It was December 23, 2015, the morning before Christmas Eve, and most residents of Ellington,

Connecticut were getting their last minute holiday tasks completed before the season went

into full swing. Richard and Connie debate got their two young sons on the school bus and then

got ready to do their own thing for the day. By 8.30 a.m., Richard was headed to his job as a

computer network administrator in Bloomfield, and Connie was getting dressed for her spin class

at the local YMCA. It was a normal weekday morning like any other, but within just a few hours,

tragedy would descend on the quiet upscale neighborhood that the debate family called home.

By 10 a.m., 39-year-old Connie debate had been shot twice and was lying dead in her basement,

and her husband Rick was found by first responders tied to a metal folding chair. He claimed a masked

intruder had attacked him and then murdered his wife, and for months the community mourned the loss

of Connie. Everyone wanted to know who could have done such a terrible thing to a young mother,

a woman who didn't have an enemy in the world. There was very little information coming from

law enforcement. All they said was that the community had nothing to fear, but people still had a lot

of questions. It would be over a year before anyone would have answers, however, and during that

time a case was built on following the money, the secrets, and the electronic paper trail,

which would lead to the shocking conclusion and the answer to who could have done something

so terrible to Connie debate and her family.

Hello everybody, welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow,

and I'm Derek Levasser. So we're jumping into a new case today, and I actually chose

this case to start this week because it just went to trial, and we have an outcome in it,

and I mean this murder happened in 2015. It's 2022, so I mean it's been many, many years that

this family's been waiting for closure and waiting for justice, and they finally have it. I'm

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