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The Murder of Jennifer Corbin, Part 1 | Morbid | Podcast

August 01, 2023 / 57:06

This episode discusses the paperback release of The Butcher and the Wren, featuring a sneak peek of the sequel. Hosts Elena and Ash share their thoughts on the book's significance and the ease of reading paperbacks.

Elena and Ash also engage in light banter about their podcast, including ideas for merchandise like a "morbid in the morning" shirt. They touch on various topics, such as a recent incident involving a man carving his name into the Coliseum.

The episode includes a trigger warning for discussions around domestic violence, as they transition into the case of Jennifer Corbin. Jennifer's background is detailed, including her close-knit family and her marriage to Bart Corbin, which appeared happy but was marked by Bart's explosive temper and abusive behavior.

As the narrative unfolds, the hosts describe the deterioration of Jennifer and Bart's relationship, leading to Jennifer's attempts to leave him. The episode culminates in a tragic event where Jennifer is shot, with her children witnessing the aftermath, raising questions about Bart's involvement.

Listeners are left with a cliffhanger, as the hosts promise to continue the story in the next episode, hinting at Bart's potential culpability in Jennifer's death.

TLDR

The episode covers the paperback release of <i>The Butcher and the Wren</i> and the tragic story of Jennifer Corbin's abusive marriage and murder.

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guys July 25th the paperback of the butcher in the Wren is coming at you and this is
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a huge deal because paperbacks rule first of all and second of all paperbacks are awesome
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they're easy around you can shove them in your bag and you can bring them everywhere she's motioning back I am I
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don't know why but that you know I think it's it's pretty small so like you can put it in your bag I think you know you
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got a big back pocket shove it right in there uh you put it wherever you want I don't care just read it uh but read it
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first preferably but do what you want because I support all of you but the cool thing about this one besides being
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able to put it wherever you want is there's a sneak of the sea equal whoa the second book the second butcher
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in the ren book there is a sneak peek chapter in the paperback edition which comes out July 25th so go get it and
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then you can read a sneak peek chapter of the second one and you could be like I read that chapter none of you did and
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then everybody who else who got the paperback can be like I did too and then you guys can talk about it but everyone
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else will be like I don't know what that chapter is and you'll be cooler and right now I'm one of the only people
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that can say I read that chapter and nobody else did and now you can too get on my level get on Ash's level July 25th
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the paperback book edition of The Butcher and the rent go get it everywhere I love you guys
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books and literacy hey weirdos I'm Elena I'm Ash and this is morbid [Music] yay did you almost forget to say who you
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were uh yep I've done that before too I was just saying like Okay keep going hey
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what's up everybody hey what's up hello hi hey what's going on everybody I was really
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hoping you would just continue saying hi I got stressed out the whole episode could just be hey yeah hi I think that
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would be great people would definitely not hate that no I think they'd love it 100 we know you guys it's morbid in the
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morning it is morbid in the morning put that on a show I was just gonna say why the [ __ ] haven't we put that on a
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shirt I know you know with like a like a little Morning Show yeah like a like a a
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gothy Morning Show we could do like I mean we're just like thinking out loud here but we could do like a cute little
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bundle where you got like a shirt and a coffee mug morbid in the morning merch idea
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yes hell yeah write it down write it down Mikey someone write it down someone write that
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down imagine if that's the kind of environment that we created imagine imagine just a festering [ __ ] in here that
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we just yell at everybody and I say something no [Laughter] well this is gonna be a very quiet
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episode just kidding um [ __ ] I forgot what I was oh I love the word Fester it's such a yucky disgusting
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word but like when you use it properly festering like it feels like a swear word it has a nice like to it because
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you're like you're a festering [ __ ] Uncle Fester like festering feels real filthy filthy filthy as well so close I
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know there's too many apps you know but here we are here we are and I don't know I don't know when this is
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coming out this is coming out like way later from now yeah.com but I don't know what's happened that we can
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referenced I mean the guy that carved his name or his initials into the Coliseum just got arrested today good
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man don't carve your [ __ ] name in The Coliseum yeah that's so rude that's the rudest so rude yeah real ignorant so
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glad that was taken care of we learned yesterday this is not a fun fact but I think we all should be aware because I
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think it's gonna like it's gonna like change how we live our daily life oh the sun thing Elena yesterday we're just on
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the phone with my grandma by the way as this happened we're just like shooting the [ __ ] with calf and Elena holds up a
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tick tock to me like without the sound and it said the sun could explode and we wouldn't know for eight minutes yeah
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so like the sun may have just exploded knock on wood that it didn't God forbid and all that jazz yeah like
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we are always eight minutes away from the Sun just ending it all like so think about so don't that sometimes don't and
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like living so [ __ ] it live your life accordingly I didn't even have anything to say after don't I was like just don't
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just don't don't do it just don't because the sun could explode if if somebody invites you for plans and
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you're not sure about them you don't have to do it [ __ ] you I gotta stay home tonight the sun could explode because
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what if the sun explodes and I'm at these plans that I didn't even want to do like oh waste oh if the sun explodes
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and I'm I I love you guys but if the sun explodes and I'm at work and I don't know for eight minutes I'll be so bummed
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yeah I'd like it wherever I go next yeah it's true I think the only place that I
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would want to be is with Drew Drew with Drew Drew yeah and like and like you guys and the girls absolutely
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existential thinking it's a it's a concept that's for sure but hopefully it makes you just think twice about like
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being a day you know being an [ __ ] or doing things that don't bring you Joy yeah and if being an [ __ ] brings you
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Joy then like go talk to someone because that's a problem that's the problem that's a bigger
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problem or maybe you're just a Capricorn I'm sorry I really saw the opportunity there and I couldn't let it go I
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couldn't let it go I loved you with softball and you had to hit it I love you so much you know but you know here
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we are we're here hopefully we have more than eight minutes um so I did want to uh before we get
