1 00:00:11,517 --> 00:00:12,620 >>> PROSECUTORS BEGAN LAYING OUT 2 00:00:12,620 --> 00:00:14,413 THE STATE'S CASE THIS MORNING. 3 00:00:14,413 --> 00:00:16,033 >> THIS CASE, OF COURSE, GAINED 4 00:00:16,033 --> 00:00:17,482 INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION WHEN IT 5 00:00:17,482 --> 00:00:17,827 HAPPENED. 6 00:00:17,827 --> 00:00:20,000 >> THE INTEREST IN THE STORY WAS 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,517 IMMEDIATE, IT WAS INTENSE, AND 8 00:00:22,517 --> 00:00:23,482 IT WAS SUSTAINED. 9 00:00:23,482 --> 00:00:26,034 >> IT OCCURRED TO ME WHAT THIS 10 00:00:26,034 --> 00:00:28,241 CASE IS REALLY ABOUT. 11 00:00:28,241 --> 00:00:30,413 IT IS ABOUT A MOTHER'S WORST 12 00:00:30,413 --> 00:00:30,689 NIGHTMARE. 13 00:00:30,689 --> 00:00:32,103 >> STATE POLICE WERE DESPERATE 14 00:00:32,103 --> 00:00:35,241 TO FIND MISSING MOTHER OF FIVE 15 00:00:35,241 --> 00:00:36,000 JENNIFER DULOS. 16 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,931 >> I'M A REPORTER WITH CBS NEWS, 17 00:00:38,931 --> 00:00:40,379 NEW YORK. 18 00:00:40,379 --> 00:00:43,931 IT WAS MAY, 2019. 19 00:00:43,931 --> 00:00:45,034 JENNIFER FARBER DULOS 20 00:00:45,034 --> 00:00:47,103 DISAPPEARED FROM HER HOME IN 21 00:00:47,103 --> 00:00:47,482 CONNECTICUT. 22 00:00:47,482 --> 00:00:49,034 >> EVERY SCRIPT HAS THREE ACTS, 23 00:00:49,034 --> 00:00:49,793 DOESN'T IT? 24 00:00:49,793 --> 00:00:52,137 THE FIRST ACT WAS THE 25 00:00:52,137 --> 00:00:54,034 PREMEDITATION AND KILLING OF 26 00:00:54,034 --> 00:00:55,000 JENNIFER DULOS. 27 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,310 >> WAS THERE A PARTICULAR AREA 28 00:00:56,310 --> 00:00:58,344 OF THE HOUSE THAT YOU FOCUSED ON 29 00:00:58,344 --> 00:00:58,517 IN. 30 00:00:58,517 --> 00:01:03,827 >> THE GARAGE WAS OF IMPORTANCE. 31 00:01:03,827 --> 00:01:06,103 >> BLOOD SPATTER THROUGHOUT THE 32 00:01:06,103 --> 00:01:06,344 GARAGE. 33 00:01:06,344 --> 00:01:08,413 >> SOME BACK HERE, TOO. 34 00:01:08,413 --> 00:01:10,862 >> WHERE IS JENNIFER DULOS? 35 00:01:10,862 --> 00:01:12,862 TO THIS DAY, THAT QUESTION CAN'T 36 00:01:12,862 --> 00:01:14,482 BE ANSWERED. 37 00:01:14,482 --> 00:01:15,896 >> THEN YOU LEARN SHE'S GOING 38 00:01:15,896 --> 00:01:19,310 THROUGH A CONTENTIOUS DIVORCE. 39 00:01:19,310 --> 00:01:21,448 FOTIS DULOS, BY ALL ACCOUNTS, 40 00:01:21,448 --> 00:01:22,448 VERY CHARMING, ATHLETIC. 41 00:01:22,448 --> 00:01:24,241 THEY MADE A BEAUTIFUL COUPLE. 42 00:01:24,241 --> 00:01:25,862 >> SHE TOLD ME HE IS HAVING AN 43 00:01:25,862 --> 00:01:27,413 AFFAIR AND I HAVE PROOF. 44 00:01:27,413 --> 00:01:29,965 >> WHERE IS SHE? 45 00:01:29,965 --> 00:01:31,000 >> INVESTIGATORS TAKING A CLOSE 46 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,241 LOOK AT HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND, 47 00:01:34,241 --> 00:01:35,689 FOTIS DULOS. 48 00:01:35,689 --> 00:01:38,137 IN JANUARY OF 2020, HE IS 49 00:01:38,137 --> 00:01:39,931 CHARGED WITH MURDER. 50 00:01:39,931 --> 00:01:41,137 >> FOTIS, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO 51 00:01:41,137 --> 00:01:43,310 SAY TO THIS MURDER CHARGE? 52 00:01:43,310 --> 00:01:45,137 >> AT EXACTLY THE TIME FOTIS 53 00:01:45,137 --> 00:01:47,413 DULOS WAS DUE IN COURT, OFFICERS 54 00:01:47,413 --> 00:01:50,068 WERE SEEN RUNNING INTO HIS 55 00:01:50,068 --> 00:01:50,827 CONNECTICUT MANSION. 56 00:01:50,827 --> 00:01:52,862 >> -- THE REPORTEDLY ATTEMPTED 57 00:01:52,862 --> 00:01:56,965 SUICIDE BY CARBON MONOXIDE 58 00:01:56,965 --> 00:01:57,241 POISONING. 59 00:01:57,241 --> 00:01:59,241 >> FOTIS DULOS WAS DECLARED DEAD 60 00:01:59,241 --> 00:01:59,793 TONIGHT. 61 00:01:59,793 --> 00:02:01,275 >> THE INVESTIGATION DID NOT DIE 62 00:02:01,275 --> 00:02:03,137 WITH FOTIS DULOS. 63 00:02:03,137 --> 00:02:05,000 >> POLICE BELIEVE MICHELLE 64 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:05,758 TROCONIS HELPED HER BOYFRIEND 65 00:02:05,758 --> 00:02:07,172 GET RID OF HIS WIFE. 66 00:02:07,172 --> 00:02:08,275 SHE'S NOW CHARGED WITH 67 00:02:08,275 --> 00:02:10,931 CONSPIRACY IN THE MURDER OF 68 00:02:10,931 --> 00:02:11,586 JENNIFER DULOS. 69 00:02:11,586 --> 00:02:13,482 >> ARE YOU GOING TO DO THE RIGHT 70 00:02:13,482 --> 00:02:15,413 THING, MICHELLE, AND HELP THE 71 00:02:15,413 --> 00:02:15,689 COPS? 72 00:02:15,689 --> 00:02:17,172 >> THE SECOND ACT WAS THE 73 00:02:17,172 --> 00:02:18,344 COVER-UP THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION 74 00:02:18,344 --> 00:02:23,655 OF EVIDENCE AND THE DEFENDANT'S 75 00:02:23,655 --> 00:02:23,862 LIES. 76 00:02:23,862 --> 00:02:25,448 >> WHY DID YOU TELL US THE 77 00:02:25,448 --> 00:02:27,655 THINGS THAT YOU KNEW WERE FALSE? 78 00:02:27,655 --> 00:02:28,793 >> I WAS NERVOUS. 79 00:02:28,793 --> 00:02:30,137 >> THEY LIED TO HER. 80 00:02:30,137 --> 00:02:32,862 >> PROSECUTORS SAY THEY'LL PROVE 81 00:02:32,862 --> 00:02:33,862 MICHELLE TROCONIS CONSPIRED IN 82 00:02:33,862 --> 00:02:37,793 THE CRIME AND HELPED FOTIS DULOS 83 00:02:37,793 --> 00:02:38,206 DISPOSE OF EVIDENCE. 84 00:02:38,206 --> 00:02:39,827 >> THE EVENING THAT HIS 85 00:02:39,827 --> 00:02:42,000 ESTRANGED WIFE JENNIFER 86 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,896 DISAPPEARED, YOU SEE FOTIS DULOS 87 00:02:44,896 --> 00:02:46,206 PUTTING BLACK GARBAGE BAGS INTO 88 00:02:46,206 --> 00:02:47,862 THE TRASH CAN. 89 00:02:47,862 --> 00:02:50,172 >> MICHELLE DID NOT KNOW WHAT 90 00:02:50,172 --> 00:02:54,034 FOTIS DULOS WAS UP TO. 91 00:02:54,034 --> 00:02:55,344 >> SHE WAS IN LOVE BECAUSE AT 92 00:02:55,344 --> 00:02:56,620 THE BEGINNING, HE WAS THIS 93 00:02:56,620 --> 00:02:57,586 AMAZING GUY. 94 00:02:57,586 --> 00:03:00,724 IT TURNS OUT HE WAS THIS 95 00:03:00,724 --> 00:03:01,000 MONSTER. 96 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,413 >> NEVER BEEN ON A JURY, DIDN'T 97 00:03:02,413 --> 00:03:03,655 KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. 98 00:03:03,655 --> 00:03:06,000 WHEN I SAW JENNIFER'S BLOODY 99 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 SHIRT, IT REALLY HAD AN IMPACT. 100 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,965 >> THIS DEFENDANT HATED JENNIFER 101 00:03:11,965 --> 00:03:12,137 DULOS. 102 00:03:12,137 --> 00:03:13,827 >> I KNOW THAT EVERYONE WANTS 103 00:03:13,827 --> 00:03:15,206 ANSWERS BUT MY SISTER IS NOT THE 104 00:03:15,206 --> 00:03:16,827 RIGHT ANSWER. 105 00:03:16,827 --> 00:03:20,724 >> SHE'S ANOTHER VICTIM OF FOTIS 106 00:03:20,724 --> 00:03:20,965 DULOS. 107 00:03:20,965 --> 00:03:22,379 >> AND NOW WE'VE REACHED THE 108 00:03:22,379 --> 00:03:23,310 THIRD ACT. 109 00:03:23,310 --> 00:03:25,965 >> SHE DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING. 110 00:03:25,965 --> 00:03:27,275 SHE'S INNOCENT. 111 00:03:27,275 --> 00:03:30,000 >> EXCEPT SHE DOESN'T GET TO 112 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:30,241 WRITE. 113 00:03:30,241 --> 00:03:32,448 YOU WRITE THE THIRD ACT OF THIS 114 00:03:32,448 --> 00:03:35,827 SCRIPT WITH YOUR VERDICT. 115 00:03:35,827 --> 00:03:41,930 SCRIPT WITH YOUR VERDICT. WHAT'S THE ENDING GOING TO BE? 116 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:43,137 WHAT'S THE ENDING GOING TO BE? 117 00:03:43,137 --> 00:03:59,206 WHAT'S THE ENDING GOING TO BE? ♪. 118 00:03:59,206 --> 00:04:08,275 ♪. 119 00:04:08,275 --> 00:04:10,689 >> THESE ARE YOGI BERRA'S WORLD 120 00:04:10,689 --> 00:04:13,000 >> THESE ARE YOGI BERRA'S WORLD SERIES RINGS. 121 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,551 SERIES RINGS. 122 00:04:14,551 --> 00:04:17,620 SERIES RINGS. ♪ 123 00:04:17,620 --> 00:04:21,793 ♪ 124 00:04:21,793 --> 00:04:24,310 >>> IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST 125 00:04:24,310 --> 00:04:26,379 ANTICIPATED TRIALS IN RECENT 126 00:04:26,379 --> 00:04:26,655 MEMORY. 127 00:04:26,655 --> 00:04:30,000 THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT VERSUS 128 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:30,758 MICHELLE TROCONIS. 129 00:04:30,758 --> 00:04:32,344 A CASE THAT HAS HAUNTED THE 130 00:04:32,344 --> 00:04:34,517 FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF JENNIFER 131 00:04:34,517 --> 00:04:37,172 DULOS FOR NEARLY FIVE YEARS. 132 00:04:37,172 --> 00:04:39,896 >> I WANTED TO BE THERE EVERY 133 00:04:39,896 --> 00:04:41,620 DAY BECAUSE JENNIFER COULDN'T BE 134 00:04:41,620 --> 00:04:44,241 THERE AND I WANTED TO BE THERE 135 00:04:44,241 --> 00:04:46,241 FOR HER TO BEAR WITNESS. 136 00:04:46,241 --> 00:04:49,793 >> LONG-TIME FRIEND CARRIE LUFT 137 00:04:49,793 --> 00:04:52,965 WAS IN COURT EVERY DAY AS 138 00:04:52,965 --> 00:04:56,000 PROSECUTOR SEAN McGUINESS AND 139 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,517 MICHELLE MANNING PRESENTED THEIR 140 00:04:57,517 --> 00:04:58,068 CASE. 141 00:04:58,068 --> 00:04:59,620 THAT MICHELLE TROCONIS CONSPIRED 142 00:04:59,620 --> 00:05:01,137 WITH HER BOYFRIEND FOTIS DULOS 143 00:05:01,137 --> 00:05:03,241 TO MURDER HIS ESTRANGED WIFE AND 144 00:05:03,241 --> 00:05:06,000 THEN HELPED HIM COVER UP THE 145 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:06,275 CRIME. 146 00:05:06,275 --> 00:05:08,034 >> THIS DEFENDANT WAS 147 00:05:08,034 --> 00:05:09,620 UNDOUBTEDLY PART OF THIS PLAN TO 148 00:05:09,620 --> 00:05:12,275 KILL JENNIFER DULOS. 149 00:05:12,275 --> 00:05:14,724 THERE'S NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTS 150 00:05:14,724 --> 00:05:15,448 ABOUT IT. 151 00:05:15,448 --> 00:05:16,827 >> AS THE DEFENDANT LISTEN IN 152 00:05:16,827 --> 00:05:21,068 THE SPANISH, HER FIRST LANGUAGE, 153 00:05:21,068 --> 00:05:22,482 HER ATTORNEY JON SCHOENHORN 154 00:05:22,482 --> 00:05:24,689 DESCRIBED HER AS JUST ANOTHER 155 00:05:24,689 --> 00:05:25,827 VICTIM OF FOTIS DULOS. 