NBC CONN

INVESTIGATES... HAS

NEW INFORMATION..ON

A HIGH-PROFILE

MURDER CASE.

A MAN SUSPECTED OF

"KILLING" HIS WIFE...4

YEARS AGO... WAS

APPARENTLY

RESEARCHING

HOME-MADE

POISONS.... IN THE

MONTHS ....LEADING

UP TO HER DEATH.

CHIEF INVESTIGATIVE

REPORTER LEN

BESTHOFF BROKE THE

STORY ONLINE TODAY

AND JOINS US WITH

THE LATEST.

LEN?

KEISHA AND MIKE N-

B-C-CONNECTICUT-

INVESTIGATES

OBTAINED A RECENTLY

FILED DOCUMENT THAT

SAYS RICHARD

DABATE, THE

ELLINGTON MAN

CHARGED WITH

KILLING HIS WIFE

CONNIE IN 2015, MADE

SEVERAL INTERNET

SEARCHES ABOUT

POISON IN THE

MONTHS BEFORE HER

DEATH.

A STATE PROSECUTOR

SAYS HE PLANS TO

INTRODUCE EVIDENCE

REGARDING RICHARD

DABATE’S

UNCHARGED

MISCONDUCT.

AN EXAM OF A

COMPUTER IN HIS

HOUSE FOUND HE

CONDUCTED INTERNET

SEARCHES OF TERMS

SUCH AS DEADLY

OVER THE COUNTER

PILL COMBINATIONS,

FAST UNTRACEABLE

POISEN (SIC), AND

TASTELESS POISON

EASILY AVAILABLE

AMONG OTHERS.

THE PROSECUTOR

SAID IN THE MOTION

THE EVIDENCE IS

ADMISSIBLE TO HELP

PROVE MOTIVE AND

INTENT.

DABATE HAS PLEAD

NOT GUILTY TO

SHOOTING AND

KILLING HIS WIFE.

HE REMAINS FREE ON

BOND.

THERE’S A MOTIONS

HEARING IN HIS CASE

LATER THIS MONTH.

NEITHER THE

PROSECUTOR NOR

DABATE’S ATTORNEY

RETURNED OUR CALLS

FOR COMMENT.

LEN BESTHOFF, N-B-

C-CONNECTICUT-

INVESTIGATES.

KEISHA BACK TO YOU.

A MANCHESTER MAN