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>> but by the time summer break arrived, the harassment seemed to have stopped. dolly looked happy as she attended her brother's high school graduation. he was valedictorian, and she beamed as he gave his speech. >> i glanced at dolly, and she just had the biggest smile that she was directing right at me. >> then, just a few days later, a terrible shock. >> my mom said, "we lost our dolly." my first response was natural, in that, no, this can't have happened. and that really is the worst thing that she could have told me. >> dolly's roommate discovered her body in their apartment on the aftern...

Offenses and as a result he should be found not guilty. >> the defense team planned to tell the jury that in dolly hearn's case, the family's own independent expert didn't think she was murdered. >> the family hired one of the premier medical examiners, forensic pathologists in the country, and said that there is nothing inconsistent with suicide. he said, if you showed this information to 100 pathologists, they'd tell you the same thing. >> in fact, the defense pointed out that if it were not for jennifer's case, there would never have been an indictment in dolly's. >> they couldn't prove a h...

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 they were re-opening the augusta case. and he said, "yeah, i don't know why they want to learn abou...

Wasn't fooled. he even told dolly to take precautions. >> i suggested to her she might want to get a gun to protect herself. and her dad loaned her a gun. i know that her father told her you need to get away from him or you're going to wind up in a dumpster some day. >> in fact, from the day dolly died, her family was convinced she was murdered. >> i knew bart had killed her. there was never any doubt in my mind, there was never any doubt in my parents' minds. >> but dolly's death remained a cold case for 14 years, until jennifer corbin was found dead and investigators began to look at dolly's...

Having to see my parents make their best efforts to get law enforcement to cooperate, to see it through to the end. >> over the years, the hearn family fought to prove dolly didn't take her life, even hiring a private investigator. but that didn't help them. >> your family's own independent expert is saying, this looks like it probably was a suicide. >> right. so that obviously made things more difficult because it -- it did nothing to convince us that it was suicide. >> gil said his family was well aware that dolly had been living in fear in the months before her death. >> you're saying your ...