Episode 311: The Murder of Connie Margotta Dabate

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Connie Dabate, a mother of two, returned to her home in Ellington, CT on the morning of December 23, 2015 to a masked intruder in her home - or at least that’s the story her husband told. Over a year later, the arrest made in her case would shock the community and lead to more questions about what was going on behind the scenes. Since the killer was convicted in part thanks to digital evidence from Connie’s Fitbit tracker, this became known nationwide as “The Fitbit Murder” - but it should be remembered by the victim’s name: Connie Margotta Dabate. Click here to join our Patreon. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true crime podcast Oh, Welcome back everybody. Today, well first of all I can't believe it's freaking June. How did this happen? Like how are we... I'm about to have a one year old, which is insane. How are we halfway through the year almost? this is just crazy so um yeah
0:43.9	time is a thief it really is but I hope your start to summer is going good and
0:50.4	today we're going to talk about a case that is obviously very heartbreaking, but it was solved partially in thanks to a type of digital evidence that we don't typically see in true crime cases.
1:05.4	So investigators were able to use the victim's Fitbit activity tracker to help convict
1:10.5	her killer.
1:11.5	Damn.
1:13.0	Roughed by the Fitbit.
1:16.0	Right?
1:18.0	So this case has kind of become known as the Fitbit murder, but I don't think that's how it should be known because this is the story of the murder of Connie Margata debate.
1:29.0	Okay.
1:31.0	At 10.22 a.m. on December 23rd, 2015, police were sent to a home
1:36.2	in the upscale neighborhood of Ellington, Connecticut
1:38.9	after an alarm was triggered at the home of Richard and Connie debate. When police arrived at the scene, they found Connie lying dead in the basement of the home,
1:48.8	having been shot in the stomach and head.
1:51.8	Oh my gosh.
1:54.0	Her husband, Richard, had been bound to a chair by zip ties and had been burned and stabbed
2:00.0	by a box cutter, but he was alive.
2:04.2	So Richard and Connie debate were described as a lovely couple that would never say no if you
2:09.6	needed something. Sweet.
2:13.0	Richard was funny in an offbeat kind of way, according to Connie's friend, Ali Clark, while Connie was the quote,
2:22.0	Kindest woman you'd ever met.
2:24.0	Allie said that while they were different, it seemed like they really liked and respected each other.
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