>>> PROSECUTORS BEGAN LAYING OUT
THE STATE'S CASE THIS MORNING.
>> THIS CASE, OF COURSE, GAINED
INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION WHEN IT
HAPPENED.
>> THE INTEREST IN THE STORY WAS
IMMEDIATE, IT WAS INTENSE, AND
IT WAS SUSTAINED.
>> IT OCCURRED TO ME WHAT THIS
CASE IS REALLY ABOUT.
IT IS ABOUT A MOTHER'S WORST
NIGHTMARE.
>> STATE POLICE WERE DESPERATE
TO FIND MISSING MOTHER OF FIVE
JENNIFER DULOS.
>> I'M A REPORTER WITH CBS NEWS,
NEW YORK.
IT WAS MAY, 2019.
JENNIFER FARBER DULOS
DISAPPEARED FROM HER HOME IN
CONNECTICUT.
>> EVERY SCRIPT HAS THREE ACTS,
DOESN'T IT?
THE FIRST ACT WAS THE
PREMEDITATION AND KILLING OF
JENNIFER DULOS.
>> WAS THERE A PARTICULAR AREA
OF THE HOUSE THAT YOU FOCUSED ON
IN.
>> THE GARAGE WAS OF IMPORTANCE.
>> BLOOD SPATTER THROUGHOUT THE
GARAGE.
>> SOME BACK HERE, TOO.
>> WHERE IS JENNIFER DULOS?
TO THIS DAY, THAT QUESTION CAN'T
BE ANSWERED.
>> THEN YOU LEARN SHE'S GOING
THROUGH A CONTENTIOUS DIVORCE.
FOTIS DULOS, BY ALL ACCOUNTS,
VERY CHARMING, ATHLETIC.
THEY MADE A BEAUTIFUL COUPLE.
>> SHE TOLD ME HE IS HAVING AN
AFFAIR AND I HAVE PROOF.
>> WHERE IS SHE?
>> INVESTIGATORS TAKING A CLOSE
LOOK AT HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND,
FOTIS DULOS.
IN JANUARY OF 2020, HE IS
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
>> FOTIS, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO
SAY TO THIS MURDER CHARGE?
>> AT EXACTLY THE TIME FOTIS
DULOS WAS DUE IN COURT, OFFICERS
WERE SEEN RUNNING INTO HIS
CONNECTICUT MANSION.
>> -- THE REPORTEDLY ATTEMPTED
SUICIDE BY CARBON MONOXIDE
POISONING.
>> FOTIS DULOS WAS DECLARED DEAD
TONIGHT.
>> THE INVESTIGATION DID NOT DIE
WITH FOTIS DULOS.
>> POLICE BELIEVE MICHELLE
TROCONIS HELPED HER BOYFRIEND
GET RID OF HIS WIFE.
SHE'S NOW CHARGED WITH
CONSPIRACY IN THE MURDER OF
JENNIFER DULOS.
>> ARE YOU GOING TO DO THE RIGHT
THING, MICHELLE, AND HELP THE
COPS?
>> THE SECOND ACT WAS THE
COVER-UP THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION
OF EVIDENCE AND THE DEFENDANT'S
LIES.
>> WHY DID YOU TELL US THE
THINGS THAT YOU KNEW WERE FALSE?
>> I WAS NERVOUS.
>> THEY LIED TO HER.
>> PROSECUTORS SAY THEY'LL PROVE
MICHELLE TROCONIS CONSPIRED IN
THE CRIME AND HELPED FOTIS DULOS
DISPOSE OF EVIDENCE.
>> THE EVENING THAT HIS
ESTRANGED WIFE JENNIFER
DISAPPEARED, YOU SEE FOTIS DULOS
PUTTING BLACK GARBAGE BAGS INTO
THE TRASH CAN.
>> MICHELLE DID NOT KNOW WHAT
FOTIS DULOS WAS UP TO.
>> SHE WAS IN LOVE BECAUSE AT
THE BEGINNING, HE WAS THIS
AMAZING GUY.
IT TURNS OUT HE WAS THIS
MONSTER.
>> NEVER BEEN ON A JURY, DIDN'T
KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.
WHEN I SAW JENNIFER'S BLOODY
SHIRT, IT REALLY HAD AN IMPACT.
>> THIS DEFENDANT HATED JENNIFER
DULOS.
>> I KNOW THAT EVERYONE WANTS
ANSWERS BUT MY SISTER IS NOT THE
RIGHT ANSWER.
>> SHE'S ANOTHER VICTIM OF FOTIS
DULOS.
>> AND NOW WE'VE REACHED THE
THIRD ACT.
>> SHE DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING.
SHE'S INNOCENT.
>> EXCEPT SHE DOESN'T GET TO
WRITE.
YOU WRITE THE THIRD ACT OF THIS
SCRIPT WITH YOUR VERDICT.
WHAT'S THE ENDING GOING TO BE?
♪.
>> THESE ARE YOGI BERRA'S WORLD
SERIES RINGS.
♪
>>> IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST
ANTICIPATED TRIALS IN RECENT
MEMORY.
THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT VERSUS
MICHELLE TROCONIS.
A CASE THAT HAS HAUNTED THE
FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF JENNIFER
DULOS FOR NEARLY FIVE YEARS.
>> I WANTED TO BE THERE EVERY
DAY BECAUSE JENNIFER COULDN'T BE
THERE AND I WANTED TO BE THERE
FOR HER TO BEAR WITNESS.
>> LONG-TIME FRIEND CARRIE LUFT
WAS IN COURT EVERY DAY AS
PROSECUTOR SEAN McGUINESS AND
MICHELLE MANNING PRESENTED THEIR
CASE.
THAT MICHELLE TROCONIS CONSPIRED
WITH HER BOYFRIEND FOTIS DULOS
TO MURDER HIS ESTRANGED WIFE AND
THEN HELPED HIM COVER UP THE
CRIME.
>> THIS DEFENDANT WAS
UNDOUBTEDLY PART OF THIS PLAN TO
KILL JENNIFER DULOS.
THERE'S NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTS
ABOUT IT.
>> AS THE DEFENDANT LISTEN IN
THE SPANISH, HER FIRST LANGUAGE,
HER ATTORNEY JON SCHOENHORN
DESCRIBED HER AS JUST ANOTHER
VICTIM OF FOTIS DULOS.
>> THERE IS NOTHING TO SUGGEST
THAT MICHELLE HAD ANY CLUE ABOUT
WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN NEW
CANAAN ON MAY 24th, 2019.
MICHELLE SIMPLY DID NOT KNOW.