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into today to into today's case I just wanted to give like a trigger warning um there is one I mean the whole a big
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theme in this case is domestic violence but there's one spot in this and I'll give you a trigger warning like before I
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get into it when we do start telling the story but at the top of the show there is uh like a section where kids are
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involved oh No Just quickly and I brush I like brush over it pretty quickly because you know that's not something we
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like to get too far into yeah um but just know that that's like a quick part of it okay no children die
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okay that's good yeah but we're gonna get into it okay all right and uh so yeah trigger warning for domestic
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violence and like Family Violence okay so we're gonna start on a happier note and we're going to be talking about uh
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Jennifer Corbin Jennifer Monique Barber before she was Jennifer Corbin her maiden name was Barbara she was born on
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January 25th 1971 in Kentucky to Max and Narda Barber she was the second of their
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three children and not too long after she was born the family all up and moved to Lawrenceville Georgia it's like a
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suburb about 30 miles outside of Atlanta okay and when asked about her family Jennifer's sister have Jennifer's sister
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Heather said our family was just so incredibly close oh like a really tight-knit family
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so when she was younger Jennifer they always said was like the most grounded of the three Barber girls her sister
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Heather said she was just one of those people that made you feel good she always told you she always told you what
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you needed to hear but somehow in a gentle way oh I love that like I love that a lot everybody needs someone like
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that because she's like honest but gentle yeah she's never gonna lie to you but she's not gonna be like mean about
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it exactly and friends and family remembered Jennifer as being this like really adventurous friendly kid she
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loved to be outside and she was super Fearless when it came to risk taking She Was Not Afraid of Anything now by the
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time she reached high school she had made like a ton of friends she had a really big Social Circle she was really
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popular her friend Matthew Jenkins remembered her from school and said she was one of
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a kind a very caring person that always had a kind word and a shoulder to lean on oh she just sounded like the kind of
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person that you would want in yourself now outside of school she had a job at a place called Calico Jacks which was a
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local restaurant she worked there for years and everyone there customers and co-workers are like
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they all loved her so after she graduated from Central Gwinnett High School Jennifer decided
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that she wanted to move to Savannah and her goal was going to be studying photography at Savannah's College of Art
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okay now at first it was like really fun and she could see herself making a career of Photography but after two
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years her love of It kind of dwindled a bit yeah and it wasn't necessarily something that she saw as the right path
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anymore okay so she was like you know what I'm gonna move back home and kind of figure things out so she headed back
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to Lawrenceville at that point she wasn't really sure what she wanted to do so in the meantime she got a job as a
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server at Barnacles and Oyster club or an oyster bar in Duluth Georgia an oyster Club I know Oyster Club a club
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for oysters oh I used to love oysters so much but then I found out that then vibrio and vibrio thing yeah but this
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will come as no surprise to you at this point in no time everybody at Barnacles loved Jennifer look at her she just
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seemed to be that kind of person like I can think of so many like people that I've worked with over the years like you
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can always pick out that one person from a job that you're like ah she was awesome like he was great it's so true
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now so the couple that owned the restaurant actually Bob and Suzanne Corbin they liked her so much that they
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were discussing between the two of them what a great match she would be for their son Bart ah and Bob specifically
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the father of Bart was really insistent about introducing the two of them and he
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was like let me tell you like a little bit about bart he's a little older than you there was a seven year age
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difference okay and he's a dentist so he's got this great job he's this handsome guy he's my son so I love him I
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think you'll love him good teeth good teeth you know you'll have good teeth yeah everybody will have good teeth free
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braces there you go let's go so they introduced the two of them the parents introduced Jennifer and Bart and
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apparently when they met they did hit it off because before long they were officially an item they were dating
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now in the summer of 1996 just a few months into their relationship they decided to have a little romantic
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getaway and uh Bart took Jennifer on a trip to Italy damn which like that's a romantic getaway to Italy so that I know
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it's real for real now it must have been wildly romantic because a couple weeks after they got home Jennifer found out
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that she was pregnant oh now damn even though they weren't necessarily prepared to be parents at that point in time the
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surprise of the pregnancy wasn't unwelcome it was like a happy surprise it was a happy surprise and Bart's
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parents weren't old-fashioned in the way that they were going to put pressure on
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him to marry Jennifer now that she was pregnant but they made it clear to him that he needed to support her and the
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baby yeah like he they weren't going to let him just walk away good for them and
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actually on his own Bart decided that marrying Jennifer and you know kind of uniting as a family
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would be the right thing to do and that's what he wanted to do okay so he proposed to Jennifer
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now his sister-in-law so like literally not even his sister Edwina she didn't necessarily agree with the decision to
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make the proposal which like not your [ __ ] business I was just gonna say and why is it your business yeah and she
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told the author of The Doctor's Wife great reference on this case uh the author is John GLA and Edwina told him
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Bart wouldn't have married her if she hadn't been pregnant she was probably just a bit young or immature to consider
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wife material like okay Edwina number one you know what if you don't have anything nice to
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say don't say anything at all so I'm gonna set my lip on that one especially after somebody has been murdered you say
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that [ __ ] about them and also like that's cute the term wife material like grosses me out honestly I hate that I'm
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not a material I'm a [ __ ] human thank you and it's it's it makes it like a weird job yeah like I like I have to it
