Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, a 76-year-old lady from Burlington, Connecticut, was discovered dead at her home only hours before her sentencing for the 2017 murder of her 84-year-old husband, Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi.
Authorities were summoned to Kosuda-Bigazzi’s Hartford County residence just after 10:30 a.m. for a wellness check, and they ended up discovering her lifeless body.
As part of a plea agreement, Kosuda-Bigazzi was to face more than a decade for her husband’s 2017 murder. According to the police, Kosuda-Bigazzi claimed in her statement that she and her husband argued about the necessity of fixing the deck in their backyard. She described how, after a protracted fight, she was able to pull a hammer he was wielding away from him.
She said she sat in the kitchen on the floor against the cabinets for a long time as her husband lay dead.
With his corpse wrapped in a rug, Kosuda-Bigazzi hid it in the Burlington home’s basement as she kept collecting paychecks from his job.
When Bigazzi, a pathology and laboratory science professor at UConn Health, stopped showing up for work, the police went to his residence for a wellness check. After discovering his body secreted in the basement, with blunt force trauma to his head, Kosuda-Bigazzi was arrested on suspicion of murder.
She said the blow to his head was only meant to “slow him down.”
A school medical official who was meant to oversee Bigazzi’s work but did not communicate with him in the months preceding his body’s discovery was disciplined as a consequence of an internal inquiry by UConn.
Neighbors said that Kosuda-Bigazzi took the lead in the couple’s relationship, characterizing her as domineering and opinionated. They also said that the husband was a “meek” little man.
After entering her pleas to first-degree manslaughter and first-degree larceny, she faced thirteen years in prison.