>> MAY 24th, 2019, STARTED LIKE
ANY OTHER DAY FOR JENNIFER
FARBER DULOS WITH THE USUAL
ORGANIZED CHAOS OF GETTING HER
FIVE CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER
DRESSED AND OFF TO SCHOOL.
BUT SHORTLY AFTER 8:05 A.M.,
JENNIFER VANISHED.
>> SHE WAS SCHEDULED FOR A
DENTIST APPOINTMENT LATER THAT
MORNING IN NEW YORK CITY.
SHE NEVER MADE IT TO HER DENTIST
APPOINTMENT.
>> THEN CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE
SERGEANT KEN VENTRESCA WOULD
BECOME ONE OF THE LEAD
INVESTIGATORS.
>> PEOPLE COULDN'T GET AHOLD OF
HER.
>> ON THE STAND, THE CHILDREN'S
NANNY RECALLED HER GNAWING SENSE
OF DREAD.
>> THE SECOND I CALLED JENNIFER,
MY STOMACH JUST SANK.
SHE NEVER NOT ANSWERED HER
PHONE.
>> LAUREN TOOK THE CHILDREN TO
WAIT AT THE HOME OF THEIR
MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, GLORIA
FARBER, IN NEW YORK CITY.
THE 88-YEAR-OLD MRS. FARBER SAID
SHE WAITED FOR HER DAUGHTER TO
COME GET THEM.
>> DID JENNIFER SHOW UP AT YOUR
APARTMENT THAT DAY?
>> NO.
>> HAVE YOU SEEN HER SINCE SHE
FAILED TO MEET YOU AT YOUR
APARTMENT ON MAY 24th, 2019?
>> NO.
>> BY 7:00 P.M., ALL-OUT PANIC
SET IN.
LAUREN CALLED THE POLICE.
>> WE TOLD THE POLICE THAT A
MOTHER OF FIVE IS MISSING AND
THAT SHE WAS IN A VERY
CONTENTIOUS DIVORCE.
>> OFFICERS QUICKLY DISCOVERED
JENNIFER'S ABANDONED SUBURBAN
SUV IN NEARBY WAVENLY PARK.
>> THE TAILGATE WAS BACKED UP
AGAINST THIS TREE.
THE SUBURBAN WAS NOT RUNNING.
THE KEYS WERE NOT IN THE
IGNITION.
YOU COULD SEE THE CLEAN-UP OF
THE BLOOD-LIKE SUBSTANCE ALL
OVER THE SIDE WITH A FLASHLIGHT.
>> POLICE ARE NOT SHARING MUCH
INFORMATION AS THEY SEARCH.
>> NEW CANAAN POLICE LAUNCHED A
MASSIVE SEARCH.
>> ALL I WANT TO SAY IS
JENNIFER, WE LOVE YOU AND WE'RE
DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO BRING
YOU HOME.
>> SERGEANT VENTRESCA SAID THE
ONE PERSON WHO DIDN'T SEEM
WORRIED ABOUT JENNIFER WAS THE
FATHER OF HER FIVE CHILDREN.
HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND, FOTIS
DULOS.
>> DID HE HELP AT ALL IN THE
SEARCH?
>> NO, NO.
>> DID HE SEEM CONCERNED ABOUT
HIS WIFE AS TIME WENT ON?
>> NO.
NEVER SEEMED CONCERNED ABOUT HIS
WIFE.
>> WASN'T ALWAYS THAT WAY.
THEY MET IN COLLEGE.
JENNIFER, A WRITER AND
PLAYWRIGHT FROM A WEALTHY NEW
YORK FAMILY, AND FOTIS, AN
INTERNATIONAL WATER SKIING
CHAMPION RAISED IN GREECE.
BOTH STUDENTS OF BROWN
UNIVERSITY.
IT TURNED ROMANTIC SOME 17 YEARS
LATER AFTER A CHANCE MEETING AT
THE ASPEN AIRPORT.
>> WHAT DID SHE LIKE ABOUT HIM?
>> EVENTUALLY, LOVE ABOUT HIM.
>> WELL, HE WAS A REALLY
CHARMING PERSON.
HE WAS VERY HANDSOME.
HE WAS SMART AND FUNNY.
>> AND AN AMBITIOUS REAL ESTATE
DEVELOPER AND BUILDER OF LUXURY
HOMES.
>> HI, I'M FOTIS DULOS.
I'M THE OWNER OF FORE GROUP
WORKING PRIMARILY IN THE
HARTFORD COUNTY.
>> THEY MARRIED IN 2004.
SOON THERE WERE FIVE CHILDREN.
TWO SETS OF TWINS AND THEN A
LITTLE DAUGHTER.
LAUREN SAID JENNIFER LOVED BEING
A MOTHER.
>> SHE WOULD SING TO THEM AND
LAUGH WITH THEM.
SHE NEVER RAISED HER VOICE.
SHE WAS INCREDIBLY NURTURING.
>> THE GROWING FAMILY MOVED INTO
ONE OF FOTIS' OPULENT HOMES IN
FARMINGTON, CONNECTICUT.
A SUBURB OF HARTFORD.
THEY HAD ALL THE ADVANTAGES
MONEY AFFORDS AND AN EMPHASIS ON
SPORTS.
ESPECIALLY WATER SKIING.
BUT THE MARRIAGE WAS
INCREASINGLY ROCKY, SAYS LAUREN.
>> SO I WAS IN ONE OF THE KIDS'
ROOMS.
WE STARTED TO HERE SCREAMING AND
JENNIFER RAN THROUGH BEDROOM
DOOR.
FOTIS WAS YELLING IS THAT SHE
CLOSED THE DOOR BEHIND HER AND
PUSHED HER BODY UP AGAINST THE
DOOR.
HE WAS TRYING TO GET IN.
I MEAN, HER FACE, SHE WAS
TERRIFIED.
>> BY 2016, FOTIS WAS AWAY AS
MANY AS TEN DAYS A MONTH, OFTEN
CHASING THE LATEST WATER SKIING
COMPETITION.
ON A TRIP TO MIAMI, HE MET
MICHELLE TROCONIS.
THE VENEZUELAN RAISED SINGLE
MOTHER WAS FOTIS' TYPE.
SHE RODE HORSES, REPORTED FOR
ESPN IN SOUTH AMERICA ON SNOW
SKIING AND EVEN MORE TO FOTIS'
LIKING, SHE WAS A COMPETITIVE
WATER SKIER.
MICHELLE'S SISTER CLAUDIA
MARMOL.
>> HE WAS CHARISMATIC.
HE WAS INTO SPORTS JUST LIKE SHE
WAS.
HE WAS A LOVING FATHER.