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like aspired like you're not gonna get this and it's like no like we're Partners yeah like if you put a ring on
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it I'm wife yeah yeah and I'm white I am white I am why fear me roar I mean pretty much so probably not knowing that
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her sister-in-law was a huge jerk uh Jennifer did accept the proposal there you go and they got married on September
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1st 1996. Jennifer's dad Mac said that Bart quote came into the family very quickly and that kind of was because
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everybody liked him from the second they met him like he was a very Charming person they said he was funny he was
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smart he was really personable like easy to have a conversation with the Jennifer's father Max said Bart's a very
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funny person he's got a very quick wit and people are drawn to that huh so so far in their marriage so good right yeah
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now in March of 1997 uh Jennifer and Bart had their son their first son together named Dalton
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and from the outside it seemed like they were thriving they were putting on the picture of like happy newlyweds they've
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got this new healthy baby Bart's business is doing really well and they were always off doing something together
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they like to volunteer they rode their mountain bikes together they traveled it was all ideal and Jennifer was a really
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really good mom everybody said that her sister said she was born to be a mom and
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when she became a mom she did a hundred and ten she became Miss PTA the SUV driving baseball toting Super Mom oh I
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love that goals and I love that her sister was like she was a [ __ ] fantastic oh that's and that means she
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was an amazing sister exactly I know but unfortunately the view that the outside
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world was getting of Jennifer and Bart and their marriage was mostly a facade and in reality there were some serious
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red flags being waved in the air for one thing Bart had a very very explosive temper that could be triggered in an
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instant uh Jennifer's father told NBC he had a temper that could snap in a second
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and it seemed to be getting worse oh and then you mix that with kids that's that's not that's the thing because kids
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are going to press your butt of course and there's going to be situations where you're [ __ ] exhausted and you need to
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have a [ __ ] handle on your [ __ ] emotions like a grown-ass adult and interesting that you say that like when
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you bring kids into it changes things yep not long after Dalton was born their friends and family started to notice
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that Bart had a tendency to lose it and start yelling at Jennifer over really trivial things like if he felt that she
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had done something wrong he wouldn't let it go and he'd keep poking keep poking keep poking in like in front of people
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like embarrass her yeah and if somebody's doing that in front of people yeah yeah
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not okay in the early years of the marriage Jennifer never complained about it to any of her friends she just kind
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of like you know took the treatment and tried to focus on the good it seems so they all just kind of thought that he
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was a dick but yeah they there was not a lot that they could do there and they were just trying to support their friend
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and their family member now just one year after Dalton was born Jennifer became pregnant again and in
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January of 1999 she gave birth to their second baby Dylan Dalton and Dylan oh so
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cute and at that point they had really outgrown their house so they started looking for a new one and they ended up
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finding it in Beaufort Atlanta it's like a ritzy suburb okay uh they moved into that new house just days after Jennifer
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had given birth wow I feel like that tells you a little bit of what you need to know like
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I don't know why she didn't wasn't allowed time to rest yeah now for the most part in the years that followed
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Dylan's birth their second kid Jennifer and Bart they tried to keep up with that
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role of the happy family they spent weekends and Summers on their boat at Lake Lanier oh gasp eek I know right and
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they were known to host big parties for friends and family at their like their main home in Buford and it was all
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really nice for a while but eventually the excitement of the new home the new baby faded and the cracks and really
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what we should refer to as Bart's facade started to show again now Dalton was five at this point and he
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was going to a private school and at this point Bart started really put like pushing both of his sons to be more
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physically active Dalton is the oldest and he's five I was just gonna say yeah the two of them at four and five played
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basketball took swimming lessons martial arts lessons and Dalton added playing basketball uh baseball first outside of
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school and then on the school's Little League team into the mix of all of that and it's like this is what like you like
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you always you want your kids to try stuff but like if you're forcing that kind of
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thing on a fight like five years old this young to be doing like that many things right you're supposed to be
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trying like like one or two things at a time you know yeah you just kind of like
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start trying things that's the whole point of it is like figuring out what your areas of passion are but you don't
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throw them into everything you know and the kids enjoyed their sports but Bart always took it to the next level well I
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was gonna say and if they do enjoy all these it's like then it you can't treat it like this hard yeah
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it's supposed to be fun exactly that's the thing and there's and when they're that young they're like at an age where
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they're learning how to be a teammate and how to like the rules of each game exactly like the basic stuff yeah but
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again Bart always took it to a place it didn't need to go to and because they were involved in so many sports I think
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he kind of saw this as an opportunity to be more involved in those Sports and in
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2002 he decided that he was going to uh coach Dalton's Little League team okay now at that point Dalton was six or
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seven and of course was on a team with fellow six and seven-year-olds of course but Bart had ridiculously high standards
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and would lose it on Dalton and the other kids anytime one of them failed to live up to those expectations I can't
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imagine being that kind of adult no me either and this is kind of where we're going to get into like a little bit of
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the yucky stuff so just so you know okay it's so mean and it makes me like really
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sad but in front of like their teammates he would call them loser crybaby whiner
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anytime they like struck out or fumble to play you know can you imagine being a grown ass man
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being like you're a loser you're a crybaby like and not only like see a child like I can't imagine that in
