Family and friends finally had the chance to speak about the grief they have languished in since Connie Dabate's murder at the hands of her husband, Richard Dabate, in 2015 during his sentencing this week.
Richard Dabate, the Ellington man who was found guilty of murdering his wife in a case dubbed the “Fitbit murder,” was sentenced Thursday to 65 years in prison a sentence that led Connie Dabate’s fa.
Wrapping up the fourth week in the trial for the case known as the "Fitbit murder," attorneys on Friday questioned friends and neighbors of the the slain mother as the state continued to build its case against her husband Richard Dabate.
Richard Dabate arrived at his in-laws’ house limping, but stoic, on Christmas Eve in 2015, the day after he says a stranger broke into his family’s Ellington home and shot his wife to death, Connie Dabate’s sister told a jury Thursday.