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Dr. Barton Corbin is perhaps one of the coldest, most calculatedly evil killers in criminal history. For fourteen years, after shooting his dental school girlfriend Dolly Hearn in the head and staging her suicide, he literally got away with murder, starting a successful career as a dentist, getting married and raising a family.

But when his wife, Jennifer, got fed up with his abuse and vicious behavior and wanted to leave, the arrogant dentist decided to murder her just as he had Dolly, believing that he had pulled off the perfect crime once, so why not repeat it?

Even after his arrests in January 2005, he maintained his innocence, protesting that both women had unfortunately committed suicide and he was a victim of coincidence. He might well have wriggled his way out once again if not for the persistence of Gwinnett Countys District Attorney Danny Porter.

The tenacious prosecutor told me in April 2005 how he was determined to bring Corbin to justice. A father himself, Porter was disgusted that Corbin would kill his wife and then leave his two young children, Dalton and Dillon, to discover her body.

In September 2006, four days into the jury selection for the first of his two scheduled murder trials, Porters perseverance paid off. A close friend of Bart Corbins finally broke down, admitting he had given the dentist the.38 gun that had killed Barts wife, placing the weapon squarely in his hands.

His family was shocked when Corbin suddenly agreed to a plea bargain with prosecutors, admitting to killing his girlfriend and then his wife so many years later.

During my almost two years of research I was helped by many key players in the case. I would especially like to thank Edwina Tims, who answered my questions via e-mail on behalf of the Corbin family. I know she sincerely believed in her brother-in-laws innocence, and, along with the rest of the family, was in deep shock and disbelief when he admitted his guilt.

I made many unsuccessful approaches to both the Hearn and Barber families, who told me they were still too distressed to be interviewed.

Many thanks to Lateef Mungin for his help with this book.

I am also indebted to: Steve and Kelly Comeau, Mary-Sue Day, Jay Flemma, Esq., Mary Joyce Hemenway, Bill Hopkins, Barry Parker, Sgt. Scott Peebles, Danny Porter, Dennis Stanfield, Sheila Shook and Karen Burton of Gwinnett County Public Library.

I would also like to thank the many others who helped me and wished to remain anonymous.

Much gratitude also goes to my longtime editor at St. Martins Press, Charles Spicer, and his assistant Michael Homler. As always I would like to thank my literary lion, Peter Miller of PMA Literary and Film Management.

Thanks also to Jerome and Emily Freund, Debbie, Douglas and Taylor Baldwin. And as always, there is: Mo Mo, Roger Hitts, Daphna Inbar, Sultana, Danny and Allie Trachtenberg, Cari Pokrassa, Galli-Gurci, Benny Sporano (Jr. and Sr.), Virginia and Mike Randall, Tsarina, Don MacLeod and Annette Witheridge, who first brought the Corbin case to my attention.

T WO DAYS LATER BARTON CORBINS MOTHER, CONNIE, and twin brother, Brad, visited him at Gwinnett County Detention Center seeking answers. Like the rest of the Corbin family, they had always believed him innocent and were devastated to discover his betrayal.

Connies pain is palpable, said Brads wife, Edwina. Her confusion is that she raised this boy, yet she obviously doesnt know him, and perhaps has never known him. It is a hard thing for a mother to admit.

Edwina said her mother-in-law now blamed herself for everything.

I told her she needs to stop thinking like this, she said. This is no ones fault but Barts alone. Not the girls, not hers, his fathers or alignment of the planets. He is a grown man. This was his choice.

During their emotional visit Brad asked him why he had killed Dolly and Jennifer. Bart replied that he felt the girls had disrespected him by having affairs with others.

Edwina said Bobby Corbin is also furious that Bart would unwittingly drag the family into his alibi story.

Bart sat and ate waffles, she said, referring to the morning after Jennifers murder, played with his niece and nephews like nothing had happened a few hours earlier.

Still, she said, the Corbin family does not regret standing by Bart and wanting him to have a fair trial.

Thank God he was found out, said Edwina Tims. How did we miss this in his personality? What else has he lied to us about? Why would anyone do this when thedivorce was filed? He was leaving town anywaythe sheer waste of livesall of our lives, not just Jenn and Dolly, etc. And he has to pay for the girls lives.

O N TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, DR. BARTON CORBIN BEGAN serving his life sentence in the Hays Prison in Trion, Georgia. He has been placed in solitary confinement for his own protection from other inmates. During the first month of his incarceration, Corbin wrote several letters to his twin brother, Brad, who, according to his wife, Edwina, has refused to read them as the pain is too fresh.

ID LIKE TO BE A DENTIST

B ARTON THOMAS CORBIN WAS BORN IN JACKSONVILLE, Florida, on December 22, 1963just three minutes after his fraternal twin, Bradley Ray. Their father, Gene Corbin, was a military policeman and their mother, Connie, a bank teller. When the twins were 4 years old their parents had a third son they christened Robert, and from then on the family always referred to the twins as Bobbys brothers.

When the Corbin twins were 7 years old, their father moved the family 360 miles north to Atlanta, Georgia, where they settled in the suburb of Snellville. Lying eighteen miles east of Atlanta, where Interstate 78 crosses Highway 124, Snellville was a boom town in the early 1970s, with a long and colorful history.

The Cherokee Tribe had once roamed the scenic forest of chestnut oaks, before the early American pioneers settled there. They initially named it New London, but Snellville owes its modern name to an adventurous Englishman named Thomas Snell, who sailed across the Atlantic to Georgia in the late Nineteenth Century. He eventually settled in New London, starting a general store which printed its own money for exclusive use on the premises, with Snells portrait on it.

His store soon served all the neighboring communities, becoming so well known that the town adopted the name Snellville in his honor. The business continued toprosper until 1960, when it finally closed to be replaced by a gas station.

As young boys the Corbin twins dressed identically and were inseparable, sharing the same room until after they graduated college.

Soon after moving to Snellville, Barton saw the 1962 NBC Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer . The little boy totally related to Hermey, Santas elf who was too slow painting the toy trucks to be given to children as presents. When the supervising elf admonished him, Hermey complained that he did not like his job.

What? declared his astonished supervisor. You dont like to make toys?

Id like to be a dentist, came Hermeys reply.

He then ran away to the Island of Misfit Toys, having various adventures before finally fulfilling his dream.

And that childrens programaccording to Corbin family lorefirst sowed the seeds of Bart Corbins ambition to become a dentist.

B ART AND BRAD BOTH WENT TO SOUTH GWINNETT HIGH School on East Main Street in Snellville, and younger brother Bob would join them several years later. Brad was the more academically inclined of the twins, with Bart preferring sports, excelling at football.

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