The Connecticut woman accused of helping real estate mogul Fotis Dulos kill his estranged wife and cover up the crime in 2019 goes before a jury this week.
Jennifer Farber Dulos, a mom of 5, disappeared on May 24, 2019, in the middle of a fierce divorce and custody battle wit Dulos, who killed himself less than a year later after being accused of her murder, CrimeOnline has reported.
Farber Dulos’s body has not been found.
Dulos’s girlfriend, Venezuela native Michelle Troconis, was also arrested after surveillance video showed her traveling with Dulos as he dumped multiple garbage bags in various locations in Hartford. Investigators found items in those bags such as altered license plates and clothing and household items like a kitchen sponge with a blood-like substance on them, court records show.
Troconis said she was just along for the ride and was on her phone while her boyfriend was dumping the bags.
Her attorneys sought to suppress information found on her phone and the contents of her interviews with detectives, according to the Hartford Courant. They succeeded in convincing a judge to bar her phone records because a search warrant didn’t include her phone, but the judge said that the recordings of her interviews with police were admissible, including one in which a detective tells Troconis she is “probably one of the most hated women in America right now,” prompting her to start crying.
“Nobody in the world believes that you didn’t know what was going on,” the detective says.
The detectives also told Troconis that Dulos “wouldn’t hesitate” to pin Farber Dulos’s murder on her. In his suicide note in January 2020, however, he wrote that Troconis “had nothing to do with the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos.”
Prosecutors say Troconis changed her story in an attempt to provide an alibi for Dulos, the Stamford Advocate reported.
Troconis is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, tampering with evidence, and hindering prosecution. Her trial begins Thursday in Stamford and is expected to last into March.
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[Featured image: Jennifer Dulos/handout]