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general but your baby yeah seek help like I get upset when I have to say no to the girls I couldn't imagine sitting
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there being like you're a loser because you didn't do well in this sport [ __ ] off and a whiner like that's gross in my
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opinion it's my it's my opinion a former friend and neighbor said he didn't have
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any patience for the kids at all he just gave them hell and it didn't matter who
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was around then he should never be a coach and to be honest like he had no business being a parent no if you don't
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have pain if you can't learn to have patience or have any control over your emotions as an adult you have no
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business being around kids no and the thing that got me about like that neighbor saying he gave them hell and it
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didn't matter who was around if you're comfortable doing what you're doing in front of people what are you doing
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behind doors exactly so if you can imagine if that's what was going on in front of people that's awful it was
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worse but that's a closed doors and again getting into a yuckier part here I don't want to get super far into it and
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if you want to learn like more about this specific instance or the case overall I do recommend the book that I
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mentioned earlier the Doctor's Wife by John Glatt but Bart was worse at home Jennifer's sisters witnessed him not
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only name calling Jennifer but the kids as well and it was a well-known fact that his kids were afraid of him that's
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awful one of them the older one I think I believe it was told his grandfather uh
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Jennifer's father that after a game where he struck out his father lost it on him in public and then hit him after
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the game what a piece of [ __ ] for strut like striking out in a little league game you're a piece of [ __ ] there's
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never in my opinion at least an excuse to hit your child yeah that's how I feel but but over a [ __ ] baseball game you
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got your kid like astonishing Behavior like truly astonishing Behavior I can't imagine being that pathetic of an adult
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and I really can't don't ever want my kids to be afraid of me some people think like oh you you know like like I
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think we mentioned it in one of the episodes yeah like uh being fearful and respect go hand in hand I don't think
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that's it at all oh my God that's just out that's just not how I do it that's not how I would that's not how I do it
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you're welcome to parent however you feel is you know fine for you right I don't get the fear-based parenting it
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doesn't make a lot of sense to me no I just I don't want that kind of environment in my house no I think you
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know respect breeds respect and if I you respect them as human beings they respect me as human beings and we
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maintain that together like I grew up hearing like I don't respect you you respect me and that's [ __ ] up and
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because of that I had no respect for the person to me I was like okay you don't respect me go [ __ ] yourself I have zero
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respect for people who do not respect me same here zero since I was a little kid so why would a
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little kid have to have respect for someone who openly is treating you with no respect and also telling you you have
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no respect and if I'm afraid of you I don't respect you I'm scared of you exactly a few different feelings that
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like I don't understand that it's really sad to me that like he went to his grandpa and was like like I'm afraid of
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dad and this is what happened that's awful that well that's my my whole thing with kids and having kids and again this
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is just my thing you can do whatever you can do it I was gonna say that's a Housewives thing by the way just in case
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you wonder where that's it is it's a Tamara judge uh but in just in case you wonder why we scream it all the time but
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like that's this is again just my my thought process it's like your kids should feel safe with you I shouldn't
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feel fearful of you that you should be the thing that they go to to feel completely and utterly safe yes that's
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at least how I see it in my household I don't really understand I never want them to not think this is a safe place
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and that I am not a safe person because I might lose my [ __ ] on them yeah well
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like and they're not going to come to you with things that you would want them to come to you with if they don't see
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you as a safe person yeah and it's like everybody loses their like loses their temper or loses their cool once in a
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while and kids will absolutely be the thing to push you though but the whole point is when you lose control of your
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emotions a little bit you should apologize in my opinion because that not only teaches them that when they lose
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their cool the right thing to do is to apologize yeah and it teaches them that you're a human being and that you can
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admit when you are wrong and that like that I don't hold myself to a different standard than I I hold you to if you
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lose your [ __ ] you need to apologize for it and we need to talk through it and
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vice versa I'm not holding myself to some holier than thou standard just because I'm your mom like we're on the
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same playing field here if I [ __ ] up I apologize if you [ __ ] up apologize like
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we gotta be on the same thing here yeah I feel like the old kind of school parenting is like do as I say not as I
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do and the new parenting is like let me lead by example yeah like let's be let's
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be like you know Partners here through this whole process of raising you like yeah you need to be a part of it and you
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should feel like you are part of the process and that you can talk to me right and sadly I don't think these kids
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felt that way with their father that always makes me so sad now Jennifer on the other hand she didn't outwardly
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challenge or oppose spart's preferred methods of discipline I guess you could call them but she did very much try to
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balance it out by being super super loving and super supportive of the boys I'm glad they had that like championing
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that them you know yeah no it must have been very very difficult to have your home life be like that and then have to
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put on the facade of like where this big happy family in public you know like we
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are prim and proper yeah and it sounds like despite how things appeared to those on the outsides on the outside
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excuse me Jennifer and Bart's marriage had been steadily disintegrating for a while I don't know why I said
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disintegrating but I did emphasis on different syllables you know and by the Fall I don't know I was trying to put a
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different emphasis on the ball of 2003. Bart was spending more and more time at work not working though as I'm
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sure you can imagine I was just gonna say he and his office manager legit named Jennifer Garner whoa actually
