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details of the account remain covered until revealed He was forty years old and worked as a computer network administrator. He told the dispatcher that his house had been broken into, that he was badly hurt and that his wife Connie had been shot. When police arrived they found him on the floor of the main level, partly bound with zip ties to a metal folding chair, blood on his legs. Connie, thirty-nine, was in the far corner of the basement, not moving, with bullet wounds to her stomach and the back of her head. She had been shot with a .357 revolver.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He said he got home around 8.45 to 9, heard a noise upstairs, thought one of the family cats had knocked something over, and found a bulky man about six foot two in camouflage and a black mask going through his wife's jewellery in the closet. The man, he said, had a voice like Vin Diesel and demanded money, credit cards and PIN numbers. this part of the story is covered for now He said he then heard the garage door open, assumed Connie had come home early from her exercise class at the Indian Valley YMCA, and shouted for her to run. Instead she ran to the basement. He said he heard a struggle and three gunshots from a .357 that he had bought two months earlier and kept in the basement. The intruder, he said, came back, tied him to a chair with zip ties, cut his legs with a box cutter and burned him with a blow torch. details of the account remain covered until revealed He then hit the panic alarm and called 911.

The details did not hold up. There was no forced entry. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it All the weapons used, the gun, the box cutter, the zip ties and the blow torch, came from inside the home. this part of the story is covered for now Three police dogs found no scent of an intruder, and no hospital or clinic within a hundred miles treated anyone for burns to the head. Neighbours saw no stranger, and none saw a man running away with his head on fire.

Connie Dabate had been born Connie Margata, graduated from Ellington High School in 1995 and from UConn in 1999, and worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative. She was a past vice president of the Ellington Volunteer Ambulance Corps and raised money for Boston Children's Hospital. details of the account remain covered until revealed They bought the four-bedroom colonial at Birchview Drive in 2006. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Connie worried about his spending and in December 2014 wrote a note on her iPhone titled 'Why I Want a Divorce', listing his taking money from accounts that were not his, his lying about their marriage and his refusal to share his phone or computer, alongside nine things she liked about him.

this part of the story is covered for now Sarah Ganser was a high-school friend; the affair began in 2014 after her divorce, and by December 2015 she was pregnant. details of the account remain covered until revealed A second girlfriend was also discovered. Sarah believed he was divorcing Connie; the night before the killing he texted her that he and Connie had discussed divorce and were on the same page, signing off 'I'll see you tomorrow, my little love nugget'.

The digital record undid him. Connie wore a hip Fitbit. It showed her leaving for the YMCA at about 8.46, arriving at 8.53, and leaving again at 9.08 after finding the class cancelled. It went idle for the nine-minute drive and became active again at 9.23, the same minute the alarm recorded the garage door opening. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Between 9.23 and 10.05 it recorded 1,217 feet of walking, about ten times the roughly 125 feet it would have registered if she had simply run in and gone down to the basement. this part of the story is covered for now At 9.04 the email to his boss was sent from his laptop at home, not from Reeves Road, where he said he had pulled over. At 9.18 he looked at the YMCA exercise schedule, two minutes before searching ESPN for Mike and Mike. The alarm was armed from his key fob at the house at 8.47, disarmed at 8.59, and the first door opened afterwards was the basement door, meaning whoever opened it was already inside. details of the account remain covered until revealed

Investigators also found that he had taken out a credit card without Connie's knowledge and used it for flowers for his girlfriend, more than $1,200 at a strip club and a stay at a nearby Motel 6. He had searched for poisons in July and September 2015, including deadly over-the-counter pill combinations, fast untraceable homemade poisons, antifreeze and ricin. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In January 2016 he withdrew more than $90,000 from a Fidelity account belonging to Connie.

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now A wrongful death suit followed in December 2017. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Connie's mother, Cindy Margata, testified that on the morning of the murder Connie had called her, said Rick was a mess and that she wanted to see her therapist, and ended with 'I love you, mom, you're my best friend'. this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He continues to maintain his innocence and is held at the McDougal Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Connecticut. The house at Birchview Drive was listed in 2019 for $399,000, reduced by $50,000, taken off the market and finally sold in May 2020 for $325,000.