156 00:05:25,827 --> 00:05:27,551 >> THERE IS NOTHING TO SUGGEST 157 00:05:27,551 --> 00:05:29,310 THAT MICHELLE HAD ANY CLUE ABOUT 158 00:05:29,310 --> 00:05:32,310 WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN NEW 159 00:05:32,310 --> 00:05:35,000 CANAAN ON MAY 24th, 2019. 160 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:41,000 MICHELLE SIMPLY DID NOT KNOW. 161 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,620 >> MAY 24th, 2019, STARTED LIKE 162 00:05:43,620 --> 00:05:46,000 ANY OTHER DAY FOR JENNIFER 163 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,275 FARBER DULOS WITH THE USUAL 164 00:05:48,275 --> 00:05:50,931 ORGANIZED CHAOS OF GETTING HER 165 00:05:50,931 --> 00:05:52,586 FIVE CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER 166 00:05:52,586 --> 00:05:55,103 DRESSED AND OFF TO SCHOOL. 167 00:05:55,103 --> 00:05:58,586 BUT SHORTLY AFTER 8:05 A.M., 168 00:05:58,586 --> 00:06:02,482 JENNIFER VANISHED. 169 00:06:02,482 --> 00:06:04,482 >> SHE WAS SCHEDULED FOR A 170 00:06:04,482 --> 00:06:06,793 DENTIST APPOINTMENT LATER THAT 171 00:06:06,793 --> 00:06:08,310 MORNING IN NEW YORK CITY. 172 00:06:08,310 --> 00:06:11,068 SHE NEVER MADE IT TO HER DENTIST 173 00:06:11,068 --> 00:06:11,413 APPOINTMENT. 174 00:06:11,413 --> 00:06:16,689 >> THEN CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE 175 00:06:16,689 --> 00:06:18,103 SERGEANT KEN VENTRESCA WOULD 176 00:06:18,103 --> 00:06:19,551 BECOME ONE OF THE LEAD 177 00:06:19,551 --> 00:06:20,000 INVESTIGATORS. 178 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,896 >> PEOPLE COULDN'T GET AHOLD OF 179 00:06:21,896 --> 00:06:22,137 HER. 180 00:06:22,137 --> 00:06:26,068 >> ON THE STAND, THE CHILDREN'S 181 00:06:26,068 --> 00:06:27,862 NANNY RECALLED HER GNAWING SENSE 182 00:06:27,862 --> 00:06:28,758 OF DREAD. 183 00:06:28,758 --> 00:06:30,689 >> THE SECOND I CALLED JENNIFER, 184 00:06:30,689 --> 00:06:33,448 MY STOMACH JUST SANK. 185 00:06:33,448 --> 00:06:35,000 SHE NEVER NOT ANSWERED HER 186 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:35,172 PHONE. 187 00:06:35,172 --> 00:06:36,482 >> LAUREN TOOK THE CHILDREN TO 188 00:06:36,482 --> 00:06:38,068 WAIT AT THE HOME OF THEIR 189 00:06:38,068 --> 00:06:40,448 MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, GLORIA 190 00:06:40,448 --> 00:06:42,241 FARBER, IN NEW YORK CITY. 191 00:06:42,241 --> 00:06:44,241 THE 88-YEAR-OLD MRS. FARBER SAID 192 00:06:44,241 --> 00:06:46,068 SHE WAITED FOR HER DAUGHTER TO 193 00:06:46,068 --> 00:06:47,000 COME GET THEM. 194 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,379 >> DID JENNIFER SHOW UP AT YOUR 195 00:06:49,379 --> 00:06:52,241 APARTMENT THAT DAY? 196 00:06:52,241 --> 00:06:53,758 >> NO. 197 00:06:53,758 --> 00:06:55,137 >> HAVE YOU SEEN HER SINCE SHE 198 00:06:55,137 --> 00:06:56,379 FAILED TO MEET YOU AT YOUR 199 00:06:56,379 --> 00:06:59,275 APARTMENT ON MAY 24th, 2019? 200 00:06:59,275 --> 00:07:00,241 >> NO. 201 00:07:00,241 --> 00:07:04,103 >> BY 7:00 P.M., ALL-OUT PANIC 202 00:07:04,103 --> 00:07:05,000 SET IN. 203 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,517 LAUREN CALLED THE POLICE. 204 00:07:06,517 --> 00:07:09,068 >> WE TOLD THE POLICE THAT A 205 00:07:09,068 --> 00:07:10,758 MOTHER OF FIVE IS MISSING AND 206 00:07:10,758 --> 00:07:14,586 THAT SHE WAS IN A VERY 207 00:07:14,586 --> 00:07:15,655 CONTENTIOUS DIVORCE. 208 00:07:15,655 --> 00:07:18,206 >> OFFICERS QUICKLY DISCOVERED 209 00:07:18,206 --> 00:07:19,862 JENNIFER'S ABANDONED SUBURBAN 210 00:07:19,862 --> 00:07:24,620 SUV IN NEARBY WAVENLY PARK. 211 00:07:24,620 --> 00:07:27,482 >> THE TAILGATE WAS BACKED UP 212 00:07:27,482 --> 00:07:28,551 AGAINST THIS TREE. 213 00:07:28,551 --> 00:07:30,034 THE SUBURBAN WAS NOT RUNNING. 214 00:07:30,034 --> 00:07:31,413 THE KEYS WERE NOT IN THE 215 00:07:31,413 --> 00:07:31,689 IGNITION. 216 00:07:31,689 --> 00:07:33,310 YOU COULD SEE THE CLEAN-UP OF 217 00:07:33,310 --> 00:07:35,448 THE BLOOD-LIKE SUBSTANCE ALL 218 00:07:35,448 --> 00:07:38,137 OVER THE SIDE WITH A FLASHLIGHT. 219 00:07:38,137 --> 00:07:39,655 >> POLICE ARE NOT SHARING MUCH 220 00:07:39,655 --> 00:07:40,896 INFORMATION AS THEY SEARCH. 221 00:07:40,896 --> 00:07:43,551 >> NEW CANAAN POLICE LAUNCHED A 222 00:07:43,551 --> 00:07:44,379 MASSIVE SEARCH. 223 00:07:44,379 --> 00:07:46,275 >> ALL I WANT TO SAY IS 224 00:07:46,275 --> 00:07:47,655 JENNIFER, WE LOVE YOU AND WE'RE 225 00:07:47,655 --> 00:07:49,793 DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO BRING 226 00:07:49,793 --> 00:07:51,482 YOU HOME. 227 00:07:51,482 --> 00:07:52,586 >> SERGEANT VENTRESCA SAID THE 228 00:07:52,586 --> 00:07:54,206 ONE PERSON WHO DIDN'T SEEM 229 00:07:54,206 --> 00:07:56,034 WORRIED ABOUT JENNIFER WAS THE 230 00:07:56,034 --> 00:07:58,586 FATHER OF HER FIVE CHILDREN. 231 00:07:58,586 --> 00:08:00,758 HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND, FOTIS 232 00:08:00,758 --> 00:08:01,000 DULOS. 233 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,931 >> DID HE HELP AT ALL IN THE 234 00:08:02,931 --> 00:08:03,137 SEARCH? 235 00:08:03,137 --> 00:08:04,482 >> NO, NO. 236 00:08:04,482 --> 00:08:05,620 >> DID HE SEEM CONCERNED ABOUT 237 00:08:05,620 --> 00:08:07,206 HIS WIFE AS TIME WENT ON? 238 00:08:07,206 --> 00:08:08,241 >> NO. 239 00:08:08,241 --> 00:08:09,827 NEVER SEEMED CONCERNED ABOUT HIS 240 00:08:09,827 --> 00:08:10,000 WIFE. 241 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,034 >> WASN'T ALWAYS THAT WAY. 242 00:08:13,034 --> 00:08:14,862 THEY MET IN COLLEGE. 243 00:08:14,862 --> 00:08:16,379 JENNIFER, A WRITER AND 244 00:08:16,379 --> 00:08:18,000 PLAYWRIGHT FROM A WEALTHY NEW 245 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,517 YORK FAMILY, AND FOTIS, AN 246 00:08:20,517 --> 00:08:23,413 INTERNATIONAL WATER SKIING 247 00:08:23,413 --> 00:08:24,793 CHAMPION RAISED IN GREECE. 248 00:08:24,793 --> 00:08:26,517 BOTH STUDENTS OF BROWN 249 00:08:26,517 --> 00:08:26,827 UNIVERSITY. 250 00:08:26,827 --> 00:08:29,172 IT TURNED ROMANTIC SOME 17 YEARS 251 00:08:29,172 --> 00:08:32,758 LATER AFTER A CHANCE MEETING AT 252 00:08:32,758 --> 00:08:33,931 THE ASPEN AIRPORT. 253 00:08:33,931 --> 00:08:36,000 >> WHAT DID SHE LIKE ABOUT HIM? 254 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,620 >> EVENTUALLY, LOVE ABOUT HIM. 255 00:08:38,620 --> 00:08:40,758 >> WELL, HE WAS A REALLY 256 00:08:40,758 --> 00:08:41,895 CHARMING PERSON. 257 00:08:41,895 --> 00:08:44,793 HE WAS VERY HANDSOME. 258 00:08:44,793 --> 00:08:46,344 HE WAS SMART AND FUNNY. 259 00:08:46,344 --> 00:08:48,689 >> AND AN AMBITIOUS REAL ESTATE 260 00:08:48,689 --> 00:08:50,655 DEVELOPER AND BUILDER OF LUXURY 261 00:08:50,655 --> 00:08:50,896 HOMES. 262 00:08:50,896 --> 00:08:53,206 >> HI, I'M FOTIS DULOS. 263 00:08:53,206 --> 00:08:57,931 I'M THE OWNER OF FORE GROUP 264 00:08:57,931 --> 00:09:02,413 WORKING PRIMARILY IN THE 265 00:09:02,413 --> 00:09:03,689 HARTFORD COUNTY. 266 00:09:03,689 --> 00:09:06,172 >> THEY MARRIED IN 2004. 267 00:09:06,172 --> 00:09:07,724 SOON THERE WERE FIVE CHILDREN. 268 00:09:07,724 --> 00:09:09,689 TWO SETS OF TWINS AND THEN A 269 00:09:09,689 --> 00:09:10,448 LITTLE DAUGHTER. 270 00:09:10,448 --> 00:09:12,137 LAUREN SAID JENNIFER LOVED BEING 271 00:09:12,137 --> 00:09:13,655 A MOTHER. 272 00:09:13,655 --> 00:09:16,620 >> SHE WOULD SING TO THEM AND 273 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:17,655 LAUGH WITH THEM. 274 00:09:17,655 --> 00:09:19,413 SHE NEVER RAISED HER VOICE. 275 00:09:19,413 --> 00:09:21,206 SHE WAS INCREDIBLY NURTURING. 276 00:09:21,206 --> 00:09:22,758 >> THE GROWING FAMILY MOVED INTO 277 00:09:22,758 --> 00:09:26,000 ONE OF FOTIS' OPULENT HOMES IN 278 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,344 FARMINGTON, CONNECTICUT. 279 00:09:27,344 --> 00:09:30,758 A SUBURB OF HARTFORD. 280 00:09:30,758 --> 00:09:31,862 THEY HAD ALL THE ADVANTAGES 281 00:09:31,862 --> 00:09:34,413 MONEY AFFORDS AND AN EMPHASIS ON 282 00:09:34,413 --> 00:09:35,000 SPORTS. 283 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,517 ESPECIALLY WATER SKIING. 284 00:09:37,517 --> 00:09:39,068 BUT THE MARRIAGE WAS 285 00:09:39,068 --> 00:09:43,172 INCREASINGLY ROCKY, SAYS LAUREN. 286 00:09:43,172 --> 00:09:46,379 >> SO I WAS IN ONE OF THE KIDS' 287 00:09:46,379 --> 00:09:46,586 ROOMS. 288 00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:48,413 WE STARTED TO HERE SCREAMING AND 289 00:09:48,413 --> 00:09:50,103 JENNIFER RAN THROUGH BEDROOM 290 00:09:50,103 --> 00:09:50,310 DOOR. 291 00:09:50,310 --> 00:09:51,931 FOTIS WAS YELLING IS THAT SHE 292 00:09:51,931 --> 00:09:53,379 CLOSED THE DOOR BEHIND HER AND 293 00:09:53,379 --> 00:09:54,793 PUSHED HER BODY UP AGAINST THE 294 00:09:54,793 --> 00:09:55,000 DOOR. 295 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,310 HE WAS TRYING TO GET IN. 296 00:09:56,310 --> 00:10:00,931 I MEAN, HER FACE, SHE WAS 297 00:10:00,931 --> 00:10:01,206 TERRIFIED. 298 00:10:01,206 --> 00:10:04,000 >> BY 2016, FOTIS WAS AWAY AS 299 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,896 MANY AS TEN DAYS A MONTH, OFTEN 300 00:10:06,896 --> 00:10:09,448 CHASING THE LATEST WATER SKIING 301 00:10:09,448 --> 00:10:09,758 COMPETITION. 302 00:10:09,758 --> 00:10:13,448 ON A TRIP TO MIAMI, HE MET 303 00:10:13,448 --> 00:10:15,000 MICHELLE TROCONIS. 304 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,344 THE VENEZUELAN RAISED SINGLE 305 00:10:17,344 --> 00:10:21,000 MOTHER WAS FOTIS' TYPE. 306 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,068 SHE RODE HORSES, REPORTED FOR 307 00:10:25,068 --> 00:10:26,793 ESPN IN SOUTH AMERICA ON SNOW 308 00:10:26,793 --> 00:10:29,137 SKIING AND EVEN MORE TO FOTIS' 309 00:10:29,137 --> 00:10:31,620 LIKING, SHE WAS A COMPETITIVE 310 00:10:31,620 --> 00:10:32,896 WATER SKIER. 311 00:10:32,896 --> 00:10:36,724 MICHELLE'S SISTER CLAUDIA 312 00:10:36,724 --> 00:10:36,965 MARMOL. 