>> SOON FOTIS AND MICHELLE BEGAN
AN AFFAIR.
IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR JENNIFER
TO PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER.
>> THROUGH EMAIL AND RECEIPTS
SHE FOUND OUT THAT HE WENT ON A
TRIP TO UTAH WITH MICHELLE AND A
FRIEND OF HIS, AND HIS
GIRLFRIEND.
>> JENNIFER LATER TOLD LAUREN
SHE CONFRONTED FOTIS AND HE
ADMITTED TO HAVING THE AFFAIR.
THAT WAS IT.
SHE DEVISED A SECRET PLAN TO
TAKE THE KIDS AND MOVE OUT WITH
LAUREN'S HELP.
>> SHE WAS AFRAID OF WHAT FOTIS
WOULD DO TO HER OR WITH THE KIDS
IF SHE FILE FOR DIVORCE.
WHILE THEY WERE LIVING UNDER THE
SAME ROOF.
>> BUT JENNIFER DID FILE FOR
DIVORCE, TOOK THE KIDS AND MOVED
INTO A RENTAL HOME IN NEW
CANAAN.
MICHELLE AND HER YOUNG DAUGHTER
MOVED INTO FOTIS' HOUSE IN
FARMINGTON.
>> SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM.
THEY HAD A VERY AMAZING
RELATIONSHIP.
>> IT WOULD TURN OUT TO BE ONE
OF THE BIGGEST MISTAKES OF
MICHELLE TROCONIS' LIFE.
>> WHERE IS SHE?
>>> THEY SHOWED UP EVERY DAY.
FRIENDS OF JENNIFER, SOMBER AND
RESPECTFUL.
>> WE DID NEED TO JUST BRING HER
PRESENCE, THE LOVE FOR HER, INTO
THE COURTROOM.
>> FOR JENNIFER'S LOVED ONES,
THERE HAS BEEN NO BODY TO MOURN.
NO GRAVE TO VISIT.
HER REMAINS HAVE NEVER BEEN
FOUND.
FOR PROSECUTORS, IT ADDED
ANOTHER SET OF CHALLENGES TO AN
ALREADY DIFFICULT CASE.
TO PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE
DOUBT THAT MICHELLE TROCONIS
CONSPIRED WITH FOTIS DULOS TO
COMMIT MURDER.
THEY FIRST HAD TO PROVE THERE
WAS A MURDER, AND THEN THAT IT
WAS FOTIS WHO MURDERED HER.
BUT EIGHT MONTHS AFTER JENNIFER
VANISHED AND LONG BEFORE A TRIAL
WOULD BEGIN, FOTIS DULOS TOOK
HIS OWN LIFE.
>> I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS TRIAL
WAS AGAINST A GHOST.
>> PROSECUTORS ESSENTIALLY
BROUGHT FOTIS BACK TO LIFE BY
FOCUSING ON THE DAY JENNIFER
WENT MISSING.
THEY PRESENTED WHAT
INVESTIGATORS HAD FOUND AT HER
HOME.
>> WHEN THEY GO TO THE HOUSE,
THEY GO IN THE GARAGE.
THEY NOTICE A BLOOD-LIKE
SUBSTANCE.
>> THERE'S SOME BACK HERE, TOO.
>> SERGEANT VENTRESCA AND
DETECTIVE KIMBALL OF THE MAJOR
CRIMES SQUAD WERE SUMMONED TO
THE SCENE.
>> THERE WAS EVIDENCE SOMEONE
HAD ATTEMPTED TO CLEAN UP BLOOD.
THERE APPEARED TO BE SWIRL MARKS
ON THE SIDES OF THE VEHICLES.
>> VIOLENCE OCCURRED IN THAT
GARAGE.
THERE IS DEFINITELY FOUL PLAY
INVOLVED.
>> WITHIN HOURS OF SEARCHING THE
HOUSE, INVESTIGATORS LEARNED
FOTIS HAD A POSSIBLE MOTIVE.
THAT CONTENTIOUS DIVORCE.
SOMETHING JENNIFER EXPRESSED IN
COURT DOCUMENTS.
HE IS DANGEROUS AND RUTHLESS
WHEN HE BELIEVES HE'S BEEN
WRONGED.
HE MUST ALWAYS WIN AT ALL COSTS.
AND THERE WAS LITTLE DOUBT THAT
FOTIS WAS LOSING.
HE HAD SPENT THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS IN LEGAL FEES AND COURT
COSTS.
HIS BUSINESS WAS FLOUNDERING,
AND WORSE, HE LOST SHARED
PHYSICAL CUSTODY OF HIS
CHILDREN.
>> I DON'T THINK FOTIS LIKED TO
LOSE IN ANY ASPECT OF HIS LIFE
AND I DON'T THINK HE LIKED TO BE
LOSING IN COURT AT THE HANDS OF
HIS WIFE.
>> THE DAY AFTER THE MOTHER OF
HIS CHILDREN DISAPPEARED, FOTIS
WAS SUMMONED TO THE NEW CANAAN
POLICE STATION.
>> DID HE AGREE TO SIT DOWN AND
TALK?
>> NO.
>> BUT THEY GOT SOMETHING MORE
IMPORTANT AT AN INTERVIEW.
POLICE TOOK FOTIS' PHONE.
THEY TRACKED IT TO ALBANY AVENUE
IN HARTFORD AROUND 7:00 PEOPLE
THE EVENING OF MAY 24TH.
ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME JENNIFER
WS REPORTED MISSING.
IT TURNS OUT THERE WERE SECURITY
CAMERAS ALL ALONG FOTIS' ROUTE.
NEW CANAAN POLICE OFFICER THOMAS
PATTEN COULDN'T BELIEVE HIS
EYES.
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
>> AS HE WAS DRIVING AROUND, HE
WAS DEPOSITING BLACK GARBAGE
BAGS IN VARIOUS RECEPTACLES.
>> IS HE ALONE?
>> NO.
IN ONE OF THE SITUATIONS, YOU
CAN SEE A FEMALE LEANING OUT THE
PASSENGER SIDE OF THE TRUCK.
>> IT TURNS OUT THE FEMALE
REACHING FOR THE SIDEWALK WAS
MICHELLE TROCONIS.
WITHIN DAYS, A TEAM OF
DETECTIVES WAS DISPATCHED TO GO
DIGGING THROUGH THE TRASH.
>> SOME OF THE THINGS RETREATED
WERE USED ZIP TIES WITH HUMAN
BLOOD AND DNA OF JENNIFER DULOS
ON THEM.
FEMALE UNDERGARMENTS, A VINEYARD
VINE SHIRT IN THE SIZE THAT
JENNIFER WORE.
