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‘I’m in the Dark’: Shock After Connecticut Lawyer
Kills Wife, Himself

By Robert Storace

T Photo: Syda Productions/Shutterstock.com
he Connecticut legal community is reeling Bergamini, who has a general practice that includes
following the news that a well-established family law, real estate and some criminal work, said
Suffield attorney killed his wife and then him- Monday her friend “seemed very anxious” on the
self on Christmas Day. phone calls.
Those who knew attorney John Liquori, a solo di- “He was anxious and feeling overwhelmed about
vorce attorney who also did some criminal-defense some of the new court processes with COVID. There
work, say he felt anxious over the past few months is a lot of demand put on us, and we had to do every-
over COVID-19-related restrictions on attorneys, es- thing virtually,” Bergamini said.
pecially solos. While Bergamini said she didn’t feel, from the
Longtime friends also described the attorney as phone calls, that Liquori would harm anyone or him-
friendly and generous with his time, and expressed self, she felt he was dealing with a lot.
shock and dismay over the news. In addition to the court calendar of which she said
News reports said the 59-year-old attorney shot Liquori “was feeling concerned about some cases
his 55-year-old wife Cindy to death while she slept in coming up in January,” Bergamini also said his moth-
her mother’s house on Christmas Day. The attorney er-in-law was in the hospital with coronavirus, and
then killed himself, police said. The couple had an her friend felt he might also have it.
adult daughter and young grandson. “His last call Thursday with me was from the doctor’s
Enfield solo practitioner Mary Bergamini knew office parking lot, where he went to do the [COVID-19]
Liquori well. In fact, the two spoke on four separate test. It wasn’t a rapid test, though,” Bergamini said.
occasions the day before the murder-suicide.
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