Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal (50 page)

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Heather and Jenn just before Heather married Doug Tierney on December 30, 2000. They lived close to each other, and had coffee together most mornings.

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Max, Narda, Bart, and Jenn raise a glass to toast the Barbers’ anniversary.

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Jenn and Bart with their two boys, about 2002, on a trip to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Heather and Doug Tierney. Jenn’s sister had a very happy marriage. Jenn was always welcome in their home.

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Jenn and Bart enjoyed their lovely home on Bogan Gates Drive in Buford, Georgia, but Bart’s practice wasn’t doing as well financially as he had hoped.

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Dr. Bart Corbin relaxes at home. Despite his calm demeanor, he could explode with anger in an instant. Jenn had grown used to it, but she worried for her boys.

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Jenn (at center in Mrs. Claus’s apron) oversees parents and children at the Sugar Hill Methodist Church preschool as they make Christmas angels.

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Dalton Corbin tried to call 911 from the phone in his mother’s bedroom, but the phone was dead—as was the phone in the dining room—so he ran across the street for help from his neighbors.

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On December 4, 2004, the Gwinnett County patrol officers walked past the dining room and a half-decorated Christmas tree in the Corbins’ foyer, and hoped that seven-year-old Dalton had only had a bad dream.

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They continued down the hall where Jenn had kept a pictorial record of Dalton and Dillon from the time they were born.

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Gwinnett County detectives stepped into the master bedroom, and observed the still form of Jenn Corbin, who lay across this four-poster bed. This room became the principal crime scene.

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Gwinnett County Police homicide detective Marcus Head was in charge of the investigation of an apparent suicide in the house on Bogan Gates Drive. He had many unanswered questions about what had happened.