Killer at the Crime Scene Season 4 Episode 9

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00:00Autumn walked home and when she arrived she had a stroke on the kitchen floor she wasn't breathing

00:10the paramedics main aim is to preserve life that the patient stays alive it's not until

00:17much later on that anybody is thinking that there are suspicious circumstances the fascinating thing

00:25about forensic toxicology is that it tells the truth a perpetrator is not able to hide a lot of

00:33people say you never know what goes on behind closed doors is it murder is it suicide is it

00:39natural causes trying to put this together would be an absolute nightmare but the answers are hidden

00:47within this crime scene

01:17Allegheny County dispatch receive a frantic call

01:32his wife wasn't breathing and he was absolutely panic-stricken

01:45okay calm down what's your name my name is Bob Ferrante oh please hurry okay just hang on the line

01:50Bob you're coming Jesus sweetheart please you could hear him talking to her Jesus Jesus sweetheart

01:58breathe don't do this to me okay Bob calm down you think she might be having a stroke yes she's been

02:04having these episodes for the past okay listen okay listen are you with her now yes yes right in front of

02:08her the woman is Dr. Autumn Klein Autumn was a 41 year old healthy woman she was known to eat really

02:17really well and take care of herself so it was really quite a shock she's just staring and can't answer

02:24you said she's just staring off is she able to talk at all no she cannot she's not responding to me

02:29she has this sort of like appetite it's all stiff honey sweetheart are you okay I'm sending the paramedics

02:36to help you okay I'm making sure help is on the way oh god help me god help me paramedics arrive

02:45within minutes Autumn is lying on the kitchen floor the main concern is preservation of life

02:54this woman was young healthy with no obvious injury was really unusual to find someone in this state

03:01paramedics would do everything they can to try and ensure that the patient stays alive

03:06my wife's trying to get pregnant again is she getting injections or all kinds of drugs yeah all kinds of

03:13drugs so she's on several different medications right now oh god I can't think Jesus Jesus Jesus

03:19she's having a difficult time breathing oh god god god god god paramedics move Autumn into the

03:28ambulance as Bob calls her parents and a friend to watch their six-year-old daughter

03:33the paramedics their home was less than a quarter of a mile away from a major trauma center in Pittsburgh

03:43and the hospital where Autumn worked the medical personnel working on her very quickly realized who

03:49she was and that she was one of their own Autumn was working with women who were trying to get

03:55pregnant or were pregnant and also had neurological diseases that they needed to try to balance to be

04:01able to to have a baby she was incredibly well loved in her medical field they made extreme life-saving

04:12measures to try to help her by the point where she had arrived she had clamped up her her hands had had closed

04:20Autumn is unresponsive doctors unsure why Autumn's had such a strange medical episode

04:27it's really important to learn everything you can about her to find out why has this happened

04:32they weren't sure if she was having a stroke if she was having some kind of heart situation

04:38there was even talk about there being an electrical brain storm in her brain

04:42they needed to start doing the tests that were necessary to try to identify what was happening

04:49one of the residents put the central line in

04:55the blood appears to be really red which is an indication of high oxygenation

05:02bright red blood is clinically a red flag the cells are unable to absorb the oxygen that is passing

05:11around the body because they've been blocked and that causes the blood to go that cherry red color

05:17that was a clue to them that her body was having some kind of of reaction to something that was in it

05:25blood samples were sent for toxicology analysis at the hospital

05:31bob arrives at the hospital as autumn's respiratory system worsens

05:37she's put on life support while her family wait for more news

05:45over the few days that autumn was in the hospital it was really hard for her friends and family to

05:56figure out what it was that was causing her to be so gravely ill

06:01the physicians who were treating her had done every test that they could think of they'd done

06:08brain imaging they'd done heart imaging and there was absolutely nothing that they found

06:13that was causing her to have such grave symptoms

06:16by april 20th autumn had shown no signs of brain function in any way and it was at that point where

06:26the family decided that they would remove life support measures from her

06:30desperate for answers autumn's parents pin their hopes on the pathologist

06:36they performed the autopsy on autumn the next day they were unable to find anything that they believe

06:45could have been the reason why she died awaiting the hospital's blood results autumn's body is released to

06:53the funeral home the fact that autumn died would have been a huge loss not only for family members but

07:03also for the medical community she was a very promising young lady with a lot to offer and her

07:11untimely death would have had a huge impact on the community at the time a number of her patients were

