Police reported that a Connecticut woman, who was waiting to be sentenced for her husband’s manslaughter, was found dead at her home on Wednesday.
A woman scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday for manslaughter in connection with the 2018 killing of her UConn professor husband was found dead in her home just over three hours before her court hearing, according to state police.
Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 76, was set for a 2 p.m. sentencing at Hartford Superior Court for first-degree manslaughter related to the death of Pierluigi Bigazzi. Police reported that at 10:37 a.m., they received a call from someone concerned that Kosuda-Bigazzi could not be reached at her residence on Smith Lane in Burlington.
Troopers and local firefighters entered the home and discovered her unresponsive, as noted in an incident report. Police are treating the situation as “an untimely death investigation,” and the area remained closed while the investigation continued into Tuesday afternoon.
Kosuda-Bigazzi had been released on a $ 1.5 million bond while waiting for her court hearing, as indicated by judicial system records.
On March 11, she pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and first-degree larceny before Judge David P. Gold.
She was arrested in February 2018 after her 84-year-old husband was found dead in the basement of their Burlington home. Police made the discovery while responding to a welfare check after UConn officials reported not having heard from him for several months, based on case records.
The investigation revealed that paychecks from UConn had been deposited into the couple’s joint checking account from the time of his death, believed to be around July 2017, until his body was found in early February 2018, according to the case records.
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