Jennifer Farber Dulos

Jennifer Farber Dulos is a 50-year-old mother of five from New Canaan, Connecticut. She was last seen on May 24th, 2019 around 8am after dropping her children off at New Canaan Country School. Jennifer’s cleaning woman entered her home around noon and found nothing amiss. She missed two appointments during the day and was reported missing by two friends around 7pm. Dulos’ nanny took the five children to the apartment of Gloria Farber, Jennifer’s mother, in New York City. Her 2017 black Chevrolet Suburban was found on a side street near both the school and her home at approximately 8:30pm.

When authorities searched Jennifer’s home, blood stains and signs of a “serious physical assault” were found in the garage. The DNA of her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, was found mixed with Jennifer’s blood in the sink in her New Canaan home. It is unclear as to whether he had ever been inside of Jennifer’s home, as it was hers alone. On Father’s Day 2017, Fotis Dulos called 911 because he could not get in touch with Jennifer or their children, who were supposed to be visiting a cemetery in New York. Jennifer was really filing for divorce and moving the children into this New Canaan home.

Jennifer filed for divorce from Fotis Dulos after 13 years of marriage. In court documents, she stated she was afraid of him and felt that he would physically or emotionally harm their children. She even presciently stated, “I know that filing for divorce, and filing this Motion will enrage him. I know he will retaliate by trying to harm me in some way.” At the time of her disappearance, Jennifer and Fotis were still locked in a battle for custody of their five children. A court hearing in the divorce case between them scheduled for May 29th was canceled after Jennifer disappeared.

On June 1st, Fotis Dulos and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, were charged in Jennifer’s disappearance after they were seen on the Hartford police surveillance system in Hartford, CT throwing away 30 trash bags along Albany Avenue at 7:15pm on the night of Jennifer’s disappearance. At least two bags that were recovered were filled with clothes and sponges covered in Jennifer’s blood. Fotis Dulos was also seen putting a FedEx box containing license plates that were registered in his name down a storm drain. Troconis and Dulos pleaded not guilty to first-degree tampering with physical evidence and first-degree hindering prosecution. They were each held on $500,000 bail, with Traconis released June 3rd and Dulos released June 11th. On June 4th, Troconis pointed detectives toward the woods at the home she shares with Dulos.

Authorities spent three weeks searching more than 30 tons of trash in the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority in Hartford, trying to find more of the trash bags that Dulos and Troconis threw out along Albany Avenue in Hartford. In addition, they searched the Albany Avenue neighborhood, Jennifer Dulos’ home and her Welles Lane neighborhood, a property her parents own in New York, and the park near where her car was recovered. The FBI Evidence Recovery Team even searched Waveny Park with metal detectors and brought in dogs trained to find electronic equipment, like cellphones. The Connecticut State Police Dive Team searched a lake on Old Farms Road in Avon, CT. They also searched multiple properties connected to Fotis Dulos’ homebuilding company, Fore Group, in New Canaan and Farmington, CT. Neighbors of one of the properties in New Canaan heard loud banging coming from the Fore Group property the morning after Jennifer disappeared.

Fotis Dulos’ lawyer, Norm Pattis, says Fotis “had no motive to kill Jennifer,” as a recent court order had granted him joint custody of the children. However, Gloria Farber and the estate of Jennifer’s deceased father are suing Fotis Dulos for failure to repay $2 million loaned to him to purchase and develop properties with his business, Fore Group. Fotis claims it was a gift, not a loan. If he and Jennifer divorce, he would potentially be on the hook for the $2 million to her parents, as well as alimony and child support for their children, which include two sets of twins.

Pattis also says there is an explanation for the blood in the trash bags Dulos was seen on camera throwing away, which has yet to be revealed, and that Jennifer likely vanished on purpose to frame her husband, as proven by a “Gone Girl” like manuscript she wrote 17 years ago, but family and friends disagree that she would leave her children at all, let alone with Fotis.

Michelle Troconis is due back in court July 19th, and Fotis Dulos on August 2nd.

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Some sources:https://findjenniferdulos.com/