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Murdered Woman's Fitbit Nails Cheating Husband (nydailynews.com)
BarbaraHudson writes: A murdered woman's Fitbit data shows she was still alive an hour after her husband claims she was murdered and he was tied up, contradicting her husband's description of events. New York Daily News reports: "Richard Dabate, 40, was charged this month with felony murder, tampering with physical evidence and making false statements following his wife Connie's December 2015 death at their home in Ellington, Tolland County. Dabate called 911 reporting that his wife was the victim of a home invasion, alleging that she was shot dead by a 'tall, obese man' with a deep voice like actor Vin Diesel's, sporting 'camouflage and a mask,' according to an arrest warrant. Dabate alleged her death took place more than an hour before her Fitbit-tracked movements revealed."
Tall obese lives matter!
I'll wait for the jury to ring in on this one.
Tall obese men are notorious for tampering with fitness trackers. It was one of the unfinished story arcs in the Fast and the Furious if I'm not mistaken
We've heard all about doctors not knowing what to do with fitness tracker data but now we're finally seeing a valid use case: recording your time of death! The police must be thrilled. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Are DST adjustments automatic on a Fitbit? Asking as I don't own one.
DUNNo where this happened at, but it sounds to me like this guy is getting Deliverance'd by the cops. One hour discrepancy in his version of events doesn't mean anything at all, especially if he was traumatized. The cops on the other hand sound stupid so they're probably inbred.
This happened in December of 2015. This idiot and his pregnant girlfriend should have long since left the country to someplace hard to find and/or without an extradition treaty. What have they been doing for the last year and a third? Pretending they wouldn't get caught if they just acted as normal as possible???
How do we know the killer didn't wear the fitbit himself for an hour and put it back on the corpse to frame the husband?
Captcha: executor. LOL
It took 15 months to figure this out and now the guy is out on bail? His gun matches, he had major insurance, and the husband is always the prime suspect. This investigation should have taken weeks. Ellington seems to have had 4 murders in the past 12 years, including this one. Must have been a high priority case. I'll bet the crime scene had over a dozen cops onsite eating donuts. The next day they went back to their speed traps.
The wife is still dead, whether this story is true or not.
If the holder is more than 2 months old, maybe the shitty overpriced, primitive holder broke right when she collapsed, a dog found the fitbit and then dragged it all over the neighborhood.
such possibilities
Haven't we all seen enough episodes of CSI to avoid making these mistakes?
Summer is coming up. HINT: If you're going to murder your kids by leaving them in a hot car, wipe your browser cache after Googling "how to kill my kid in a hot car"
When the kids are killed, you don't need a fitbit to know it was mom.
why would the home invader shoot the wife dead but only tie the husband up, when it would be just as easy to shoot him too which also eliminates him as a witness to the intruders identity and crimes
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
"...at their home in Ellington, Tolland County"
Who wrote this summary, Forrest Gump?
Seriously, I don't care what the county is, I just want to know the state. And I don't want to read TFA FFS.
Since when did Fitbit start making sex toys?
If not for your pesky daylight savings time!
"I'm ready for u big boy." Are we sure there was even another woman? Only time have seen messages like that is reading my spam messages .
Who edits this crap anyway ?
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By Grabthar's Hammer-throw, you shall be avenged!
I'm confused by the headline - what's a Fitbit Nails?
Murdering husband murdered wife would seem rather redundant, while "cheating" gives additional information.
> So every time someone is murdered we shouldn't look for their killers because the person will still be dead? We should let criminals roam free?
No, there should be effective laws in place to prevent murders rather than simply jailing murderers. I know you Yanks love your guns, but your murder rates are just insane. There seem to be three basic arguments in favor of an armed populous:
1. Harm reduction: guns protect law abiding citizens from intruders.
2. Political: guns are the last line of defense from a tyrannical government.
3. Practicality: banning guns legally will not make them cease to exist.
This case is a poignant illustration against the statistically falsifiable first argument. Even if you accept the premise that guns in private homes are an effective form of self-defense, guns are more likely to kill or maim their owners accidentally or be used in domestic violence than in self defense, as is the case here.
A bit off-topic, but the other two are equally falsifiable: generalized violence begets tyranny. Saddam Hussein was a tyrant, and Iraq under his regime was awash in guns. This powder keg predictably exploded into to much harsher tyranny in the wake of his regime. The third point simply ignores all of the societies that once had an armed populous and moved to an unarmed one. It takes time, but it happens.
she's still dead
Fuck off you stupid troll. Nobody said any of that.
Never corrected for Daylight Savings Time? My car was still on wintertime until three days ago when I noticed it hadn't "spring forward"ed. And people are horrible under stress at getting details correct. But cool if they can verify all the details.
The technology angle exists regardless of perp/victim genders.
I think we found the angry MRA.
It hints at the motive. Based on that single word, I assume he was headed for divorce and humiliation.
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He hasn't been convicted (yet).
So really, it shouldn't really be saying he's been nailed for anything, not by the Fitbit anyway.
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Murdered Woman's Fitbit Nails Cheating Husband
He's not been nailed for anything yet. Still got to get that pesky trial out of the way first.
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It nailed him? It was shoved up his ass? Finally a real use for a fitbit.