Lester Holt

Pittsburgh PD Detective Lutton headed south to make the arrest.

But when he got there, the sister said Ferranti was gone.

She said that he got a phone call from an attorney, and he got in the car and said, I got to go, and he left.

Did you think that Dr. Ferranti was doing a runner on you?

He was trying to get away?

Yes.

Yes.

I mean, we were told that he was going to his attorney, but he's running from us.

He knew we were coming.

In your books, he's a fugitive.

Yes.

But not for long.

As it turned out, Ferrante was on his way back to Pittsburgh to turn himself in, says his attorney, when he was pulled over by state police in West Virginia and later handed over to Pittsburgh authorities.

Police had their man.

Now they and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had to prove to 12 men and women that he was the right one.

They heard a clean case.

They heard a very clean case.

To Jeffrey A. Manning, the judge who would preside over it all, the case against Bob Ferranti, far from a sure thing, could well leave jurors scratching their heads.

And I'm not one for predicting verdicts, but I would not have predicted one here.

It could have gone either way and you wouldn't have been surprised?