A rich Connecticut man was convicted Tuesday of all expenses for murdering his spouse and attempting to pin the crime on a phantom intruder – after his testimony was contradicted by a “Fitbit” exercise tracker.
It took jurors lower than 4 hours to search out Richard Dabate, 45, responsible of homicide, tampering with bodily proof and making a false assertion for fatally taking pictures his spouse, Connie Dabate, 39, two days earlier than Christmas in 2015, in accordance with the Journal Inquirer.
His spouse was carrying the exercise tracker wristwatch and information recovered from the gadget allegedly confirmed she was leisurely strolling round an hour after Dabate claimed she had been killed by a camouflage-wearing burglar.
Dabate took the stand in Rockville Superior Courtroom in Vernon, Connecticut, and claimed that he had left for work Dec. 23 however had forgotten his laptop computer and circled to retrieve it. When he acquired residence, he discovered an intruder in the home, who shot his spouse, tied him to a chair and slashed him with a field cutter.
Prosecutor Matthew Gedansky argued that Dabate killed his spouse to keep away from a divorce after impregnating his mistress.
A tool knowledgeable testified that it was extremely unlikely the information on the tracker can be off by an hour, undermining Dabate’s timeline.
After the decision, a choose hiked Dabate’s bond from $1 million to $5 million. He faces a minimal of 25 years in jail when he’s sentenced. The five-week trial got here after two years of delays on account of COVID-19 shutdowns.
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