Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal (51 page)

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Experienced homicide detectives wondered how the old .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver could have ended up tucked under the comforter on the Corbins’ bed. It did not jibe with the local newspapers’ reports of suicide.

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Sergeant Scott Peebles, left, and CSI blood pattern expert DeWayne Piper reopened the investigation into Dolly Hearn’s death fourteen and a half years after her case was closed without answers. With modern forensic science and old-fashioned deductive reasoning, they finally solved Dolly’s case.

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Chief Deputy Richmond County DA Parks White and DA Danny Craig. They drew up an arrest warrant for Bart Corbin on December 22, 2004, on Corbin’s forty-second birthday, charging him with the murder of Dolly Hearn.

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DA Danny Porter (center) called for a grand jury investigation on the day of Jenn Corbin’s funeral. He and his brilliant staff of attorneys and investigators, using high-tech methods, were determined to find the killer. From left: Senior Deputy DA Chuck Ross, Porter, and Investigator Russ Halcome.

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Jack Burnette, center, the supervisor of twenty-three Gwinnett County DA’s investigators, flanked by Jeff Lamphier and Mike Pearson. After almost two years of trying, they found a way to trace the deadly gun, which led to a shocking climax.

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On December 23, 2004, Dr. Bart Corbin is led into the Richmond County Jail in shackles by Detective Don Bryant, charged with murder.

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On December 16, 2005, Bruce Harvey, one of Bart Corbin’s two top criminal defense attorneys, argues to Judge Carl C. Brown in an Augusta courtroom that charges against Bart in the death of Dolly Hearn should be dropped since “nothing had changed” in the fourteen-year-old case.

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After almost a year in jail awaiting trial, Bart Corbin and his attorney David Wolfe listen intently to Judge Carl C. Brown in an Augusta courtroom on December 16, 2005.

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Richmond County court officers lead Bart Corbin from a courtroom during a preliminary hearing.

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Although there had still not been a trial in the death of their mother, Jenn Corbin’s sons Dillon (left) and Dalton (right) hang a wreath in her honor in December 2005, in the atrium outside District Attorney Danny Porter’s office.

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Jenn’s family on Wreath Day in December 2005. Doug and Heather were now raising Jenn’s sons. Left to right, back row: Doug and Heather Tierney, Max and Narda Barber, Rajel Caldwell. Front row, left to right: Max and Sylvia Tierney, Dalton and Dillon Corbin.

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Bart Corbin, gaunt and angry, stands alone in Judge Michael C. Clark’s courtroom in September 2006, as he waits for his trial to begin at last.