Shorter Version of a Long Story
Review by Kim Cantrell
Dacula, Georgia, dentist Bart Corbin may have been ensconced in his own affair but he couldn’t stand it when his wife, Jennifer Corbin, began having her own. And after she told him she wanted a divorce, Bart decided if he couldn’t have her then no one could.
On December 4, 2004, little Dalton Corbin rushed to a neighbor’s house clad only in his underwear and screaming uncontrollably, “My Daddy shot my Mom!”
At first glance, it seemed the pressures of a divorce and internet love affair had finally taken their toll on Jennifer but a further examination showed that she had actually been murdered; the scene set to appear a suicide.
When investigators began digging into the background of the new widower, they’d experience déjà vu when they learned about the death of Bart’s former girlfriend fourteen years earlier.
Many of you may already be familiar with Ann Rule’s book about the case, Too Late To Say Goodbye, as it was also a movie by the same title on Lifetime. But veteran true crime writer John Glatt also wrote a book about the Bart Corbin murders titled The Doctor’s Wife.
Where Rule’s book is very, very in-depth, giving more focus to other possible crimes by Corbin, Glatt’s is a shorter with less details about the things that contribute little to the story. Readers will also find it’s more unbiased neutral than Rule’s which is very biased toward the victims (not that in this case that’s so wrong).
It’s a real toss up when you have two good books by two great authors but, to be honest, I have to say my recommendation would go with John Glatt’s The Doctor’s Wife. It’s a interesting case that’s intriguing but not for almost 500 pages.
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