07:17devastated at her death autumn really took a lot of time with her patients and got to know them

07:22spent you know hours with them trying to help them she was able to help them to be able to carry a baby

07:29to term which was unexpected given their condition as the community begins to grieve the blood results

07:36send shock waves through the hospital it says that autumn looks like she had cyanide in her blood

07:42having cyanide in your blood is incredibly rare and quite shocking as a crime scene manager with 25

07:51years experience i've never had a case like this and it was immediately turned into a police investigation

07:59is it suicide is it an accidental cause of death or is she being poisoned with cyanide

08:12following the sudden death of 41 year old neuroscientist dr autumn klein pittsburgh police have an unusual case

08:23on their hands the hospital's blood tests have come back with a positive result for cyanide all suspicious

08:31deaths are subject to a second post-mortem examination police would like to have access to the body for a

08:37considerable period of time to reveal any other potential symptoms or any other injuries bruising that

08:45may help to improve the investigation in a case like this the main areas that might be considered is

08:51has the cyanide have been injected or has it been ingested orally but with autumn's death now deemed suspicious

09:00it's already too late for forensic examination

09:03when the hospital personnel realized that autumn had tested positive for cyanide they immediately called

09:12the medical examiner's office to relay those findings to them but her body was already released

09:19and bob he had her picked up by the funeral home and she was cremated two days later it meant that there

09:27was no further evidence that could be obtained from her it's a crazy situation further investigation is

09:35needed and her body's now been cremated within just a couple of days of her death the only lead

09:41investigators have are three blood samples they're sent to the lab to determine the levels of cyanide

09:49as detectives look into autumn's movements the first order of business really was to determine

09:57how she could have been exposed to cyanide it leads to a number of questions that i would want answers to

10:05where has she obtained the cyanide from is it self-inflicted or has somebody injected her or fed her

10:11cyanide through some food products is it innocent contamination so has she picked up something that's got

10:18cyanide on it the investigation begins where autumn collapsed the police always talk about the golden

10:29hour which is the first few hours of an investigation where there's prime evidence at that scene but when

10:38you're starting a police investigation three days after you've kind of lost that golden hour and any

10:43evidence that might have been at that scene has potentially been lost so you really have to search

10:49well to find any traces my forensic strategy would be around trying to formulate some kind of idea about

10:56the lifestyle of the people that lived there how they lived what they ate you cannot rush an examination

11:02like this before bob and his daughter go to stay with family detectives speak with him to build a picture of

11:10autumn's life autumn grew up in baltimore maryland she was an only child to parents who were a little bit

11:19older when they had her she excelled as a student she was always very much into the sciences was going to be

11:29a medical doctor so when she went to medical school she did that she got a medical degree autumn met robert

11:39when she had to go work at his lab as she was studying for her phd robert ferrante started out his

11:46career as a neuro researcher he was known to be studying diseases like lou gehrig's disease and

11:53huntington's disease he had established his own lab in boston he was 23 years older than her

12:00she called him bob and became attracted to him based on his intellect she thought he was incredibly smart

12:06he was quite charming and they hit it off very very quickly he mentioned once that when she showed

12:13up at his lab she was wearing ripped jeans and had a pink streak in her hair which i always thought was

12:18great before long the two scientists lived and worked together they were very close he referred to them as

12:27peas in a pod they very much enjoyed good meals and conversation they talked a lot about work their work

12:36was incredibly important to both of them in 2001 bob and autumn got married in a small candle lit ceremony

12:45they lived at his family home outside of boston and they remained there for several years

12:52years they had their first child she loved her daughter even though she had a very pressure-filled

13:00career she focused very much on her daughter she would take her to work with her and

13:08her daughter would lay under the desk she would color and play games and things like that even just

13:14to have that little bit of time to spend together because she was gone a lot because of her position

13:22autumn became known for her work in an untouched area of medical research

13:28she had a very close following with both her patients and the physicians she worked with she was

13:34traveling all over the world to specifically work with women who were suffering from neurological diseases

13:43autumn ran the women's neurology program at the university of pittsburgh medical center

13:49bob was able to transfer his funding and had his lab at one of the buildings on pitts campus

13:56the family brought a stately five-bedroom property in the historic district of the city

14:00less than two miles from the hospital and appeared very happy

14:04with a case like this there are several hypotheses that you could consider in any death is it murder is

14:17it suicide or is it an accidental cause of death the initial thought was how could she have been exposed

