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They're making them out to be. there's been much made about the fact that barton and dolly were having difficulties at the time of her death, and that's not true. >> according to bart's attorney, the harassment dolly blamed on bart occurred months before she died and they had actually reconciled their relationship. >> after that, they had, in fact, gotten back together, and dolly hearn had asked several people not to let her family know that she was dating him again. >> but what about bart's relationship with his wife, jennifer? the defense says it was never violent and the alleged punch durin...

>> his defense team had a reputation for finding inconsistencies and attacking weak evidence. >> they are meticulous. they are always well prepared. they are lawyers who will fight you at every turn. those are two of the best lawyers i know. >> gwinnett county district attorney danny porter had the complete confidence of jennifer's family, but he knew he had at least one weakness in his case. he hadn't tied the gun to bart corbin. >> i knew that the gun was going to be a critical piece of evidence. >> remember, the gun had been traced to a gun dealer in alabama. the prosecution knew bart had a...

Country. now back to "death and the dentist." barton corbin had been indicted for murdering his girlfriend back in 1990 and his wife in 2004. to mount his defense, he hired top legal talent who argued both deaths were, in fact, suicide and that bart's connection was pure coincidence. >> we've contacted some of the finest forensic people in the country, and all of them say that the evidence is consistent with suicide. >> high-profile attorneys david wolf and bruce harvey were confident they could successfully defend dr. corbin. >> we're going into the courtroom in an attempt to demonstrate th...

Daughter's case. now they were convinced he'd struck again, and they felt a duty to support jennifer's family, to attend her funeral, to console her parents, who should never have suffered the same way they had. >> we hugged for a long time, and when she pulled away from us, she held my hands and she just looked at me and she says, there hasn't been a day in 14 years that bill doesn't talk about dolly. and i shook dr. hearn's hand and i just remember saying to him, "i'm sorry that we have to meet under these circumstances." coming up, prosecutors uncover a possible motive. why dr. barton cor...

>> that's the first critical piece of information that blows his alibi out of the water. it puts him at the residence at about quarter of 2:00 in the morning until about 5 after 2:00 in the morning, and that's the time of the murder. >> and investigators found the angle of the bullet wound and the trail of blood on jennifer's face were not consistent with a suicide. >> so if this, indeed, was a suicide, how would jennifer have held the gun? >> i'm not sure she could have. >> she would have had to hold the gun here at about this angle because you take the bullet -- the gunshot wound, later conf...