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Coming up, as the trial begins, the prosecution makes a surprise announcement. >> it's 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. we're paying for all spill- related clean-up costs. and we've established a 500 million dollar fund so independent scientists can study the gulf's wildlife and environment for ten years. thousands of environmen...

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. >> you've now tied that gun to bart corbin. >> we put it directly in his hands on november the 30th, 2004. >> how big is that? >> it's a bombshell in the case. and i went up and told the defense attorneys and at that point, i don't think i could have told them anything worse. i think stunned amazement was the reaction i got. >> it was pretty devastating coming as late as it did. it sort of dispe...

>> yeah, hi, i'm sorry. this is jennifer corbin. i called there a few minutes ago about my husband taking off with some of my possessions and he's probably going to take them and use them as evidence against me. we're in the process of going through a divorce. >> what's more, the prosecutor had not directly tied bart corbin to the gun used in his wife's death, a major weakness in the case against him. all of which the defense contended added up to reasonable doubt for a jury. as the trial approached, jennifer's family braced for the possibility her reputation would be tarnished in the courtroo...

That would be critical to the case. but a weapons check could only trace it to a gun dealer in alabama way back in 1957, years before bart was born. the d.a. did know bart had a friend in troy, alabama, named richard wilson. >> so i dispatched investigators to alabama for the first time on december the 15th of 2004 to talk to richard wilson in troy, alabama. he initially says that the only thing he knows is that he had talked to bart and learned that jennifer had died. and he tells us he doesn't know anything about a gun. >> investigators also used bart's cell phone records to map his movement...

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