The Surgeon's Wife (St. Martin's True Crime Library) Book

HE BURIED HIS TERRIBLE SECRET AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC. In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J. and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.HE NEVER DREAMED IT WOULD SEE THE INSIDE OF A COURTROOM.Gail's parents were thrilled that she was marrying Robert Bierenbaum. By all appearances, he seemed to be the perfect match for their daughter. He was from a well-to-do family, a medical student who spoke five languages fluently, a skier, and he even flew an airplane. But Gail would come to learn of her husband's dark side. On one occasion when Robert had tried to choke Gail because he caught her smoking, she filed a police report. She also alleged that he tried to kill her cat because he was jealous of it. For years, her sister pleaded with Gail to run for her life. Even her therapist warned his vulnerable patient that she could eventually die at the hands of the man she married.Fifteen years after an unspeakable, unfathomable crime exposed the cracks in the gleaming faade of a picture-perfect upper-class marriage, a jury found Robert Bierenbaum guilty of murder-and stripped the mask off of this privileged professional to reveal a monster.AUTHORBIO: Kieran Crowley is the New York Times bestselling author of Burned Alive and an award-winning reporter for the New York Post. His investigative reporting on a series of dismemberment murders of prostitutes helped lead homicide detectives to serial killer Robert Shulman, who told police after his arrest that he halted his killing spree when he read a description of himself and his car in one of Crowley's stories. His investigative reporting into the crimes of the Zodiac Killer helped crack the unsolved case and resulted in his book, Sleep My Little Dead. Crowley has covered hundreds of trials and thousands of murders, including the assassination of John Lennon, as well as the cases of Amy Fisher, Katie Beers, the Long Island Railroad Massacre, and serial killer Joel Rifkin.Read More