the head where
she would have lost all of her motor

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functions immediately, She should have dropped
the gun. Instead, the gun was

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tucked under the sheets with her angle
of the bullet wound didn't make sense.

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Jennifer's arms weren't physically long enough to
allow for her to place the gun on

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her head the way it would have
had to have been placed in. Steve

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Como, the Corbyn's friend and neighbor, had seen Bart's Chevy pick up at

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the Corbyn house from one forty five
am to two oh five am, the

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exact time in which Jennifer might have
been killed. Bart's cell phone records corroborated

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this information that was exactly where he
had been. As for Dolly's case,

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new evidence was coming to light.
Crime scene photos showed blood spatters that suggested

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that Dolly could not have held the
gun to shoot herself. Now investigators believed

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Dolly's body was staged after her death, and Eric Rader, that friend of

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Bart's who knew Bart was aware Dolly's
dad had loaned her the gun, came

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forward on Monday, December thirteenth,
two thousand and four. Bart was considered

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the primary focus of Jennifer's investigation.
On that st same day, approximately one

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hundred people gathered outside of the Corbet
home in Beauford. This was an event

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held by Jennifer's family to demonstrate their
commitment to the case. Jennifer's sister Heather

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said, to depress, we want
answers. Bart did not attend, but

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he did go back to work at
his dental office that day. On Tuesday,

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December fourteenth, Bart said to a
WAGATV reporter, I'm anxious to speak,

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but have not because of legal advice. The truth will come out in

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the end. I'm going to pause
now for a final commercial break. At

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about noon on December twenty second,
two thousand and four, Bart was arrested

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for the murder of twenty seven year
old Dolly Hearn. It was a big

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to do, publicized on television.
Bart was thrown to the ground, and

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to top it all off, it
happened on his forty first birthday. The

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00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:02.360
petty in Me loves this. Dolly's
brother Gil said, that was one of

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the best moments of our lives since
the day Dolly died. At this time,

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00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:12.880
the investigation for Jennifer's case was ongoing, so Bart was taken to Richmond

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County Jail in Augusta, Georgia,
a town where he had killed Dolly.

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He was held without bond. Two
weeks later, he was charged with murdering

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thirty three year old Jennifer Corbyn.
Now, if Bart was given a bond

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amount and billed out in Richmond County, he'd be taken directly to the Gwynett

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County Jail. It doesn't appear that
Bart was ever given a bond, but

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he was transferred to the Gwynett Jail
for legal proceedings the next month in January

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two thousand and five, and on
Wednesday, January twenty fifth, Bart entered

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his not guilty plea. This case
became high profile in the blink of Anah.

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CBS's forty eight Hours covered it,
as well as Court, TV Dateline

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00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.599
twenty twenty, and numerous talk shows. It was on the front page of

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00:41:55.639 --> 00:42:01.360
the Atlanta Constitution nearly every single day, which makes sense. The people involved

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are very attractive, which the media
likes, and there is so much scandal,

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00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:10.880
affairs laws, decades of secrets,
the staging of crime scenes. You

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00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:15.559
can tell how all of this would
sell well to networks and publishers. Years

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00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.880
later, in two thousand and nine, this case was even the inspiration for

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00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:23.280
a made for TV movie starring Rob
Low and Lauren Holly called It's Too Late

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00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:28.039
to Say Goodbye. It was based
on Ann Roull's book of the same name.

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To add fuel to the fire,
Bart hired some of the most well

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00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:37.800
known criminal defense lawyers in the business, David Woolf and Bruce Harvey, the

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00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:45.360
same attorneys who successfully defended the Baltimore
Ravens football player Ray Lewis. The linebacker

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was charged with two murders in the
year two thousand and He ended up serving

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twelve months probation for obstruction of justice. His football career resumed as if nothing

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00:42:54.239 --> 00:43:00.440
had ever happened. So yeah,
good criminal defense attorneys. The main prosecutors

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for the jury trial regarding Jennifer's murder
were the district Attorney Danny Porter and Assistant

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District Attorney Charles Ross, and while
they were confident that they could convince a

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00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.360
jury to convict Bart, they knew
they had one big issue. The murder

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weapon records had shown that the gun
was purchased in Alabama in the nineteen fifties,

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years before Bart was even born,
and Bart had few, if any

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00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:30.440
ties to Alabama, So how had
he gotten the gun? The prosecution needed

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to connect him to it because the
rest of their evidence, while compelling,

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00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:40.159
didn't mean Bart was at the scene
of the crime. According to later reports,

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his lawyers were prepared to eviscerate the
prosecution. They would argue that Jennifer

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and Dolly did die by suicide and
that Bart, though he had stopped by

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his house on the night of Jennifer's
death, was not responsible. After two

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00:43:55.000 --> 00:44:00.000
years of court delays, jury selection
for the trial for the murder of Jennifer

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Corbin began on September eleventh, two
thousand and six, and at this point

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the prosecution knew they had a shot, but nothing was certain, not without

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knowing how Bart had gotten that Alabama
gun. In the middle of jury selection,

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00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:20.039
the chief investigator came in. He
handed the da Danny Porter a note.

