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
did you think they were good couple yeah. yeah, i did. and then, it all went s wrong. autumn, dead from apparen cyanide poisoning. her husband now, a year and half later, standing trial for her murder even to the presiding judge, with years on the bench, thi was a first. you had a very intelligen man who s accused of poisoning his wife you have experts who argue wit one another. and tip-top, good lawye going on very good lawyer, very good experts. it was up to be prosecuto lisa pelagrini to explai what s brought an otherwis mild mannered scientist to kil the wife he supposedly loved and in such a cruel manner she opened by describing a man infuriated, one losing control over his more successful wife, who are in turn, had grown tired of him
wow, that just describes acres of sadness, doesn t it? yeah. the prosecutor showed an email, autumn had sent her husband in the months before her death. she wrote, i realize now i have been alone in this entire emotional journey. i can t even speak to without getting angry. did she ever say, sharon, i m going to leave him this isn t working? yes, she said that to me. and he was positively rattled to the court said the prosecutors, when he found out he was texting and emailing a male colleague she was spending time with at a conference in san francisco. bob ferrante, said the prosecutor, suspected his wife was having an affair. autumn s cousin was certain that wasn t true. if this was someone that she was formally interested in, she would ve told me. so you don t think anything fiscal was happening, certainly? no. but as the prosecutors told, the defendant believed otherwise. rather than showing up a
one another. and tip-top, good lawyer going on. very good lawyer, very good experts. it was up to be prosecutor lisa pelagrini to explain what s brought an other wide mild mannered scientist to kill the wife he supposedly loved. and in such a cruel manner. she opened by describing a man infuriated, one losing control over his more successful wife who are in turn grown tired of him. reporter alan jennings was in the courthouse. prosecutor say he was obsessed, jealous, his marriage, he realized he was going to be done by his wife. the prosecutor asserted that the marriage was in freefall at the time of her death. autumn believed her husband had emotionally checked out, especially when it came to the issue of having another child. she more or less told her cousin, sharon, he was a cold fish. my husband is a psychologist and she said i need you to ask him if there s such a gene has for compassion, because if there is than bob is lacking it.
crumbling marriage. the embittered scientist, his, wife then you are young star, came up with a cold blooded solution. he poisoned her. the motivation, just jealousy. if he couldn t have her, no one was going to have her. ferrante, the prosecutor said, he thought he can get rid of his wife quickly by slipping her cyanide. when she didn t die quickly, he have to come up with a plan b, to mislead the prosecutors and scientists. prosecutors played the 9-1-1 call. the prosecution was establishing doctor for on this attempt to lead everybody that he encountered, starting with the 9-1-1 operator. he said, well, i think she s having a stroke. so steering it? steering it. then, when autumn finally died, according to the prosecutor for anti says