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Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, age 73, the wife of longtime UConn professor Pierluigi Bigazzi, has been charged with larceny as prosecutors continue their investigation into his murder.
It is alleged that Kosuda-Bigazzi murdered her husband before hiding the body underneath their family home for several months, while continuing to collect his paychecks from UConn Health in Farmington.
UConn Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Geoghegan said the university was under the impression that Bigazzi was still an active and fully-tenured professor, making an annual salary of nearly $200,000.
“None of the entire amount of Dr. Bigazzi's gross salary or fringe benefits would have been paid by UConn Health or the State of Connecticut to Dr. Bigazzi or any other entity if UConn Health had received notice that Dr. Bigazzi was no longer alive and was no longer performing his duties,” he said in a statement.
Kosuda-Bigazzi was arrested by investigators in 2018 in connection to her husband’s 2017 murder after his body was found in the basement of their home wrapped in garbage bags and duct tape during a well-being check.
She previously claimed self-defense and sought dismissal of the charges against her.
Kosuda-Bigazzi posted her $125,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned in Hartford Superior Court in late July.
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