>> THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF IS SOMETHING I COULD NEVER HAVE
IMAGINED.
COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE, IN TERMS OF MY DEAR FRIEND
DISAPPEARING.
MY NAME IS CARRIE LUFT AND I AM A LONGTIME FRIEND OF JENNIFER
FARBER DULOS.
>> THIS IS WELLES LANE.
THIS IS WHERE JENNIFER DULOS LIVED WITH HER FIVE CHILDREN
BACK ON MAY 24, 2019.
I AM SERGEANT KENNETH VENTRESCA, CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE,
WESTERN DISTRICT MAJOR CRIMES SQUAD.
THE LAST TIME JENNIFER WAS SEEN WAS DROPPING HER KIDS OFF AT
SCHOOL ON MAY 24 IN THE MORNING HOURS.
SHE VANISHED.
>> HELP US FIND HER.
THE ONLY GOAL RIGHT NOW IS TO FIND JENNIFER, AND I KNOW THAT
LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO BRING HER
HOME.
>> Reporter: WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND?
>> JUST TERROR.
YOU KNOW, TERROR, FEAR, HELPLESSNESS.
>> NEW CANAAN POLICE DEPARTMENT CALLED RIGHT AWAY AS SOON AS
THEY LOCATED HER VEHICLE DOWN HERE.
WE DID EXTENSIVE LINE SEARCHES THROUGH THESE WOODS, THROUGH THE
WHOLE PARK.
YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T LOOKING GOOD, AND, YOU KNOW, WE WERE--
WE WERE FIGHTING THE CLOCK.
YOU KNOW, THEN OBVIOUSLY YOU LEARN THAT SHE'S GOING THROUGH A
CONTENTIOUS DIVORCE.
>> AUTHORITIES BELIEVE THAT FOTIS DULOS KILLED JENNIFER
DULOS, HIS WIFE, THE DAY THAT SHE DISAPPEARED.
>> IT'S NOT EVERY DAY SOMEONE THROWS OUT BLOODY EVIDENCE,
BLOODY CLOTHES CUT UP.
I MEAN, WHO DOES THAT?
>> FOTIS, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY?
>> MY BROTHER FOTIS WAS AN EASY TARGET.
>> FOTIS, WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNIFER?
>> THEY ACCUSED HIM OF MURDER FROM THE BEGINNING.
>> AFTER ABOUT AN EIGHT-MONTH INVESTIGATION, WE FINALLY
CHARGED FOTIS DULOS WITH MURDER AND KIDNAPPING IN JANUARY OF
2020.
>> FOTIS, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY TO THIS MURDER CHARGE?
>> Reporter: YOU DON'T HAVE A BODY.
>> NO BODY.
>> Reporter: NO WEAPON.
>> NO WEAPON.
>> Reporter: NO EYEWITNESSES.
>> NO EYEWITNESSES.
>> WE'VE GOT THREE WORDS FOR THE STATE: BRING IT ON.
>> AT EXACTLY THE TIME FOTIS DULOS WAS DUE IN COURT, OFFICERS
WERE SEEN RUNNING INTO HIS CONNECTICUT MANSION.
WHERE DULOS HAD REPORTEDLY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY CARBON
MONOXIDE POISONING.
>> AND, HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY STRENGTH TO FIGHT ANYMORE.
>> FOTIS DULOS WAS DECLARED DEAD TONIGHT AT 5:32.
>> THE INVESTIGATION DID NOT DIE WITH FOTIS DULOS.
>> POLICE BELIEVE MICHELLE TROCONIS HELPED HER BOYFRIEND,
FOTIS DULOS, GET RID OF HIS WIFE.
SHE'S NOW CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY IN THE MURDER OF
JENNIFER DULOS.
>> YOU GOING TO DO THE RIGHT THING, MICHELLE, AND HELP THE
COPS?
>> Reporter: THE FAMILY OF MICHELLE TROCONIS SPEAKS OUT FOR
THE FIRST TIME TO "48 HOURS."
DID YOUR SISTER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DEATH OF JENNIFER
DULOS?
>> NO, SHE DID NOT.
>> Reporter: DO YOU BELIEVE THAT MICHELLE KNOWS WHERE JENNIFER'S
BODY IS?
>> NOPE.
>> NO, MY SISTER IS INNOCENT.
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
>> Reporter: AND THERE ARE NEWLY-RELEASED PORTIONS OF
VIDEOS SHOWING DETECTIVES QUESTIONING MICHELLE TROCONIS.
>> Reporter: IS IT POSSIBLE YOU WILL NEVER KNOW-- EVER FIND HER
BODY?
>> I DON'T WANT TO THINK THAT WAY.
EVERY DAY, I ASK MYSELF, WHERE'S JENNIFER?
♪ >> "I LOVED THE BEDTIME
ROUTINES, THE RITUALS, THE SAYING GOOD NIGHTS, THE BOOKS
READ, THE HUGS AND KISSES GIVEN, THE SONGS SUNG."
>> Reporter: JENNIFER DULOS WAS A GIFTED WOMAN, SAYS HER CLOSE
FRIEND CARRIE LUFT.
SHE WAS A WRITER OF PLAYS AND COFOUNDER OF A THEATRE TROUPE, A
RUNNER, A WOMAN WITH A KEEN MIND AND AN INFECTIOUS GIGGLE.
BUT IN HER BLOGS, SHE WAS FIRST AND FOREMOST A MOTHER.
>> "I JUST WANTED TO FREEZE THE MOMENT.
SNAP A PICTURE.
TAKE THEM ALL IN.
