Wife found dead before sentencing in husband’s slaying died by ingesting antifreeze: Officials

A Connecticut woman who was found dead hours before she was scheduled to be sentenced for killing her husband died by suicide after ingesting antifreeze, officials said Monday. Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 76, was found dead at her home on July 24. Her cause of death is ethylene glycol toxicity, according to the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Kosuda-Bigazzi had pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in March in the 2017 death of her husband, 84-year-old Pierluigi Bigazzi, according to the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice. Police found the University of Connecticut Health doctor and professor dead in the basement of the couple’s Burlington home while responding to a welfare check call from his employer, who had not heard from him for several months, prosecutors said. Kosuda-Bigazzi also pleaded guilty to first-degree larceny for continuing to receive her husband’s pay following his death, according to the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice. Investigators found checks from her husband’s employer were deposited into the couple’s joint checking account from his death in July 2017 until the discovery of his body in February 2018, prosecutors said. In this file photo, Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 70, center, appears at Bristol Superior court, accused of murdering her husband, Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi, in Bristol, CT, Feb. 13, 2018. “We were honored to be her legal counsel and did our very best to defend her in a complex case for the past six years,” her attorney, Patrick Tomasiewicz, said in a statement last month following her death. Her husband’s death was ruled a homicide by blunt injuries to the head, according to the medical examiner’s office. Police found handwritten documents at the home in which she claimed she had killed her husband in self-defense, according to court records. If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide or worried about a friend or loved one, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/connecticut-woman-found-dead-sentencing-husband-killing-cause-of-death/story?id=112786724