14:24to such a toxic chemical the initial thought was that it could have happened at work in one of her

14:33neurology labs a police trawl of cctv footage indicates that autumn left her work fit and healthy

14:44autumn had worked the entire day what they found was that she had no active projects or

14:50working with cyanide in any capacity for her research detectives rule out autumn's death as accidental

14:58they use the cctv to timeline her last known movements

15:03that video surveillance to show her coming down off the elevator and off the escalator at the end of her

15:09night autumn left work late she walked home because it was a really short distance away

15:13and when she arrived there robert heard the back door open she came inside and then within half an hour 40

15:23minutes her husband is calling 911 saying that she's collapsed at home that's a really short timeline

15:33investigators need to know what happened within those 40 minutes detectives needed to rule out that autumn

15:42might have killed herself has she actually taken the cyanide herself because she wants to commit suicide

15:49she wants to end her life detectives talk to autumn's loved ones her friends and her colleagues

15:58they traveled to boston to do that they traveled to baltimore and they interviewed everybody that they could

16:05think of autumn's friends tell detectives she was passionate ambitious and loved being a mother

16:14she'd been planning trips she'd actually talked with her cousin about that autumn and bob also had plans to

16:22extend their family autumn and robert had talked about having another child and they planned for it

16:30they tried for years including in vitro fertilization treatments repeatedly that were unsuccessful

16:40having seen so many specialists ferrante had talked about the potential of using creatine

16:49to help her to be more fertile and to be able to get pregnant autumn and bob had been texting about it

16:56just hours before she collapsed he had been urging autumn to take it for months he'd ordered it into his lab

17:16for her and it was it was really a big part of their relationship at that point and so by looking at

17:22those future plans they were able to establish that she was not suicidal detectives speculate on the

17:29last remaining hypothesis murder there were questions about who would have wanted to harm autumn

17:37why anyone would want to harm her she was so well loved that it was really a question of how anybody

17:44could want harm to come to her the toxicologist report from autumn's blood samples is ready

17:52cyanide has highly lethal effects on the human body and in short terms it starves the cells in the body

17:59of oxygen and kills people often within minutes the textbook definition of a lethal dose is something

18:07over three milligrams per liter and in autumn's case the concentration was 3.4 milligrams per liter which

18:17is an enormous concentration of cyanide and far far greater than anything she may have accidentally picked

18:26up from somewhere in my mind there can be no other explanation than that she was deliberately poisoned

18:35it ultimately turns the investigation into a murder investigation with a murder case now on their hands

18:46police declare the family home a crime scene

18:49the crime scene technicians were looking for things that might show evidence of cyanide they took

18:58autumn's hairbrush that there could be evidence of the toxin in her hair the vacuum cleaner looking at like

19:06the broom and dustpan could it have been something that had spilled in the house you would search the bins you

19:12would search any areas where there looks like there's been disturbance and any signs that someone might have

19:18removed items removed items from a crime scene they also looked through their medications

19:26the creatine that autumn had been taking for fertility was also a prime target of theirs

19:34the csis found no cyanide within that house

19:39it can be quite difficult putting together a case when you don't have the murder weapon

19:42you have to widen your search in the couple's office they seize personal devices diaries and financial records

19:55one interesting thing that was found was shredded pieces of paper in the shredder machine

20:00so as a matter of course the contents of that will be seized and pieced together it's a huge task

20:07not knowing if there's anything important in there or not but in this type of investigation

20:11you're searching for any clues possible when you've got very little other evidence to go on

20:17you really do have to try and see if anything might be relevant to a case trying to put this together

20:25would be an absolute nightmare but it's got to be done you don't know if there's anything worthwhile in

20:32here but there may well be so it's really important to try and piece things together which is a bit like

20:37doing a jigsaw but with 10 000 pieces and you don't even know what you're looking for the best way to

20:45search through something like this is pick out stuff that definitely looks like it's from the same source

20:51but these have got blue on them so i'm just gonna pull out the bits that have blue on them and then

20:57the bits that have obviously dark blue pen where something's been scribbled out

21:01and that looks like it might say robert might get some good results but it does take a long time

21:11as forensics piece everything together they look at autumn's diary

21:17and get an intimate insight into her life i am not sure where to go from here

21:24i just know that i am incredibly unhappy i just feel like something is missing in my life

21:34i think that thing missing is love the picture perfect marriage bob has painted

21:42immediately falls under scrutiny investigators were able to use emails to try to establish what it was

