Dr. Death

In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a reputable and widely respected surgeon, murdered his wife Gail. According to prosecutors, he then drove her body to an airstrip, and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing. Gail's parents had been thrilled to learn she was marrying Robert Bierenbaum. He seemed to be the prefect match for their daughter. He was form a well-to-do family, a medical student who spoke five languages fluently, a skier, and he even had a pilot's license. But Gail soon came to learn of her husband's dark side. She filed a police report on one occasion, when Robert had tried to choke her because he caught her smoking. She also alleged that he had tried to kill her cat because he was jealous of it. For years, Gail's sister pleased with her to run for her life. Even her therapist warned her that she could eventually die at the hands of the man she married. Fifteen years after this unspeakable, unfathomable crime, a jury found Robert Bierenbaum guilty of murder. This gripping account reveals the sinister hidden life of this privileged professional.

Kieran Crowley is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning reporter for the New York Post. Crowley's one-time "hobby" was finding evidence missed by NYPD Crime Scene detectives. Born in Hartford, CT, he has covered hundred of trials and thousands of murders. He has done feature writing plus fiction and non-fiction works.