Fitbit Murder: Husband of Slain Wife Sentenced to 65 Years

Richard Dabate, the husband of 2015 homicide sufferer Connie Dabate, was sentenced to 65 years in jail on Thursday. Prosecutors say that Richard Dabate’s police statements describing the homicide didn’t match knowledge current on Connie’s wearable exercise tracker, Fitbit.

In December 2015, Richard Dabate of Connecticut advised police {that a} masked intruder broke into the house he shared along with his spouse. Dabate alleged that the intruder tied him to a chair and shot his spouse, killing her. It’s a really tragic slaying, besides that’s not what studies present occurred. In 2017, Dabate was charged with felony homicide after the deceased’s Fitbit data revealed that she was on the health club when he alleged she had been murdered. Yesterday, Dabate was sentenced to 65 years in jail based on the Associated Press following a conviction by jury this previous May.

“It enables us to get a little bit of closure, even though it won’t bring Connie back. As a family, we can move forward,” stated Keith Margotta, Connie Dabate’s brother, after the sentencing.

According to his arrest warrant, Richard Dabate returned dwelling after forgetting his work laptop computer when he encountered the intruder rummaging by means of an upstairs closet at round 9:00 a.m. Shortly thereafter, Connie Dabate returned dwelling and was shot by the intruder. However, footage from an area YMCA confirms that the sufferer was on the health club throughout this time. Fitbit distance and exercise knowledge obtained by legislation enforcement signifies that she was really murdered at 10:05 a.m, with the warrant stating: “Victim #1’s ‘Fitbit’ registers movement at 1005hrs. This is the last movement registered by the victim’s ‘Fitbit’.”

This is definitely not the primary time a Fitbit was used to assist resolve a homicide as investigators in 2018 observed that coronary heart fee knowledge from Karen Navarra’s Fitbit positioned her loss of life 5 days previous to when her physique was discovered.