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Connecticut woman found dead hours before sentencing for husband's death

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July 25, 2024

Connecticut woman found dead hours before sentencing for husband's death

A 76-year-old Connecticut woman was found dead at her home Wednesday, hours before she was to be sentenced for killing her husband and hiding his body for months while continuing to collect his paychecks.

State police said they were investigating the “untimely death” of Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi after being called to her Burlington home for a welfare check shortly after 10:30 a.m. The cause of her death was under investigation, and police and her lawyer did not disclose any further details.

Kosuda-Bigazzi had been scheduled under a plea deal to be sentenced at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Hartford Superior Court to 13 years in prison for the 2017 death of her husband, Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi, 84.

Her lawyer, Patrick Tomasiewicz, said her death was unexpected.

“We were honored to be her legal counsel and did our very best to defend her in a complex case for the past six years,” he said in a statement. “She was a very independent woman who was always in control of her own destiny.”

Police said Kosuda-Bigazzi wrote that she and her husband got into a fight after she told him repairs were needed to their home’s backyard deck. She wrote that he came at her with a hammer and she managed to wrestle it away from him during a lengthy struggle, authorities said.

“I hit him just swinging the hammer in any direction + then he was quiet — for a few seconds + then he stopped breathing,” she wrote, according to investigators. “I just wanted to slow him down. I sat on the floor by the kitchen cabinets across from the stove — next to him for a long time.”

State troopers found her husband’s body in their basement in February 2018 during a wellness check requested by UConn Health staff. It was wrapped in plastic and showed an advanced stage of decomposition, authorities said. The medical examiner said he had died from blunt trauma to his head.

Investigators have said they believe Pierluigi Bigazzi died sometime in July 2017 and that his UConn Health paychecks continued to be deposited into the couple’s joint checking account until his body was found.

An internal investigation by UConn resulted in the disciplining of a school medical official who was supposed to monitor Pierluigi Bigazzi’s work but had no contact with him in the months before his body was found.

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Cash 5 ticket bought in CT worth $100,000

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1 hour ago

July 25, 2024

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(WFSB) – Someone bought a Cash 5 ticket in Connecticut that’s worth $100,000.

The winning ticket was from Tuesday’s drawing, according to the Connecticut Lottery.

It matched all five numbers.

The numbers were 6, 7, 11, 19, and 31.

The CT Lottery said a total of 6,816 winning tickets of varying amounts were sold for the Cash 5 drawings on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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CT Weekend Events: Jazz, Art, Clowns & Tractor Pulls

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16 hours ago

July 24, 2024

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CT Weekend Events: Jazz, Art, Clowns & Tractor Pulls

CONNECTICUT — From hi-brow art exhibitions to hi-test tractor pulls, Connecticut offers something for just about every taste this weekend.

The Litchfield Jazz Festival kicks off Friday and runs through the weekend at the Tisch Auditorium in the state-of-the-art Thomas Perakos Performing Arts Center in Washington. Ever since the fest launched a quarter-century ago with Diana Krall in the lineup, reviewers have heaped praise on the organizers’ gets. This year, appearances by Amina Figarova Sextet and the Bill Charlap Trio should only burnish that legacy brighter. Tickets are available online here.

The fun will be about as good and old-fashioned as it gets at the 64th Annual Lebanon Country Fair this weekend. Goats, sheep, rabbits, poultry and cattle will all get their moment in the summer sun, alongside an interspecies battle for barnyard bragging rights, the Oxen vs. Horse Pull. Warranties will be voided left and right as otherwise study machinery will be strained to the breaking point in truck pulls, antique tractor pulls, and lawnmower races. A magic show, balloon animals, fair food and Bella the Clown will pretty much make this event a guaranteed hit with even your youngest country cousins. The fairgrounds will be open Friday, 3-11 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m.-11 p.m., and Sunday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

A little ways southward, Old Lyme will be holding its Midsummer Festival on Friday and Saturday, and it’s huge. Party band Locomotion gets the ball rolling with a concert on the Florence Griswold Museum lawn, 7-9 p.m. on Friday. There’s a 5K run, if that’s your thing, starting Saturday morning at 8, followed by an art sale, a classic car show, a dog show, a linen sale, a food truck court, and kids’ activities and art gallery tours throughout the day. The massive undertaking is produced each year by the Old Lyme Arts District, and needs its own map.

In Ridgefield, where the whole damn town is an arts district, Summerfest will take over Main Street from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Over 60 craft vendors will join a full complement of carnival games and sidewalk sales, brought to you by the local Chamber of Commerce.

Midsummer is also the end of the season for many exhibits and installations. Notably, this weekend is your last chance to see “PRAXIS: An Exhibition of Clay Sculpture, Collage and Paintings” at City Gallery in New Haven, featuring the work of Roberta Friedman, Joyce Greenfield, Sheila Kaczmarek, and Kathy Kane. Gallery hours are Friday through Sunday, noon to 4 p.m., and admission is free. On Sunday, The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens will be pulling down “Aalto 2.0,” the Hugh Kepets show “inspired by architectural structures and his environment.” They’re free spirits over at the Gardens, so check their social media for their hours this weekend.

You have until dusk Saturday to catch “Flag Field for Heroes” at the Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry before that grassroots, inspiring and unabashedly patriotic initiative shutters for the year. Folks have been filling the grassy areas surrounding the home of Connecticut’s most famous Revolutionary with American flags in honor of a military service member, veteran, or hero since the middle of May, and now red, white and blue cover the green everywhere.

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2-year-old boy shot inside Connecticut home, mother attempts to rush toddler to hospital

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24 hours ago

July 24, 2024

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2-year-old boy shot inside Connecticut home, mother attempts to rush toddler to hospital

MONROE, Connecticut (WABC) — A 2-year-old boy was shot and injured at a home in Connecticut.

It happened on Tuesday at 9:21 p.m. on Wheeler Road in Monroe.

Police say that the boy’s mother discovered the boy shot in his hand and foot and tried to rush him to a local hospital before calling 911.

Police responded to the intersection of Route 110 and Osborn Lane where they found the shot toddler.

He was rushed to Bridgeport Hospital and was later transferred to Yale New Haven Hospital for surgery.

He’s expected to survive.

Detectives are investigating the circumstances under which the boy’s injuries occurred.

First Selectman Terrence P. Rooney released a statement saying:

“Our hearts go out to the family and our community as the police continue their investigation of last night’s shooting incident involving a young child. I humbly ask that as concerned compassionate community members, we respect the privacy of the family and the articulate efforts of our law enforcement professionals at this time.”

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