313 00:10:36,965 --> 00:10:38,379 >> HE WAS CHARISMATIC. 314 00:10:38,379 --> 00:10:39,827 HE WAS INTO SPORTS JUST LIKE SHE 315 00:10:39,827 --> 00:10:40,551 WAS. 316 00:10:40,551 --> 00:10:42,137 HE WAS A LOVING FATHER. 317 00:10:42,137 --> 00:10:44,137 >> SOON FOTIS AND MICHELLE BEGAN 318 00:10:44,137 --> 00:10:45,103 AN AFFAIR. 319 00:10:45,103 --> 00:10:47,862 IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR JENNIFER 320 00:10:47,862 --> 00:10:51,620 TO PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER. 321 00:10:51,620 --> 00:10:52,862 >> THROUGH EMAIL AND RECEIPTS 322 00:10:52,862 --> 00:10:54,758 SHE FOUND OUT THAT HE WENT ON A 323 00:10:54,758 --> 00:10:56,517 TRIP TO UTAH WITH MICHELLE AND A 324 00:10:56,517 --> 00:10:59,137 FRIEND OF HIS, AND HIS 325 00:10:59,137 --> 00:10:59,448 GIRLFRIEND. 326 00:10:59,448 --> 00:11:01,655 >> JENNIFER LATER TOLD LAUREN 327 00:11:01,655 --> 00:11:03,310 SHE CONFRONTED FOTIS AND HE 328 00:11:03,310 --> 00:11:05,275 ADMITTED TO HAVING THE AFFAIR. 329 00:11:05,275 --> 00:11:06,344 THAT WAS IT. 330 00:11:06,344 --> 00:11:08,413 SHE DEVISED A SECRET PLAN TO 331 00:11:08,413 --> 00:11:11,241 TAKE THE KIDS AND MOVE OUT WITH 332 00:11:11,241 --> 00:11:12,103 LAUREN'S HELP. 333 00:11:12,103 --> 00:11:14,068 >> SHE WAS AFRAID OF WHAT FOTIS 334 00:11:14,068 --> 00:11:17,068 WOULD DO TO HER OR WITH THE KIDS 335 00:11:17,068 --> 00:11:21,137 IF SHE FILE FOR DIVORCE. 336 00:11:21,137 --> 00:11:22,586 WHILE THEY WERE LIVING UNDER THE 337 00:11:22,586 --> 00:11:23,344 SAME ROOF. 338 00:11:23,344 --> 00:11:25,137 >> BUT JENNIFER DID FILE FOR 339 00:11:25,137 --> 00:11:26,655 DIVORCE, TOOK THE KIDS AND MOVED 340 00:11:26,655 --> 00:11:28,827 INTO A RENTAL HOME IN NEW 341 00:11:28,827 --> 00:11:29,482 CANAAN. 342 00:11:29,482 --> 00:11:31,448 MICHELLE AND HER YOUNG DAUGHTER 343 00:11:31,448 --> 00:11:33,827 MOVED INTO FOTIS' HOUSE IN 344 00:11:33,827 --> 00:11:34,103 FARMINGTON. 345 00:11:34,103 --> 00:11:35,689 >> SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM. 346 00:11:35,689 --> 00:11:39,137 THEY HAD A VERY AMAZING 347 00:11:39,137 --> 00:11:39,482 RELATIONSHIP. 348 00:11:39,482 --> 00:11:40,793 >> IT WOULD TURN OUT TO BE ONE 349 00:11:40,793 --> 00:11:43,379 OF THE BIGGEST MISTAKES OF 350 00:11:43,379 --> 00:11:45,758 MICHELLE TROCONIS' LIFE. 351 00:11:45,758 --> 00:11:49,000 MICHELLE TROCONIS' LIFE. >> WHERE IS SHE? 352 00:11:49,000 --> 00:12:05,275 >> WHERE IS SHE? 353 00:12:05,275 --> 00:12:07,241 >>> THEY SHOWED UP EVERY DAY. 354 00:12:07,241 --> 00:12:12,482 FRIENDS OF JENNIFER, SOMBER AND 355 00:12:12,482 --> 00:12:12,793 RESPECTFUL. 356 00:12:12,793 --> 00:12:14,896 >> WE DID NEED TO JUST BRING HER 357 00:12:14,896 --> 00:12:18,000 PRESENCE, THE LOVE FOR HER, INTO 358 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,137 THE COURTROOM. 359 00:12:19,137 --> 00:12:20,965 >> FOR JENNIFER'S LOVED ONES, 360 00:12:20,965 --> 00:12:22,862 THERE HAS BEEN NO BODY TO MOURN. 361 00:12:22,862 --> 00:12:24,689 NO GRAVE TO VISIT. 362 00:12:24,689 --> 00:12:27,448 HER REMAINS HAVE NEVER BEEN 363 00:12:27,448 --> 00:12:27,724 FOUND. 364 00:12:27,724 --> 00:12:29,862 FOR PROSECUTORS, IT ADDED 365 00:12:29,862 --> 00:12:32,896 ANOTHER SET OF CHALLENGES TO AN 366 00:12:32,896 --> 00:12:34,068 ALREADY DIFFICULT CASE. 367 00:12:34,068 --> 00:12:36,172 TO PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE 368 00:12:36,172 --> 00:12:38,241 DOUBT THAT MICHELLE TROCONIS 369 00:12:38,241 --> 00:12:40,310 CONSPIRED WITH FOTIS DULOS TO 370 00:12:40,310 --> 00:12:41,000 COMMIT MURDER. 371 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,482 THEY FIRST HAD TO PROVE THERE 372 00:12:43,482 --> 00:12:45,689 WAS A MURDER, AND THEN THAT IT 373 00:12:45,689 --> 00:12:49,275 WAS FOTIS WHO MURDERED HER. 374 00:12:49,275 --> 00:12:51,517 BUT EIGHT MONTHS AFTER JENNIFER 375 00:12:51,517 --> 00:12:53,862 VANISHED AND LONG BEFORE A TRIAL 376 00:12:53,862 --> 00:12:56,206 WOULD BEGIN, FOTIS DULOS TOOK 377 00:12:56,206 --> 00:12:57,137 HIS OWN LIFE. 378 00:12:57,137 --> 00:12:59,517 >> I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS TRIAL 379 00:12:59,517 --> 00:13:02,275 WAS AGAINST A GHOST. 380 00:13:02,275 --> 00:13:03,896 >> PROSECUTORS ESSENTIALLY 381 00:13:03,896 --> 00:13:05,413 BROUGHT FOTIS BACK TO LIFE BY 382 00:13:05,413 --> 00:13:07,344 FOCUSING ON THE DAY JENNIFER 383 00:13:07,344 --> 00:13:09,551 WENT MISSING. 384 00:13:09,551 --> 00:13:10,827 THEY PRESENTED WHAT 385 00:13:10,827 --> 00:13:13,620 INVESTIGATORS HAD FOUND AT HER 386 00:13:13,620 --> 00:13:14,000 HOME. 387 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,172 >> WHEN THEY GO TO THE HOUSE, 388 00:13:16,172 --> 00:13:18,448 THEY GO IN THE GARAGE. 389 00:13:18,448 --> 00:13:20,310 THEY NOTICE A BLOOD-LIKE 390 00:13:20,310 --> 00:13:20,827 SUBSTANCE. 391 00:13:20,827 --> 00:13:24,241 >> THERE'S SOME BACK HERE, TOO. 392 00:13:24,241 --> 00:13:28,724 >> SERGEANT VENTRESCA AND 393 00:13:28,724 --> 00:13:30,655 DETECTIVE KIMBALL OF THE MAJOR 394 00:13:30,655 --> 00:13:32,068 CRIMES SQUAD WERE SUMMONED TO 395 00:13:32,068 --> 00:13:33,758 THE SCENE. 396 00:13:33,758 --> 00:13:34,620 >> THERE WAS EVIDENCE SOMEONE 397 00:13:34,620 --> 00:13:36,689 HAD ATTEMPTED TO CLEAN UP BLOOD. 398 00:13:36,689 --> 00:13:38,379 THERE APPEARED TO BE SWIRL MARKS 399 00:13:38,379 --> 00:13:42,413 ON THE SIDES OF THE VEHICLES. 400 00:13:42,413 --> 00:13:44,206 >> VIOLENCE OCCURRED IN THAT 401 00:13:44,206 --> 00:13:44,551 GARAGE. 402 00:13:44,551 --> 00:13:46,310 THERE IS DEFINITELY FOUL PLAY 403 00:13:46,310 --> 00:13:46,586 INVOLVED. 404 00:13:46,586 --> 00:13:51,034 >> WITHIN HOURS OF SEARCHING THE 405 00:13:51,034 --> 00:13:51,758 HOUSE, INVESTIGATORS LEARNED 406 00:13:51,758 --> 00:13:54,379 FOTIS HAD A POSSIBLE MOTIVE. 407 00:13:54,379 --> 00:13:56,965 THAT CONTENTIOUS DIVORCE. 408 00:13:56,965 --> 00:13:59,068 SOMETHING JENNIFER EXPRESSED IN 409 00:13:59,068 --> 00:14:00,172 COURT DOCUMENTS. 410 00:14:00,172 --> 00:14:01,758 HE IS DANGEROUS AND RUTHLESS 411 00:14:01,758 --> 00:14:03,689 WHEN HE BELIEVES HE'S BEEN 412 00:14:03,689 --> 00:14:04,103 WRONGED. 413 00:14:04,103 --> 00:14:07,137 HE MUST ALWAYS WIN AT ALL COSTS. 414 00:14:07,137 --> 00:14:08,758 AND THERE WAS LITTLE DOUBT THAT 415 00:14:08,758 --> 00:14:10,137 FOTIS WAS LOSING. 416 00:14:10,137 --> 00:14:11,620 HE HAD SPENT THOUSANDS OF 417 00:14:11,620 --> 00:14:14,000 DOLLARS IN LEGAL FEES AND COURT 418 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:14,448 COSTS. 419 00:14:14,448 --> 00:14:16,482 HIS BUSINESS WAS FLOUNDERING, 420 00:14:16,482 --> 00:14:19,103 AND WORSE, HE LOST SHARED 421 00:14:19,103 --> 00:14:22,000 PHYSICAL CUSTODY OF HIS 422 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:22,241 CHILDREN. 423 00:14:22,241 --> 00:14:23,655 >> I DON'T THINK FOTIS LIKED TO 424 00:14:23,655 --> 00:14:25,551 LOSE IN ANY ASPECT OF HIS LIFE 425 00:14:25,551 --> 00:14:26,655 AND I DON'T THINK HE LIKED TO BE 426 00:14:26,655 --> 00:14:28,241 LOSING IN COURT AT THE HANDS OF 427 00:14:28,241 --> 00:14:29,000 HIS WIFE. 428 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,793 >> THE DAY AFTER THE MOTHER OF 429 00:14:30,793 --> 00:14:32,448 HIS CHILDREN DISAPPEARED, FOTIS 430 00:14:32,448 --> 00:14:35,689 WAS SUMMONED TO THE NEW CANAAN 431 00:14:35,689 --> 00:14:36,068 POLICE STATION. 432 00:14:36,068 --> 00:14:38,000 >> DID HE AGREE TO SIT DOWN AND 433 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:38,172 TALK? 434 00:14:38,172 --> 00:14:39,172 >> NO. 435 00:14:39,172 --> 00:14:40,586 >> BUT THEY GOT SOMETHING MORE 436 00:14:40,586 --> 00:14:42,586 IMPORTANT AT AN INTERVIEW. 437 00:14:42,586 --> 00:14:44,344 POLICE TOOK FOTIS' PHONE. 438 00:14:44,344 --> 00:14:46,965 THEY TRACKED IT TO ALBANY AVENUE 439 00:14:46,965 --> 00:14:49,448 IN HARTFORD AROUND 7:00 PEOPLE 440 00:14:49,448 --> 00:14:52,000 THE EVENING OF MAY 24TH. 441 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,689 ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME JENNIFER 442 00:14:53,689 --> 00:14:55,517 WS REPORTED MISSING. 443 00:14:55,517 --> 00:14:57,724 IT TURNS OUT THERE WERE SECURITY 444 00:14:57,724 --> 00:15:02,172 CAMERAS ALL ALONG FOTIS' ROUTE. 445 00:15:02,172 --> 00:15:04,379 NEW CANAAN POLICE OFFICER THOMAS 446 00:15:04,379 --> 00:15:06,310 PATTEN COULDN'T BELIEVE HIS 447 00:15:06,310 --> 00:15:06,517 EYES. 448 00:15:06,517 --> 00:15:07,551 WHAT DO YOU SEE? 449 00:15:07,551 --> 00:15:10,068 >> AS HE WAS DRIVING AROUND, HE 450 00:15:10,068 --> 00:15:12,586 WAS DEPOSITING BLACK GARBAGE 451 00:15:12,586 --> 00:15:15,413 BAGS IN VARIOUS RECEPTACLES. 452 00:15:15,413 --> 00:15:16,000 >> IS HE ALONE? 453 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,206 >> NO. 454 00:15:17,206 --> 00:15:18,413 IN ONE OF THE SITUATIONS, YOU 455 00:15:18,413 --> 00:15:20,068 CAN SEE A FEMALE LEANING OUT THE 456 00:15:20,068 --> 00:15:21,172 PASSENGER SIDE OF THE TRUCK. 457 00:15:21,172 --> 00:15:23,068 >> IT TURNS OUT THE FEMALE 458 00:15:23,068 --> 00:15:26,103 REACHING FOR THE SIDEWALK WAS 459 00:15:26,103 --> 00:15:27,620 MICHELLE TROCONIS. 460 00:15:27,620 --> 00:15:29,758 WITHIN DAYS, A TEAM OF 461 00:15:29,758 --> 00:15:31,965 DETECTIVES WAS DISPATCHED TO GO 462 00:15:31,965 --> 00:15:33,172 DIGGING THROUGH THE TRASH. 463 00:15:33,172 --> 00:15:35,172 >> SOME OF THE THINGS RETREATED 464 00:15:35,172 --> 00:15:37,862 WERE USED ZIP TIES WITH HUMAN 465 00:15:37,862 --> 00:15:40,379 BLOOD AND DNA OF JENNIFER DULOS 466 00:15:40,379 --> 00:15:42,724 ON THEM. 467 00:15:42,724 --> 00:15:45,586 FEMALE UNDERGARMENTS, A VINEYARD 468 00:15:45,586 --> 00:15:46,862 VINE SHIRT IN THE SIZE THAT 469 00:15:46,862 --> 00:15:47,655 JENNIFER WORE. 470 00:15:47,655 --> 00:15:49,620 >> AT TRIAL FOR THE FIRST TIME, 471 00:15:49,620 --> 00:15:54,620 THEY SHOWED THOSE BLOODY 472 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:54,896 CLOTHES. 