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named Jennifer Garner oh [ __ ] also like wow they were carrying on what she described as an office Affair so he was
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having an affair on his wife Jennifer with his secretary Jennifer there's many reasons why this man needs
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to seek help and I think we're seeing layers of it Compound on top of layers of it truly and and also girl
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he's married with two kids she knew like don't but both of you are real shitty for that exactly she said after the last
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patient of the day they would make love in his office and then go their separate
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ways precious truly I'm like what did that really did it so romantic but anyway with Bart spending more time out
00:25:36
of the house and the kids being a bit older and not needing like constant attention you know Jennifer found new
00:25:42
ways to entertain herself and in early 2004 she bought a PlayStation and she found herself really quickly absorbed in
00:25:49
this game called EverQuest have you heard of that no I haven't either it's an MMO game
00:25:54
um like one of the ones where there's like a ton of other people playing okay I don't know what that is I didn't
00:25:59
either Dave put a little key in there for me thank goodness for Dave I love him uh shout out to Dave shout out to
00:26:05
Dave but um it's so it's like a like a World of Warcraft or like a Call of Duty yeah
00:26:12
where you're all talking to each other and like from my understanding right okay you can you can talk to people from
00:26:18
all over the world it's like that's scary I think it's it was like a multi I don't know multi
00:26:24
no I thought I had it but no yeah massive multiplayer online game shout out to Mikey Mikey you rock oh
00:26:32
it's like a fantasy yeah kind of thing yeah so so she got really really quickly immersed in that and I can see why
00:26:38
because it's a fantasy game like oh hell yeah you know you're kind of like creating this this separate world that
00:26:44
is so different from the world that you're living in right now yeah so while the kids were off at school or at one of
00:26:49
their various activities or you know Bart was at work being a cheating [ __ ] Jennifer would spend hours at
00:26:55
home playing EverQuest okay and over time she kind of started getting more and more withdrawn from real life Edwina
00:27:03
on the scene to read again said there really was a marked difference Jen had lost a lot of weight was dressing more
00:27:09
sloppily than before and was not looking after the house like she used to it's like you're really just [ __ ] on
00:27:17
her over and over and over again I think what you meant to say Edwina was there was a marked difference we were
00:27:23
concerned about her yeah she wasn't herself yeah like she wasn't taking care of not like like go [ __ ] yourself Sorry
00:27:30
God but before long Jennifer she started skipping out on family functions and Gatherings and people were starting to
00:27:37
notice and yeah that becomes they were getting concerned yeah and if that wasn't a strong enough indicator that
00:27:43
the things in the marriage weren't going very well then her own words would make
00:27:47
things explicitly clear early that summer Jennifer confronted Bart for the first time and told him she was
00:27:53
considering leaving him and that she wanted to take the boys with her and she said like this is something I've been
00:27:58
thinking about for a while now so of course completely furious with that and needing to keep control on his side yeah
00:28:04
Bart suggested that they go to counseling together okay which I'm like you're actively cheating on her right
00:28:10
now and you want to go to counseling like yeah and then do counseling like that'll be
00:28:16
great but it was too late at that point for Jennifer and in the months that followed
00:28:21
she became more and more intentional about distancing herself from Bart she started sleeping in a different bedroom
00:28:27
in the house and quote began separating her in Bart's possessions apparently preparing to move out and this is so
00:28:33
unfortunate because like on one hand I'm like yeah Jennifer like good for you but
00:28:38
I'm like this is scary because it's the most scariest time dangerous time and I hate that that is a reality and it's
00:28:45
like it's one of the biggest realities if you want to Champion people getting the [ __ ] out of these situations but
00:28:50
taking their power back but it's so scary and so treacherous treacherous of a road
00:28:57
to walk it really is it sucks and like it really does and it takes a lot to get to that point too which is like really
00:29:04
sad that and then you have to fight through the the thicket to get out of it you know it's like you you don't you get
00:29:10
to just walk this clear path out of the out of this awful place you have to you know I'm making a lot of weird symbolism
00:29:17
here but I don't know I'm just seeing it in my head it's like walking through like these crazy you know brambles that
00:29:22
are ripping you apart as you go through yeah you just try to make it to the other side are you like an author or
00:29:28
something I don't know why I was doing that I've been writing a lot so maybe I'm
00:29:33
like thinking about a lot of medicine no I mean it was beautiful I welcome it I just feel bad but yeah for anybody who
00:29:43
has to deal with this part of it yeah now according to Jennifer's friend and neighbor Kelly Jennifer had told her
00:29:50
husband that she wanted to separate and find a new place for her and her boys like I just said
00:29:54
no at first again like I just said Bart was mad but eventually he kind of seemed
00:29:59
to accept the fact that this marriage was over okay but he had no intention of supporting Jennifer financially if that
00:30:05
was the case [ __ ] you and because of that in the fall of 2004 she ended up getting a job as a preschool teacher at
00:30:12
the Sugar Hill Methodist Church where both of her boys had also gone to preschool okay now she had something to
00:30:18
occupy her time during the day which was great I was probably better for her at first but then she fell into like this
00:30:26
nighttime routine of spending all night playing the Everquest game yeah that's not great exactly now eventually while
00:30:32
she was doing that she met another player online named Christopher and they started off just talking to each other
00:30:39
but you know the online flirtation kind of escalated a bit and now they were having a full-blown online Affair wow
00:30:45
which I I can see how she got pushed to that point absolutely you know well he was cheating on her she was they were
00:30:53
both out of this marriage ready to divorce it's sad that they couldn't just divorce and both move on and truly you
00:31:00
know I don't know if anything would ever make Bart happy but Jennifer could have
00:31:03
had a happy she was obviously looking for like some kind of emotional you know fulfillment and support you
00:31:09
know so throughout most of that fall Jennifer you know pursued the online relationship
00:31:13
with this Christopher and she really really wanted to meet in real life but Christopher seemed reluctant to take
00:31:20
things into the real world which we all know as the beginning of a MTV TV show exactly now this was confusing for
00:31:27
Jennifer because with in just a couple months of meeting online they had exchanged almost a thousand emails wow
00:31:33
and she was fully convinced that this Christopher was the love of her life wow so by November 2004 the online affair
00:31:41
with Chris completely consumed Jennifer's thoughts and on November 12th that would come to a screeching halt
00:31:48
because Chris confided and Jennifer that he felt like their relationship had gotten out of control and he told her
00:31:54
that he needed to admit something to her Chris was not a tall handsome man like she'd been told and there actually was
00:32:01
no Chris I'm sure we kind of all saw this coming the person that Jennifer had been messaging was really a woman named
00:32:08
Anita from Missouri Anita was super super apologetic and she explained that she was in a really
00:32:15
shitty unsatisfying marriage her home life was kind of similar to Jennifer's in the sense that she wasn't so sad it's
00:32:22
really sad in every way and she was using the Chris profile to explore her interest in women okay you know not the
00:32:30
right thing to do but just sad sad like sad that these women were in such awful like home life so you know I mean like
00:32:39
that people have to turn to these things it just makes me sad and like have to turn to these like Virtual Worlds where
00:32:44
they can't really experience the joy that you do in like real life and where it's like like that it's not just this
00:32:50
hobby that makes you happy every once in a while you know what I mean that's like
00:32:53
that's nice like you want to have that like that's that's awesome like you play The Sims or something yeah you sit there
00:32:59
and make a house for four hours and you're like holy [ __ ] but like you know but it's like when it becomes your
00:33:05
reality and like when it becomes the only thing that's consuming outside of playing it that's when it's a problem
00:33:12
and that's usually when everything around you is so unsatisfying exactly and that's what's really sad about it
00:33:18
because anything that becomes that much of an escape is not necessarily healthy exactly you know but Anita did say that
00:33:27
