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For one family, the story began on december 4th, 2004. >> typical saturday morning. and the phone rang. and i was immediately hysterical. and i asked where she was, was she okay. and he said, "no, heather, i'm sorry, she's gone." >> she was 33-year-old jennifer corbin, the wife of dr. barton corbin, a tall, handsome dentist who was 40. they had been married seven years and had two adorable sons, ages 7 and 5. on the surface, they led a storybook life. a big, beautiful home filled with photos of a fun, loving family. he the picture of the adoring dad, she a devoted mom. jennifer had been a free...

>> jennifer called me. it had just happened. she called me, and she was crying hysterically. >> three days later, jennifer was dead. her family was overwhelmed by grief and outraged by barton corbin's reaction, or lack of one. >> i don't know if there's a guideline of how a person should react when your wife has been found dead, but i would think that the initial reaction would be something along the lines of, oh, my god, where are my children? oh, my god, where's jennifer? oh, my god, what happened? there was not a peep. there was not a word. >> that's really what i focused on. why didn't he ...

>> the d.a. thought his case was now a slam dunk, a conviction all but certain. so he approached barton corbin's attorneys. >> and i said at that point, now is the time. the best deal you're going to get is a plea to murder and life in prison. you either take it today or we start moving towards it today or we're going to continue with the trial. >> then the d.a. conferred with the hearn family and the prosecutor in dolly's case. if convicted, bart corbin faced the possibility of the death penalty in her case. if he pleaded guilty to both murders then and there, he would get life, not death. >>...

He washes his hands and puts on latex gloves 30 times a day. >> was there any gunpowder residue on jennifer's hands? >> no. >> would it be possible for jennifer to kill herself and not have gun powder on her hands? >> with that particular gun, it would be very difficult. >> according to authorities, the medical examiner found even more evidence that jennifer could not have killed herself. >> probably the most key fact the medical examiner found was that the nature of the wound immediately cut off any electrical or muscular activity in the body. the hand would have immediately dropped from the ...