diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index dc49d65fa..35185d62e 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
   skipping a file which gets deleted while open files are retrieved.
 - 1029_: [OSX, FreeBSD] Process.connections('unix') on Python 3 doesn't
   properly handle unicode paths and may raise UnicodeDecodeError.
+- 1033_: [OSX, FreeBSD] memory leak for net_connections() and
+  Process.connections() when retrieving UNIX sockets (kind='unix').
 
 *2017-04-10*
 
diff --git a/psutil/_psutil_osx.c b/psutil/_psutil_osx.c
index 90391ddc0..559ffab9f 100644
--- a/psutil/_psutil_osx.c
+++ b/psutil/_psutil_osx.c
@@ -1384,6 +1384,8 @@ psutil_proc_connections(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
                 if (PyList_Append(py_retlist, py_tuple))
                     goto error;
                 Py_DECREF(py_tuple);
+                Py_DECREF(py_laddr);
+                Py_DECREF(py_raddr);
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/psutil/arch/bsd/freebsd_socks.c b/psutil/arch/bsd/freebsd_socks.c
index b30fa8f81..187a93de0 100644
--- a/psutil/arch/bsd/freebsd_socks.c
+++ b/psutil/arch/bsd/freebsd_socks.c
@@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ psutil_proc_connections(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) {
                 if (PyList_Append(py_retlist, py_tuple))
                     goto error;
                 Py_DECREF(py_tuple);
+                Py_DECREF(py_laddr);
                 Py_INCREF(Py_None);
             }
         }
diff --git a/psutil/tests/test_connections.py b/psutil/tests/test_connections.py
index 28670f25c..e1e9fca8a 100644
--- a/psutil/tests/test_connections.py
+++ b/psutil/tests/test_connections.py
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ def compare_proc_sys_cons(self, pid, proc_cons):
         except psutil.AccessDenied:
             # On OSX, system-wide connections are retrieved by iterating
             # over all processes
-            if not OSX:
+            if OSX:
+                return
+            else:
                 raise
         # exclude PIDs from syscons
         syscons = [c[:-1] for c in syscons if c.pid == pid]
diff --git a/psutil/tests/test_memory_leaks.py b/psutil/tests/test_memory_leaks.py
index 402e7b8bb..2bf7882ce 100755
--- a/psutil/tests/test_memory_leaks.py
+++ b/psutil/tests/test_memory_leaks.py
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ def create_socket(family, type):
             return sock
 
         # Open as many socket types as possible so that we excercise
-        # as much C code sections as possible.
+        # as many C code sections as possible.
         socks = []
         socks.append(create_socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM))
         socks.append(create_socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM))