The Surgeon's Wife: A True Story of Obsession, Rage, and Murder

The New York Times–bestselling true crime account of the NYC doctor who killed his wife in cold blood and nearly got away with murder.

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 be...