she really truly had fallen in love with Jennifer and she actually hoped to continue their relationship
00:33:32
so over the course of a couple months like of of Jennifer knowing Chris she had invested a lot into the relationship
00:33:39
and the vision in her head that she had was her escaping this marriage and starting over with her boys and someone
00:33:46
she loved yes Chris person so when she got the news that it was actually Anita and that in real life Anita identified
00:33:53
as a woman Jennifer was confused and honestly pretty devastated of course which you know she wasn't she didn't
00:34:00
necessarily identify as a lesbian at that time so yeah and you and you were just you were deceived you were deceived
00:34:06
like no matter what even with the intention behind it was not malicious and when this person is still this
00:34:11
person you were deceived and that just sucks it does so she emailed Anita and said I just can't take this I even fell
00:34:17
in love with the name Chris I just don't know how you could do this to me I trusted you with everything in me which
00:34:23
is really sad but after a few days the feelings of you know shock and betrayal they kind of subsided and Jennifer
00:34:30
seemed to have forgiven Anita she wrote in another email I'm not sure I would have continued to talk to you for very
00:34:36
long if you hadn't come back to me telling me that you had lied and were still Chris but who knows I do know that
00:34:42
I've fallen deeper in love with you as each day passed I'm glad you didn't wait to tell me until you'd met me wow yeah
00:34:47
like a really big person in my opinion yeah so from there the relationship actually kind of got back on track wow
00:34:54
yeah emails got you know increasingly explicit again and now there were real discussions about meeting in person soon
00:35:02
it is very interesting to see they just connected as humans like even though this is like virtual and all that like
00:35:10
they didn't and she fell in love with this person yeah regardless of whether this was a woman or a man
00:35:19
she just fell in love with this person like that's just a very interesting like you know I think I think we all just
00:35:24
fall in love with people I think a lot can be said about stripping away a lot of it's just interesting yeah it's like
00:35:31
and it's like a it's like a nice thing too it's refreshing that they just were like you know what I just like you as a
00:35:37
person because honestly that's how I feel like I know that like people identify like as the L the G the b-e-tq
00:35:44
and all of that I kind of just am like a person that loves people yeah like I feel that exactly you know yeah but and
00:35:50
it kind of seems like Jennifer realized that she might have been like a person that just loved people exactly at least
00:35:55
in the case of Anita I weirdly am like like so happy about it but I'm like I love how it started I
00:36:02
know that's the thing it's like it started pretty pretty rough and like it's got a lot of bumps along the way
00:36:08
like there's like these weird loopholes where you're like yeah and you're like you're happy just to see that they both
00:36:13
moved past it and that they decided to continue whatever they were doing before exactly
00:36:19
so yeah um so Jennifer's online relationship you know maybe got back on track but in the
00:36:25
meantime her real world and her relationship with Bart was worse than it had ever been before as the family
00:36:31
um this is a serious warning for the domestic violence right here trigger warning as the family was driving home
00:36:38
from Jennifer's parents house after Thanksgiving dinner Jennifer had to make a stop at a grocery store
00:36:43
and Bart had completely caught on to the fact that Jennifer was having an affair
00:36:48
like something in him probably the fact that he was also carrying out an affair that'll do that like game c game I guess
00:36:54
exactly so he he had this like sinking feeling and he used the opportunity to search through the car for evidence of
00:37:00
this affair he knew that she was having and he did end up finding something he found a poem that Anita had written to
00:37:06
Jennifer that was you know kind of like sexually explicit she'd printed it out and just kept it with her in her purse
00:37:11
and he found it there oh wow so when she got back in the car he confronted her with the poem and started screaming in
00:37:17
her face like a [ __ ] hypocrite yeah I was gonna say like you have nothing like you can't get mad about
00:37:24
this this should be one of those things where you just both go see we're not we're not meant to be together yeah so
00:37:29
he started screaming in her face and she started crying and begging him not to be
00:37:33
so aggressive because the kids were in the back seat oh my God and they were cowering and suddenly he punched her in
00:37:39
the face while she in front of those children while she was driving in front of both kids she almost lost control of
00:37:46
the car but luckily managed to get home without getting in a serious accident but as soon as they did get home Bart
00:37:53
jumped into his own car and just took off I believe they would never come back by unfortunately he does yeah he left
00:38:01
Jennifer just having been beaten essentially in front of her children and now she has to calm her traumatized
00:38:07
children while trying to calm herself as well right so not sure what to do she called her dad and was like I don't know
00:38:13
what to do right now like this is the situation and he was like you need to pack those kids up and bring them to my
00:38:18
house right now like let's go you gotta get out of there yeah but the only problem with that was that Jennifer was
00:38:24
worried Bart would know that she'd gone to her parents house and he would show up there and she didn't want that
00:38:30
happening so instead she took the boys to her sister's house now just moments after she made the arrangements for her
00:38:37
sister with her sister and like explained everything that was happening Heather the sister her cell phone
00:38:43
started to ring and it was Bart calling and she answered the phone and heard the
00:38:48
Frantic sound of him making excuses he told her whatever she says it's a lie I didn't hit her and she can't prove
00:38:55
anything oh like actually she can she has two eyewitnesses exactly and probably a
00:39:02
black eye so I don't know what you mean she can't promote anything piece of [ __ ]
00:39:05
this guy is just like a true piece of [ __ ] if you can hit a woman you're [ __ ] disgusting yeah you're a piece
00:39:10
if you can call your kid a a baby cry baby loser wonder you're a piece of [ __ ]
00:39:15
there's no upside to this [ __ ] no so the thing was he realized that he had [ __ ] up of course I don't think he
00:39:23
cared on an emotional level he just didn't want to get in trouble he cared in the way that he didn't want to get in
00:39:27
trouble and cared in the way that he had a business that he didn't want to be affected by all of this of course don't
00:39:33
hit people in the face then yeah that's the answer to that so now he knew the divorce was completely inevitable he
00:39:39
accepted that the marriage was over but he was very very worried about his reputation and of course as a man used
00:39:46
to having full control over every [ __ ] aspect of his life he was determined to do whatever he could to
00:39:52
protect himself and prevent Jennifer from going to the police whatever he could so on the morning of December 4th 2004
00:40:01
uh that neighbor Kelly that I mentioned earlier she was at home you know just getting ready for her day and her
00:40:07
doorbell started ringing frantically so she ran to the door and opened it and she found her seven-year-old neighbor
00:40:13
Dalton crying and telling her my daddy shot my mommy oh God horrifying are you [ __ ] kidding me what I will say is
00:40:23
luckily they didn't see it happen oh they knew it happened but they didn't see it when it happened oh that like
00:40:30
Breaks My Soul tiny tiny comfort and a very [ __ ] up situation oh God that's so awful it's horrifying so Kelly picked
00:40:39
up Dalton and started comforting him but at the same time rushed over to the house to check on her friend I mean this
00:40:45
was her friend so she stepped foot in the house just as the younger son was walking out of his parents bedroom
00:40:51
crying and Kelly looked in to see that Jennifer this is a horrifying scene she was laying on the bed dressed only in a
00:40:58
nightgown and there was a very large hole in the back of her head as a younger son had just walked out of
00:41:04
the room oh they didn't see everything they had seen everything except it happened when it happened
00:41:09
so Kelly carefully approached the bed and she reached out to touch Jennifer and she said she was ice cold she was
00:41:15
frozen she'd been there a long time there was nothing I could do for her so she scooped up both boys and ran back to
00:41:21
her house to call 9-1-1 no wow horror like also that neighbor what a [ __ ] that's a neighbor she
00:41:30
walked into that house not knowing what she was going to be dealing with oh I mean she just heard my daddy shot my mom
00:41:36
could have had a gun still yeah and to go get that other little boy like that's heroic she cared yeah that's a good
00:41:43
neighbor and actually her and her husband are a huge part of this case and like fantastic people oh I love that you
00:41:50
can tell absolutely I'm like covered in my Goosebumps right now it's just awful no Gwinnett County police officers
00:41:56
arrived at 801 a.m just a couple minutes after Kelly called and they made their way inside the Corbin house and you know
