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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Dead wife's FitBit says hubby's lying; 'Munchhausen' mom update & kids tortured at daycare

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A FitBit bracelet on Connie Dabate's wrist told a story that landed her husband in jail on a murder charge. Nancy Grace updates the case against Richard Dabate, who told investigators a masked intruder tied him up and fatally shot his wife. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, lawyer and child advocate Ashley Willcott, and reporter Ninette Sosa join Nancy. Reporter John Lemley updates the case of a mom who allegedly faked her son's illnesses for years which resulted in 13 surgeries and 320 hospital and pediatric center visits. Grace & experts also look at a daycare worker who allegedly burned 5 kids with a hot glue gun and then laughed.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Who killed Connie debate?

0:07.0

A pretty mom, a beautiful home in a Connecticut suburb.

0:10.0

Was Connie the victim of a home invasion as her husband Rick claims?

0:14.0

Or was she collateral damage in a love triangle?

0:17.0

A security alarm went off.

0:19.0

Stay police rushed inside, and that's when they found Connie debate in the basement.

0:23.0

Dead from multiple crimes.

0:25.0

They find Rick tied to a folding metal chair, moaning, telling cops, quote,

0:32.0

they're still in the house.

0:34.0

Connie's husband Rick is arrested.

0:36.0

Debate is charged with murder, tampering with evidence, and making a false statement.

0:40.0

Could the alleged motive be found in the revelation of a now admitted affair between debate and an old high school friend he says he impredenated?

0:48.0

A marriage marked by secrets in love.

0:52.0

What we know right now is that Connie debate was found dead in her home.

1:00.0

Her husband, Richard, claims that a masked intruder, here we go with the masked intruder, breaks into their upscale Connecticut home.

1:15.0

And let's see, how does he say this?

1:22.0

He ties him Richard debate to a chair.

1:27.0

P.S. it was a folding chair, and when cops got there he had one arm and one leg tied to it.

1:34.0

Okay.

1:36.0

But for some reason they didn't tie the wife to a chair.

1:39.0

They decided to chase her through the home and murder her.

1:45.0

Now, this is the problem.

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