SPECIAL WEEKEND CRIME STORIES UPDATE: Dead wife's FitBit says hubby's lying, GUILTY
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Richard Dabate tells Connecticut State Police that a masked intruder broke into his home, shot his wife, Connie, and tied him to a chair. Investigators say however that data from the Fitbit tracker Connie was wearing contradicts those statements. Police put together a detailed digital timeline. Dabate told police his wife came home during the intrusion. He told her to run and said the intruder chased her to the basement and shot her. Connie's Fitbit, however, logged more than 1200 steps in the house. Richard Dabate, charged with murder, tampering with evidence, and making false statements, now convicted by a jury.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Dr. Daniel Bober - Forensic psychiatrist
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| 0:36.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:45.0 | A gorgeous young woman in the prime of her life shot dead in the family home |
| 0:50.0 | just two days before Christmas while they're two little boys or in school. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm talking about Connie debate. |
| 0:58.0 | Why was this young mom gunned down in the home by a masked man? |
| 1:04.0 | Take a listen to this our friends at CBS. |
| 1:07.0 | Everyone who lives on Birchview Drive in Ellington remembers that awful day. |
| 1:12.0 | It was shot. It was just no way in the world that you could comprehend it. |
| 1:16.0 | December 23rd, 2015. |
| 1:19.0 | The friend and neighbor Connie debate was shot and killed inside her home. |
| 1:25.0 | Stuff like that doesn't happen here. You see it on TV, the movies, sitcoms, |
| 1:28.0 | but you don't see it on your street. |
| 1:31.0 | Time moved on, but for Connie's friends like Russell Stone, life was never quite the same here. |
| 1:36.0 | The conversation is two minutes and then goes right to Connie. |
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