>> AT TRIAL FOR THE FIRST TIME,
THEY SHOWED THOSE BLOODY
CLOTHES.
>> I THINK IT WAS REALLY
IMPORTANT THAT THEY DID THAT.
WE HAD SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF THAT
EVIDENCE SO I KNEW WHAT IT
LOOKED LIKE, BUT BEING IN THE
SAME SPACE, THE SAME SPACE AND
TIME AS JENNIFER'S CLOTHES JUST
REALLY DROVE HOME THAT SHE'S NOT
HERE.
>> ON JUNE 1st, 209, EIGHT DAYS
AFTER JENNIFER VANISHED, BOTH
FOTIS DULOS AND MICHELLE
TROCONIS WERE ARRESTED FOR
TAMPERING WITH OR FABRIC IT AING
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND
FIRST-DEGREE HINDERING
PROSECUTION.
THEY STILL DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH
FOR A MURDER CHARGE.
FOTIS REFUSED TO TALK TO THE
POLICE BUT MICHELLE GAVE THE
FIRST OF THREE INTERVIEWS.
>> WHAT'S THE RED STUFF?
>> OFFICERS MADE IT CLEAR
JENNIFER WAS NOT JUST MISSING.
SHE WAS MURDERED.
>> BASICALLY, HERE'S A FACT.
FOTIS KILLED JENNIFER.
THIS IS A FACT.
WE KNOW THIS.
WE NEED TO FIND JENNIFER.
>> OFFICERS WERE TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT IF SHE KNEW WHERE
JENNIFER'S BODY WAS.
>> IF YOU HAD TO GET RID OF A
BODY THAT WAS NO LONGER IF ONE
PIECE, WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU
WOULD GO?
WHERE DO YOU THINK FOTIS WOULD
GO?
I'M NOT SAYING -- WHERE WOULD
FOTIS HAVE GONE TO TAKE EITHER
JENNIFER OR PARTS OF JENNIFER TO
GET RID OF HER?
>> I DON'T KNOW.
>> MICHELLE INSISTED SHE DIDN'T
KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT A BODY.
SHE ALSO GAVE FOTIS AN ALIBI.
SHE TOLD THEM HE WAS WITH HER AT
HOME THAT MORNING AT 4 JEFFERSON
CROSSING.
>> WHEN I GO TO THE BATHROOM, I
BRUSH MY TEETH, I GET INTO THE
SHOWER.
FOTIS JUMPED INTO THE SHOWER
WITH ME.
PROBABLY A FIVE-MINUTE SHOWER.
>> THAT STATEMENT WOULD COME
BACK TO HAUNT HER.
BOTH FOTIS AND MICHELLE WERE
RELEASED ON BOND AND ORDERED NOT
TO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER.
FOTIS STAYED IN HIS GLITTERING
MANSION AT 4 JEFFERSON CROSSING.
MICHELLE MOVED INTO HER OWN
APARTMENT AND WOULD FOREVER BE
BRAND AD AS THE OTHER WOMAN.
>> I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU.
YOU'RE PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST
HATED WOMEN RIGHT NOW.
>>> TEN DAYS AFTER JENNIFER
DISAPPEARED, INVESTIGATORS FOUND
PAPERS AT THE HOME THAT THEY
CAME TO BELIEVE WERE ACTUALLY
AIBI SCRIPTS.
A TIME LINE, SAY PROSECUTORS,
THAT FOTIS DULOS AND MICHELLE
CREATED TO KEEP THEIR STORY
STRAIGHT.
>> WAKE-UP, ALARM, TOOK SHOWER
TOGETHER.
>> THAT TIME LINE BECAME CENTRAL
TO THE STATE'S CASE.
NOT ONLY FOR WHAT WAS IN IT BUT
FOR WHAT WASN'T.
>> THE COPS ASKED HER, WHY
WASN'T HARTFORD IN YOUR TIME
LINE.
I WAS GOING TO WRITE THAT BUT I
GOT INTERRUPTED.
ISN'T THAT A COINCIDENCE?
ISN'T THAT CONVENIENT?
>> PROSECUTORS SET OUT TO SHOW
WHAT THEY SAY WAS THE REAL-TIME
LINE.
STARTING IN THE EARLY HOURS OF
MAY 24th, THE DAY JENNIFER
VANISHED, SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE
SHOWS A TRUCK LEAVING AN EMPTY
HOUSE THAT FOTIS HAD RENOVATE
FOR SALE.
>> THE LITTLE RED PICKUP TRUCK
WAS SEEN LEAVING THAT RESIDENCE,
HEADED TOWARD ROUTE 4 AT
APPROXIMATELY 5:30, 5:45 HOURS.
>> SERGEANT KENNETH VENTRESCA
WHO THINKS FOTIS WAS DRIVING
TRACKED THE PICKUP TRUCK HEADING
TOWARD NEW CANAAN WHERE JENNIFER
LIVED.
>> WE EVENTUALLY LOCATED A RED
TOYOTA TACOMA PICKUP TRUCK.
>> IT WAS SPOTTED TWO AND A HALF
HOURS LATER, SHORTLY BEFORE 8:00
A.M. IN NEW CANAAN NEAR WAICHBY
PARK.
>> THIS IS WHERE HE HAD PARKED
IT.
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVED FOTIS HAD
BROUGHT A BICYCLE WITH HIM.
THAT'S HIM BIKING THE LAST THREE
MILES TO JENNIFER'S HOUSE.
>> HE CAME OVER ON THE BACK ROAD
OVER THERE.
HE WAITED FOR HER TO DROP THE
KIDS OFF AT SCHOOL.
HE CAME HOME IN THE MORNING.
SHE ENTERS THE GARAGE.
THAT'S WHERE THE VIOLENCE
VIOLENT ASSAULT OCCURRED IN THE
HOUSE.
>> PROSECUTORS SAY THAT WHILE
FOTIS WAS KILLING JENNIFER,
MICHELLE WAS BACK AT THEIR HOUSE
PROVIDING AN ALIBI.
FOTIS HAD LEFT HIS PHONE AT HOME
AND PRE-ARRANGED A CALL WITH A
FRIEND FROM GREECE.
PROSECUTORS BELIEVE MICHELLE
PICKED UP THE CALL TO MAKE IT
APPEAR FOTIS WAS HOME.
>> MAKE NO MISTAKE.
SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS
DOING WHEN SHE ANSWERED THAT
PHONE.
>> PROSECUTORS CLAIM MICHELLE
THEN MOVED IT AROUND, LOCKING IT
AND UNLOCKING IT TO CONTINUE TO
SHOW ACTIVITY.
