Love and Lies

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2:32This is a story that happened in Georgia, and in many ways, it's a story of the South, straight out of a William Faulkner novel, where people are never as they seem, where people have mysteries and secrets to hide. I'm a prosecutor in Georgia. I've been working murder cases for 25 years, and I've never had a case like this. Jennifer Corbin was a tall, blonde 33-year-old who was the mother of two boys, Dalton and Dylan. Everybody describes her as a happy person, a bubbly person, an optimistic person. She was very outgoing. She was active in her school. She was active in her church. I don't think Jennifer really had any enemies because everybody liked her so much.

3:17Jennifer was married to Bart and Corbin. He was 40 years old. He was a dentist. They were a great couple. Jennifer and Bart Corbin lived in a suburb of Atlanta. It was an upper-scale neighborhood. They lived in a large home. On the night of December the 3rd, Barton Corbin was gone for the night. Jennifer was left at the house by herself with the two boys.

3:49Her seven-year-old son Dalton woke up about 7 or 7.30 in the morning and wanted to get some breakfast, so he went in to get his mom. When he approached the bed to wake her up, he saw the blood running from her nose and And as he says it, realized that she was dead. He ran across the street to his neighbors and began banging on the door to try and get somebody to help him. Kelly Como, the neighbor, came to the door. So I just ran across the street and it was pretty bad that the boys had to see that. And then she called 911. one. When the officers got to the scene, it looked to them to be a suicide.

4:44From minute one, the family never believed that Jennifer killed herself. Jennifer would never have committed suicide. As the investigation continued, the more we learned, the odder it became. There was a lot going on in her life that no one knew about. During the summer of 2004, Jennifer began to play a game online. She met and developed a relationship with a person that very quickly developed into a romantic relationship. A few weeks before she died, Jennifer found out that the whole basis of the relationship was a lie. We learned a lot about the relationship, but it became really important in the investigation as we learned that she was actually on the telephone with this other person right up until minutes before she died.

5:42Love and Lies, 48 Hours Mystery.

5:52Steve and Kelly Como met their neighbors, the Corbins, shortly after the family moved in across the street in 1999. We were having Stephanie's second birthday party and we noticed they had balloons on their mailbox the same day. So we went over there and said, whose birthday is it? It turned out their new neighbors, Bart and Jennifer Corbin, were throwing a birthday party for their son Dalton. on the same day the Comos were planning to celebrate their daughter's second birthday. And I said, how old is he? And they said, two. The birthday boy in his new wagon. From then on, Stephanie Como and Dalton Corbin There's the monsters.

6:33celebrated their birthdays together.

6:39They lived in Beaufort, Georgia, outside Atlanta, where Jennifer Corbin was a part-time preschool teacher. Jennifer was just full of life, very spontaneous person. And her husband, Bart, had his own dental practice. He had a great sense of humor. Bart was very loving toward Jennifer. He'd give her back rubs, rub her feet. The Corbins had a second child, Dylan, and the two families were inseparable. We did basically everything together. By 2004, after sharing the past five years with the Corbin family, We would do anything for them, and they would us. The last thing the Comos could have imagined was living a life apart.

7:28It was about 7.30 in the morning, December 4th, when Kelly Como heard that banging on her front door. And there stood Dalton Corbin in his pajamas. He was very scared, the fear in his face. Through tears, Dalton told Kelly that his mother was dead. I just ran. I just ran across the street. I went in and could not believe what I had seen. The boys found her first. That was heartbreaking. So I brought the boys across the street here to my house and called 911 from here. Black honey, 911.

8:11I got called at home. It was a Saturday morning, about eight o 'clock. When Detective Marcus Head arrived at the Corbin's house, the officers told him it looked like a suicide. 33-year-old Jennifer Corbin had killed herself. No signs of a struggle. There's some papers by her head. Who knows, that could be a suicide note. And there's a gun present. That's right. Sounds like a suicide. All that can be typical. You're exactly right. Bart Corbin was tracked down at his brother Bob's house, where he'd spent the night. How did your brother Bart learn that Jennifer was dead? I told him. He basically broke down, went up my stairs in my house, and proceeded to throw up in the bathroom.

8:57Complete shock. I was sitting with the boys waiting for the family to come, and Dylan was very distraught. and said to me at the time, well, when the ambulance gets here, they'll make my mommy all better, right? And I had to tell him, no, that your mom is in your heart now and she's with Jesus. It was heartbreaking for Jennifer's mother, Narda, and her sister, Heather. Do you think those boys are ever going to forget what it is to look at their mother after she's been shot in the head? Later that day, seven-year-old Dalton Corbin was interviewed by the police. Do you have any idea why you think you're here today?

