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
ready to leave work. she goes up a set of escalators, disappears for roughly six minutes, before coming bac down and heading home. question, in those minutes missing from the cameras eye had she found her way into a lab with toxins? and maybe this is where she goes to get her hands on cyanide to inexplicably kill herself? that is correct yet there was a problem wit that scenario, a big one the investigators learned that to get into any of those labs, autumn would ve had needed a special access card. is there any sign that sh had a card swipe that put he in area where anothe researcher might have ha cyanide? no. there s no card swipes at th time that she left work. the more they dug, the less detectives believe thi 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
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
talked to her. and i told her, you heal everybody else s brain why can t you heal your own? sharon wanted desperately t fly out from washington stat to see autumn, but her aun lois told her to wait. that s my other half in tha hospital bed, i need to be there. doctors managed to keep autumn alive for two full days at some point sharon could tel autumn s grieving husband ha run out of hope. he did say to me, i m going to spend the last night with the love of my life. at the time, i thought, it s not over yet but in the er suite everyone knew it was autumn s little girl was brought to her bedside she made some comment t someone about i don t thin mommy s ever going to come home on the third day after sh had been wheeled into the er