The Surgeon's Wife: A True Story of Obsession, Rage, and Murder
Written by Kieran Crowley
Narrated by Danny Campbell
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About this audiobook
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.
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.
Fifteen years after this unspeakable, unfathomable crime, a jury found Robert Bierenbaum guilty of murder—and stripped the mask off of this privileged professional to reveal a monster.
Kieran Crowley
Kieran Crowley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon's Wife, Burned Alive, and Sleep My Little Dead, 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. 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.
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Reviews for The Surgeon's Wife
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent listen, start to finish, including the reader. The perpetrator had SO MUCH going for him, but he ended up being besieged by his anger and greed. Having said this, it is very unfortunate that his wife was also selfish, and - assuming the truth about her was not exaggerated - she was very difficult to deal with and beyond high maintenance.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Couldn't get past the first 5 minutes as the narrator's voice sounded like he was shouting!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thoroughly researched and well narrated.
A very intriguing case, complex, with disquieting implications, as regards “no body” murder convictions.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Author appears to be a misogynist the way he writes about Gail. The narrator does in fact sound like a 600 year old smoker!!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5That was a great book and I recommend it to anyone who's interested in true crime. Please don't be discouraged by that one review about the narrator. He fits the story, it's obviously not a young man, but he doesn't sound like a 600 year old smoker, his voice is quite nice and resembles what one would expect from a Police Chief or a retired detective.
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