Police Work To Extradite Doctor Charged With Poisoning Wife
Police are working to extradite University of Pittsburgh researcher Robert Ferrante from West Virginia, where he was arrested.
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Police are working to extradite University of Pittsburgh researcher Robert Ferrante from West Virginia, where he was arrested.
Dr. Robert Ferrante, a prominent UPMC researcher, was arrested Thursday evening by state police in West Virginia after his car was stopped when police executed a rolling traffic stop.
Detectives searched his house and his laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, and now after months of speculation, Dr. Robert Ferrante - a University of Pittsburgh professor of neurological surgery - has been charged with poisoning his wife, Dr. Autumn Klein.
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