473 00:15:54,896 --> 00:15:55,586 >> I THINK IT WAS REALLY 474 00:15:55,586 --> 00:15:59,862 IMPORTANT THAT THEY DID THAT. 475 00:15:59,862 --> 00:16:02,517 WE HAD SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF THAT 476 00:16:02,517 --> 00:16:05,448 EVIDENCE SO I KNEW WHAT IT 477 00:16:05,448 --> 00:16:08,000 LOOKED LIKE, BUT BEING IN THE 478 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,551 SAME SPACE, THE SAME SPACE AND 479 00:16:10,551 --> 00:16:14,034 TIME AS JENNIFER'S CLOTHES JUST 480 00:16:14,034 --> 00:16:20,310 REALLY DROVE HOME THAT SHE'S NOT 481 00:16:20,310 --> 00:16:20,724 HERE. 482 00:16:20,724 --> 00:16:20,931 HERE. 483 00:16:20,931 --> 00:16:23,275 >> ON JUNE 1st, 209, EIGHT DAYS 484 00:16:23,275 --> 00:16:26,000 AFTER JENNIFER VANISHED, BOTH 485 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,689 FOTIS DULOS AND MICHELLE 486 00:16:27,689 --> 00:16:29,103 TROCONIS WERE ARRESTED FOR 487 00:16:29,103 --> 00:16:31,310 TAMPERING WITH OR FABRIC IT AING 488 00:16:31,310 --> 00:16:33,034 PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND 489 00:16:33,034 --> 00:16:35,965 FIRST-DEGREE HINDERING 490 00:16:35,965 --> 00:16:36,241 PROSECUTION. 491 00:16:36,241 --> 00:16:37,241 THEY STILL DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH 492 00:16:37,241 --> 00:16:38,724 FOR A MURDER CHARGE. 493 00:16:38,724 --> 00:16:41,793 FOTIS REFUSED TO TALK TO THE 494 00:16:41,793 --> 00:16:42,620 POLICE BUT MICHELLE GAVE THE 495 00:16:42,620 --> 00:16:45,931 FIRST OF THREE INTERVIEWS. 496 00:16:45,931 --> 00:16:49,103 >> WHAT'S THE RED STUFF? 497 00:16:49,103 --> 00:16:49,655 >> OFFICERS MADE IT CLEAR 498 00:16:49,655 --> 00:16:51,413 JENNIFER WAS NOT JUST MISSING. 499 00:16:51,413 --> 00:16:52,827 SHE WAS MURDERED. 500 00:16:52,827 --> 00:16:55,379 >> BASICALLY, HERE'S A FACT. 501 00:16:55,379 --> 00:17:00,482 FOTIS KILLED JENNIFER. 502 00:17:00,482 --> 00:17:02,793 THIS IS A FACT. 503 00:17:02,793 --> 00:17:03,655 WE KNOW THIS. 504 00:17:03,655 --> 00:17:06,344 WE NEED TO FIND JENNIFER. 505 00:17:06,344 --> 00:17:08,034 >> OFFICERS WERE TRYING TO 506 00:17:08,034 --> 00:17:10,241 FIGURE OUT IF SHE KNEW WHERE 507 00:17:10,241 --> 00:17:14,689 JENNIFER'S BODY WAS. 508 00:17:14,689 --> 00:17:17,792 >> IF YOU HAD TO GET RID OF A 509 00:17:17,792 --> 00:17:19,758 BODY THAT WAS NO LONGER IF ONE 510 00:17:19,758 --> 00:17:21,172 PIECE, WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU 511 00:17:21,172 --> 00:17:21,448 WOULD GO? 512 00:17:21,448 --> 00:17:22,862 WHERE DO YOU THINK FOTIS WOULD 513 00:17:22,862 --> 00:17:23,068 GO? 514 00:17:23,068 --> 00:17:25,000 I'M NOT SAYING -- WHERE WOULD 515 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,655 FOTIS HAVE GONE TO TAKE EITHER 516 00:17:26,655 --> 00:17:29,689 JENNIFER OR PARTS OF JENNIFER TO 517 00:17:29,689 --> 00:17:30,758 GET RID OF HER? 518 00:17:30,758 --> 00:17:31,655 >> I DON'T KNOW. 519 00:17:31,655 --> 00:17:33,344 >> MICHELLE INSISTED SHE DIDN'T 520 00:17:33,344 --> 00:17:35,206 KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT A BODY. 521 00:17:35,206 --> 00:17:37,758 SHE ALSO GAVE FOTIS AN ALIBI. 522 00:17:37,758 --> 00:17:39,620 SHE TOLD THEM HE WAS WITH HER AT 523 00:17:39,620 --> 00:17:45,137 HOME THAT MORNING AT 4 JEFFERSON 524 00:17:45,137 --> 00:17:45,413 CROSSING. 525 00:17:45,413 --> 00:17:47,827 >> WHEN I GO TO THE BATHROOM, I 526 00:17:47,827 --> 00:17:50,965 BRUSH MY TEETH, I GET INTO THE 527 00:17:50,965 --> 00:17:51,172 SHOWER. 528 00:17:51,172 --> 00:17:54,758 FOTIS JUMPED INTO THE SHOWER 529 00:17:54,758 --> 00:17:57,068 WITH ME. 530 00:17:57,068 --> 00:17:58,862 PROBABLY A FIVE-MINUTE SHOWER. 531 00:17:58,862 --> 00:18:00,482 >> THAT STATEMENT WOULD COME 532 00:18:00,482 --> 00:18:02,482 BACK TO HAUNT HER. 533 00:18:02,482 --> 00:18:04,172 BOTH FOTIS AND MICHELLE WERE 534 00:18:04,172 --> 00:18:07,379 RELEASED ON BOND AND ORDERED NOT 535 00:18:07,379 --> 00:18:09,000 TO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER. 536 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,310 FOTIS STAYED IN HIS GLITTERING 537 00:18:11,310 --> 00:18:13,724 MANSION AT 4 JEFFERSON CROSSING. 538 00:18:13,724 --> 00:18:16,379 MICHELLE MOVED INTO HER OWN 539 00:18:16,379 --> 00:18:18,862 APARTMENT AND WOULD FOREVER BE 540 00:18:18,862 --> 00:18:21,310 BRAND AD AS THE OTHER WOMAN. 541 00:18:21,310 --> 00:18:22,965 >> I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU. 542 00:18:22,965 --> 00:18:26,862 YOU'RE PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST 543 00:18:26,862 --> 00:18:34,655 YOU'RE PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST HATED WOMEN RIGHT NOW. 544 00:18:34,655 --> 00:18:43,034 HATED WOMEN RIGHT NOW. 545 00:18:43,034 --> 00:18:45,724 >>> TEN DAYS AFTER JENNIFER 546 00:18:45,724 --> 00:18:47,758 DISAPPEARED, INVESTIGATORS FOUND 547 00:18:47,758 --> 00:18:49,172 PAPERS AT THE HOME THAT THEY 548 00:18:49,172 --> 00:18:51,310 CAME TO BELIEVE WERE ACTUALLY 549 00:18:51,310 --> 00:18:52,172 AIBI SCRIPTS. 550 00:18:52,172 --> 00:18:54,586 A TIME LINE, SAY PROSECUTORS, 551 00:18:54,586 --> 00:18:56,586 THAT FOTIS DULOS AND MICHELLE 552 00:18:56,586 --> 00:19:01,137 CREATED TO KEEP THEIR STORY 553 00:19:01,137 --> 00:19:01,413 STRAIGHT. 554 00:19:01,413 --> 00:19:04,310 >> WAKE-UP, ALARM, TOOK SHOWER 555 00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:04,620 TOGETHER. 556 00:19:04,620 --> 00:19:06,758 >> THAT TIME LINE BECAME CENTRAL 557 00:19:06,758 --> 00:19:08,551 TO THE STATE'S CASE. 558 00:19:08,551 --> 00:19:11,137 NOT ONLY FOR WHAT WAS IN IT BUT 559 00:19:11,137 --> 00:19:12,000 FOR WHAT WASN'T. 560 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,758 >> THE COPS ASKED HER, WHY 561 00:19:14,758 --> 00:19:16,413 WASN'T HARTFORD IN YOUR TIME 562 00:19:16,413 --> 00:19:16,620 LINE. 563 00:19:16,620 --> 00:19:18,275 I WAS GOING TO WRITE THAT BUT I 564 00:19:18,275 --> 00:19:19,689 GOT INTERRUPTED. 565 00:19:19,689 --> 00:19:21,517 ISN'T THAT A COINCIDENCE? 566 00:19:21,517 --> 00:19:23,551 ISN'T THAT CONVENIENT? 567 00:19:23,551 --> 00:19:25,000 >> PROSECUTORS SET OUT TO SHOW 568 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,758 WHAT THEY SAY WAS THE REAL-TIME 569 00:19:26,758 --> 00:19:27,724 LINE. 570 00:19:27,724 --> 00:19:29,000 STARTING IN THE EARLY HOURS OF 571 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,965 MAY 24th, THE DAY JENNIFER 572 00:19:31,965 --> 00:19:33,206 VANISHED, SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE 573 00:19:33,206 --> 00:19:35,413 SHOWS A TRUCK LEAVING AN EMPTY 574 00:19:35,413 --> 00:19:38,586 HOUSE THAT FOTIS HAD RENOVATE 575 00:19:38,586 --> 00:19:40,137 FOR SALE. 576 00:19:40,137 --> 00:19:41,172 >> THE LITTLE RED PICKUP TRUCK 577 00:19:41,172 --> 00:19:44,413 WAS SEEN LEAVING THAT RESIDENCE, 578 00:19:44,413 --> 00:19:45,517 HEADED TOWARD ROUTE 4 AT 579 00:19:45,517 --> 00:19:50,103 APPROXIMATELY 5:30, 5:45 HOURS. 580 00:19:50,103 --> 00:19:52,103 >> SERGEANT KENNETH VENTRESCA 581 00:19:52,103 --> 00:19:53,413 WHO THINKS FOTIS WAS DRIVING 582 00:19:53,413 --> 00:19:55,000 TRACKED THE PICKUP TRUCK HEADING 583 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,896 TOWARD NEW CANAAN WHERE JENNIFER 584 00:19:56,896 --> 00:19:57,137 LIVED. 585 00:19:57,137 --> 00:20:00,379 >> WE EVENTUALLY LOCATED A RED 586 00:20:00,379 --> 00:20:02,965 TOYOTA TACOMA PICKUP TRUCK. 587 00:20:02,965 --> 00:20:04,655 >> IT WAS SPOTTED TWO AND A HALF 588 00:20:04,655 --> 00:20:06,517 HOURS LATER, SHORTLY BEFORE 8:00 589 00:20:06,517 --> 00:20:10,793 A.M. IN NEW CANAAN NEAR WAICHBY 590 00:20:10,793 --> 00:20:11,034 PARK. 591 00:20:11,034 --> 00:20:14,551 >> THIS IS WHERE HE HAD PARKED 592 00:20:14,551 --> 00:20:14,724 IT. 593 00:20:14,724 --> 00:20:15,551 INVESTIGATORS BELIEVED FOTIS HAD 594 00:20:15,551 --> 00:20:17,000 BROUGHT A BICYCLE WITH HIM. 595 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,724 THAT'S HIM BIKING THE LAST THREE 596 00:20:18,724 --> 00:20:22,724 MILES TO JENNIFER'S HOUSE. 597 00:20:22,724 --> 00:20:25,034 >> HE CAME OVER ON THE BACK ROAD 598 00:20:25,034 --> 00:20:25,586 OVER THERE. 599 00:20:25,586 --> 00:20:27,206 HE WAITED FOR HER TO DROP THE 600 00:20:27,206 --> 00:20:28,517 KIDS OFF AT SCHOOL. 601 00:20:28,517 --> 00:20:30,310 HE CAME HOME IN THE MORNING. 602 00:20:30,310 --> 00:20:32,620 SHE ENTERS THE GARAGE. 603 00:20:32,620 --> 00:20:34,172 THAT'S WHERE THE VIOLENCE 604 00:20:34,172 --> 00:20:36,034 VIOLENT ASSAULT OCCURRED IN THE 605 00:20:36,034 --> 00:20:36,241 HOUSE. 606 00:20:36,241 --> 00:20:37,896 >> PROSECUTORS SAY THAT WHILE 607 00:20:37,896 --> 00:20:39,827 FOTIS WAS KILLING JENNIFER, 608 00:20:39,827 --> 00:20:42,344 MICHELLE WAS BACK AT THEIR HOUSE 609 00:20:42,344 --> 00:20:44,448 PROVIDING AN ALIBI. 610 00:20:44,448 --> 00:20:47,275 FOTIS HAD LEFT HIS PHONE AT HOME 611 00:20:47,275 --> 00:20:50,172 AND PRE-ARRANGED A CALL WITH A 612 00:20:50,172 --> 00:20:52,379 FRIEND FROM GREECE. 613 00:20:52,379 --> 00:20:53,344 PROSECUTORS BELIEVE MICHELLE 614 00:20:53,344 --> 00:20:55,482 PICKED UP THE CALL TO MAKE IT 615 00:20:55,482 --> 00:20:57,137 APPEAR FOTIS WAS HOME. 616 00:20:57,137 --> 00:20:58,448 >> MAKE NO MISTAKE. 617 00:20:58,448 --> 00:20:59,827 SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS 618 00:20:59,827 --> 00:21:01,655 DOING WHEN SHE ANSWERED THAT 619 00:21:01,655 --> 00:21:01,931 PHONE. 620 00:21:01,931 --> 00:21:03,827 >> PROSECUTORS CLAIM MICHELLE 621 00:21:03,827 --> 00:21:05,965 THEN MOVED IT AROUND, LOCKING IT 622 00:21:05,965 --> 00:21:08,586 AND UNLOCKING IT TO CONTINUE TO 623 00:21:08,586 --> 00:21:09,517 SHOW ACTIVITY. 