00:42:03
they found Jennifer just as Kelly had described to them when she met them at the front door Jennifer was lying on her
00:42:08
side there was that gunshot wound to the back of her head and the revolver was next to her body but it was slightly
00:42:14
covered by the sheet of the bed and Scattered across the bed in front of her were divorce papers that had been served
00:42:21
to her on or seemed to have been served to her on behalf of Bart Corbin so he was trying to make it look like very
00:42:26
clearly yeah the officer in the room they had never been trained to jump to conclusions obviously but the scene in
00:42:32
the bedroom told them a pretty simple story at that point of a wife who had become despondent at the thought of
00:42:39
being divorced by her husband and took her own life that's what that's a no that's what a glance told them but at
00:42:46
Kelly's house across the street Kelly's husband Steve remembered that Bart had planned to go away for that weekend and
00:42:53
he had left the night before but he didn't know the number to wherever Bart had gone and he couldn't remember like
00:42:58
exactly where he had said he was going so he had no way of reaching him okay so he called Bart's parents house and he
00:43:05
spoke to Bart's father Bob and he was like somebody needs to pick up the kids like I I don't know what to do here yeah
00:43:11
and he recalled the phone call later and said somebody was on the phone when I was talking to him they were breathing
00:43:18
really heavy I thought maybe it was Bart Corbin on the other line so like while he was talking to Bob the father he
00:43:25
could tell somebody else was on a different line creepy that's terrifying now despite how the scene appeared at a
00:43:32
glance investigators had more than one reason to be skeptical that Jennifer had taken her own life first there was
00:43:39
Dalton's statement to Kelly that his father had shot his mother yeah then there was also the fact that just a
00:43:45
couple days earlier on December 1st Jennifer called 9-1-1 to report that she and Bart had been in another fight and
00:43:52
he'd stolen her phone and a few other belongings and left the house like what what a man baby like a true
00:44:00
man baby and then finally there were reports from Jennifer's family to the police about
00:44:06
the domestic violence and the assault that occurred on Thanksgiving they did report that good Jennifer's father told
00:44:12
NBC I knew that she was dead and I knew that somebody did it he probably I like I can't imagine and
00:44:21
it's like they pre they probably were seeing this played out in real time and they were just dreading it's like your
00:44:26
worst nightmare has come yeah to free wish it's like you can see it all going in a really bad Direction and it's like
00:44:33
this is the worst possible outcome exactly so while the news of Jennifer's death started making its way around
00:44:39
stunned family members police and crime scene technicians were processing the scene as what it was a crime scene
00:44:45
luckily now among those people at the scene was senior assistant district attorney Tom Davis and he immediately
00:44:53
was like this place is suspicious as [ __ ] and all of this is a little too obvious yeah the divorce papers strewn
00:45:01
out in front of her like come on right there were things about the scene also that just didn't make sense Jennifer had
00:45:07
been shot in the back of it I was also going to say like just the logistics right so she'd been shot in the back of
00:45:13
the head but the gun was laying at her side tucked under a sheet yeah if she had shot herself that would have meant
00:45:19
that she would have had to slip the gun under that sheet before starting over after having shot herself in the back of
00:45:26
the head exactly yeah not possible no I didn't know if I had to throw that in there yeah just in case you were
00:45:31
wondering but then there were the divorce papers themselves I don't know if you caught what I said earlier they
00:45:36
seemed like they had been served to her this is [ __ ] wild as investigators were processing this scene a Gwinnett
00:45:44
Gwinnett sheriff's deputy unaware of what was going on at that point arrived at the house to serve Jennifer divorce
00:45:52
papers these were fake papers yup this [ __ ] idiot they hadn't even been served yet are you kidding me like
00:46:03
how did you what that's why I don't under I mean there's nobody should things about this
00:46:09
that you won't understand nobody should ever understand like why someone killed someone in the first place but he's
00:46:14
worried about his reputation in his career and the answer to that is I'm gonna murder my wife that'll help my
00:46:22
reputation yeah no you're just gonna go to jail like that doesn't help your reputation
00:46:27
either classic narcissists though they think I'm gonna murder my wife it was I'm gonna murder my wife and Stage it
00:46:33
like a suicide and I'm so smart so why would anybody ever question me it's like wow I'm glad they're so dumb in that
00:46:40
sense because it's like they always get caught and it's like thank goodness right [ __ ] so but then so the
00:46:46
investigators are sitting there and they're like well how would she be distraught over divorce papers that she
00:46:51
hadn't been served yet yeah like these are not real clearly that's the universe intervening right there right that was
00:46:58
when I got to that point I was like whoa yeah but a better question where the [ __ ] was Bart Corbin yeah nobody knew
00:47:06
where he was at this point and it took hours trying to locate him but detectives were finally able to get in
00:47:11
touch with his brother Bobby a little after 11 A.M okay now Bobby told detective Marcus head you can understand
00:47:18
my brother is pretty upset and anxious right now yeah uh-huh I could understand I could
00:47:24
understand that I could understand exactly why he might be anxious now the detective returned to Max Barber
00:47:30
Jennifer's father who had been been at the scene all morning tending to the kids and like realizing what had just
00:47:37
happened to his daughter I can't even imagine so the detective goes over to him and
00:47:41
explains you know I I talked to Bart's brother and they're on their way to pick up the kids which I don't know why that
00:47:48
was allowed like that why would Bart's family be able to like no I don't quite understand that that shouldn't have been
00:47:54
allowed like that alone must have been shocking to me like the whole thing was the kid came over and said my daddy shot
00:48:00
my mommy exactly whether you think that's the case or not that's what that kid said and you should treat it like
00:48:04
there's something wrong here like why would you send those kids give those kids to his family exactly well
00:48:10
so they told Max that Bart and Bobby would be there in about 15 to 20 minutes Max waited there for three hours and
00:48:18
Bart never showed and never called of course not three uh he didn't give a [ __ ] about his kids no he doesn't care
00:48:24
no no I mean any normal parent I can I can imagine it's wildly hard to picture this like a parent not rushing to be
00:48:33
with their kids after such a traumatic event under normal circumstances but these were not normal circumstances and
00:48:39
Bart had other priorities yeah like [ __ ] his secretary or whatever the [ __ ] she is and this while he was
00:48:44
supposedly pulling himself together to go over to the house and pick the kids up he actually was in fact Consulting
00:48:50
with his divorce divorce lawyer Patricia O'Kelly asking her for lawyer recommended lawyer recommendations
00:48:57
excuse me on a criminal matter so she suggested that he contact Peters Roberts borsic and Reuben and that was a
00:49:07
a decouter sorry based Law Firm specializing in criminal law and by noon that day Bart had hired Doug Peters the
00:49:16
firm's leading criminal attorney it's really wild to me that not one person is being like hey
00:49:23
you should do the right thing and like go to your kids like not one person was like I'm gonna step out of line here and
00:49:29
I'm gonna tell you you should probably go take care of your I'm sure somebody probably someone say that but I but
00:49:35
honestly who knows it kind of sounds like Bart was just like he surrounded himself with a lot of yes people exactly
00:49:41
but so any belief that Jennifer had taken her own life quickly fell away once the crime scene technicians got to
00:49:48
work in the house this morning it turned out that Tom Davis's suspicions were pretty accurate given the position of
00:49:55
the body and the gun it would have been impossible that Jennifer shot herself doesn't make physical sense and the most
00:50:01
telling piece of evidence was actually the position of her nightgown it had slid at some point exposing one of her
00:50:07
breasts and the technicians believed that that couldn't have happened after she had as she had slumped over after a
00:50:14
gunshot like it didn't make sense and instead it was their belief that it happened when somebody pulled her body
00:50:20
in an upright like pulled her body upright into like a half off-sitting position on the bed oh that's when it
00:50:26
happened and to add to that which I was like Wow Bart you're a [ __ ] idiot one of the straps on her nightgown had
00:50:34
slid down past her shoulder it couldn't be in that position if she had just lifted her arms to shoot
00:50:40
herself yeah like it didn't make any sense nope and finally her body was discovered with her upper body slightly
00:50:48