9:44Because my mom got killed this morning? Dalton told detectives that his parents had been arguing a lot that week. Did you think that your mom and dad were going to divorce and separate? Had your mom or dad sat you down and talked to you about that? My dad has. What did he tell you? He said that I love you. I always will love you. By early evening, Detective Head had shifted his focus to the Corbin's troubled marriage. From here, we wanted to learn more about Mrs. Corbin and Dr. Corbin. Did Bart Corbin have an alibi? Turns out he did. Bart Corbin had left the house around 10 p.m. that night to meet two of his friends for a late dinner and drinks at a local pub.

10:31And then he went from there and got coffee and went to his brother's house about 20 minutes away from here. What are the kinds of things you're looking for about when you look into Jennifer's past? We're trying to find out if she made any remarks to co-workers or friends about recent troubles with Dr. Corbin. That summer, Jennifer had told her family she wanted to leave Bart. She just had no emotion for him anymore. She said, you know, I love him because he's the father of my children, but I'm no longer in love with him. But by the fall, Jennifer Corbin had already fallen in love with a man she'd met on the internet.

11:12And although the two had yet to meet in person, they were planning a life together. I said, Jennifer, who is this person? Tell me. I want to know who they are. You don't have any idea who you're talking to. Bart Corbin didn't learn of his wife's relationship until just before she died, when he stumbled across some of her emails. He filed for divorce. Five days later, Jennifer was dead. Those papers that were behind her head, what were they? As it turns out, those papers were actually a divorce filing in Gwinnett County Superior Court. That was under her shoulder. But what Bart Corbin didn't know was the true identity of Jennifer's online lover.

11:56Jennifer herself had only learned the truth shortly before she died, and she'd never told anyone. Do you think Jennifer essentially led a double life? Apparently, recently. For Detective Head, Jennifer's internet affair was certainly unusual. But it took on new meaning when he learned this person was one of the last to speak to Jennifer alive. What do you know about the last hours of Jennifer Corbin's life? We know through phone records and witness accounts that she was on the phone until about 1230 a.m. The night she died while her two sons were sleeping, Jennifer Corbin and her friend spent almost four hours talking, first on the phone and then exchanging emails.

12:47Records show that they communicated until about 1.40 in the morning. And minutes later, a bullet killed her.

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15:47And I'm thinking there's definitely more to it at this point. And a few days later, he received a shocking phone call that convinced him to follow his hunch. Out of the blue, a woman called him with a tip. She told me that she had heard about Mrs. Corbin's possible suicide. The caller thought there might be a connection between Jennifer Corbin's death and the suicide of another woman, 14 years earlier, named Dolly Hearn. Detective Head immediately called the Sheriff's Department in Augusta, Georgia, 150 miles away to find out more about the death of Dolly Hearn. I just happened to answer the phone when the Gwinnett Police Department called asking about Dolly's case.

16:41In a remarkable coincidence, Scott Peebles knew just where to find the lead detective on that 1990 investigation, who was now retired. It was his father, Ron Peebles. He remembered it right away.

17:00I think that he was very uneasy about this case being a suicide, but at the same time was not able to prove otherwise. Scott Peebles dusted off the old case files and got to work.

17:21He learned that on June 6, 1990, his father had responded to a 911 call. Someone had been shot. He saw Dolly on a couch as soon as he walked in the front door, and she was leaned over, and she had a gunshot wound to the right side of her head. First glance, anybody would walk into that scene and initially think, this is a suicide. When the autopsy report came back a few days later, the medical examiner agreed. Dolly Hearn, a 27-year-old dental student, had killed herself. The thought that it could have been suicide was just ludicrous in my mind. But for Dolly's family, it all had to be a mistake.

18:09They'd seen Dolly just three days before she died at her brother Gil's graduation. I remember how happy she was, how beautiful she looked. And she was so excited to see friends and teachers. She loved being with the family. She was so proud of Gil. The Hearns hired their own pathologist to give them a second opinion. And he too concluded that Dolly Hearn had committed suicide. Sounds like, you know, the door has slammed shut at that moment. It had on the investigation, but not on our belief. We still were confident that Dolly had been murdered. After all these years, the Hearns had found an unlikely ally in Scott Peebles.

19:04He was looking for a connection between Dolly's death and Jennifer Corbin's. And when he read through his father's old case files, one name jumped off the pages. He called me back and he said, I found the file. And there is an interview with Bart Corbin at the time. Bart Corbin, also a dental student in 1990, had been Dolly Hearn's on-again, off-again boyfriend. At the time of her death, they were off again for the very last time. What was that moment like when he says to you, I've got the file and the name Bart Corbin is in here? It's overwhelming at that moment, and I'm thinking that we're definitely on the right track here.

