Wife of UConn professor kills herself, facing jail time for abusive husband's murder

Woman, 76, Found Dead Before Sentencing in Manslaughter of Husband

By the USA TODAY staff

[Connecticut State Police]: (https://www.cspnews.org/post/state-police-investigating-untimely-death-in-burlington) announce that Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 76, was found unresponsive in her home & pronounced dead immediately. The incident is being investigated as an "untimely death." This comes just hours before her sentencing hearing for the 2017 manslaughter of her 84-year-old husband, Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi, a UConn Health professor.

In a shocking twist, https://www.cspnews.org/post/state-police-investigating-untimely-death-in-burlington[Connecticut State Police] reveal that Kosuda-Bigazzi pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and larceny, as she collected her husband's paychecks after his death. Her defense attorney, Patrick Tomasiewicz, expresses surprise at her passing, praising his client as "a very independent woman who was always in control of her own destiny.”

The case: https://portal.ct.gov/DCJ/Press-Room/Press-Releases/03112024Bigazzi[Hartford State’s Attorney Sharmese Walcott's office] reveals that Kosuda-Bigazzi pleaded guilty to killing her husband with a hammer in self-defense during a brawl, which she herself detailed in a journal entry. The case, pending for 6 years, was resolved when https://www.courant.com/2024/03/11/wife-of-slain-uconn-prof-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-his-body-was-found-months-after-he-died/ [Kosuda-Bigazzi pleaded guilty] to reduced charges, as she "wanted the book closed."

The tragic story of Kosuda-Bigazzi, an elderly woman who took justice into her own hands, ends abruptly with her own untimely death. ##