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But modern pittsburgh was all about. the gleaming downtown towers, didn't need to worry anymore about grimey soot from the steel mill smokestacks along the river. the steel industry here had mostly died by the early 80s and moved overseas. universities, technology, medicine, and finance. that was the foundation of the new pittsburgh they called, the renaissance. robert ferrante, and his wife dr., autumn klein, relocated from boston. they were just the kinds of renaissance minds the city was trying to attract. autumn's colleague, dr. karen rouse. >> she said that she loved pittsburgh, she loved...

I'm natalie morales. the prosecution made the argument that bob ferrante certainly had the means to kill his wife. now it was the defenses turn and their goal was to dismantle the largely circumstantial case presented. questioning the motive and whether she even died from the poison at all. now with the conclusion of "lethal weapon", here's dennis murphy. >> the commonwealth of pennsylvania had tried to paint robert ferrante as a jealous has been, driven by a reach to poison his wife. how did he do it? prosecutors believed he slipped the cyanide inside a drink and gave it to her shortly after ...

>> professional guy, well regarded, there don't seem to be any money issues in the household. >> in fact, the marriage of farrente and klein appeared to outsiders to be a good one. still detectives had to consider the husband's line of research. he worked routinely with toxins in his lab, but not with cyanide. more than a week after they first interviewed the husband. detectives began talking to his lab associates. the >> people that we talked to, said there was no research with cyanide. >> yet, detectives were just getting started with their investigation. they combed through labs, and laptop...

Neurology unit? >> they did at one point. i don't know if they would've treated anyone any differently. but she was one of them, one of the team. >> when autumn's husband medical researcher bob ferrante, arrived in the trauma room. he tried to give the team some of his wife's medical history. explain that she had been on fertility hormones. >> she had headaches, fainting spells, and that she generally was expressing that she hadn't been feeling well. >> he told the er doctors that he thought his wife had suffered a stroke. though diagnostic test said otherwise. by then, bob ferrante had alread...

Two hours later's my wife is deceased from the shotgun. he would be the dumbest guy in the universe. >> in closing, the defense make the jurors to use their common sense. which they later said is exactly what they did. their common sense and the science presented told them autumn klain had died a cyanide poisoning because the defendant had given it to her. they found him guilty of first degree murder. >> crushing. especially in this case. absolutely crushing. >> yeah. the description. >> robert ferrante was sentenced to life in prison. at the time of our interview, autumn's family felt they've...