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
rouse. she said that she loved pittsburgh, she loved he patients the people of pittsburgh the were wonderful, and she was so happy to be there. autumn, had always intended to be a caregiver her cousin, closest sisters sharon king, remembers tha even as a younger girl she administered playtime tlc. we had a doctor s office an our patients where our stuffed animals. and doctor autumn klein was holding clinic hours she was the doctor. it was an interest that too root early for autumn and neve left always a top of the clas student in the baltimore area. she later got her undergraduat degree in, neuroscience from amherst. helping people was the main thing. she was just so, smart, so intelligent, so thoughtful, an so caring. you and your husband must have been very, very proud o her. we were lois klein is autumn s mom. we knew she was putting her mind on her studies and we are giving her the best educatio
her eyes barely a pulse and they didn t know what had happened to her? no they didn t. autumn was struggling t breathe. then in comes the ventilator the ventilator, the machines? the machines taking over to keep her alive until they ca determine what in the world wa going on at some point, allen, did they realize that this was one of their own that this was a brilliant youn doctor that works in the women neurology unit they did at one point i don t know if they would v treated anyone any differently but she was one of them, one o 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. he explained 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 ha suffered a stroke. though diagnostic test sai otherwise.
lethal, fast killing stuff not a common cause of death. i have done approximately 3500 cases in my career an this is my first case of cyanide poisoning. the lab s toxicology work found cynadine levels of 3. 35 milligrams per liter in autumn s blood so this is a lot of cyanide? that is correct still, he needed to confirm the results with his own test. he wanted to re-examine autumn s remains to see if he coul find cyanide in other parts of her body but by then, he had released i to the funeral home. so, here s an easy solution yo go back to the body you take a second look. would love to when we got the phone call o tuesday that she had a letha level of cyanide in her blood, i called immediately the funeral home and she had already been cremated. but the m.e still had samples of autumn s blood. its toxicology unit report tha its own test for cyanide analyst alicia smith added a simple solution to the blood