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The note said that the chief investigator
needed to speak to him now,

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00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:30.039
right now. There was an exclamation
point and underlining. Danny looked across the

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room at the chief investigator and he
mouthed, it's the gun, and Porter

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asked to be excused. Due to
a development in the investigation, Jerry's selection

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was delayed, and that's when this
case blew wide open. In the small

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town of Troy, Alabama, there
was a man named Richard Wilson, and

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Richard knew Bart Corbin. They were
friends in early December two thousand and four,

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days before Jennifer was killed, Bart
had gone to Troy to meet up

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with his pow Richard. Bart explained
to Richard that he suspected his wife,

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Jennifer was cheating on him, and
so Richard gave him a revolver. Richard

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himself only had the handgun because he
had traded someone a used lawnmower for it.

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The thing was practically untraceable. Richard
later claimed that he didn't know what

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Bart was going to use the gun
for, which is weird to me because

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handguns are typically used for one thing
in the I think my wife is cheating

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scenario. But Richard was never charged
with anything here, probably due in part

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to the fact that he came forward. When District Attorney Danny Porter received Richard

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Wilson's statement. He told Bart's defense
team about the murder weapon being linked to

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Bart, and they were devastated any
shot Bart had was done could put so.

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On Friday September fifteenth, DA Danny
Porter offered the defense a plea deal.

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Bart would accept two murder charges and
two sentences of life in prison with

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the possibility of parole. Sentences would
run concurrently if Bart refused he could face

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the death penalty. Following the jury
trial, he would also face charges in

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Augusta for Dolly's murder. Ultimately,
Bart accepted the plea deal and admitted to

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his crimes. According to Bart's lawyers, he pled guilty to avoid a messy

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trial that would have exposed the sordid
details of his failing marriage. Defense attorney

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David Wolfe also stated that he believed
Bart to be remorseful in court. Jennifer's

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father Max stated, the broken hearts
of the Barber family, the Herne family,

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and the Corbin family cannot be measured. The hearts are going to mend.

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I can't speak about your heart.
What's going to happen to you?

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God might forgive you. I never
will. I speak for my family when

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I say, I just virtually hope
you burn in hell. Dolly's brother Gil

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said, as reported by the Savannah
Morning News, We've lived knowing that Dolly

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was the victim of a pointless,
cowardly act of murder, in believing that

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every path for justice was seemingly exhausted, we have always known the truth.

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Today, we rejoice that this truth
has been publicly revealed and that Dolly's name

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is now officially cleared. Bart's life
sentence began on September nineteenth, two thousand

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and six. Today he is fifty
nine years old. He is incarcerated in

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the Central State Prison in Bibb County, Georgia. He will be eligible for

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00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:32.280
parole in twenty twenty four. That
da Danny Porter is confident Bart won't be

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considered for parole until at least twenty
thirty four. In two thousand and seven,

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Dolly Hearn was posthumously awarded her Doctor
of Dental Medicine from the Medical College

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of Georgia. Many of Dolly's family
members and classmates attended the ceremony. Dolly's

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00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:53.480
family also began a scholarship in her
name. It's known as the Dalli Award.

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It's bestowed to a student of the
Medical College of Georgia's School of Dentistry

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each year. Jennifer's sister, Heather
and her husband Doug have raised Jennifer's two

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sons. Her mother, Narda told
NBC News, I mend by looking into

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their eyes, and I see their
faces, and I see jen and I

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00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.719
see their little hearts beating in their
chests, and I know that Jenna is

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00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:22.920
with me. I feel that Jenna's
with me every day. As for Jennifer,

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the location of her remains are unknown. Around the time of Jennifer's funeral,

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Bart had demanded that he received Jennifer's
ashes, like it or not.

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He was still her husband. He
had more of a legal right to them

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than anyone else. As upsetting as
that was, but Jennifer's family was able

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to take the candle shaped urn containing
her ashes for a period of time.

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When asked where those ashes went,
Jennifer's dad Max said their whereabouts were unknown.

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He would only say she is in
the greatest of hands. Southern Fried

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True Crime is hosted and produced by
me Erica Kelly. Today's episode was researched

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and written by Inreya Marshbank. As
usual, all editorial comments are my own.

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Southern Fred's original music is by Rob
Harrison of Gamma Radio and the original

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graphic art is by Kohlely Horner.
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