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Coming up, as the trial begins, the prosecution makes a surprise announcement. >> its a bombshell in the case. >> when "death and the dentist" continues. to the gulf, we knew it would take time, but we were determined to see it through. today, while our work continues, i want to update you on the progress: bp has set aside 20 billion dollars to fund economic and environmental recovery. were paying for all spill- related clean-up costs. and weve established a 500 million dollar fund so independen...

Protect himself. and he knew i had guns, asked me if i had one, and i had gotten one a while back, traded it for a used lawnmower, and i just told him he could have it. so he came down here and got it. >> youve now tied that gun to bart corbin. >> we put it directly in his hands on november the 30th, 2004. >> how big is that? >> its a bombshell in the case. and i went up and told the defense attorneys and at that point, i dont think i could have told them anything worse. i think stunned amazemen...

>> yeah, hi, im sorry. this is jennifer corbin. i called there a few minutes ago about my husband taking off with some of my possessions and hes probably going to take them and use them as evidence against me. were in the process of going through a divorce. >> whats more, the prosecutor had not directly tied bart corbin to the gun used in his wifes death, a major weakness in the case against him. all of which the defense contended added up to reasonable doubt for a jury. as the trial approached,...

That would be critical to the case. but a weapons check could only trace it to a gun dealer in alabama way back in 1957, years before bart was born. the d.a. did know bart had a friend in troy, alabama, named richard wilson. >> so i dispatched investigators to alabama for the first time on december the 15th of 2004 to talk to richard wilson in troy, alabama. he initially says that the only thing he knows is that he had talked to bart and learned that jennifer had died. and he tells us he doesnt ...

>> to the investigators in augusta, georgia, back in 1990, it looked like suicide. >> there were not crime scene technicians working the case as we do today. all the medical examiner had at the time was simply that it was a female with a gunshot wound to the head and the gun was found in front of her. >> is there any way your sister could have taken her own life? >> theres absolutely no thought in my mind or any of the familys mind that she would have done that. >> like jennifers family, the hea...

And their apparent suicides were years apart, but it turns out they were linked in life and in death. heres rob stafford. >> 911. >> its the worst news you could ever possibly have to deliver to somebody. >> on a saturday morning in an upscale atlanta suburb, a young son saw something no child should ever see. >> oh, hes going to remember it forever. >> where is he at now? is he with you? >> yes. >> okay. all right. how old is he? >> 7. >> hes 7? >> uh-huh. >> and what he saw would soon open the...

Re-opened in augusta. the lead investigator there re-examined her death with a new perspective and new crime scene technology. >> he takes the crime scene photographs and blows them up and turns them over to his expert. the expert begins to look at the blood spatter patterns and finds three significant findings that tell him the body was manipulated after the wound was inflicted. >> as evidence against dr. corbin mounted, prosecutors tapped his phone. >> one of the people calls and says, i heard...

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