Surgeon's Wife

A Terrible Secret Buried Deep Underwater In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, murdered his wife Gail. According to prosecutors, 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. It Would Surface again in a Manhattan Courtroom Gail's parents had been thrilled to learn she was marrying Robert Bierenbaum. 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. The Surgeon's Wife Fifteen years after this unspeakable, unfathomable crime, a jury found Robert Bierenbaum guilty of murder-and revealed the hidden life of a privileged professional.Crowley, Kieran is the author of 'Surgeon's Wife', published 2001 under ISBN 9780312976415 and ISBN 0312976410.