According to medical records obtained from Reproductive Health Specialists and cited in the warrant, Klein, 41, was using fertility drugs and had undergone in vitro fertilization using a donor egg multiple times in the two years preceding her death. Mr. Ferrante "was not agreeable to or supportive of" the treatments, a detective wrote.
"On 8/9/2012, Klein reported that she was undecided on a plan for treatment. She also reported to the representative on this same date that she had no health insurance coverage and was unsure how much money was owed from her last cycle of IVF," Allegheny County district attorney's Detective Jackelyn Weibel wrote.
Klein did have health insurance but it did not cover payments for all of the fertility treatments she sought.
Later in the affidavit, dated May 28, Detective Weibel wrote: "It was learned from Ferrante that Klein was ordering fertility drugs from Canada in an attempt to save money and had asked the facility to delay on processing her credit card and check payments on more than one occasion. Due to [these] reasons, your affiant believes that the high cost of these IVF treatments (without any insurance coverage) may have been putting a strain on the family's finance."
According to the warrant, the couple earned more than $300,000 a year. They moved to Pittsburgh from Boston in 2011 and bought a $590,000 home on Lytton Avenue in Oakland in May of that year. The county did not have any records pertaining to a mortgage for them.
Several weeks after Klein died, Mr. Ferrante made "suspicious transfers" of some of his assets, assistant district attorney John Fitzgerald wrote in a separate document seeking to put a temporary restraining order on transactions involving the couple's home.
On May 15, Mr. Ferrante obtained two safety deposit boxes at a PNC Bank branch. Three days later, he placed $30,000 in a box on which he also included his adult daughter from another marriage as a box owner, Mr. Fitzgerald wrote.
