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CUSTODY.
DR. ROBERT FERRANTE IS EXPECTED
TO WAIVE EXTRADITION AND BE
TRANSPORTED BACK TO PENNSYLVANIA
WHERE HE FACES CRIMINAL HOMICIDE
CHARGES.
HIS ARREST IN WEST VIRGINIA ON
THURSDAY ENDING A NATIONWIDE
MANHUNT.
>> HE WAS RELATIVELY QUIET.
HE KNEW THERE WERE WARRANTS FOR
HIM, SAID HE WAS EN ROUTE BACK
TO PITTSBURGH.
>> HE HAS TO DEFEND HIMSELF,
HAVE HIS DAY IN COURT, AND PROVE
HIS INNOCENCE.
>> Reporter: ROBERT FERRANTE IS
ACCUSED OF POISONING HIS WIFE,
DR. AUTUMN KLEIN, WITH CYANIDE
IN APRIL.
DR. KLEIN, SEEN HERE IN AN
INTERVIEW ON THE DISCOVERY
CHANNEL, WAS THE CHIEF OF
WOMEN'S NEUROLOGY AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL
CENTER.
POLICE INVESTIGATORS SCOURED THE
COUPLE'S HOME, COLLECTING
EVIDENCE THERE AND AT THE
UNIVERSITY LAB, WHERE FERRANTE
WORKED.
A THREE-MONTH INVESTIGATION LED
TO THIS CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
AGAINST 64-YEAR-OLD FERRANTE,
DOCUMENTING AN ALLEGED TEXT
CONVERSATION WITH HIS WIFE,
URGING HER TO GO ON A CREATINE
REGIMEN TO HELP WITH FERTILITY,
THAT PROSECUTORS BELIEVE HE
LACED WITH CYANIDE.
THEY ALSO DOCUMENT FERRANTE
PLACING AN ORDER FOR AN
OVERNIGHT DELIVERY OF CYANIDE
TWO DAYS BEFORE HIS WIFE
COLLAPSED.
>> THE AMAZING AMOUNT OF
SUBPOENAS AND INVESTIGATION THAT
WENT INTO DETERMINING, IN FACT,
IT WAS A HOMICIDE, THAT'S WHAT
TOOK SO LONG.
>> Reporter: KLEIN LEAVES BEHIND
THEIR 6-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, HER
DEATH SENDING SHOCK WAVES
THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
>> WE WERE STUNNED.
I MEAN, SHE WAS YOUNG.
SHE WAS VIBRANT.
SHE HAS A YOUNG DAUGHTER.