Revisiting PEOPLE's 2017 Story on the 'Fitbit Murder': Web of Lies — a Wife Killed, a Husband Accused
Richard and Connie Dabate.Photo: Connie Dabate/Myspace At trial, prosecutors argued Richard had impregnated his girlfriend and wanted to end his marriage with Connie without divorcing her. Dabate had initially blamed the killing on an intruder, who he claimed had tortured and stabbed him before shooting Connie. But data from Connie’s Fitbit indicated she was alive after Dabate claimed she’d been killed — a piece of evidence that undercut his alibi....