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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researcher faces a mandatory life sentence — and likely the wrath of his dead wife's family — when he's sentenced for first-degree murder in her cyanide poisoning death.
Sixty-six-year-old Robert Ferrante was convicted in November and will be sentenced Wednesday. Prosecutors didn't pursue the death penalty, so Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning has no option but to impose a life sentence without parole.
The family of his wife, 41-year-old Dr. Autumn Klein, said little after the verdict. "Justice for Autumn" were the only words her mother, Lois Klein, of Towson, Maryland, said then.
But the dead neurologist's mother is expected to address the court Wednesday about the killing, which has left the couple's 8-year-old daughter, Cianna, in the custody of Lois Klein and her husband, Bill.
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