Written by Ken Borsuk, Staff Reporter
Monday, 04 January 2010 15:33
Breaking news | Posted 3:36 p.m., Monday, Jan. 4, 2010
A Greenwich man accused of murdering his daughter remains in jail on a $1 million bond after a Monday court appearance.
Adam Dobrzanski, 55, did not enter a plea during the short hearing at Stamford Superior Court and no bond has been posted for his release. He is next due in court Jan. 25.
Mr. Dobrzanski has been charged with first degree murder in the death of his 20-year-old daughter Amanda. Police discovered her body last Wednesday and allege her father killed her as part of an attempted murder/suicide. However, officers say the self-inflicted injuries they found him with were not enough to kill him and he was charged on Thursday after being treated and released from the hospital.
It is believed Mr. Dobrzanski, who a court official acknowledged on Monday suffered from both physical ailments and mental illness, was despondent after his wife, Renata, filed for divorce last month claiming in a court filing that the marriage, which had lasted 27 years and resulted in two daughters, had “...broken down irretrievably with no hope of reconciliation.” It was Mrs. Dobrzanski who first alerted police last Wednesday and asked them to check on the welfare of him and her daughter because he had reportedly been threatening suicide.
Police then responded to the 100 Sterling Road address where the couple worked as live in employees of the family of noted hedge fund executive S. Donald Sussman and found Ms. Dobrzanski’s body. Officers said she had a large cut on her neck and had suffered “massive blood loss.”
Mr. Dobrzanski has been working for the Sussman family as a landscaper and his wife as their cook. She was with the family at their vacation home in the Virgin Islands at the time of the incident. According to police reports, the first call from Mrs. Dobrzanski came in at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
When arriving at the scene, the home was locked and no one answered the door, forcing the officers to have to get the access code for the property from Mrs. Dobrzanski. When police entered the residence, officers found blood droplets on the floor adjacent to a locked room. Police who entered the room said a “large amount of blood” was on the floor and furniture, and Mr. Dobrzanski was found in an adjoining room alive but with multiple cuts on his extremities and one on his neck.
He received immediate medical attention and was arrested the next day.
Ms. Dobrzanski, a 2007 Greenwich High School graduate, was found in a separate room and police said she was already dead.
Mr. Dobrzanski’s mental and physical ailments were mentioned in court but not specifically named. The warrants in this case remained sealed on request from the State’s Attorney’s Office, but access will be granted to Mr. Dobrzanski’s attorney, public defender Howard Ehring, so he can prepare for the next court appearance. Since no bond has been posted, Mr. Dobrzanski will remain in jail and under suicide watch.
Though he did not speak during the court appearance, when he was being led away to return to jail, Mr. Dobrzanski did turn around to look at the rest of the courtroom. He appeared to be searching for a specific person or people, but it did not register on his face that he recognized anyone who was there.
kborsuk@greenwich-post.com
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