Man convicted in 2016 Woonsocket murder defends himself in court for the first time

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — A judge has agreed to delay the sentencing of a man convicted of brutally stabbing an elderly Woonsocket woman to death nearly nine years ago.

Matthew Dusseault, 27, was found guilty earlier this year of first-degree murder in connection with the March 2016 death of 81-year-old Constance Gauthier.

Dusseault was taken into custody two years after Gauthier’s body was found underneath a mattress in her bedroom. Investigators believe she was stabbed more than 60 times and her home was staged to look like it had been ransacked…

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