>> NOW THE ONLY PERSON WHO COULD
HAVE REASONABLY MANIPULATED
FOTIS DULOS'S PHONE THAT MORNING
IS MICHELLE TROCONIS.
THIS IS THE CONSPIRACY.
>> DURING THE TIME PROSECUTORS
SAY MICHELLE WAS MA ANYMORE
LATING THE PHONE, SERGEANT
VENTRESCA BELIEVES FOTIS WAS
CLEANING UP THE CRIME SCENE.
>> IT'S A PATTERN HERE.
>> AND THEN PUT JENNIFER'S DEAD
OR UNCONSCIOUS BODY IN THE BACK
OF HER SUBURBAN AND DROVE IT
AWAY.
>> AND THEN HER VEHICLE WAS LEFT
ABOUT THREE AND A HALF MILES
AWAY.
>> JUST 100 FEET FROM WHERE
POLICE SAY HE HAD PARKED THE
TACOMA.
>> THERE ARE STORM DRAINS DOWN
HERE.
>> INVESTIGATORS CANNOT ACCOUNT
FOR THE NEXT 48 MINUTES.
>> WE SEARCHED THIS WHOLE AREA.
>> IT'S POSSIBLE FOTIS USED THAT
TIME TO GET RID OF JENNIFER'S
BODY.
THEY THINK IT IS MORE LIKELY HE
WAS TRANSFERRING INCRIMINATING
MATERIALS FROM THE SUBURBAN TO
THE TACOMA.
>> IF HE HAD THINGS TO MOVE,
LIKE A LOT OF BLOODY CLOTHING,
IT COULD HAVE TAKEN 40 MINUTES.
>> WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNIFER,
THEY DON'T KNOW.
WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT THE
TACOMA RETURNED TO THE EMPTY
HOUSE AT 12:22 P.M.
AFTER THAT, FOTIS MET MICHELLE
FOR LUNCH.
>> DID YOU ASK HIM WHERE HE WAS
THAT MORNING?
>> THAT'S BECAUSE PROSECUTORS
SAY SHE ALREADY KNEW.
THAT AFTERNOON, MICHELLE BROUGHT
CLEANING SUPPLIES AND GARBAGE
BAGS TO THAT EMPTY HOUSE FOR
SALE, 80 MOUNTAIN SPRING ROAD.
MICHELLE SAYS SHE AND FOTIS WERE
PREPARING FOR A SHOWING THE NEXT
DAY.
>> SO WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS
HAPPENING THAT AFTERNOON AT 80
MOUNTAIN SPRING?
>> I THINK THAT THE EVIDENCE
THAT WAS FOUND IN HARTFORD WAS
BEING BAGGED UP.
>> THE PROSECUTION SHOWED
MICHELLE DRIVING BACK AND FORTH
TO THE HOUSE WHERE SHE LIVED
WITH FOTIS.
PROSECUTORS BELIEVE SHE WAS
BURNING EVIDENCE.
>> THERE APPEARS TO BE SMOKE
COMING OUT OF EAST CHIMNEY.
WHO IS LIGHTING A FIRE ON
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND?
BETTER QUESTION.
WHO IS LIGHTING THREE FIRES ON
THE FRIDAY BEFORE MEMORIAL DAY
WEEKEND ON A DAY LIKE THAT?
THE SURVEILLANCE SHOWS HER GOING
BACK AND FORTH REPEATEDLY.
FIVE MINUTES AT A TIME, NINE
MINUTES AT A TIME, FIRE, FIRE.
>> PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND
SPELL IT FOR THE RECORD.
>> IF THE PROSECUTION HAD A STAR
WITNESS, IT WAS FOTIS'S
EMPLOYEE.
PAB PAWEL GUMIENNY WHO TURNS OUT
TO BE THE OWNER OF THAT RED
TRUCK.
HE DESCRIBED THE CONVERSATION HE
HAD WITH MICHELLE A MONTH BEFORE
JENNIFER WENT MISSING.
MICHELLE WAS UPSET WHEN SHE
LEARNED JENNIFER WOULD NOT LET
THE CHILDREN SAY GOODBYE TO THE
FAMILY DOG BEFORE FOTIS HAD HIM
PUT TO SLEEP.
>> WHAT EXACTLY DID SHE SAY?
>> CAN I USE BAD WORDS?
>> YES.
>> SHE SAID SHE SHOULD BE
MARRIED NEXT TO THE DOG.
>> PERHAPS THE MOST DAMAGING
TESTIMONY CONCERNED THE PICKUP
TRUCK, THE TACOMA, WHICH HE SAYS
FOTIS TOOK WITHOUT PERMISSION.
HE SAID HE SHOWED UP AT THE
HOUSE WHERE MICHELLE AND FOTIS
WERE CLEANING.
HE WANTED HIS TRUCK BACK.
BUT THE KEYS WERE GONE.
>> WHAT DID MR. DULOS SAY TO
YOU?
>> HE SAID THAT MICHELLE HAS A
KEY.
>> MICHELLE HAD ALREADY LEFT THE
PREMISES WITH THE KEYS.
>> SHE TAKES THE KEYS TO THE
TOYOTA TACOMA TO PRAEFLEVENT PAWEL.
THEY NEED MORE TIME.
THEY HAVEN'T GONE THE TO THE CAR
WASH YET.
>> MICHELLE RETURNED WITH THE
KEYS AND PAWEL TOOK HIS TRUCK
HOME.
FIVE DAYS AFTER JENNIFER
DISAPPEARED, FOTIS FINALLY TOOK
THE OLD BEAT-UP TACOMA TO THE
CAR WASH.
MICHELLE MET HIM THERE.
>> YOU CAN EAT OFF THE FLOOR
BOORDS IN THIS TRUCK.
THAT'S HOW CLEAN IT WAS BY THE
TIME WE GOT IT.
>> BUT FOTIS MADE ONE MAJOR
MISCALCULATION.
HE ASKED PAWEL TO REMOVE THE TWO
FRONT SEATS OF THE TACOMA AND
FIND REPLACEMENTS.
>> HE WAS GROWING ANGRY AND HE
KEPT SAYING, YOU GOTTA DO IT.
CAN YOU DO IT.
>> PAWEL WHO WAS LATER GIVEN
IMMUNITY DID REMOVE THE SEATS,
BUT HE HANDED THEM OVER TO THE
POLICE AND SURE ENOUGH --
>> ON THE PASSENGER SEAT, THERE
WAS A BLOOD-LINE STAIN ON THE
FABRIC OF THE SEAT.
WHICH WAS CUT OUT, TESTED AT THE
LAB AND IT CAME BACK WITH
JENNIFER DULOS' DNA, BLOOD.
