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In area where another researcher might have had cyanide? >> no. theres no card swipes the time that she left work. >> the more they dug, the less detectives believe this unexpected death was a suicide. true, autumn was frustrated by her infertility but disappointment was all it was, thinks her cousin, sharon. suicide was never on her radar. >> that was not autumn. that was just not autumn. family, friends, and colleagues agree. autumn was a woman with plans to live, not die. she had a daughter s...

His wife had died of cyanide poisoning. >> he gasped and said why would she do this to herself? >> why would she do that to herself? >> that was correct. >> to the cops the man looked visibly shaken, it seemed he was suggesting that his wife had committed suicide. ferrante then told the story about autumn trying and failing to get pregnant. he said she recently had been taking the supplement called creatine in the hopes it would help with fertility. veteran detective, harry lotun, understood the...

Hectic lives. autumn took it in stride. a two am diaper change was nothing for her. a 2 am call from the hospital, you have to come in and take care of this patient you know, she was used to that. >> the new mother was becoming a sought after specialists in neurological ailments in women. because of her expertise, she was interviewed for an educational video distributed by the discovery channel. >> people with epilepsy really need to be started on seizure medication in advance of pregnancy. >> b...

Breakthroughs. bob ferrante they countered was a brilliant researcher and the loving man, devoted to helping his wife, not hurting her. and to sell the image they flabbergasted courtroom by calling the defendent himself to the stand. >> so in this case the defendant made that choice. ive often said that its risky at best, the minute to defendent it takes the stand we now have the governments proof versus defense its credibility. >> i gamble, is the defense team said frontally was wanted to make....

Visiting his sister in florida. pittsburgh pd detective lutton headed south to make the arrest. but, when he got there, the sister said ferrante was gone. >> she said that he got a phone call from an attorney, and he got in the car and said i got to go, and then he left. >> ddid you think doctor ferrante was doing a runner on you? do you think he was trying to get away? >> yes. yes, we were told he was going to his attorney but he was running from us he knew we were coming >> on your books he wa...

Defense, what murder? robert ferrante is set, did not commit a crime because there was no crime. >> i said as forcefully as i could, we dont believe and we will never believe that autumn klein died from cyanide. >> the defense was attacking the cornerstone of the commonwealth case. that blood tests with illegal reading of cyanide could never be trusted, it said. >> theres no way that the lab. >> threw it out? >> yes. >> because, he said, the lab initially screwed up in that 3.3 five calculation....

Day. i ovulate tomorrow. >> he answered perfect timing, creatine, smiley face. these are hospital security camera pictures that show autumn throughout the day, and leaving work late that night. ten minutes later she was home. minutes after that, her husband bob ferrante, was on the phone to 9-1-1. >> his wife, slumped on the kitchen floor, gasping for breath. the dispatcher hefty has been, what he was seeing. >> i think my wife is having a stroke. >> paramedics steve mason and his partner arrive...

Youre not. she said yes i am, and she went to boston university medical school. she had a mind of her own >> in medical school, autumn, developed a romantic thing for her research colleague. and he for her robert ferrante, bob to his friend, held a ph. d. in neuroscience. she was hunting for cures to devastating brain ulcers like lou gehrigs and huntington disease. he was also more than 20 years for senior, divorced with two grown kids. >> i simply told her that that was a little bit too old for...

In washington state. sharon talked by phone to autumns frantic husband, bob. i was grateful for his medical background. >> he was calling his colleagues, he knows this neurologist, or this person. great, use your resources. i had no idea what was going on. >> eventually though, autumn lossed brain function, by the time parents finally made it to the hospital they could see there was little hope for their daughter. >> they had a lot of tubes and things hooked up to her. and i held her hand and i ...

Earlier this week. now back to dateline. >> five days after doctor turned off the machines on doctor autumn klein, pittsburgh police detectives made their way to the three story brick house where she made a home with her daughter and husband medical researcher, robert ferrante. veteran detective jim mcgee took the lead. ferrante greeted him, and his partner. >> we start talking to him and about what happened to his wife at that point. >> ferrante told the detectives how his wife had arrived home...