19:48I know for sure that we're on the right track by thinking this is not a suicide. What were the odds of two women committing suicide in one man's life? And both women had died shortly after ending their relationship with Bart Corbin. Investigators now believe there was only one explanation, that Bart Corbin staged his wife's suicide after apparently getting away with the same crime 14 years before. No doubt whatsoever this was a murder. That's all it took for investigators on both cases to realize they were after the same man. There was no doubt as to who committed it. Not in my mind. But Lieutenant Scott Peebles, working Dolly's case, knew he had his work cut out for him because Corbin had been cleared of her murder once before.

20:43The president is Investigator Ron Peebles, Mr. Bart, Corbin. Back in 1990, investigators let Corbin go, even though he admitted he'd been at Dolly's apartment on the afternoon she died. You stayed for about how long? 30 minutes. So Scott Peoples knew he had to find something more if he ever was going to arrest Bart Corbin for Dolly's murder. He decided to take a second look at the death scene photographs. I'm not an expert in blood spatter analysis but I knew that this field was something that had grown quite significantly. So he asked Dwayne Piper, a blood spatter expert, to take a look. There was no blood on her hand where you would expect to see it and there was no blood on the weapon at all.

21:34It was the lack of blood in areas it should have been that convinced Piper Dolly didn't die from a self-inflicted gunshot. I told Lieutenant Peebles that this appeared to be a homicide and it appeared to be a staged event subsequent to the homicide. This graphic shows the location of a blood smear on Dolly's thigh, a stain that convinced Piper someone had moved Dolly after she'd been shot. There's no way she made this stain. There's no way. So, you know, somebody else had to be there. Her body had been moved. It wasn't much, but since Bart Corbin was at Dolly's apartment the day she died, Peebles hoped it was enough.

22:16And the grand jury was quite passionate about seeing that Bart and Corbin be arrested immediately. 14 years after Dolly Hearn's death was ruled a suicide, Bart Corbin is charged with her death. Two weeks later, he is also charged with the murder of his wife, Jennifer. I was stunned. I just, I guess my mouth dropped open. And I said, it's happened again. And I felt so terrible for those people. Jennifer Corbin's trial was scheduled to begin first, but as it inched closer, investigators still hadn't found what they wanted most. You haven't been able to link this gun to Bart Corbin, isn't that a problem?

23:05Yes.

23:14It's like army quarters in here. Do you play sports too? Basketball. baseball, karate. Karate. Dalton and Dylan. Jennifer and Bart Corbin's sons are adjusting to life without them. Is it very hard going to a new school? No. Not too bad? You made some new friends? Mm-hmm. Ew. Ew. Ew. Dylan is calling me Aunt Mom. Need help? Jennifer's sister Heather and her husband Doug will raise the two boys along with two kids of their own. Taking care of four kids is the easy part. Missing Jennifer is the hard part. Meanwhile, prosecutor Danny Porter is building his case against their father. The first thing he hopes to prove is that their mother did not kill herself.

24:13I think our forensic evidence is conclusive that she did not shoot herself. Porter says he'll show that Bart Corbin tried to stage his wife's death to look like suicide, just as he had 14 years earlier with Dolly Hearn. It's almost eerie in some ways, the similarity between the two crimes. First was the fact that it was a close range gunshot wound to the head and the weapon was there on the bed with the body. The other thing was there was no sign of a struggle or forced entry into the house. But Porter still hasn't figured out how to link Corbin to that gun, which was last traced to Troy, Alabama.

24:58Porter has learned that Corbin has a good friend, Richard Wilson, who lives in Troy, and he has evidence that Corbin went there just four days before Jennifer died. We sort of talked about obstruction of justice and perjury and whether or not he could go to jail, and he didn't react very well to that. We went down one other time, and that's when he got mad and wouldn't talk to us anymore. What Porter does think he has is a motive. Both Jennifer and Dolly were leaving Bart, and that was something he says Bart Corbin simply couldn't accept. He can't stand the woman in the relationship ending the relationship.

25:42It has to be on his terms. Danny Porter also says he can punch holes in Corbin's alibi for the night of Jennifer's murder. Porter doesn't dispute he left home around 10 that night to meet friends for drinks. According to the bar receipt, he probably had six or seven beers in the time period. So he could have been a bit buzzed. He probably had enough to loosen his inhibitions enough. But around 1.35 in the morning, when he supposedly drove to his brother Bob's house to spend the night. That's not true. I never believed that was true. Porter says Bart Corbin made a deadly detour, and he has the witness to prove it.

26:27I guess it was 1.30, quarter to two. Steve Como, Bart's close friend and neighbor, had just pulled into his own garage when he noticed Bart arriving home across the street. And I noticed the truck pulling in the driveway. I didn't pay much attention to it and I went in the house. According to phone records, that was right around the time Jennifer sent her last email to her online friend. We know that she was on the phone and using the email system up until 1.40 that morning. So she was awake. Steve Como says he heard Bart's truck again just before 2 in the morning. I look out the window and he was leaving kind of fast.