624 00:21:09,517 --> 00:21:12,103 >> NOW THE ONLY PERSON WHO COULD 625 00:21:12,103 --> 00:21:14,551 HAVE REASONABLY MANIPULATED 626 00:21:14,551 --> 00:21:17,241 FOTIS DULOS'S PHONE THAT MORNING 627 00:21:17,241 --> 00:21:18,482 IS MICHELLE TROCONIS. 628 00:21:18,482 --> 00:21:19,275 THIS IS THE CONSPIRACY. 629 00:21:19,275 --> 00:21:21,413 >> DURING THE TIME PROSECUTORS 630 00:21:21,413 --> 00:21:22,655 SAY MICHELLE WAS MA ANYMORE 631 00:21:22,655 --> 00:21:27,655 LATING THE PHONE, SERGEANT 632 00:21:27,655 --> 00:21:30,586 VENTRESCA BELIEVES FOTIS WAS 633 00:21:30,586 --> 00:21:32,862 CLEANING UP THE CRIME SCENE. 634 00:21:32,862 --> 00:21:34,310 >> IT'S A PATTERN HERE. 635 00:21:34,310 --> 00:21:36,758 >> AND THEN PUT JENNIFER'S DEAD 636 00:21:36,758 --> 00:21:38,413 OR UNCONSCIOUS BODY IN THE BACK 637 00:21:38,413 --> 00:21:41,379 OF HER SUBURBAN AND DROVE IT 638 00:21:41,379 --> 00:21:41,586 AWAY. 639 00:21:41,586 --> 00:21:43,241 >> AND THEN HER VEHICLE WAS LEFT 640 00:21:43,241 --> 00:21:46,482 ABOUT THREE AND A HALF MILES 641 00:21:46,482 --> 00:21:46,689 AWAY. 642 00:21:46,689 --> 00:21:48,724 >> JUST 100 FEET FROM WHERE 643 00:21:48,724 --> 00:21:51,862 POLICE SAY HE HAD PARKED THE 644 00:21:51,862 --> 00:21:52,068 TACOMA. 645 00:21:52,068 --> 00:21:54,068 >> THERE ARE STORM DRAINS DOWN 646 00:21:54,068 --> 00:21:54,379 HERE. 647 00:21:54,379 --> 00:21:55,827 >> INVESTIGATORS CANNOT ACCOUNT 648 00:21:55,827 --> 00:21:57,482 FOR THE NEXT 48 MINUTES. 649 00:21:57,482 --> 00:21:59,275 >> WE SEARCHED THIS WHOLE AREA. 650 00:21:59,275 --> 00:22:00,965 >> IT'S POSSIBLE FOTIS USED THAT 651 00:22:00,965 --> 00:22:03,689 TIME TO GET RID OF JENNIFER'S 652 00:22:03,689 --> 00:22:03,965 BODY. 653 00:22:03,965 --> 00:22:05,482 THEY THINK IT IS MORE LIKELY HE 654 00:22:05,482 --> 00:22:07,586 WAS TRANSFERRING INCRIMINATING 655 00:22:07,586 --> 00:22:08,965 MATERIALS FROM THE SUBURBAN TO 656 00:22:08,965 --> 00:22:10,586 THE TACOMA. 657 00:22:10,586 --> 00:22:12,034 >> IF HE HAD THINGS TO MOVE, 658 00:22:12,034 --> 00:22:14,793 LIKE A LOT OF BLOODY CLOTHING, 659 00:22:14,793 --> 00:22:16,172 IT COULD HAVE TAKEN 40 MINUTES. 660 00:22:16,172 --> 00:22:18,931 >> WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNIFER, 661 00:22:18,931 --> 00:22:19,965 THEY DON'T KNOW. 662 00:22:19,965 --> 00:22:22,517 WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT THE 663 00:22:22,517 --> 00:22:24,379 TACOMA RETURNED TO THE EMPTY 664 00:22:24,379 --> 00:22:27,517 HOUSE AT 12:22 P.M. 665 00:22:27,517 --> 00:22:29,862 AFTER THAT, FOTIS MET MICHELLE 666 00:22:29,862 --> 00:22:32,827 FOR LUNCH. 667 00:22:32,827 --> 00:22:35,931 >> DID YOU ASK HIM WHERE HE WAS 668 00:22:35,931 --> 00:22:37,344 THAT MORNING? 669 00:22:37,344 --> 00:22:39,103 >> THAT'S BECAUSE PROSECUTORS 670 00:22:39,103 --> 00:22:42,000 SAY SHE ALREADY KNEW. 671 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,482 THAT AFTERNOON, MICHELLE BROUGHT 672 00:22:44,482 --> 00:22:46,068 CLEANING SUPPLIES AND GARBAGE 673 00:22:46,068 --> 00:22:49,793 BAGS TO THAT EMPTY HOUSE FOR 674 00:22:49,793 --> 00:22:51,413 SALE, 80 MOUNTAIN SPRING ROAD. 675 00:22:51,413 --> 00:22:53,275 MICHELLE SAYS SHE AND FOTIS WERE 676 00:22:53,275 --> 00:22:56,827 PREPARING FOR A SHOWING THE NEXT 677 00:22:56,827 --> 00:22:57,000 DAY. 678 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,103 >> SO WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS 679 00:23:00,103 --> 00:23:02,034 HAPPENING THAT AFTERNOON AT 80 680 00:23:02,034 --> 00:23:02,896 MOUNTAIN SPRING? 681 00:23:02,896 --> 00:23:05,310 >> I THINK THAT THE EVIDENCE 682 00:23:05,310 --> 00:23:08,310 THAT WAS FOUND IN HARTFORD WAS 683 00:23:08,310 --> 00:23:11,586 BEING BAGGED UP. 684 00:23:11,586 --> 00:23:12,862 >> THE PROSECUTION SHOWED 685 00:23:12,862 --> 00:23:14,068 MICHELLE DRIVING BACK AND FORTH 686 00:23:14,068 --> 00:23:16,517 TO THE HOUSE WHERE SHE LIVED 687 00:23:16,517 --> 00:23:18,724 WITH FOTIS. 688 00:23:18,724 --> 00:23:19,517 PROSECUTORS BELIEVE SHE WAS 689 00:23:19,517 --> 00:23:20,551 BURNING EVIDENCE. 690 00:23:20,551 --> 00:23:22,586 >> THERE APPEARS TO BE SMOKE 691 00:23:22,586 --> 00:23:24,241 COMING OUT OF EAST CHIMNEY. 692 00:23:24,241 --> 00:23:26,896 WHO IS LIGHTING A FIRE ON 693 00:23:26,896 --> 00:23:28,310 MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND? 694 00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:28,827 BETTER QUESTION. 695 00:23:28,827 --> 00:23:33,793 WHO IS LIGHTING THREE FIRES ON 696 00:23:33,793 --> 00:23:35,206 THE FRIDAY BEFORE MEMORIAL DAY 697 00:23:35,206 --> 00:23:37,034 WEEKEND ON A DAY LIKE THAT? 698 00:23:37,034 --> 00:23:38,689 THE SURVEILLANCE SHOWS HER GOING 699 00:23:38,689 --> 00:23:41,000 BACK AND FORTH REPEATEDLY. 700 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,758 FIVE MINUTES AT A TIME, NINE 701 00:23:42,758 --> 00:23:47,862 FIVE MINUTES AT A TIME, NINE MINUTES AT A TIME, FIRE, FIRE. 702 00:23:47,862 --> 00:23:51,965 MINUTES AT A TIME, FIRE, FIRE. 703 00:23:51,965 --> 00:23:53,379 >> PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND 704 00:23:53,379 --> 00:23:54,965 SPELL IT FOR THE RECORD. 705 00:23:54,965 --> 00:23:57,965 >> IF THE PROSECUTION HAD A STAR 706 00:23:57,965 --> 00:24:05,965 WITNESS, IT WAS FOTIS'S 707 00:24:05,965 --> 00:24:06,206 EMPLOYEE. 708 00:24:06,206 --> 00:24:06,862 PAB PAWEL GUMIENNY WHO TURNS OUT 709 00:24:06,862 --> 00:24:08,965 TO BE THE OWNER OF THAT RED 710 00:24:08,965 --> 00:24:10,000 TRUCK. 711 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000 HE DESCRIBED THE CONVERSATION HE 712 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,344 HAD WITH MICHELLE A MONTH BEFORE 713 00:24:13,344 --> 00:24:14,344 JENNIFER WENT MISSING. 714 00:24:14,344 --> 00:24:16,379 MICHELLE WAS UPSET WHEN SHE 715 00:24:16,379 --> 00:24:17,586 LEARNED JENNIFER WOULD NOT LET 716 00:24:17,586 --> 00:24:19,344 THE CHILDREN SAY GOODBYE TO THE 717 00:24:19,344 --> 00:24:20,862 FAMILY DOG BEFORE FOTIS HAD HIM 718 00:24:20,862 --> 00:24:22,137 PUT TO SLEEP. 719 00:24:22,137 --> 00:24:26,068 >> WHAT EXACTLY DID SHE SAY? 720 00:24:26,068 --> 00:24:28,206 >> CAN I USE BAD WORDS? 721 00:24:28,206 --> 00:24:31,413 >> YES. 722 00:24:31,413 --> 00:24:34,724 >> SHE SAID SHE SHOULD BE 723 00:24:34,724 --> 00:24:35,655 MARRIED NEXT TO THE DOG. 724 00:24:35,655 --> 00:24:37,931 >> PERHAPS THE MOST DAMAGING 725 00:24:37,931 --> 00:24:39,172 TESTIMONY CONCERNED THE PICKUP 726 00:24:39,172 --> 00:24:42,206 TRUCK, THE TACOMA, WHICH HE SAYS 727 00:24:42,206 --> 00:24:43,413 FOTIS TOOK WITHOUT PERMISSION. 728 00:24:43,413 --> 00:24:45,000 HE SAID HE SHOWED UP AT THE 729 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,137 HOUSE WHERE MICHELLE AND FOTIS 730 00:24:46,137 --> 00:24:47,172 WERE CLEANING. 731 00:24:47,172 --> 00:24:49,000 HE WANTED HIS TRUCK BACK. 732 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,482 BUT THE KEYS WERE GONE. 733 00:24:52,482 --> 00:24:54,000 >> WHAT DID MR. DULOS SAY TO 734 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:54,655 YOU? 735 00:24:54,655 --> 00:24:55,965 >> HE SAID THAT MICHELLE HAS A 736 00:24:55,965 --> 00:24:56,241 KEY. 737 00:24:56,241 --> 00:24:58,862 >> MICHELLE HAD ALREADY LEFT THE 738 00:24:58,862 --> 00:25:00,068 PREMISES WITH THE KEYS. 739 00:25:00,068 --> 00:25:04,655 >> SHE TAKES THE KEYS TO THE 740 00:25:04,655 --> 00:25:11,862 TOYOTA TACOMA TO PRAEFLEVENT PAWEL. 741 00:25:11,862 --> 00:25:13,000 THEY NEED MORE TIME. 742 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,310 THEY HAVEN'T GONE THE TO THE CAR 743 00:25:14,310 --> 00:25:15,137 WASH YET. 744 00:25:15,137 --> 00:25:16,827 >> MICHELLE RETURNED WITH THE 745 00:25:16,827 --> 00:25:18,965 KEYS AND PAWEL TOOK HIS TRUCK 746 00:25:18,965 --> 00:25:19,241 HOME. 747 00:25:19,241 --> 00:25:21,275 FIVE DAYS AFTER JENNIFER 748 00:25:21,275 --> 00:25:22,655 DISAPPEARED, FOTIS FINALLY TOOK 749 00:25:22,655 --> 00:25:25,793 THE OLD BEAT-UP TACOMA TO THE 750 00:25:25,793 --> 00:25:26,655 CAR WASH. 751 00:25:26,655 --> 00:25:27,896 MICHELLE MET HIM THERE. 752 00:25:27,896 --> 00:25:29,517 >> YOU CAN EAT OFF THE FLOOR 753 00:25:29,517 --> 00:25:30,931 BOORDS IN THIS TRUCK. 754 00:25:30,931 --> 00:25:31,862 THAT'S HOW CLEAN IT WAS BY THE 755 00:25:31,862 --> 00:25:33,172 TIME WE GOT IT. 756 00:25:33,172 --> 00:25:36,172 >> BUT FOTIS MADE ONE MAJOR 757 00:25:36,172 --> 00:25:36,551 MISCALCULATION. 758 00:25:36,551 --> 00:25:39,758 HE ASKED PAWEL TO REMOVE THE TWO 759 00:25:39,758 --> 00:25:41,379 FRONT SEATS OF THE TACOMA AND 760 00:25:41,379 --> 00:25:43,758 FIND REPLACEMENTS. 761 00:25:43,758 --> 00:25:46,103 >> HE WAS GROWING ANGRY AND HE 762 00:25:46,103 --> 00:25:49,379 KEPT SAYING, YOU GOTTA DO IT. 763 00:25:49,379 --> 00:25:51,206 CAN YOU DO IT. 764 00:25:51,206 --> 00:25:53,068 >> PAWEL WHO WAS LATER GIVEN 765 00:25:53,068 --> 00:25:54,620 IMMUNITY DID REMOVE THE SEATS, 766 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:57,000 BUT HE HANDED THEM OVER TO THE 767 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,793 POLICE AND SURE ENOUGH -- 768 00:25:59,793 --> 00:26:02,000 >> ON THE PASSENGER SEAT, THERE 769 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,310 WAS A BLOOD-LINE STAIN ON THE 770 00:26:04,310 --> 00:26:06,413 FABRIC OF THE SEAT. 771 00:26:06,413 --> 00:26:08,448 WHICH WAS CUT OUT, TESTED AT THE 772 00:26:08,448 --> 00:26:10,827 LAB AND IT CAME BACK WITH 773 00:26:10,827 --> 00:26:13,206 JENNIFER DULOS' DNA, BLOOD. 774 00:26:13,206 --> 00:26:14,482 THAT WAS PARAMOUNT FOR THIS 775 00:26:14,482 --> 00:26:14,827 INVESTIGATION. 776 00:26:14,827 --> 00:26:16,724 >> THEY FINALLY HAD ENOUGH 777 00:26:16,724 --> 00:26:18,586 EVIDENCE TO ARREST FOTIS DULOS 778 00:26:18,586 --> 00:26:20,896 FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE. 779 00:26:20,896 --> 00:26:22,034 MICHELLE TROCONIS WAS ARRESTED 780 00:26:22,034 --> 00:26:25,413 FOR HELPING HIM PLAN THE MURDER. 