THAT WAS PARAMOUNT FOR THIS
INVESTIGATION.
>> THEY FINALLY HAD ENOUGH
EVIDENCE TO ARREST FOTIS DULOS
FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE.
MICHELLE TROCONIS WAS ARRESTED
FOR HELPING HIM PLAN THE MURDER.
THE TWO WOULD NEVER SEE OR SPEAK
TO EACH OTHER AGAIN.
>> WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST
DAMAGING EVIDENCE AGAINST
MICHELLE TROCONIS?
FOR A CLOSE
>>> DAY AFTER DAY, MICHELLE SAT
IN THE COURTROOM WITH HER FAMILY
BEHIND HER.
SHE SHOWED LITTLE EMOTION.
OTHER THAN A FEW TEARS.
>> LET ME SAY SOMETHING ABOUT
NOT SHOWING EMOTION.
IF WE SMILE AS WE'RE COMING INTO
THE COURT, EVERYTHING SHE DOES,
SOMEONE WILL COMMENT ON THAT.
>> MICHELLE OUT ON BAIL LEFT
COURT QUIETLY EACH DAY.
BUT HER FAMILY WAS OUTSPOKEN.
>> SHE'S A MOTHER, A DAUGHTER, A
SISTER, AND JUST AN AMAZING
HUMAN BEING.
AND WE KNOW THAT THE TRUTH WILL
PREVAIL.
>> HER FATHER, CARDIOVASCULAR
SURGEON DR. CARLOS TROCONIS, AND
SISTERS, CLAUDIA AND DANIELA,
SPOKE TO "48 HOURS" IN 2020.
THEN AS NOW IS THEY REFUSE TO
BELIEVE THAT MICHELLE COULD HAVE
BEEN INVOLVED IN JENNIFER'S
DISAPPEARANCE.
>> WHAT MAKES YOU BELIEVE THAT
YOUR SISTER HAD ABSOLUTELY
NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS?
>> HOW WE WERE BROUGHT UP, OUR
PRINCIPLES, JUST THAT SHE'S
NEVER BEEN A VIOLENT PERSON.
>> SHE WOULDN'T HARM ANYBODY.
>> SOMETIMES WOMEN DO RIDICULOUS
THINGS FOR LOVE.
>> NOT MY SISTER.
>> OTHER WOMEN BUT NOT MY
SISTER.
>> MICHELLE WOULD NEVER HARM
ANYBODY.
ANYONE.
>> MICHELLE'S ATTORNEY JON
SCHOENHORN SAID SHE WAS FOOLED
BY FOTIS DULOS.
>> FOTIS DULOS LIED TO MICHELLE.
>> IT APPEARS HE DID ON MORE
THAN ONE OCCASION.
>> ACCORDING TO MICHELLE, FOTIS
TOLD HER HE BELIEVED HIS WIFE
HAD RUN AWAY.
SOMETHING HE CLAIMED SHE HAD
DONE IN THE PAST.
>> WHAT?
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
HE SAID, DON'T WORRY.
SHE'S DONE IT IN THE PAST.
SHE WENT TO ASPEN AND CHANGED
HER NAME 20 YEARS AGO.
>> SCHOENHORN SAID FOTIS WAS
ALSO LYING TO HER THAT NIGHT HE
WAS DUMPING BLOODY EVIDENCE ON
ALBANY AVENUE IN HARTFORD.
AND YOU'RE SAYING SHE HAD NO
IDEA WHAT WAS IN THOSE BAGS THAT
FOTIS WAS GETTING RID OF?
>> SHE NOT ONLY DID NOT KNOW
WHAT WAS IN THE BAGS, SHE HAD NO
IDEA WHAT HE WAS ACTUALLY DOING.
HE HAD INVITED HER TO GO TO
STARBUCKS.
PRACTICALLY THE ENTIRE TIME
SHE'S ON EITHER WHAT'S APP,
TEXTING OR MAKING PHONE CALL THE
WHOLE TIME.
>> DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S IN THE
BAG?
>> NO.
MY MIND IS ALWAYS ON
CONSTRUCTION THINGS.
MAYBE EVEN THE CLEANING FROM THE
HOUSE.
I DON'T KNOW.
>> CLAUDIA SPEAKING AFTER HER
SISTER, SHE SAID WASN'T UNUSUAL
TO FOTIS TO DUMP CONSTRUCTION
DEBRIS IN PUBLIC TRASH CANS
INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR A
DUMPSTER.
>> I HAD GONE IN 2018 AND HE HAD
DONE IT IN MY PRESENCE.
THAT.
>> BUT PROSECUTORS PORTRAYED
THAT FOOTAGE OF MICHELLE LEANING
OUT OF TRUCK AS SOMETHING
NEFARIOUS.
THEY TOLD THAT JURY SHE WAS
PURPOSELY GIVING COVER TO FOTIS
WHILE HE DUMPED TWO ALTERED
LICENSE PLATES DOWN THE SEWER.
>> WHILE THEY OPENED THE DOOR AT
THE EXACT SAME TIME,
CONVENIENTLY AT THE RIGHT TIME
TO BLOCK THE VIEW FROM THE TAN
CAR.
>> MICHELLE SAID IT WAS AN
INNOCENT GESTURE.
>> YOU'RE ACTUALLY LEANING OUT
AT ONE POINT OF THE CAR.
>> NO, I TOLD HIM.
I HAD A CHEWING GUM.
I TOOK IT.
I SPIT IT.
MY HAND GOT STICKY AND I WENT
LIKE THIS.
>> THE STATE'S CASE WAS BUILT ON
SPECULATION, NOT FACTS, SAYS
SCHOENHORN.
TAKE THAT SMOKE RISING FROM THE
FIREPLACE.
>> SHE WOULD HAVE FIRES GOING IN
THE FIREPLACE ALL THE TIME.
>> REMEMBER MY SISTER LIVED IN
ARGENTINA BEFORE.
IT'S VERY COMMON TO PUT THE
FIREPLACE ON AND TO JUST SIT
AROUND, HAVE YOUR WINE.
MY SISTER WOULD DO IT.
>> AND IN FACT, SAYS SCHOENHORN,
THE POLICE BROUGHT IN CADAVER
DOGS BUT THEY NEVER FOUND ANY
TRACE OF EVIDENCE IN THE
FIREPLACE.
>> WHAT WAS SHE BURNING IN THAT
FIREPLACE?
FIREWOOD.
>> AS FOR THOSE MISSING KEYS TO
THE TACOMA?
CLAUDIA SAID MICHELLE TOLD HER
THE KEYS HAD BEEN LEFT OUT IN
THE OPEN, STICKING OUT OF THE
DOOR OF THE TRUCK.
