Killer widow, 76, is found dead at Connecticut home hours before she was due to be sentenced for brutal killing of doctor husband, 84

A Connecticut widow who killed her hubby has been recovered dormant while awaiting sentencing connected manslaughter charges for nan sadistic sidesplitting of her expert husband.

Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 76, admitted bludgeoning her spouse Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi, 84, to decease successful 2017.

She past wrapped his assemblage successful a rug and near it successful nan basement of their Burlington home, earlier continuing to cod salary checks from his employment at UConn Health.

Kosuda-Bigazzi was staring astatine nan imaginable of 13 years successful jailhouse aft pleading blameworthy to first-degree manslaughter and first-degree larceny.

But successful a daze development, nan elder national was recovered dormant conscionable hours earlier she was owed to beryllium sentenced connected Wednesday.

Her lawyer, Patrick Tomasiewicz, said her decease was unexpected and did not authorities a cause.

'We were honored to beryllium her ineligible counsel and did our very champion to take sides her successful a analyzable lawsuit for nan past six years,' he said successful a statement. 

'She was a very independent female who was ever successful power of her ain destiny.'

The aesculapian examiner is yet to merchandise an nonstop origin of death. 

However, a neighbour interviewed by nan outlet said that Kosuda-Bigazzi had taken her ain life.  

'We wanted her to beryllium punished if she genuinely did this, which she admitted to,' nan neighbour told FOX61 arsenic she expressed her daze astatine nan news.

'If I was stepping down to get nan message she would move astir and spell backmost to nan location [...] location was nary relationship aft nan fact.' 

Kosuda-Bigazzi was arrested successful February 2018 successful relationship pinch nan decease of her husband, a professor of laboratory subject and pathology astatine UConn Health. 

His assemblage was discovered successful nan basement aft constabulary came complete for a wellness check. Bigazzi was killed by a blunt trauma to nan caput sometime successful July 2017, according to nan aesculapian examiner.

Investigators said his woman continued to rate his net from past until her apprehension and had been seeking a execution charge. In writings recovered astatine her house, Kosuda-Bigazzi said she killed her hubby pinch a hammer successful self-defense, authorities constabulary said.

Kosuda-Bigazzi wrote that she and her hubby sewage into a conflict aft she told him repairs were needed to their home's backyard deck. 

She wrote that he came astatine her pinch a hammer and she managed to wrestle it distant from him during a lengthy struggle, authorities said.

'I deed him conscionable swinging nan hammer successful immoderate guidance + past he was quiet — for a fewer seconds + past he stopped breathing,' she wrote, according to investigators. 

'I conscionable wanted to slow him down. I sat connected nan level by nan room cabinets crossed from nan stove — adjacent to him for a agelong time.'

She was free aft having posted much than $1.5 cardinal for bail. 

An soul investigation by UConn resulted successful nan disciplining of a schoolhouse aesculapian charismatic who was expected to show Bigazzi’s work, but had nary interaction pinch him successful nan months earlier his assemblage was found.

Kosuda-Bigazzi was painted arsenic nan leader successful nan relationship, according to those surviving nearby. 

'She seemed to beryllium nan domineering one,' nan neighbour said. 'He was a quieter, small Italian man. She was opinionated.' 

Others said that frightened families had moved retired of nan area aft learning nan slayer was retired connected bail.