781 00:26:25,413 --> 00:26:28,551 THE TWO WOULD NEVER SEE OR SPEAK 782 00:26:28,551 --> 00:26:31,931 TO EACH OTHER AGAIN. 783 00:26:31,931 --> 00:26:34,000 >> WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST 784 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,172 DAMAGING EVIDENCE AGAINST 785 00:26:35,172 --> 00:26:35,931 MICHELLE TROCONIS? 786 00:26:35,931 --> 00:26:45,448 FOR A CLOSE 787 00:26:45,448 --> 00:26:47,344 >>> DAY AFTER DAY, MICHELLE SAT 788 00:26:47,344 --> 00:26:49,310 IN THE COURTROOM WITH HER FAMILY 789 00:26:49,310 --> 00:26:50,551 BEHIND HER. 790 00:26:50,551 --> 00:26:53,034 SHE SHOWED LITTLE EMOTION. 791 00:26:53,034 --> 00:26:55,482 OTHER THAN A FEW TEARS. 792 00:26:55,482 --> 00:26:57,137 >> LET ME SAY SOMETHING ABOUT 793 00:26:57,137 --> 00:26:58,862 NOT SHOWING EMOTION. 794 00:26:58,862 --> 00:27:01,137 IF WE SMILE AS WE'RE COMING INTO 795 00:27:01,137 --> 00:27:04,482 THE COURT, EVERYTHING SHE DOES, 796 00:27:04,482 --> 00:27:05,827 SOMEONE WILL COMMENT ON THAT. 797 00:27:05,827 --> 00:27:07,793 >> MICHELLE OUT ON BAIL LEFT 798 00:27:07,793 --> 00:27:09,689 COURT QUIETLY EACH DAY. 799 00:27:09,689 --> 00:27:12,206 BUT HER FAMILY WAS OUTSPOKEN. 800 00:27:12,206 --> 00:27:15,206 >> SHE'S A MOTHER, A DAUGHTER, A 801 00:27:15,206 --> 00:27:16,862 SISTER, AND JUST AN AMAZING 802 00:27:16,862 --> 00:27:17,620 HUMAN BEING. 803 00:27:17,620 --> 00:27:19,620 AND WE KNOW THAT THE TRUTH WILL 804 00:27:19,620 --> 00:27:19,862 PREVAIL. 805 00:27:19,862 --> 00:27:22,896 >> HER FATHER, CARDIOVASCULAR 806 00:27:22,896 --> 00:27:24,586 SURGEON DR. CARLOS TROCONIS, AND 807 00:27:24,586 --> 00:27:29,206 SISTERS, CLAUDIA AND DANIELA, 808 00:27:29,206 --> 00:27:31,241 SPOKE TO "48 HOURS" IN 2020. 809 00:27:31,241 --> 00:27:32,896 THEN AS NOW IS THEY REFUSE TO 810 00:27:32,896 --> 00:27:34,000 BELIEVE THAT MICHELLE COULD HAVE 811 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,862 BEEN INVOLVED IN JENNIFER'S 812 00:27:36,862 --> 00:27:37,206 DISAPPEARANCE. 813 00:27:37,206 --> 00:27:38,310 >> WHAT MAKES YOU BELIEVE THAT 814 00:27:38,310 --> 00:27:40,034 YOUR SISTER HAD ABSOLUTELY 815 00:27:40,034 --> 00:27:41,965 NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS? 816 00:27:41,965 --> 00:27:45,482 >> HOW WE WERE BROUGHT UP, OUR 817 00:27:45,482 --> 00:27:46,586 PRINCIPLES, JUST THAT SHE'S 818 00:27:46,586 --> 00:27:48,137 NEVER BEEN A VIOLENT PERSON. 819 00:27:48,137 --> 00:27:50,206 >> SHE WOULDN'T HARM ANYBODY. 820 00:27:50,206 --> 00:27:52,310 >> SOMETIMES WOMEN DO RIDICULOUS 821 00:27:52,310 --> 00:27:53,310 THINGS FOR LOVE. 822 00:27:53,310 --> 00:27:54,482 >> NOT MY SISTER. 823 00:27:54,482 --> 00:27:56,103 >> OTHER WOMEN BUT NOT MY 824 00:27:56,103 --> 00:27:56,344 SISTER. 825 00:27:56,344 --> 00:27:58,000 >> MICHELLE WOULD NEVER HARM 826 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:58,551 ANYBODY. 827 00:27:58,551 --> 00:27:59,689 ANYONE. 828 00:27:59,689 --> 00:28:02,965 >> MICHELLE'S ATTORNEY JON 829 00:28:02,965 --> 00:28:04,206 SCHOENHORN SAID SHE WAS FOOLED 830 00:28:04,206 --> 00:28:05,724 BY FOTIS DULOS. 831 00:28:05,724 --> 00:28:08,068 >> FOTIS DULOS LIED TO MICHELLE. 832 00:28:08,068 --> 00:28:09,586 >> IT APPEARS HE DID ON MORE 833 00:28:09,586 --> 00:28:11,000 THAN ONE OCCASION. 834 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,931 >> ACCORDING TO MICHELLE, FOTIS 835 00:28:12,931 --> 00:28:14,275 TOLD HER HE BELIEVED HIS WIFE 836 00:28:14,275 --> 00:28:16,655 HAD RUN AWAY. 837 00:28:16,655 --> 00:28:18,103 SOMETHING HE CLAIMED SHE HAD 838 00:28:18,103 --> 00:28:20,586 DONE IN THE PAST. 839 00:28:20,586 --> 00:28:21,689 >> WHAT? 840 00:28:21,689 --> 00:28:23,413 HOW DO YOU KNOW? 841 00:28:23,413 --> 00:28:25,413 HE SAID, DON'T WORRY. 842 00:28:25,413 --> 00:28:27,137 SHE'S DONE IT IN THE PAST. 843 00:28:27,137 --> 00:28:29,655 SHE WENT TO ASPEN AND CHANGED 844 00:28:29,655 --> 00:28:33,517 HER NAME 20 YEARS AGO. 845 00:28:33,517 --> 00:28:35,172 >> SCHOENHORN SAID FOTIS WAS 846 00:28:35,172 --> 00:28:36,758 ALSO LYING TO HER THAT NIGHT HE 847 00:28:36,758 --> 00:28:39,551 WAS DUMPING BLOODY EVIDENCE ON 848 00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:43,034 ALBANY AVENUE IN HARTFORD. 849 00:28:43,034 --> 00:28:44,793 AND YOU'RE SAYING SHE HAD NO 850 00:28:44,793 --> 00:28:46,896 IDEA WHAT WAS IN THOSE BAGS THAT 851 00:28:46,896 --> 00:28:48,827 FOTIS WAS GETTING RID OF? 852 00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:50,482 >> SHE NOT ONLY DID NOT KNOW 853 00:28:50,482 --> 00:28:52,034 WHAT WAS IN THE BAGS, SHE HAD NO 854 00:28:52,034 --> 00:28:53,586 IDEA WHAT HE WAS ACTUALLY DOING. 855 00:28:53,586 --> 00:28:55,965 HE HAD INVITED HER TO GO TO 856 00:28:55,965 --> 00:28:56,517 STARBUCKS. 857 00:28:56,517 --> 00:28:57,965 PRACTICALLY THE ENTIRE TIME 858 00:28:57,965 --> 00:29:02,413 SHE'S ON EITHER WHAT'S APP, 859 00:29:02,413 --> 00:29:03,931 TEXTING OR MAKING PHONE CALL THE 860 00:29:03,931 --> 00:29:04,655 WHOLE TIME. 861 00:29:04,655 --> 00:29:06,310 >> DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S IN THE 862 00:29:06,310 --> 00:29:06,482 BAG? 863 00:29:06,482 --> 00:29:07,000 >> NO. 864 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 MY MIND IS ALWAYS ON 865 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:09,724 CONSTRUCTION THINGS. 866 00:29:09,724 --> 00:29:11,965 MAYBE EVEN THE CLEANING FROM THE 867 00:29:11,965 --> 00:29:12,137 HOUSE. 868 00:29:12,137 --> 00:29:12,482 I DON'T KNOW. 869 00:29:12,482 --> 00:29:16,586 >> CLAUDIA SPEAKING AFTER HER 870 00:29:16,586 --> 00:29:18,000 SISTER, SHE SAID WASN'T UNUSUAL 871 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,724 TO FOTIS TO DUMP CONSTRUCTION 872 00:29:20,724 --> 00:29:22,241 DEBRIS IN PUBLIC TRASH CANS 873 00:29:22,241 --> 00:29:23,931 INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR A 874 00:29:23,931 --> 00:29:24,172 DUMPSTER. 875 00:29:24,172 --> 00:29:25,827 >> I HAD GONE IN 2018 AND HE HAD 876 00:29:25,827 --> 00:29:29,724 DONE IT IN MY PRESENCE. 877 00:29:29,724 --> 00:29:30,241 THAT. 878 00:29:30,241 --> 00:29:31,758 >> BUT PROSECUTORS PORTRAYED 879 00:29:31,758 --> 00:29:33,896 THAT FOOTAGE OF MICHELLE LEANING 880 00:29:33,896 --> 00:29:37,000 OUT OF TRUCK AS SOMETHING 881 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:37,413 NEFARIOUS. 882 00:29:37,413 --> 00:29:39,482 THEY TOLD THAT JURY SHE WAS 883 00:29:39,482 --> 00:29:41,551 PURPOSELY GIVING COVER TO FOTIS 884 00:29:41,551 --> 00:29:43,517 WHILE HE DUMPED TWO ALTERED 885 00:29:43,517 --> 00:29:45,172 LICENSE PLATES DOWN THE SEWER. 886 00:29:45,172 --> 00:29:48,103 >> WHILE THEY OPENED THE DOOR AT 887 00:29:48,103 --> 00:29:50,206 THE EXACT SAME TIME, 888 00:29:50,206 --> 00:29:51,206 CONVENIENTLY AT THE RIGHT TIME 889 00:29:51,206 --> 00:29:54,448 TO BLOCK THE VIEW FROM THE TAN 890 00:29:54,448 --> 00:29:54,724 CAR. 891 00:29:54,724 --> 00:29:56,310 >> MICHELLE SAID IT WAS AN 892 00:29:56,310 --> 00:29:57,551 INNOCENT GESTURE. 893 00:29:57,551 --> 00:29:59,620 >> YOU'RE ACTUALLY LEANING OUT 894 00:29:59,620 --> 00:30:01,586 AT ONE POINT OF THE CAR. 895 00:30:01,586 --> 00:30:05,379 >> NO, I TOLD HIM. 896 00:30:05,379 --> 00:30:06,413 I HAD A CHEWING GUM. 897 00:30:06,413 --> 00:30:07,689 I TOOK IT. 898 00:30:07,689 --> 00:30:08,310 I SPIT IT. 899 00:30:08,310 --> 00:30:09,379 I SPIT IT. 900 00:30:09,379 --> 00:30:13,379 MY HAND GOT STICKY AND I WENT 901 00:30:13,379 --> 00:30:14,172 LIKE THIS. 902 00:30:14,172 --> 00:30:17,172 >> THE STATE'S CASE WAS BUILT ON 903 00:30:17,172 --> 00:30:20,068 SPECULATION, NOT FACTS, SAYS 904 00:30:20,068 --> 00:30:20,379 SCHOENHORN. 905 00:30:20,379 --> 00:30:22,310 TAKE THAT SMOKE RISING FROM THE 906 00:30:22,310 --> 00:30:23,413 FIREPLACE. 907 00:30:23,413 --> 00:30:24,965 >> SHE WOULD HAVE FIRES GOING IN 908 00:30:24,965 --> 00:30:26,344 THE FIREPLACE ALL THE TIME. 909 00:30:26,344 --> 00:30:28,482 >> REMEMBER MY SISTER LIVED IN 910 00:30:28,482 --> 00:30:29,103 ARGENTINA BEFORE. 911 00:30:29,103 --> 00:30:30,448 IT'S VERY COMMON TO PUT THE 912 00:30:30,448 --> 00:30:33,000 FIREPLACE ON AND TO JUST SIT 913 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,448 AROUND, HAVE YOUR WINE. 914 00:30:34,448 --> 00:30:36,000 MY SISTER WOULD DO IT. 915 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,758 >> AND IN FACT, SAYS SCHOENHORN, 916 00:30:39,758 --> 00:30:41,379 THE POLICE BROUGHT IN CADAVER 917 00:30:41,379 --> 00:30:43,172 DOGS BUT THEY NEVER FOUND ANY 918 00:30:43,172 --> 00:30:44,655 TRACE OF EVIDENCE IN THE 919 00:30:44,655 --> 00:30:44,965 FIREPLACE. 920 00:30:44,965 --> 00:30:47,586 >> WHAT WAS SHE BURNING IN THAT 921 00:30:47,586 --> 00:30:47,862 FIREPLACE? 922 00:30:47,862 --> 00:30:48,137 FIREWOOD. 923 00:30:48,137 --> 00:30:50,379 >> AS FOR THOSE MISSING KEYS TO 924 00:30:50,379 --> 00:30:52,206 THE TACOMA? 925 00:30:52,206 --> 00:30:53,448 CLAUDIA SAID MICHELLE TOLD HER 926 00:30:53,448 --> 00:30:55,448 THE KEYS HAD BEEN LEFT OUT IN 927 00:30:55,448 --> 00:30:57,172 THE OPEN, STICKING OUT OF THE 928 00:30:57,172 --> 00:31:00,000 DOOR OF THE TRUCK. 929 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,206 >> CULTURALLY, WE DON'T TRUST 930 00:31:02,206 --> 00:31:03,620 WEST ALWAYS LOCK DOORS. 931 00:31:03,620 --> 00:31:05,620 WE ALWAYS LOCK HOUSES, 932 00:31:05,620 --> 00:31:05,931 EVERYTHING. 933 00:31:05,931 --> 00:31:07,137 SHE TOLD ME SHE TOOK THEM 934 00:31:07,137 --> 00:31:08,551 BECAUSE OF HOW WE ARE, THAT 935 00:31:08,551 --> 00:31:10,620 SHE'S NOT GOING TO LEAVE KEYS 936 00:31:10,620 --> 00:31:11,793 HANGING FROM THE DOOR. 937 00:31:11,793 --> 00:31:14,241 >> SHOPE HORNE SAID ONLY ONLY IS 938 00:31:14,241 --> 00:31:16,000 THERE AN INNOCENT EXPLANATION 939 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,551 FOR EVERY ONE OF THE STATE'S 940 00:31:18,551 --> 00:31:20,344 ACCUSATIONS, BUT HIS CLIENT'S 941 00:31:20,344 --> 00:31:22,241 WILLINGNESS TO HELP SPEAKS 942 00:31:22,241 --> 00:31:24,172 VOLUMES ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT OR 943 00:31:24,172 --> 00:31:25,413 LACK OF IT. 944 00:31:25,413 --> 00:31:28,034 SHE NOT ONLY GAVE THREE 945 00:31:28,034 --> 00:31:28,344 INTERVIEWS. 