From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the engrossing true story of
two beautiful, loving women, and their murder by the man in their
life--handsome, charming, rich, a man marked for unlimited success--but
one who would never allow any woman to leave him, no matter what the
provocation.
Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all:
two dear little boys, a posh home in one of the upscale suburbs of
Atlanta, expensive cars, a plush houseboat, and a husband--Dr. Bart
Corbin, a successful dentist--who was tall, handsome, and brilliant.
But gradually their seemingly idyllic life together began to crumble.
There was talk of seeing a marriage counselor. Bart was distraught; Jenn
seemed disenchanted. She needed to reach out to someone she could
confide in--beyond her mother and her sisters. Then, just a few weeks
before Christmas 2004, Jenn was found dead with a bullet in her head, a
revolver beside her. From the position of the body her death appeared to
be a suicide. But Gwinnett County detective Marcus Head was not totally
convinced, nor was Jenn's family, who could not believe she would take
her own life.
And how was this death related to another apparent suicide fourteen
years earlier--that of Dorothy "Dolly" Hearn, a spectacularly beautiful
dental student? A star athlete and homecoming queen in high school,
Dolly later dated Bart Corbin in dental school. Was there a connection,
or was the answer to be found in a secret--even dangerous--relationship
Jenn Corbin was having outside her marriage? For Too Late to Say
Goodbye, Ann Rule has interviewed virtually everyone in any way related
to the story--the victims' families, police investigators, prosecutors,
and sources from Georgia to Australia--to uncover the truth behind the
headlines of these two sensational deaths. What emerges is an incredible
tale of jealous rage; of stunning circumstantial and physical evidence
that runs from the steamy to the macabre to almost-unheard-of forensic
techniques; and of a tragic irony--a fateful discovery that motivated
the killing. The definitive unraveling of one of the strangest murder
investigations of our time, Too Late to Say Goodbye is perhaps the
finest achievement of a truly great writer's career.
