there was no fear of anything, like what happened i don t know if somethin snapped. i was shocked. and i couldn t save my friend. a doctor comes home, but no for long i think that my wife is having a stroke. an hour later, she was back at the hospital that she jus left he had this blank stare i her eyes three days later? she was dead i said, she is my child i give birth to her, i want to know what happened to her. at first, it was just a medical missionary healthy, white female for all intensive person s i she would be alive for them, they couldn t mak any sense of it. but soon it became a murder mystery. i had to be sitting down. because once they finally discovered what killed her, th next question was who? if he could not have her, nobody was going to have her i still have a sense of it, i still have not made sense of it hello, and welcome to dateline dr. cline was in the busines of saving lives, but the docto became a patient went out o
reporter alan jennings wa in the courthouse. prosecutor say he was obsessed, jealous, his marriage, he realized he was going to be dumped by his wife the prosecutor asserted tha the marriage was in freefall a the time of her death. autumn believed her husband ha emotionally checked out, especially when it came to the issue of having another child. she more or less told he cousin, sharon, he was a col fish my husband is a psychologis and she said, i need you to as him if there s such a gene has for compassion, because if there is, then bob is lackin it wow, that just describe acres of sadness, doesn t it yeah. the prosecutor showed a email, autumn had sent her husband in the months before her death. she wrote, i realize now i hav been alone in this entir emotional journey. i can t even speak to withou getting angry. did she ever say, sharon, i going to leave him. this isn t working? yes, she said that to me. and he was positively rattled to the court said th prosecuto
we could possibly give her she was taking advantage of it med school was a certainty. autumn announced she was heading to boston. her mother worried the city crime it was too high. she said, i m going t boston university medica school and i said no you re not she said yes i am and i said n you re not she said, yes i am, and sh went to boston universit 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 hi friend, held a ph. d. in neuroscience she was hunting for cures to devastating brain illnesse like lou gehrig s an huntington s disease he was also more than 20 years for senior, divorced with tw grown kids i simply told her that that was a little bit too old for her. i didn t think that that was the right age. but two days before graduation from med school, determined autumn wasting no time was walking down the aisl with her much olde bride-groom. what was your im
back, barely they actually took turn doing chest compressions to tr to get some reaction from he and to try and get her heart moving and pumping again another doctor reviewed autumn s symptoms and ordere up a test. he wanted a toxicology scree of her blood hours passed, her blood wa being pumped into a machin that was doing the oxygenate work of her heart and lungs. at some point, word had reache her cousin, sharon, now living in washington state. sharon talked by phone t autumn s frantic husband, bob. and was grateful for his medical background he was calling hi colleagues, he knows thi neurologist, or this person. great, use your resources. i had no idea what was going on eventually though, autumn lossed brain function, by th time her parents finally mad it to the hospital they coul see there was little hope fo their daughter they had a lot of tubes and things hooked up to her. and i held her hand and
sharon nice guy, charming guy, a bit heady. egghead nerdy? and she kind of was and she kind of wasn t the couple made a home just outside boston in a few years a baby girl arrived in their hectic lives. autumn took 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 specialist in neurological ailments in women because of her expertise, sh was interviewed for an educational video distribute by the discovery channel people with epilepsy really need to be started on seizur medication in advance of pregnancy. but, autumn was growing frustrated with boston professionally, she felt as if she had crested there. that s when pittsburgh loome into view. in 2011, the university of pittsburgh and it s renounce sister medical center offere an ideal career move for bob, a new research lab fo autumn a chance to head her ow departme