On the morning of December 23rd, 2015, just two days before Christmas, cherished wife and mother of two boys Connie Dabate was found brutally murdered, shot to death in her own basement in Ellington Connecticut. Connie’s husband Rick was also found tortured covered in blood. He reported the shocking story of a home invasion gone wrong, a masked intruder who had attempted to rob the family, shooting Connie twice in the process. The Dabates seemed like an idyllic family. Connie and Rick had been together for 12 years, they had two boys and on the surface were the picture of happiness. Connie was a pillar of the small close-knit community of Ellington and as a couple they were well liked and had lots of friends. But what people didn’t know about doting father and loving husband Rick was he had a double life, a second phone and a secret credit card that Connie knew nothing about and the case unfolds darker secrets emerge. A murder that shocked a community and ripped families apart. But, was this simply a tale of a home robbery gone tragically wrong? Who was in the Dabate house that day? What kind of person would murder a mother in cold blood just two days before Christmas? With the help of police investigation reports, the coroner’s autopsy and the technological data pulled from the Dabates’ cell phones and the Fitbit Connie was wearing that day, Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter deciphers the shocking truths of the case to uncover how and why this apparently senseless murder took place.