946 00:31:28,344 --> 00:31:29,862 SHE WALKED THE POLICE AROUND THE 947 00:31:29,862 --> 00:31:31,965 GROUNDS NEAR FOTIS' HOUSE TO 948 00:31:31,965 --> 00:31:35,758 HELP THEM LOOK FOR JENNIFER'S 949 00:31:35,758 --> 00:31:35,965 BODY. 950 00:31:35,965 --> 00:31:38,793 >> WE THINK YOU HAVE 951 00:31:38,793 --> 00:31:40,310 INFORMATION -- 952 00:31:40,310 --> 00:31:42,448 >> I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. 953 00:31:42,448 --> 00:31:43,620 I DIDN'T DO IT. 954 00:31:43,620 --> 00:31:45,758 >> IF IN FACT YOUR SISTER KNEW 955 00:31:45,758 --> 00:31:48,965 WHERE JENNIFER'S BODY WAS, 956 00:31:48,965 --> 00:31:49,758 WOULDN'T SHE HAVE TRIED TO MAKE 957 00:31:49,758 --> 00:31:51,517 A DEAL WITH THAT INFORMATION? 958 00:31:51,517 --> 00:31:52,137 >> OF COURSE. 959 00:31:52,137 --> 00:31:53,862 MY SISTER IS NOT THE PERSON THAT 960 00:31:53,862 --> 00:31:55,758 THE MEDIA HAS PORTRAYED, THE 961 00:31:55,758 --> 00:31:57,310 POLICE AND THE STATE HAVE WANTED 962 00:31:57,310 --> 00:31:58,758 TO PORTRAY. 963 00:31:58,758 --> 00:32:00,034 MY SISTER WOULD HAVE SAID IT. 964 00:32:00,034 --> 00:32:01,275 SHE WOULD HAVE STOOD UP. 965 00:32:01,275 --> 00:32:04,241 >> IN THE END, SCHOENHORN SAID 966 00:32:04,241 --> 00:32:06,103 HER GOOD INTENTIONS TO HELP 967 00:32:06,103 --> 00:32:08,551 POLICE WORKED AGAINST HER. 968 00:32:08,551 --> 00:32:10,172 IT WAS MICHELLE'S APPARENT 969 00:32:10,172 --> 00:32:12,482 CONTRA ADDICTIONS IN THOSE THREE 970 00:32:12,482 --> 00:32:15,000 INTERVIEWS THAT SEEMED TO 971 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:15,482 INCRIMINATE HER. 972 00:32:15,482 --> 00:32:17,517 AT THE TIME, MICHELLE HAD A 973 00:32:17,517 --> 00:32:18,275 DIFFERENT LAWYER. 974 00:32:18,275 --> 00:32:21,172 >> DO YOU WISH SHE HAD NEVER 975 00:32:21,172 --> 00:32:24,241 TALKED TO THE POLICE? 976 00:32:24,241 --> 00:32:26,344 >> LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY. 977 00:32:26,344 --> 00:32:28,413 I WOULD NEVER HAVE PUT MY CLIENT 978 00:32:28,413 --> 00:32:30,793 IN THAT SITUATION WHEN SHE WAS 979 00:32:30,793 --> 00:32:32,000 UNDER ARREST. 980 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,137 >> HE JUMPED INTO THE SHOWER 981 00:32:33,137 --> 00:32:34,517 WITH ME. 982 00:32:34,517 --> 00:32:36,724 >> REMEMBER IN THE FIRST 983 00:32:36,724 --> 00:32:38,137 INTERVIEW, SHE HAD SHE AND FOTIS 984 00:32:38,137 --> 00:32:40,310 HAD TAKEN A SHOWER TOGETHER THE 985 00:32:40,310 --> 00:32:41,137 MORNING JENNIFER DISAPPEARED. 986 00:32:41,137 --> 00:32:42,931 SHE CHANGED THAT IN THE SECOND 987 00:32:42,931 --> 00:32:43,310 INTERVIEW. 988 00:32:43,310 --> 00:32:45,344 SHE TOLD OFFICERS SHE DIDN'T SEE 989 00:32:45,344 --> 00:32:46,862 FOTIS AT HOME THAT MORNING. 990 00:32:46,862 --> 00:32:48,862 >> THEY'RE SAYING YOU TOLD US 991 00:32:48,862 --> 00:32:49,793 THAT YOU WERE IN THE HOUSE. 992 00:32:49,793 --> 00:32:51,379 YOU TOOK A SHOWER WITH FOTIS. 993 00:32:51,379 --> 00:32:52,793 NOW YOU DIDN'T TAKE A SHOWER 994 00:32:52,793 --> 00:32:53,724 WITH FOTIS. 995 00:32:53,724 --> 00:32:55,379 SO THIS IS ALL GOING TO COME OUT 996 00:32:55,379 --> 00:33:00,724 AND IT MAKES YOU LOOK LUREIKE 997 00:33:00,724 --> 00:33:02,827 YOU'RE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH. 998 00:33:02,827 --> 00:33:04,000 >> THIS IS HOW SHE LATER 999 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,034 EXPLAINED IT. 1000 00:33:05,034 --> 00:33:06,000 >> OF COURSE. 1001 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,655 I WAS IN SHOCK. 1002 00:33:07,655 --> 00:33:08,586 I WAS NERVOUS OF THE. 1003 00:33:08,586 --> 00:33:10,137 >> POLICE AND THE PROSECUTION 1004 00:33:10,137 --> 00:33:12,000 HAD WERE CONVINCED MICHELLE HAD 1005 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,931 HELPED PLAN THE ALIBI INCLUDING 1006 00:33:13,931 --> 00:33:15,862 THAT CALL MICHELLE PICKED UP ON 1007 00:33:15,862 --> 00:33:16,379 FOTIS' PHONE. 1008 00:33:16,379 --> 00:33:18,965 BUT CLAUDIA SAYS THERE'S AN 1009 00:33:18,965 --> 00:33:20,724 INNOCENT EXPLANATION FOR THAT, 1010 00:33:20,724 --> 00:33:20,896 TOO. 1011 00:33:20,896 --> 00:33:24,586 IT TURNS OUT THAT FOTIS' FRIEND, 1012 00:33:24,586 --> 00:33:27,689 AN ATTORNEY, WAS AT FOTIS' HOME 1013 00:33:27,689 --> 00:33:30,758 OFFICE AT 8:26 A.M. WHEN FOTIS' 1014 00:33:30,758 --> 00:33:32,551 PHONE RANG. 1015 00:33:32,551 --> 00:33:34,517 >> SHE WAS WITH KENT IN THE 1016 00:33:34,517 --> 00:33:36,034 OFFICE AND KENT WAS ACTUALLY THE 1017 00:33:36,034 --> 00:33:38,413 ONE THAT SIGNALED TO HER. 1018 00:33:38,413 --> 00:33:40,275 AREN'T YOU GOING TO ANSWER THE 1019 00:33:40,275 --> 00:33:40,482 PHONE? 1020 00:33:40,482 --> 00:33:42,655 SO THEN SHE DID. 1021 00:33:42,655 --> 00:33:44,000 >> WHY DIDN'T MICHELLE MENTION 1022 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:44,965 THAT TO INVESTIGATORS? 1023 00:33:44,965 --> 00:33:47,379 >> SHE NEVER MENTIONED THE PHONE 1024 00:33:47,379 --> 00:33:48,448 CALL IN THE FIRST TWO 1025 00:33:48,448 --> 00:33:48,758 INTERVIEWS. 1026 00:33:48,758 --> 00:33:50,689 SHE NEVER MENTIONED IT UNTIL THE 1027 00:33:50,689 --> 00:33:51,379 THIRD TIME. 1028 00:33:51,379 --> 00:33:51,931 WHY NOT? 1029 00:33:51,931 --> 00:33:53,896 WAS SHE TRYING TO KEEP THAT FROM 1030 00:33:53,896 --> 00:33:54,586 INVESTIGATORS? 1031 00:33:54,586 --> 00:33:55,517 >> NO. 1032 00:33:55,517 --> 00:33:57,620 BECAUSE AGAIN, I DON'T REMEMBER 1033 00:33:57,620 --> 00:33:59,586 VERBATIM EVERY SINGLE THING THAT 1034 00:33:59,586 --> 00:34:01,586 I DID. 1035 00:34:01,586 --> 00:34:03,000 SO OUR MEMORY CAN FOOL US. 1036 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,413 JUST BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T MENTION 1037 00:34:04,413 --> 00:34:06,310 IT DOESN'T MEAN SHE WAS HIDING 1038 00:34:06,310 --> 00:34:07,137 IT. 1039 00:34:07,137 --> 00:34:09,688 >> SCHOENHORN CALLED TO THE 1040 00:34:09,688 --> 00:34:12,344 STAND A MEMORY EXPERT, A 1041 00:34:12,344 --> 00:34:13,447 PSYCHOLOGIST, TO EXPLAIN THE 1042 00:34:13,447 --> 00:34:14,172 CHANGING STORIES. 1043 00:34:14,172 --> 00:34:17,137 >> PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF LIFE 1044 00:34:17,137 --> 00:34:20,379 STRESS ARE NOT GOING TO BE, 1045 00:34:20,379 --> 00:34:20,931 THEIR MEMORY WILL NOT BE 1046 00:34:20,931 --> 00:34:22,379 OPERATING OPTIMALLY. 1047 00:34:22,379 --> 00:34:25,000 >> NEXT, HE CALLED A PROFESSOR 1048 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,103 WHO SPECIALIZES IN THE 1049 00:34:27,103 --> 00:34:28,103 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE 1050 00:34:28,103 --> 00:34:29,862 AND MEMORY. 1051 00:34:29,862 --> 00:34:32,482 SHE TESTIFIED THAT MICHELLE, WHO 1052 00:34:32,482 --> 00:34:33,793 YOU'LL REMEMBER LISTENED TO THE 1053 00:34:33,793 --> 00:34:36,241 TRIAL IN SPANISH, HAD ONLY 1054 00:34:36,241 --> 00:34:39,585 MEDIUM PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH. 1055 00:34:39,585 --> 00:34:41,103 >>> DOES THAT PLAY A ROLE WHEN 1056 00:34:41,103 --> 00:34:43,137 YOU'RE ASKED TO RETRIEVE OR 1057 00:34:43,137 --> 00:34:44,931 RECITE SOMETHING THAT YOU HAD 1058 00:34:44,931 --> 00:34:46,344 ENCODED IN YOUR MEMORY? 1059 00:34:46,344 --> 00:34:47,379 >> IT CAN. 1060 00:34:47,379 --> 00:34:50,551 >> AFTER THREE DAYS, THE DEFENSE 1061 00:34:50,551 --> 00:34:51,206 RESTED. 1062 00:34:51,206 --> 00:34:53,620 MICHELLE NEVER TOOK THE STAND. 1063 00:34:53,620 --> 00:34:55,137 IT WAS TIME FOR THE ATTORNEYS TO 1064 00:34:55,137 --> 00:34:57,448 PRESENT THEIR CLOSING ARGUMENTS 1065 00:34:57,448 --> 00:34:58,000 TO THE JURY. 1066 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,551 >> IN MY MINE, I THOUGHT, IS 1067 00:35:00,551 --> 00:35:01,413 THERE AN INNOCENT EXPLANATION? 1068 00:35:01,413 --> 00:35:03,137 YOU WANT TO GET IT RIGHT. 1069 00:35:03,137 --> 00:35:04,206 I DON'T WANT AN INNOCENT PERSON 1070 00:35:04,206 --> 00:35:07,551 TO GO TO JAIL. 1071 00:35:07,551 --> 00:35:20,482 TO GO TO JAIL. >>> GO BEHIND THE SCENES 1072 00:35:20,482 --> 00:35:23,655 >>> GO BEHIND THE SCENES 1073 00:35:23,655 --> 00:35:24,862 >>> WHEN JURY SELECTION BEGAN IN 1074 00:35:24,862 --> 00:35:29,275 THE TRIAL OF MICHELLE TROCONIS, 1075 00:35:29,275 --> 00:35:31,482 JENNIFER FARBER DULOS HAD BEEN 1076 00:35:31,482 --> 00:35:39,827 MISSING FOR 1,594 DAYS. 1077 00:35:39,827 --> 00:35:42,896 FOR CARRIE LUFT, THE COURTROOM 1078 00:35:42,896 --> 00:35:44,206 BECAME A PLACE TO PAY HOMAGE TO 1079 00:35:44,206 --> 00:35:46,482 A FRIEND WHOSE ABSENCE HAS LEFT 1080 00:35:46,482 --> 00:35:50,275 AN UNBEARABLE SILENCE. 1081 00:35:50,275 --> 00:35:54,551 >> I WAS THERE TO BE A PRESENCE 1082 00:35:54,551 --> 00:35:58,931 FOR JENNIFER. 1083 00:35:58,931 --> 00:36:01,103 >> AFTER SIX WEEKS OF TESTIMONY, 1084 00:36:01,103 --> 00:36:03,172 IT WAS FINALLY TIME FOR THE 1085 00:36:03,172 --> 00:36:05,000 ATTORNEYS TO SUM UP THEIR CASES 1086 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,896 IN A NARRATIVE. 1087 00:36:07,896 --> 00:36:08,724 A STORY. 1088 00:36:08,724 --> 00:36:11,310 NO LONGER THAN AN HOUR. 1089 00:36:11,310 --> 00:36:13,827 THEIR CHANCE TO PUT ALL THE 1090 00:36:13,827 --> 00:36:14,896 PIECES TOGETHER. 1091 00:36:14,896 --> 00:36:18,137 WE MET UP WITH JON SCHOENHORN AS 1092 00:36:18,137 --> 00:36:19,931 HE PUT THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON 1093 00:36:19,931 --> 00:36:21,689 HIS CLOSING ARGUMENTS. 