Michelle Troconis, 49, stands trial in Fairfield County, Connecticut, for allegedly helping her then-boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, 52, murder his estranged wife, Jennifer Farber Dulos, 50, and coverup the crime.
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Jennifer Farber Dulos. (Image via the New Canaan Police Department.)
Authorities said that the victim disappeared from her home in New Canaan, Connecticut on May 24, 2019. They have yet to find her body — evidence left behind at her home showed that she was the victim of a crime so violent that she is likely dead, they said.
Suspicions fell on her husband, Fotis Dulos, with whom she was in the middle of a tense divorce. Jennifer Dulos asserted that her spouse harbored revenge fantasies against people he believed wronged him. She once claimed that he tried to hit her with a vehicle.
Fotis Dulos died by suicide, leaving a suicide note in which he maintained his innocence. That leaves Troconis and Fotis Dulos’ friend, attorney Kent Mawhinney, facing allegations. Mawhinney allegedly participated in the murder conspiracy.
Fotis Dulos and Michelle Troconis. (Mug shots: New Canaan Police Department)
Investigators said that Troconis joined Fotis Dulos when he discarded evidence in trash cans across the city off Hartford, Connecticut.
They also claimed that they discovered an “alibi script” at the apartment that Troconis and Fotis Dulos shared. Investigators said it presented the cover story she used when first speaking to them. She allegedly began changing stories, however.
“In her second two interviews, Troconis’ account of those dates diverged from the Alibi Script, particularly when confronted with evidence, much of which was unknown to investigators during the first interview,” the arrest warrant stated.
That culminated with her allegedly saying that she cleaned up a mess that Fotis Dulos claimed was coffee, though it did not smell like coffee to her.
“[Troconis] also told investigators that the soiled paper towel did not smell like coffee,” the arrest warrant reads.
At one point, police told Troconis that Dulos had killed his wife and involved her in the cleanup process.
“That’s like even worse,” she allegedly replied. “I hate him because of that.”
An officer then pressed harder: “He got you in trouble.”
To which Troconis allegedly replied, “But I was cleaning the house. I wasn’t cleaning Jennifer.”
Troconis has since firmly written off Fotis Dulos.
“Whether or not Fotis Dulos was capable of doing the things the police and prosecutors accused him of doing, I do not know,” she said in a statement translated from Spanish by her defense and obtained by NBC Connecticut in May 2020. “But based on what I have learned in the last year, I think it was a mistake to have trusted him.”
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