21:50their relationship was what it was like in the days weeks and months leading up to her death

21:58throughout their marriage autumn had complained to her close friends and loved ones that ferrante had

22:04been controlling he was a little bit standoffish when family would visit he had a reputation for being a

22:10little bit of i guess a know-it-all and and sometimes that would rub people the wrong way

22:15you know on her drive home from work he would call her multiple times to figure out where she was and

22:22her answer would always be i'm five minutes further down the road than the last time you called even

22:27little things like at their home if she left a teacup on the counter he'd get angry frantis was described as

22:36a controlling person and we can see through the way that the relationship was playing out that that control

22:44was there detectives knew a little bit about some of the relationship problems and and autumn's concerns

22:52they found an email in which autumn said to a friend and colleague of hers i think i'm in trouble

22:58in that she was referencing ferrante's jealousy that she had seen over the last several months

23:05raising alarm bells detectives look for further lines of inquiry it's really important for the

23:15police in an investigation like this to go back to what was first seen at that scene when the paramedics

23:21first arrived something that was really strange to the paramedics was that bob immediately said to

23:30them you should take her to shadyside which is another local hospital he said that's where her

23:35folks are her folks are there and the paramedics were like we're in the middle of a medical crisis

23:41we're going to take her to the hospital that's local concerns grow around bob's behavior there were

23:49several elements that cast suspicion during those three days where she was kept alive at the hospital

23:56bob was already talking about her in the past tense saying things like she was such a good wife and it

24:05was really weird to autumn's family who heard him speaking in that way then doctors tell detectives of

24:13some of bob's demands the fact that her husband didn't want an autopsy and pushed for cremation within

24:20several days of her death would instantly raise my suspicions because he wants rid of the body therefore

24:27there's no forensic evidence possible the first person who in my mind would be a prime suspect would be her

24:33her husband

24:46robert ferranti is suspected of poisoning his wife

24:5041 year old neuroscientist dr autumn klein

24:53on the surface this relationship seemed like a very normal family relationship but you never know

25:03what goes on behind closed doors

25:09by combing through autumn's personal history those emails and text messages and interviewing her friends

25:16and family investigators learned that autumn had been unhappy in her marriage

25:21controlling relationships are all based around the hierarchy when autumn and frantis got together

25:30first there was a power dynamic in that relationship she was a student he was the supervisor

25:37he was the man forging ahead in his career had already probably reached the heights of it

25:42so frantis would be at the top of that hierarchy he is the most important person in the relationship

25:49she is below him in that hierarchy when that starts to get messed up and things start to change that's

25:56when things can get really quite dangerous in a relationship

26:03although on the surface he was helping autumn with her fertility

26:08the digital breakthrough offers a very different perspective

26:11the biggest source of tension in autumn and ferranti's marriage was very much the notion of

26:21her wanting to have a second child and him not

26:27i hate to say it bob but through this entire mess you have not been there for me

26:32he had spoken to other people about it and talked about basically that he was too old

26:41to be a new father again people would mistake him for the grandfather but for autumn her dreams of

26:49having a second child were paramount he may appear to be encouraging her in this dream to have another

26:57child but really he was starting to lose control of autumn

27:04i realize now i have been alone in this entire emotional journey she'd actually talked with her

27:12cousin that although she very much wanted to have another child she had become frustrated with ferrante

27:19that he wasn't helping her enough that he didn't care about her fertility treatments and

27:26she was at a point where she was talking about leaving him i don't know where i want to go from here

27:34i don't know what else to say bob after 12 years of marriage they appear to reach breaking point

27:43there were reports from autumn's family members that she had been contemplating moving out of the

27:51family home and had plans to do it the next summer there was an email i don't know where things are going

27:58to go and you may not like what you hear but i think it is about time we talked autumn is actually

28:07planning a separation so now there is a very different dynamic there he's not as powerful as he used to be

28:18for fronty this is what we call the trigger event how dare you leave me

28:25investigators don't necessarily need a motive but having evidence of marital discord and

28:39frustration of her pregnancy all of those things contribute to motivation and the reasons why

28:46ferrante could be suspected of killing her as the evidence builds around him detectives receive alarming

28:55news this looks like potentially a letter the intelligence from this kind of letter is quite

29:04important which could be fed back into the police teams written after autumn's death the letters were

29:12basically goodbye letters there was some discussion whether or not they might have even been goodbye

29:18letters relative to a potential threat of suicide that ferrante was looking to kill himself

29:25ferrante is declared a high-risk wanted man

29:31armed with an arrest warrant police fly to florida

29:34police encircle the address

30:05but ferrante isn't there the digital forensic team traces his phone

30:14when a suspect has been identified it's really important to look at anything else that's linked

30:18to that suspect in this case the suspect was autumn's husband so ideally you would like to be searching

30:27his place to look at his place of work and also his car

30:31there's huge challenges in examining a vehicle especially several days after the incident has been declared a crime

30:39there could have been a lot of evidence that's been removed from that vehicle so

30:42it can create a lot of challenges

30:45when you're searching a car you're really looking for anything that looks out of place

30:49anything that shouldn't be in the car or appears to be hidden in the car you'd be searching under the

30:55seats in the glove box and in the boot area

31:02investigators found a laptop

31:04and they also found a usb drive in the trunk

31:10computer equipment that usbs would have to be preserved correctly when removed from the vehicle

31:15so they'd be bagged and removed from the scene

31:22quite unusual to leave your laptop in a car and usb drives especially in the boot of a car

31:27which tends to suggest that these were potentially hidden away from the police

31:35prior to sending them off for digital forensics they might well get some fingerprints on the

31:39screen of the laptop and dna potential on the actual keys on the laptop so it's kind of looking as

31:47to the most keys that are used potentially so you wouldn't necessarily use the top keys on the laptop

31:53but you'd use the space bar and the return key quite a lot and a lot of the letters

31:58so i'm just going to take some swabs from some of these areas so literally just wet a swab and run it

32:05over the surface sometimes with the pointy swabs you can kind of get down into the grooves of the keys

32:11which helps to pick up any residual dna they need to be downloaded to see what items have been saved

32:18on the usb drive and what internet searches have been undertaken while waiting on the results detectives

32:29speak to autumn's colleagues at the point where autumn was killed her career was very much on the upswing

32:40she was a sought-after speaker at medical conferences she had established this women's neurology program

32:47and was really at the peak of her career ferrante who'd been doing the work he had for decades

32:57was not the star in the relationship anymore there was jealousy of how her career was going

33:05that would have caused problems for him if she's doing better than him in her career that is a threat

33:12if she's starting to look as if she's not quite as interested in him as she used to be maybe he's

33:18thinking he's not as attractive as he used to be this is the melting pot for real problems

33:26ferrante's digital footprint reveals a growing pattern of jealousy ferrante suspected without

33:35reason that she had been cheating on him and he confronted her in emails about it and he wasn't

33:44willing to accept her explanations that they were just friends so much so that he even looked for a

33:52divorce attorney in pittsburgh when ferrantes accused autumn of having an affair he's imagining that

34:01there's gonna be a separation he was starting to lose control of autumn and research shows a controlling

34:10person the most dangerous people to be in a relationship with and especially if you start to say

34:18you want to leave them investigators get a call from his attorney the attorney wanted him to be able

34:27to turn himself in but the detectives and prosecutor wouldn't allow it and so they had to figure out

34:33where he was and they did eventually they ended up arresting him on the side of a highway in west virginia

34:47ferrante was taken into custody because of the potential suicide letters that had been found shredded in

34:54the home they kept him in protective custody and wearing a suicide smock with ferrante under close

35:03surveillance csis leave no stone unturned it's really important in a place investigation to try and find

35:12the murder weapon whether it be a knife or a gun or something like that whereas in a poisoning case it's

35:18slightly different because you need to find the source of that poison cyanide is not freely available

35:26so it's restricted access so only people with legitimate reasons to be able to purchase it so

35:33normally laboratories that are undertaking research would be able to purchase cyanide detectives went to

35:40ferrante's lab at the university of pittsburgh there they searched his office they searched a safe that

35:47they found within his office and they also searched the lab where he conducted his research

35:55within the lab there was a container labeled potassium cyanide

36:02forensics securely fast track it to the lab

36:06on the top of the desk was a receipt for cyanide which he had overnighted just a couple days before

36:15autumn died and instead of ordering it through the traditional grant based funding that they would

36:22use he put it on a purchasing card for the university which was unusual because he had no active projects

36:29in his lab that would have required that drug this discovery was a huge moment in the investigation

36:36cyanide is a hugely toxic chemical very rarely used it's incredibly suspicious this looks like this belongs to our killer