1094 00:36:21,689 --> 00:36:23,931 >> I FEEL APPREHENSIVE BUT I 1095 00:36:23,931 --> 00:36:26,965 FEEL WE HAVE A GOOD SHOT. 1096 00:36:26,965 --> 00:36:29,103 >> THE FOLLOWING MORNING, 1097 00:36:29,103 --> 00:36:31,000 JENNIFER'S FIVE CHILDREN, NOW 1098 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,310 17, 15, AND 13, AND LIVING WITH 1099 00:36:34,310 --> 00:36:36,206 THEIR GRANDMOTHER, SAT IN THE 1100 00:36:36,206 --> 00:36:42,793 GALLERY AS THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS 1101 00:36:42,793 --> 00:36:43,206 BEGAN. 1102 00:36:43,206 --> 00:36:43,448 BEGAN. 1103 00:36:43,448 --> 00:36:44,448 >> THEY WANTED TO SUPPORT THEIR 1104 00:36:44,448 --> 00:36:45,551 MOM. 1105 00:36:45,551 --> 00:36:47,620 THEY WANTED TO SUPPORT THEIR 1106 00:36:47,620 --> 00:36:47,965 GRANDMOTHER. 1107 00:36:47,965 --> 00:36:49,000 THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT 1108 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:49,241 HAPPENED. 1109 00:36:49,241 --> 00:36:52,344 >> ARE THE PARTIES READY TO 1110 00:36:52,344 --> 00:36:52,620 PROCEED? 1111 00:36:52,620 --> 00:36:53,896 >> PROSECUTOR MICHELLE MANNING 1112 00:36:53,896 --> 00:36:54,827 WAS THE FIRST UP. 1113 00:36:54,827 --> 00:36:57,103 >> THIS TRIAL IS VERY SIMPLE. 1114 00:36:57,103 --> 00:36:59,000 IT'S ABOUT A CONSPIRACY AND 1115 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,827 ABOUT A COVER-UP. 1116 00:37:00,827 --> 00:37:02,586 IT'S ABOUT MICHELLE TROCONIS' 1117 00:37:02,586 --> 00:37:05,000 ACTIONS AND HOW SHE AND FOTIS 1118 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,448 DULOS CONSPIRED TOGETHER TO 1119 00:37:06,448 --> 00:37:08,137 MURDER THE WOMAN WHO WAS 1120 00:37:08,137 --> 00:37:09,655 STANDING IN THEIR WAY. 1121 00:37:09,655 --> 00:37:11,793 >> IT IS AND I WILL SAY THIS 1122 00:37:11,793 --> 00:37:14,586 MULTIPLE TIMES, SPECULATION. 1123 00:37:14,586 --> 00:37:16,241 IT IS CONJECTURE. 1124 00:37:16,241 --> 00:37:18,620 IT IS GUESSWORK WHICH IS NOT THE 1125 00:37:18,620 --> 00:37:20,000 STANDARD OF EVIDENCE IN A 1126 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,758 CRIMINAL CASE HERE. 1127 00:37:23,758 --> 00:37:25,103 >> PROSECUTOR SEAN McGUINESS 1128 00:37:25,103 --> 00:37:27,275 DELIVERED A POWERFUL FINISH 1129 00:37:27,275 --> 00:37:29,655 -USING ONE SIMPLE WORD. 1130 00:37:29,655 --> 00:37:29,965 COINCIDENCE. 1131 00:37:29,965 --> 00:37:32,517 >> I WANT TO POSE THESE 1132 00:37:32,517 --> 00:37:33,482 QUESTIONS TO YOU AS YOU HEAD 1133 00:37:33,482 --> 00:37:34,206 INTO DELIBERATIONS. 1134 00:37:34,206 --> 00:37:36,586 IS IT REALLY JUST A BUNCH OF 1135 00:37:36,586 --> 00:37:36,931 COINCIDENCES? 1136 00:37:36,931 --> 00:37:38,482 IS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT 1137 00:37:38,482 --> 00:37:42,827 THE DEFENDANT ANSWERED DULOS' 1138 00:37:42,827 --> 00:37:44,689 PHONE WHEN HE WAS MURDERING HIS 1139 00:37:44,689 --> 00:37:44,896 WIFE? 1140 00:37:44,896 --> 00:37:46,206 IS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT 1141 00:37:46,206 --> 00:37:49,586 HIS PHONE IS BEING MOVED AND 1142 00:37:49,586 --> 00:37:49,896 MANIPULATED? 1143 00:37:49,896 --> 00:37:52,482 IS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT 1144 00:37:52,482 --> 00:37:53,689 THE DEFENDANT TRAVELED WITH 1145 00:37:53,689 --> 00:37:55,793 DULOS AS HE DISPOSES OF THE 1146 00:37:55,793 --> 00:37:57,206 EVIDENCE THE SAME DAY? 1147 00:37:57,206 --> 00:38:00,034 IS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT 1148 00:38:00,034 --> 00:38:02,793 THE DEFENDANT BROUGHT BLACK 1149 00:38:02,793 --> 00:38:04,413 GARBAGE BAGS AND JENNIFER'S 1150 00:38:04,413 --> 00:38:06,482 SHIRT AND BRA WERE FOUND INSIDE 1151 00:38:06,482 --> 00:38:07,620 BLACK TRASH BAGS? 1152 00:38:07,620 --> 00:38:09,448 >> FOR ALTERNATE JUROR PATRICK 1153 00:38:09,448 --> 00:38:11,827 WHO WANTED US TO ONLY USE HIS 1154 00:38:11,827 --> 00:38:15,655 FIRST NAME -- THE PROSECUTION'S 1155 00:38:15,655 --> 00:38:17,620 CLOSING PUT WEEKS OF TESTIMONY 1156 00:38:17,620 --> 00:38:18,896 INTO PERSPECTIVE. 1157 00:38:18,896 --> 00:38:20,068 >> WHERE IT ALL CAME TOGETHER 1158 00:38:20,068 --> 00:38:24,000 WAS IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS. 1159 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,586 THAT'S WHERE IT MADE SENSE TO 1160 00:38:26,586 --> 00:38:27,758 ME. 1161 00:38:27,758 --> 00:38:29,172 UNTIL THEN I HAD HAD BOTH SIDES 1162 00:38:29,172 --> 00:38:30,344 IN MY HEAD. 1163 00:38:30,344 --> 00:38:32,931 >> AS AN ALTERNATE JUROR, HE WAS 1164 00:38:32,931 --> 00:38:34,344 RELEASED BEFORE DELIBERATIONS. 1165 00:38:34,344 --> 00:38:36,827 AFTER A LITTLE MORE THAN TWO 1166 00:38:36,827 --> 00:38:37,448 DAYS -- 1167 00:38:37,448 --> 00:38:40,344 >> THE JURY HAS REACHED A 1168 00:38:40,344 --> 00:38:41,275 UNANIMOUS VERDICT. 1169 00:38:41,275 --> 00:38:42,551 >> THE JURY SENT WORD TO THE 1170 00:38:42,551 --> 00:38:42,793 JUDGE. 1171 00:38:42,793 --> 00:38:46,000 >> WILL THE DEFENDANT PLEASE 1172 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:46,172 RISE? 1173 00:38:46,172 --> 00:38:48,172 >> THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT 1174 00:38:48,172 --> 00:38:48,896 VERSUS MICHELLE TROCONIS. 1175 00:38:48,896 --> 00:38:51,000 WHAT SAY YOU, MR. FOREPERSON? 1176 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:51,827 >> GUILTY. 1177 00:38:51,827 --> 00:38:54,620 >> GUILTY. 1178 00:38:54,620 --> 00:38:55,517 >> GUILTY. 1179 00:38:55,517 --> 00:38:57,724 >> WHAT DID THAT FEEL LIKE 1180 00:38:57,724 --> 00:38:59,689 HEARING GUILTY? 1181 00:38:59,689 --> 00:39:02,965 >> WELL, I HELD HER ARM AND I 1182 00:39:02,965 --> 00:39:07,275 COULD JUST FEEL THE ENERGY LEAVE 1183 00:39:07,275 --> 00:39:08,896 HER BODY. 1184 00:39:08,896 --> 00:39:11,000 EVERYTHING WAS DEAD SILENT. 1185 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,931 >> EVERYTHING JUST STOPPE AT 1186 00:39:12,931 --> 00:39:13,827 THAT MOMENT. 1187 00:39:13,827 --> 00:39:14,620 >> YES. 1188 00:39:14,620 --> 00:39:17,517 AND IT WAS REALLY STUNNING AND I 1189 00:39:17,517 --> 00:39:19,379 GUESS I MEAN THAT IN THE 1190 00:39:19,379 --> 00:39:22,000 PHYSICAL SENSE OF BEING STUNNED, 1191 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:27,344 AND JUST HANGING ON EVERY WORD. 1192 00:39:27,344 --> 00:39:29,586 >> PATRICK SAID HE AGREED WITH 1193 00:39:29,586 --> 00:39:32,551 THE VERDICT, INCLUDING THE MOST 1194 00:39:32,551 --> 00:39:33,655 SERIOUS CHARGE. 1195 00:39:33,655 --> 00:39:36,344 CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER. 1196 00:39:36,344 --> 00:39:38,241 WHAT MAKES YOU BELIEVE THAT SHE 1197 00:39:38,241 --> 00:39:39,448 HELPED PLAN IT? 1198 00:39:39,448 --> 00:39:42,275 >> I THINK THE TOTALITY OF THE 1199 00:39:42,275 --> 00:39:43,758 EVIDENCE, NOT ONLY WHAT I 1200 00:39:43,758 --> 00:39:45,758 THOUGHT SHE WAS DECEPTIVE IN HER 1201 00:39:45,758 --> 00:39:47,586 INTERVIEWS BUT JUST ABSENT OF 1202 00:39:47,586 --> 00:39:48,172 THAT. 1203 00:39:48,172 --> 00:39:49,413 THE MOVING AROUND OF FOTIS' 1204 00:39:49,413 --> 00:39:50,103 PHONE IN THE MORNING. 1205 00:39:50,103 --> 00:39:52,068 THE ANSWERING THE PHONE CALL. 1206 00:39:52,068 --> 00:39:54,172 COVERING FOR HIM EVEN IF THERE 1207 00:39:54,172 --> 00:39:55,448 WAS AN EXPLANATION. 1208 00:39:55,448 --> 00:39:58,551 IT CERTAINLY SHOWS YOU HAD SOME 1209 00:39:58,551 --> 00:40:01,000 REASON TO DO THAT. 1210 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,068 >> THE TROCONIS FAMILY SPOKE TO 1211 00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:05,448 THE PRESS AFTER THE VERDICT. 1212 00:40:05,448 --> 00:40:06,862 >> WE CONTINUE STANDING HERE 1213 00:40:06,862 --> 00:40:08,275 BECAUSE WE DO CARE TO KNOW THE 1214 00:40:08,275 --> 00:40:10,034 TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED TO 1215 00:40:10,034 --> 00:40:10,413 JENNIFER. 1216 00:40:10,413 --> 00:40:12,827 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO 1217 00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:13,275 JENNIFER. 1218 00:40:13,275 --> 00:40:15,931 AND CHOOSING AND PUTTING MY 1219 00:40:15,931 --> 00:40:17,689 SISTER AS THE GUILTY PERSON IS 1220 00:40:17,689 --> 00:40:19,862 NOT THE RIGHT THING TO DO 1221 00:40:19,862 --> 00:40:28,275 BECAUSE SHE'S INNOCENT. 1222 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:32,896 >> FOR JENNIFER FARBER DULOS' 1223 00:40:32,896 --> 00:40:36,000 FAMILY AND FRIENDS, IT WAS THE 1224 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,241 VERDICT THEY HAD HOPED FOR, BUT 1225 00:40:37,241 --> 00:40:39,448 IT DID LITTLE TO EASE THE 1226 00:40:39,448 --> 00:40:42,172 ANGUISH THEY FEEL EVERY DAY THAT 1227 00:40:42,172 --> 00:40:46,379 SHE REMAINS MISSING. 1228 00:40:46,379 --> 00:40:48,551 >> AND THAT'S WHAT IS THE MOST 1229 00:40:48,551 --> 00:40:48,862 PAINFUL. 1230 00:40:48,862 --> 00:40:50,000 WE DON'T KNOW. 1231 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,413 WE DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS. 1232 00:40:51,413 --> 00:40:53,586 >> DO YOU THINK YOU EVER WILL? 1233 00:40:53,586 --> 00:40:57,241 >> I DON'T KNOW. 1234 00:40:57,241 --> 00:40:58,965 WE WOULD LIKE TO FIND HER AND 1235 00:40:58,965 --> 00:41:00,137 BRING HER HOME. 1236 00:41:00,137 --> 00:41:01,517 IF THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN, IT 1237 00:41:01,517 --> 00:41:03,655 DOESN'T CHANGE OUR LOVE FOR HER. 1238 00:41:03,655 --> 00:41:06,103 SHE'S IN EACH OF OUR HEARTS. 1239 00:41:06,103 --> 00:41:07,758 SHE'S IN HER FIVE CHILDREN. 1240 00:41:07,758 --> 00:41:11,793 WE SEE HER FACE IN GLORIA'S. 1241 00:41:11,793 --> 00:41:15,241 SO JENNIFER IS STILL HERE IN SO 1242 00:41:15,241 --> 00:41:15,827 MANY WAYS. 1243 00:41:15,827 --> 00:41:20,862 BUT I THINK IT WOULD BRING SOME 1244 00:41:20,862 --> 00:41:23,275 PEACE TO BE ABLE TO LET HER REST 1245 00:41:23,275 --> 00:41:26,172 PEACE TO BE ABLE TO LET HER REST IN PEACE. 1246 00:41:26,172 --> 00:41:58,034 IN PEACE.