valerie bonnett

Jury Foreperson Valerie Bonnett said eventually, Dabate’s story of a masked intruder who he said shot and killed his wife Connie in 2015 at their home started to crumble. What he told the court and what the crime scene photos showed didn’t add up, she said.

“We wanted him to be innocent, we really didn’t want to believe that a father of two [and] husband of 12 years could possibly do this two days before Christmas,” Jury Foreperson Valerie Bonnett said. It was the tale of an Ellington man torn between two women: his wife Connie Dabate and the mother of his kids or his mistress…