Ga. Dentist Pleads Guilty to 2 Murders

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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - A Georgia dentist pleaded guilty Friday to killing his wife in 2004 and shooting to death a girlfriend 14 years earlier while he was in dental school.

In both cases, the women's deaths initially had been declared suicides.

Barton Corbin entered the pleas to two counts of malice murder four days into jury selection for his trial in the death of his wife, Jennifer Corbin. He had been scheduled to stand trial later for the death of Dorothy "Dolly" Hearn in Augusta.

Hearn's death had been ruled a suicide but the case was reopened soon after Jennifer Corbin was found dead in the couple's Buford home near Atlanta in 2004.

Both Hearn and Jennifer Corbin died of single gunshot wounds, and in both cases, the gun was found nearby.

Hearn had been a 27-year-old dental student at the Medical College of Georgia when she was found dead in 1990, the year Corbin became a dentist. The two had dated for more than a year but were breaking up.

In 2004, five days before 33-year-old Jennifer Corbin was found dead, Barton Corbin filed for divorce and sued for custody of their sons and ownership of their suburban home. According to court papers in the divorce proceedings, Corbin said he had discovered his wife may have had a relationship with another woman.

Corbin was sentenced to two terms in prison Friday, though the judge ordered they be served simultaneously and that Corbin be eligible for parole.

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