>> CULTURALLY, WE DON'T TRUST
WEST ALWAYS LOCK DOORS.
WE ALWAYS LOCK HOUSES,
EVERYTHING.
SHE TOLD ME SHE TOOK THEM
BECAUSE OF HOW WE ARE, THAT
SHE'S NOT GOING TO LEAVE KEYS
HANGING FROM THE DOOR.
>> SHOPE HORNE SAID ONLY ONLY IS
THERE AN INNOCENT EXPLANATION
FOR EVERY ONE OF THE STATE'S
ACCUSATIONS, BUT HIS CLIENT'S
WILLINGNESS TO HELP SPEAKS
VOLUMES ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT OR
LACK OF IT.
SHE NOT ONLY GAVE THREE
INTERVIEWS.
SHE WALKED THE POLICE AROUND THE
GROUNDS NEAR FOTIS' HOUSE TO
HELP THEM LOOK FOR JENNIFER'S
BODY.
>> WE THINK YOU HAVE
INFORMATION --
>> I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT.
I DIDN'T DO IT.
>> IF IN FACT YOUR SISTER KNEW
WHERE JENNIFER'S BODY WAS,
WOULDN'T SHE HAVE TRIED TO MAKE
A DEAL WITH THAT INFORMATION?
>> OF COURSE.
MY SISTER IS NOT THE PERSON THAT
THE MEDIA HAS PORTRAYED, THE
POLICE AND THE STATE HAVE WANTED
TO PORTRAY.
MY SISTER WOULD HAVE SAID IT.
SHE WOULD HAVE STOOD UP.
>> IN THE END, SCHOENHORN SAID
HER GOOD INTENTIONS TO HELP
POLICE WORKED AGAINST HER.
IT WAS MICHELLE'S APPARENT
CONTRA ADDICTIONS IN THOSE THREE
INTERVIEWS THAT SEEMED TO
INCRIMINATE HER.
AT THE TIME, MICHELLE HAD A
DIFFERENT LAWYER.
>> DO YOU WISH SHE HAD NEVER
TALKED TO THE POLICE?
>> LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY.
I WOULD NEVER HAVE PUT MY CLIENT
IN THAT SITUATION WHEN SHE WAS
UNDER ARREST.
>> HE JUMPED INTO THE SHOWER
WITH ME.
>> REMEMBER IN THE FIRST
INTERVIEW, SHE HAD SHE AND FOTIS
HAD TAKEN A SHOWER TOGETHER THE
MORNING JENNIFER DISAPPEARED.
SHE CHANGED THAT IN THE SECOND
INTERVIEW.
SHE TOLD OFFICERS SHE DIDN'T SEE
FOTIS AT HOME THAT MORNING.
>> THEY'RE SAYING YOU TOLD US
THAT YOU WERE IN THE HOUSE.
YOU TOOK A SHOWER WITH FOTIS.
NOW YOU DIDN'T TAKE A SHOWER
WITH FOTIS.
SO THIS IS ALL GOING TO COME OUT
AND IT MAKES YOU LOOK LUREIKE
YOU'RE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH.
>> THIS IS HOW SHE LATER
EXPLAINED IT.
>> OF COURSE.
I WAS IN SHOCK.
I WAS NERVOUS OF THE.
>> POLICE AND THE PROSECUTION
HAD WERE CONVINCED MICHELLE HAD
HELPED PLAN THE ALIBI INCLUDING
THAT CALL MICHELLE PICKED UP ON
FOTIS' PHONE.
BUT CLAUDIA SAYS THERE'S AN
INNOCENT EXPLANATION FOR THAT,
TOO.
IT TURNS OUT THAT FOTIS' FRIEND,
AN ATTORNEY, WAS AT FOTIS' HOME
OFFICE AT 8:26 A.M. WHEN FOTIS'
PHONE RANG.
>> SHE WAS WITH KENT IN THE
OFFICE AND KENT WAS ACTUALLY THE
ONE THAT SIGNALED TO HER.
AREN'T YOU GOING TO ANSWER THE
PHONE?
SO THEN SHE DID.
>> WHY DIDN'T MICHELLE MENTION
THAT TO INVESTIGATORS?
>> SHE NEVER MENTIONED THE PHONE
CALL IN THE FIRST TWO
INTERVIEWS.
SHE NEVER MENTIONED IT UNTIL THE
THIRD TIME.
WHY NOT?
WAS SHE TRYING TO KEEP THAT FROM
INVESTIGATORS?
>> NO.
BECAUSE AGAIN, I DON'T REMEMBER
VERBATIM EVERY SINGLE THING THAT
I DID.
SO OUR MEMORY CAN FOOL US.
JUST BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T MENTION
IT DOESN'T MEAN SHE WAS HIDING
IT.
>> SCHOENHORN CALLED TO THE
STAND A MEMORY EXPERT, A
PSYCHOLOGIST, TO EXPLAIN THE
CHANGING STORIES.
>> PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF LIFE
STRESS ARE NOT GOING TO BE,
THEIR MEMORY WILL NOT BE
OPERATING OPTIMALLY.
>> NEXT, HE CALLED A PROFESSOR
WHO SPECIALIZES IN THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE
AND MEMORY.
SHE TESTIFIED THAT MICHELLE, WHO
YOU'LL REMEMBER LISTENED TO THE
TRIAL IN SPANISH, HAD ONLY
MEDIUM PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH.
>>> DOES THAT PLAY A ROLE WHEN
YOU'RE ASKED TO RETRIEVE OR
RECITE SOMETHING THAT YOU HAD
ENCODED IN YOUR MEMORY?
>> IT CAN.
>> AFTER THREE DAYS, THE DEFENSE
RESTED.
MICHELLE NEVER TOOK THE STAND.
IT WAS TIME FOR THE ATTORNEYS TO
PRESENT THEIR CLOSING ARGUMENTS
TO THE JURY.
>> IN MY MINE, I THOUGHT, IS
THERE AN INNOCENT EXPLANATION?
YOU WANT TO GET IT RIGHT.
I DON'T WANT AN INNOCENT PERSON
TO GO TO JAIL.
>>> GO BEHIND THE SCENES
>>> WHEN JURY SELECTION BEGAN IN
THE TRIAL OF MICHELLE TROCONIS,
JENNIFER FARBER DULOS HAD BEEN
MISSING FOR 1,594 DAYS.
FOR CARRIE LUFT, THE COURTROOM
BECAME A PLACE TO PAY HOMAGE TO
A FRIEND WHOSE ABSENCE HAS LEFT
AN UNBEARABLE SILENCE.