Twisted in a way that couldn't have happened no after she had just shot herself I'm glad he's stupid yeah so they were
00:50:55
like okay clearly somebody repositioned her body here yeah like this as a homicide now that was all just what the
00:51:01
naked eye could see but further tests conducted at the scene also quickly disproved the suicide Theory there were
00:51:07
no fingerprints on the gun wow so whoever had used the gun had wiped it down afterwards which was obviously
00:51:13
Jennifer yeah totally clearly after life yes there was also no gunpowder or residue on either of her hands which was
00:51:22
noted as very difficult with that particular gun yeah and lastly the angle at which she would have had to handle
00:51:29
the gun in order for the bullet to enter as it had into her head made it physically impossible she couldn't have
00:51:36
gotten into that position to help to hold that gun in that way so while detect or Excuse me while
00:51:41
technicians dealt with all of that detective head and his team started talking to family members and neighbors
00:51:46
to find out more about their marriage and they started by talking to Dalton Corbin the oldest son
00:51:53
-year-old a seven-year-old now in his interview with Dalton detective head asked the boy or he was a little older
00:51:59
than seven at this point like a couple years had gone by but still young yeah in his interview with Dalton detective
00:52:05
head asked the boy why he told Kelly that his dad had shot his mom he's like why'd you say that like you know he's
00:52:10
got to start off kind of yeah you know and Dalton explained that he actually hadn't seen Bart shoot shoot Jennifer
00:52:16
which like thank whoever but the fact that that was his first thought but given his father's explosive temper and
00:52:23
frightening violent Behavior especially toward his mother lately Dalton said he immediately thought his father had done
00:52:29
it the fact that a child's like it was that simple on that and was like oh yeah he would exactly like like a child your
00:52:36
child is pinpointing you as the killer of his own mother mother yeah right off the bat like you're a failure you're a
00:52:44
failure [ __ ] failure absolutely so his uh Dalton's explanation to detect did two detective heads excuse me Echo
00:52:52
other family members claims that Bart had you know been very abusive and very violent in the very recent past but it
00:53:00
was actually Steve Kelly's husband his statement that actually confirmed investigators suspicions
00:53:07
now Kelly and Steve told detectives that Bart was supposed to have gone away to visit his brother the afternoon before
00:53:15
Jennifer had been found okay and he wasn't supposed to come home until the day after which gave him an alibi yeah
00:53:21
now Steve told those same detectives though that Steve himself had gotten home much
00:53:27
later than he usually did the night before Jennifer's Body had been found he got home sometime after 1 30 am and he
00:53:35
was awake and heard a truck pull into the Corbin's driveway around 2 A.M that was unusual so he poked his head out the
00:53:42
window and he saw the brake lights of Bart's truck illuminated in the driveway and he was like oh I guess like he
00:53:49
didn't you know he must have come back like that's crazy and about 15 minutes later the truck sped away from the
00:53:56
Corbin house quote in a great hurry hmm what what happened there I thought you were away
00:54:03
so having collected statements from the most important people at the scene the the only person investigators at this
00:54:08
point were really [ __ ] eager to talk to was Bart Corbin but I'm sure this is going to come as a
00:54:14
shock to all he was being very uncooperative oh what yeah detectives have been trying to reach him through
00:54:20
his brother Bobby but every attempt so far was unsuccessful Bobby just kept telling them that Bart wanted to talk
00:54:25
with his lawyer before he made a formal statement to the police so after he finished his interview with
00:54:31
Steve detective had tried one last time to reach Bart and did it by calling Bobby Corbin and Bobby told the
00:54:38
detective that Bart had retained a criminal defense lawyer and the lawyer had advised him against talking to
00:54:43
detectives so he would not be coming down to talk to them wow you're all pieces of [ __ ] so right now there wasn't
00:54:50
a ton that they could do because they didn't have necessarily anything pinning him to the crime but they were gonna
00:54:56
start looking because between the statements taken from friends and family and his continued refusal to speak to
00:55:02
investigators he was starting to look like a very strong suspect and suspicions only grew stronger when they
00:55:09
started digging into his background uh-oh which I will get to in part two I knew it I know I don't think I actually
00:55:17
told you at the beginning of this that it was going to be a tupata but it is this one's a oh this one is a doozy you
00:55:24
know and when you said you said December 4th 2004 and I was just thinking about it I was
00:55:29
like oh like what was I doing in 2004 and then I was like you just grabbed do you ever think about that like in these
00:55:34
kind of cases like on the day you're like what was I doing that day when this was happening and I had no idea that
00:55:40
this was happening somewhere in the country it's so weird that you said that because Drew and I had a conversation
00:55:45
like that recently about like something terrible that happened while we were at like Universal yeah and I was like all
00:55:50
of us here like everybody at Universal was just walking around walking around super happy like having probably like
00:55:56
one of the best times ever and then family horrible thing life was happening floating
00:56:02
it's just like really it's like woof yeah I think about Creepy yeah oh man this is a tough one I hope this
00:56:09
guy gets gets it I don't know that's all I'm saying you might get away or he might not I don't
00:56:16
know those are the two choices so I hope again we'll get to it in part two so we
00:56:23
hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it we it's weird but not to worry that you
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don't go listen a part to you bye thank you [Music] foreign [Music]

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Episode Highlights

  • Existential Thoughts on Life
    A lighthearted discussion about the sun potentially exploding and living life to the fullest.
    “The sun could explode and we wouldn't know for eight minutes!”
    @ 04m 32s
    August 01, 2023
  • Jennifer Corbin's Kindness
    Jennifer was remembered as a caring and adventurous person who always made others feel good.
    “She always told you what you needed to hear, but gently.”
    @ 07m 41s
    August 01, 2023
  • Fear-Based Parenting
    Discussing the negative impacts of fear in parenting and the importance of respect.
    “I don't want my kids to be afraid of me.”
    @ 20m 32s
    August 01, 2023
  • The Reality of Leaving Abusive Situations
    Exploring the dangers and complexities of leaving an abusive partner.
    “It’s one of the biggest realities if you want to champion people getting the hell out.”
    @ 28m 40s
    August 01, 2023
  • Unexpected Love
    Jennifer's online relationship takes a surprising turn when she discovers her partner's true identity.
    “I just like you as a person.”
    @ 35m 37s
    August 01, 2023
  • Confrontation in the Car
    After finding a poem, Bart confronts Jennifer in the car, leading to a violent argument.
    “Oh wow, so when she got back in the car he confronted her.”
    @ 37m 11s
    August 01, 2023
  • Tragic Discovery
    Dalton, a seven-year-old, tells a neighbor that his father shot his mother.
    “My daddy shot my mommy!”
    @ 40m 16s
    August 01, 2023
  • Horrifying Scene
    A neighbor discovers Jennifer's lifeless body, leading to a frantic call for help.
    “Oh, that like breaks my soul.”
    @ 40m 30s
    August 01, 2023
  • Suspicious Circumstances
    Investigators find evidence that suggests Jennifer's death was not a suicide.
    “Wow, Bart, you're a [ __ ] idiot.”
    @ 50m 20s
    August 01, 2023
  • Uncooperative Suspect
    Bart Corbin refuses to speak to detectives, raising suspicions about his involvement.
    “Wow, you're all pieces of [ __ ]!”
    @ 54m 48s
    August 01, 2023
  • Reflecting on 2004
    A conversation about personal memories tied to significant events.
    “What was I doing in 2004?”
    @ 55m 29s
    August 01, 2023
  • Contrasting Joy and Tragedy
    A discussion about enjoying life while terrible things happen elsewhere.
    “Everybody at Universal was just walking around super happy.”
    @ 55m 52s
    August 01, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • The sun could explode and we wouldn't know for eight minutes!
    The Murder of Jennifer Corbin, Part 1 | Morbid | Podcast
  • I don't want my kids to be afraid of me.
    The Murder of Jennifer Corbin, Part 1 | Morbid | Podcast
  • Respect breeds respect.
    The Murder of Jennifer Corbin, Part 1 | Morbid | Podcast
  • I trusted you with everything in me.
    The Murder of Jennifer Corbin, Part 1 | Morbid | Podcast
  • What a [ __ ] that's a neighbor!
    The Murder of Jennifer Corbin, Part 1 | Morbid | Podcast
  • You're a failure, [ __ ] failure!
    The Murder of Jennifer Corbin, Part 1 | Morbid | Podcast

Key Moments

  • Existential Musings04:32
  • Identity Revelation32:01
  • Love Beyond Labels35:53
  • Confrontation37:11
  • Child's Statement40:16
  • Suspicious Scene45:38
  • Uncooperative54:45
  • Contrasting Emotions55:52

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