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Jan 11, 2024 · Ms Troconis is accused of conspiring with her lover Fotis Dulos, Jennifer’s estranged husband, to murder Jennifer and cover up the killing. Investigators searched Jennifer’s home shortly...
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- Andrea Cavallier
Mar 2, 2024 · They captured the movements of a man authorities alleged was Fotis Dulos across 14 hours and a wide swath of Connecticut on May 24, 2019, the day Jennifer Dulos disappeared.
Jan 11, 2024 · The trial of a woman charged in the 2019 killing of mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos has begun in a Connecticut courtroom. A six-person jury began hearing the case against Michelle Troconis in Stamford Superior Court on Thursday.
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- What happened to Jennifer Dulos?
- "The alibi script"
- "My sister is innocent"
Michelle Troconis insists she did not know her boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, was doing anything nefarious as she watched him toss garbage bags into random bins, or as she helped him write up a timeline of their whereabouts on the day his estranged wife disappeared.
Those actions, authorities allege, were taken to cover up the killing of Jennifer Dulos, who they say was attacked at her home in wealthy New Canaan, Connecticut, on May 24, 2019, after dropping their five children off at school. Her body has never been found.
Fotis Dulos, the main suspect, died by suicide shortly after being charged with murdering her in January 2020.
More than four years later, Troconis is set to go on trial Thursday, accused of helping in an alleged coverup and facing criminal charges including conspiracy to commit murder, evidence tampering and hindering prosecution. She has pleaded not guilty and maintained she has "no idea" what happened to Jennifer Dulos or where her body might be.
"It's been 4 1/2 years since I was wrongly accused," Troconis wrote in a social media posting in October. "I have faith in Justice and the jury system."
Troconis' lawyer, Jon Schoenhorn, did not return messages seeking comment. State prosecutors were not commenting ahead of the trial, a spokesperson said.
The disappearance of Jennifer Dulos drew international attention and was the subject of a made-for-TV movie. She was a member of a wealthy New York family whose father, the late Hilliard Farber, founded his own brokerage firm. Fotis Dulos, who denied any role in the killing, was a luxury home builder originally from Greece.
Troconis, 49, a dual American and Venezuelan citizen, has described herself as a co-founder of horse riding therapy programs in different parts of the world who once had her own TV production company in Argentina and hosted a snow sports show for ESPN South America.
At the time of Jennifer Dulos' disappearance, Troconis and her daughter were living with Fotis Dulos in the Farmington, Connecticut, home he once shared with his wife and children. Fotis and Jennifer Dulos were going through bitter divorce and child custody court proceedings, and police said in arrest warrants that Fotis Dolus was $7 million in debt.
State police believe Fotis Dulos drove an employee's pickup truck to New Canaan, rode a bicycle to Jennifer Dulos' home and attacked her in the garage when she got back from dropping the children off at school. He then put her in her SUV and drove off, police said.
What happened next has never been made clear. The SUV was found abandoned at a park in New Canaan. Police searched the park and several other locations, but never found Jennifer Dulos' body.
Police said they found a bloody scene in Jennifer Dulos' garage and evidence of an attempted cleanup. Officials said the amount of blood made it apparent she could not have survived such injuries.
Police said they also found what they dubbed "the alibi script" - two pages written by Dulos and Troconis that detailed their activities on a nearly hourly basis the day Jennifer Dulos was last seen and the day after, but did not include the time in Hartford when the garbage bags were being disposed.
Troconis told police she and Fotis Dulos wrote down their actions for the two days at the direction of Dulos' lawyer.
In excerpts from interrogation videos obtained by "48 Hours," Traconis insisted she has no information about Jennifer Dulos' disappearance.
"I have no idea what happened to Jennifer. I have no idea where Jennifer is," Troconis told police.
When Detective John Kimball told her they believed she has information she's not sharing, Troconis responded: "I don't have, John, but I can walk the whole world with you if you want … I can do whatever you want but I didn't do it."
The arrest warrant accusing Troconis of conspiracy to commit murder also alleges she presented conflicting stories to police during three interviews about whether she saw Dulos at the Farmington home the day police believe he killed his wife.
Michelle Troconis' family is adamant she is innocent. Last month, her parents released a statement, decrying the "pain and injustice being inflicted on Michelle."
"I's agonizing to watch our innocent daughter suffer under the weight of a system that seems to be turning a blind eye to justice," Marisela and Carlos Troconis wrote.
Her sisters echoed those statements in an interview with "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty.
"This has shattered our life because my sister is not the person that they're saying," Claudia Troconis said. "And she never would be capable of anything they've said that she has done."
"Do you believe that Michelle knows where Jennifer's body is?" Moriarty asked Danielle Troconis.
"My sister is innocent," she responded. "Absolutely not."
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Jan 29, 2024 · Ms Troconis is standing trial on charges in connection to the murder of her ex-boyfriend Fotis Dulos’ estranged wife Jennifer Dulos, who disappeared on 24 May 2019.
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- Andrea Blanco,Rachel Sharp,Andrea Cavallier
Jennifer Dulos (née Farber; born September 27, 1968; presumed dead May 24, 2019; ruled legally dead October 24, 2023) was an American woman who went missing on May 24, 2019. Authorities believe that she was killed in an attack at her home in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States.
May 31, 2024 · Michelle Troconis, who was convicted of helping her boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, cover up the murder of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison, with execution ...
