28-year-old Rhode Island man sentenced for fatally stabbing elderly neighbor over 60 times

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter Neronha announced that a Woonsocket man has been convicted of first-degree murder in Providence County Superior Court for the murder of 81-year-old Constance Gauthier in 2016.

Following an eight-day jury trial before Superior Court Justice Maureen B. Keough, the jury found 28-year-old Matthew Dusseault, Jr. guilty of one count of first-degree murder.

Dusseault was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole…

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