HB 5160 Summary

• Governor shall order payment of $3,000 from the General Fund to Patricia "Pidgie" D'Allessio for information provided on December 11, 1953.

• The information led to the identification, arrest, and conviction of Robert Nelson Malm for the murder of eleven-year-old Irene Fiederowicz of Hartford.

• Payment is authorized pursuant to a reward offer made on December 14, 1953, under section 8269 of the 1949 revision of the general statutes.

• D'Allessio was herself a victim of sexual assault by Malm, a serial predator who also sexually assaulted and murdered the child victim.

• The act takes effect upon passage and overrides any conflicting provisions of chapter 53 of the general statutes.