A Woman From Connecticut Admitted That She Killed Her Husband. She Was Discovered Dead Hours Before She Was to Be Sentenced
A woman from Connecticut who admitted to killing her husband was discovered dead just hours before she was to be sentenced on Wednesday.
People named Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 76, admitted to killing her 84-year-old husband Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi four months after she did so. On that same day, Connecticut State Police found her dead in her home.
A news release says that someone called the police at 10:37 a.m. on Wednesday and said they were at a home in Burlington, Conn., and “unable to make contact with the resident.”
When the troopers got there, they couldn’t get in touch with the person inside, so they called the fire department to help them get in.
“A woman who wasn’t responding was found inside the house and was later pronounced dead at the scene.” “The person who died has been identified as Linda Bigazzi, born October 31, 1947, and living at the above address,” the news release says.
The Associated Press says that Kosuda-Bigazzi was set to be sentenced on Wednesday at 2 p.m.
The Connecticut State Police said that the case has been “categorized as an untimely death investigation” based on “initial findings.”
The cause of her death is still being looked into, but Kosuda-Bigazzi’s lawyer, Patrick Tomasiewicz, told USA Today in a statement that her death “was not anticipated.”
“For six years, we were proud to be her lawyers and did our best to defend her in a complicated case.” He also said, “She was a very independent woman who was always in charge of her destiny.” PEOPLE has asked Tomasiewicz to say something.
A criminal information report that PEOPLE had seen before showed that Bigazzi was found dead at their home on February 5, 2018, while they were there for a visit.
A press release from Sharmese L. Walcott, the state’s attorney for the Hartford Judicial District, says that cops found Bigazzi’s body after getting a request for a welfare check from the University of Connecticut, where he worked.
“An investigation showed paychecks from the victim’s employer continued to be deposited into the couple’s joint checking account from the time of his death, which authorities believe to be sometime in July 2017, until his body was discovered in early February 2018,” the press release says.
When Kosuda-Bigazzi went to court in March, he admitted to two counts of murder in the first degree and theft in the first degree.