36:51but there's a question that i would want answers to

36:54how has she become poisoned with cyanide how has that been ingested

37:03pittsburgh police look back to the crime scene as the detectives put their case together they recall

37:09specifically that the paramedics saw a ziploc bag which bob said was creatine that autumn had been using for

37:17fertility treatments that was the key to the case

37:33pittsburgh police have robert ferrante in custody suspected of murdering his wife neuroscientist autumn klein

37:41when the paramedics first arrived they stated that they remember seeing a bag of white powder on the

37:49kitchen worktop and ferrante stated that this was creatine

37:59detectives refer back to their evidence to investigate how he may have administered the poison

38:04also a witness in ferrante's lab described to investigators that he had seen his boss acting

38:13strangely including at one point mixing creatine in the lab in small bottles to take home

38:22also the text messages in which ferrante referenced the creatine that autumn had been using for fertility

38:29treatments they were able to link that with the paramedics they wondered whether that was the method

38:36with which the cyanide was delivered to autumn through that creatine

38:41police believe ferrante exploited his wife's dreams of having a second child

38:47encouraging her to drink the poison disguised as a way to help her become pregnant

38:53the lethal dose is around five milligrams per kilogram of body weight so for someone like

39:01myself a definitely lethal dose would be around 400 milligrams which is precisely the amount of

39:08chemical i have in this little vial here on further investigation it was found that 8.3

39:14grams of potassium cyanide was missing from one of the pots that was taken from the lab

39:20over 20 times the lethal dose is unaccounted for

39:26the digital forensic team reports one more damning find

39:31they recovered ferrante's google search history among the searches that he conducted in the days

39:38leading up to and after autumn's death included symptoms for cyanide poisoning how to detect cyanide

39:46poisoning in an autopsy and ultimately how to erase my google search history

39:54they believed that that was a linchpin in showing that it was premeditated

40:01police have all they need to charge ferrante with his wife's murder

40:05in most cases there are levels of planning before these homicides it looks like he followed the typical

40:15path of a controlling killer who planned the demise of their partner

40:20and being a medical doctor he's not going to use the usual methods of you know like shooting

40:33or strangling her or stabbing her he's going to be far more underhand and far more cunning

40:41not many people can get hold of cyanide but as well if you add on to that he had the medical knowledge

40:51to be able to describe the symptoms of cyanide poisoning as something else

40:57because this man wants to get away with it

41:0718 months after autumn's sudden death

41:12robert ferrante stands trial over a 25 year career covering criminal justice i have never had a poisoning

41:20each day the courtroom was packed every media outlet was there the courtroom watches the cctv of autumn's

41:32last day for me when you saw her start out that morning you can see her striding into work her hair is

41:40down she looks kind of ready to seize the day and by the end of the night you know 14 or 15 hours

41:47later her hair was in a ponytail you know she looked tired she had her bag on her shoulder you

41:55know her day was like everybody else's right and to see that and know that those were you know among

42:02her last moments was really very difficult to watch over 40 witnesses take the stand to piece together the

42:11case for the jury the biggest moment of the trial was when the defense said they called bob ferrante to

42:23the stand he sounded completely different than he had in the 911 call the tone of his voice was different

42:30the pitch of his voice was different and to see him up on the witness stand acting kind of charming

42:37and trying to present the relationship that he and adam had in the way that he wanted to it was really

42:44striking he was the controlling personality from the very beginning when he found out that she was even

42:55thinking of leaving him he decided how she was going to be punished for that he decided that she was going

43:01to die he decided how he was going to get away with it he decided how he was going to control the medical

43:09professionals the criminal justice professionals was very well set up to be able to get away with this

43:15with this murder the jury retires

43:20after 15 hours they find ferrante guilty of first-degree murder he is sentenced to life in prison without the

43:33possibility of parole it's interesting that a lot of people say you never know what goes on behind closed

43:39doors on the surface this relationship seemed like a very normal family relationship behind the scenes it was

43:48clearly a very toxic marriage it's very clear that she was a highly esteemed woman very ambitious

43:57a mother and knew a lot around females and women's pregnancies the thing that sticks with me is what

44:05was lost in autumn's death not only was she an incredible mom and a good friend and colleague and daughter

44:14and cousin you know her life's work was to help people and you just think to yourself what might

44:23have been had she not died what might have been if she was able to continue on for the next 20 or 30

44:29years of her career how many lives she might have been able to change and that is incredibly heartbreaking

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