Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal (48 page)

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Jenn Barber, thirteen. She was in junior high in Lawrenceville while her future husband, Bart Corbin, twenty, was attending the University of Georgia in Athens.

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Bart Corbin, twenty, in his prized yellow and white Chevy pickup at UGA. He was in love for the first time—with Shelly Mansfield.

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Bart and Shelly Mansfield at Niagara Falls, New York, in 1984, as they boarded
The Maid of Mist.
They were visiting Shelly’s parents, who found Bart a good choice for her, although Shelly herself had doubts.

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Shelly Mansfield. She cared for Bart, her “sweet boy,” but she had dreams of a career in journalism, and didn’t want to be a dentist’s wife. Bart was devastated when they broke up.

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Dolly Hearn, five, in Washington, Georgia. She loved her family, pets, and holidays.

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Dolly and her little brother, Carlton Jr., in the early 1970s in their yard in Washington.

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Dolly and her father, Dr. Carlton Hearn Sr., at homecoming at Wilkes Academy. Later, she went to dental school so she could join her dad’s practice in Washington.

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Bart Corbin, twenty-five, in 1988, at the Medical College of Georgia Dental School in Augusta, where he and Dolly Hearn began to date.

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Dolly Hearn, twenty-six, was popular, beautiful, kind, and much beloved at the dental school. She and Bart Corbin had a tempestuous on-and-off romance for years.

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Dolly sits in the huge tree in the Hearns’ yard. She often came home from college to be with her family.

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Dolly leans against a pillar on her folks’ front porch, sometime in the late 1980s.

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Dolly’s room in the Hearns’ historic 150-year-old home.

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The pine trees outside Dolly’s apartment complex kept her front door in shadows even during the day. A stranger knocked on all four doors in this section in June 1990, perhaps checking to see who was home.