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Forensic Files

Insignificant Others

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How unlucky could one man be?  His wife had taken her own life, and his college sweetheart had killed herself in much the same fashion fourteen years earlier.  Investigators had to determine if this was a bizarre coincidence, or an attempt to get away with murder... twice.

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0:00.0

A woman's suicide raised questions about why she did it.

0:07.0

Was it depression, anger, revenge?

0:11.0

Until a forensic pathologist questioned whether it was a suicide at all.

0:19.0

Her dream was to marry her.

0:25.0

Her dream was to marry a successful man, have children, live comfortably and have lots of friends.

0:36.0

33-year-old Jennifer Corbin got all that and more when she married Dr. Bart Corbin.

0:43.0

They had a houseboat, they had nice cars and a cubitive type career of dinnest.

0:49.0

A lot of folks want to be a doctor or lawyer and they had all that.

0:55.0

But after seven years of marriage and two children, the couple also had serious problems in their relationship.

1:02.0

I had no idea that it had gotten, that it was going to be that bad.

1:08.0

But it had gotten pretty bad the last month.

1:15.0

That's when Bart discovered something while he was sitting in Jennifer's car at a gas station.

1:24.0

In her purse was an email from a love interest named Chris.

1:30.0

Know that you are in my heart always, that I love you like I haven't another, that I love the friendship and honesty I have with you.

1:40.0

He became upset and confronted her about it and while they were driving home in the car from Jennifer's parents' house on Thanksgiving,

1:49.0

the argument got to the point where Bart allegedly struck Jennifer in the face.

1:56.0

Apparently, that was the final straw their marriage was effectively over.

2:01.0

There were plans being made outside of the marriage.

2:07.0

They were going, she was going to end her marriage.

2:11.0

She was going to leave Bart.

2:15.0

A mid-rumorist, Bart Corbin was also having an affair with one of his dental assistants, the Corbin's separated and filed for divorce.

2:24.0

And then something terrible happened.

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