>> I WAS THERE TO BE A PRESENCE
FOR JENNIFER.
>> AFTER SIX WEEKS OF TESTIMONY,
IT WAS FINALLY TIME FOR THE
ATTORNEYS TO SUM UP THEIR CASES
IN A NARRATIVE.
A STORY.
NO LONGER THAN AN HOUR.
THEIR CHANCE TO PUT ALL THE
PIECES TOGETHER.
WE MET UP WITH JON SCHOENHORN AS
HE PUT THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON
HIS CLOSING ARGUMENTS.
>> I FEEL APPREHENSIVE BUT I
FEEL WE HAVE A GOOD SHOT.
>> THE FOLLOWING MORNING,
JENNIFER'S FIVE CHILDREN, NOW
17, 15, AND 13, AND LIVING WITH
THEIR GRANDMOTHER, SAT IN THE
GALLERY AS THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS
BEGAN.
>> THEY WANTED TO SUPPORT THEIR
MOM.
THEY WANTED TO SUPPORT THEIR
GRANDMOTHER.
THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT
HAPPENED.
>> ARE THE PARTIES READY TO
PROCEED?
>> PROSECUTOR MICHELLE MANNING
WAS THE FIRST UP.
>> THIS TRIAL IS VERY SIMPLE.
IT'S ABOUT A CONSPIRACY AND
ABOUT A COVER-UP.
IT'S ABOUT MICHELLE TROCONIS'
ACTIONS AND HOW SHE AND FOTIS
DULOS CONSPIRED TOGETHER TO
MURDER THE WOMAN WHO WAS
STANDING IN THEIR WAY.
>> IT IS AND I WILL SAY THIS
MULTIPLE TIMES, SPECULATION.
IT IS CONJECTURE.
IT IS GUESSWORK WHICH IS NOT THE
STANDARD OF EVIDENCE IN A
CRIMINAL CASE HERE.
>> PROSECUTOR SEAN McGUINESS
DELIVERED A POWERFUL FINISH
-USING ONE SIMPLE WORD.
COINCIDENCE.
>> I WANT TO POSE THESE
QUESTIONS TO YOU AS YOU HEAD
INTO DELIBERATIONS.
IS IT REALLY JUST A BUNCH OF
COINCIDENCES?
IS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT
THE DEFENDANT ANSWERED DULOS'
PHONE WHEN HE WAS MURDERING HIS
WIFE?
IS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT
HIS PHONE IS BEING MOVED AND
MANIPULATED?
IS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT
THE DEFENDANT TRAVELED WITH
DULOS AS HE DISPOSES OF THE
EVIDENCE THE SAME DAY?
IS IT JUST A COINCIDENCE THAT
THE DEFENDANT BROUGHT BLACK
GARBAGE BAGS AND JENNIFER'S
SHIRT AND BRA WERE FOUND INSIDE
BLACK TRASH BAGS?
>> FOR ALTERNATE JUROR PATRICK
WHO WANTED US TO ONLY USE HIS
FIRST NAME -- THE PROSECUTION'S
CLOSING PUT WEEKS OF TESTIMONY
INTO PERSPECTIVE.
>> WHERE IT ALL CAME TOGETHER
WAS IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS.
THAT'S WHERE IT MADE SENSE TO
ME.
UNTIL THEN I HAD HAD BOTH SIDES
IN MY HEAD.
>> AS AN ALTERNATE JUROR, HE WAS
RELEASED BEFORE DELIBERATIONS.
AFTER A LITTLE MORE THAN TWO
DAYS --
>> THE JURY HAS REACHED A
UNANIMOUS VERDICT.
>> THE JURY SENT WORD TO THE
JUDGE.
>> WILL THE DEFENDANT PLEASE
RISE?
>> THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
VERSUS MICHELLE TROCONIS.
WHAT SAY YOU, MR. FOREPERSON?
>> GUILTY.
>> WHAT DID THAT FEEL LIKE
HEARING GUILTY?
>> WELL, I HELD HER ARM AND I
COULD JUST FEEL THE ENERGY LEAVE
HER BODY.
EVERYTHING WAS DEAD SILENT.
>> EVERYTHING JUST STOPPE AT
THAT MOMENT.
>> YES.
AND IT WAS REALLY STUNNING AND I
GUESS I MEAN THAT IN THE
PHYSICAL SENSE OF BEING STUNNED,
AND JUST HANGING ON EVERY WORD.
>> PATRICK SAID HE AGREED WITH
THE VERDICT, INCLUDING THE MOST
SERIOUS CHARGE.
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER.
WHAT MAKES YOU BELIEVE THAT SHE
HELPED PLAN IT?
>> I THINK THE TOTALITY OF THE
EVIDENCE, NOT ONLY WHAT I
THOUGHT SHE WAS DECEPTIVE IN HER
INTERVIEWS BUT JUST ABSENT OF
THAT.
THE MOVING AROUND OF FOTIS'
PHONE IN THE MORNING.
THE ANSWERING THE PHONE CALL.
COVERING FOR HIM EVEN IF THERE
WAS AN EXPLANATION.
IT CERTAINLY SHOWS YOU HAD SOME
REASON TO DO THAT.
>> THE TROCONIS FAMILY SPOKE TO
THE PRESS AFTER THE VERDICT.
>> WE CONTINUE STANDING HERE
BECAUSE WE DO CARE TO KNOW THE
TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED TO
JENNIFER.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO
JENNIFER.
AND CHOOSING AND PUTTING MY
SISTER AS THE GUILTY PERSON IS
NOT THE RIGHT THING TO DO
BECAUSE SHE'S INNOCENT.
>> FOR JENNIFER FARBER DULOS'
FAMILY AND FRIENDS, IT WAS THE
VERDICT THEY HAD HOPED FOR, BUT
IT DID LITTLE TO EASE THE
ANGUISH THEY FEEL EVERY DAY THAT
SHE REMAINS MISSING.
>> AND THAT'S WHAT IS THE MOST
PAINFUL.
WE DON'T KNOW.
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS.
>> DO YOU THINK YOU EVER WILL?
>> I DON'T KNOW.
WE WOULD LIKE TO FIND HER AND
BRING HER HOME.
IF THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN, IT
DOESN'T CHANGE OUR LOVE FOR HER.
SHE'S IN EACH OF OUR HEARTS.
SHE'S IN HER FIVE CHILDREN.
WE SEE HER FACE IN GLORIA'S.
SO JENNIFER IS STILL HERE IN SO
MANY WAYS.
BUT I THINK IT WOULD BRING SOME
PEACE TO BE ABLE TO LET HER REST
IN PEACE.