THEY GROW TOO FAST."
>> Reporter: HER WRITINGS ARE FILLED WITH A MOTHER'S MUSINGS
ABOUT THE ORDINARY BLESSINGS OF FAMILY LIFE.
>> "THE BEST PART OF MY NIGHT NOW, HANDS DOWN, IS WHEN I GIVE
OUR BABY A BATH AND THEN HER BOTTLE, IN MY ARMS."
JENNIFER LOVED HER CHILDREN JUST... BEYOND COMPARE.
SHE HAD THIS WONDERFUL YOUNG AND GROWING FAMILY.
HER EXISTENCE WAS MOSTLY ABOUT THE KIDS.
>> Reporter: THE MORNING OF MAY 24, 2019 WAS NO DIFFERENT.
THE ORGANIZED CHAOS OF GETTING FIVE KIDS 13-AND-UNDER DRESSED
AND OFF TO SCHOOL.
BUT, SHORTLY AFTER 8:05 A.M., THE NORMAL RHYTHM OF DAILY LIFE
STOPPED FOREVER.
>> SHE WAS SCHEDULED FOR A DENTIST APPOINTMENT LATER THAT
MORNING IN NEW YORK CITY.
SHE NEVER MADE IT TO HER DENTIST APPOINTMENT.
THIS WAS DEFINITELY ONE OF THE BIGGEST INVESTIGATION TO COME TO
THE STATE POLICE.
>> Reporter: CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE SERGEANT KENNETH
VENTRESCA WOULD BECOME ONE OF THE LEAD INVESTIGATORS.
>> PEOPLE COULDN'T GET AHOLD OF HER.
>> AND THEN, WHEN WE HAD RADIO SILENCE, WE KNEW THAT SOMETHING
WAS GRAVELY WRONG.
>> Reporter: THE CHILDREN WERE TAKEN TO THE HOME OF THEIR
MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, GLORIA FARBER IN NEW YORK CITY.
BY 7:00 P.M., ALL-OUT PANIC SET IN, AND JENNIFER WAS REPORTED
MISSING.
A LITTLE OVER AN HOUR LATER, THE POLICE HAD OMINOUS NEWS.
OFFICERS FOUND JENNIFER'S ABANDONED SUBURBAN S.U.V. NEAR
WAVENY PARK, ABOUT 3.5 MILES FROM HER HOME.
>> THE TAILGATE WAS-- WAS BACKED UP AGAINST THIS TREE.
THE SUBURBAN WAS NOT RUNNING, KEYS WERE NOT IN THE IGNITION.
THE GEAR LEVER WAS ACTUALLY STUCK IN REVERSE.
THE DOORS WERE LOCKED.
ON THE PASSENGER SIDE OF HER SUBURBAN, AT THE TIME, YOU
COULD SEE THE CLEANUP OF THE BLOOD-LIKE SUBSTANCE ALL OVER
THE PASSENGER SIDE, UNDER A FLASHLIGHT.
>> POLICE ARE NOT SHARING MUCH INFORMATION AS THEY SEARCH, BUT
SOURCES CONFIRM THEY'RE FINDING NO ACTIVITY FROM THE MISSING
WOMAN'S CELLPHONE OR CREDIT CARDS.
>> Reporter: NEW CANAAN POLICE CHIEF LEON KROLIKOWSKI
IMMEDIATELY LAUNCHED A MASSIVE SEARCH ACROSS THE 300 ACRES OF
WAVENY PARK.
AND HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE INITIAL SEARCH FOR HER?
>> IT WAS ENORMOUS.
I MEAN, LITERALLY FROM OTHER POLICE DEPARTMENTS SENDING THEIR
CANINES TO SEARCH, TO F.B.I.
TEAMS COMING IN SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE, TO NEW YORK STATE
POLICE HELICOPTER, TO DIVERS CHECKING THE WATER WITHIN THE
PARK.
AND IT'S 300 ACRES.
IT'S PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE.
>> CHECKPOINT FOR THE MISSING PERSON.
>> Reporter: CARRIE VOLUNTEERED TO BECOME THE SPOKESPERSON FOR
FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
>> ALL I WANT TO SAY IS, JENNIFER, WE LOVE YOU AND WE ARE
DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO BRING YOU HOME.
YOUR KIDS MISS YOU.
WE ALL MISS YOU.
>> Reporter: SERGEANT VENTRESCA SAYS 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.
>> Reporter: DID HE SEEM CONCERNED ABOUT HIS WIFE AS TIME
WENT ON?
>> NO, NEVER SEEMED CONCERNED ABOUT HIS WIFE.
>> Reporter: IT WASN'T ALWAYS THAT WAY.
>> YOU KNOW, JENNIFER VERY MUCH WANTED TO HAVE A LOVING
RELATIONSHIP AND TO START A FAMILY, AND HE SEEMED TO WANT
THE SAME THINGS.
>> Reporter: ON THE FACE OF IT, THEY SEEMED AN UNLIKELY PAIR.
JENNIFER, DEEP-THINKING AND INTROVERTED, GREW UP IN WEALTH
AND PRIVILEGE IN NEW YORK CITY, THE DAUGHTER OF A FATHER WHO
MADE A FORTUNE IN FINANCE.
FOTIS, ATHLETIC AND EXTROVERTED, WAS AN INTERNATIONAL WATERSKIING
CHAMPION BORN IN TURKEY AND RAISED IN ATHENS, GREECE.
BOTH OUTSTANDING STUDENTS, THEY FIRST MET IN 1986 AT THE
PRESTIGIOUS BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.
BUT IT DIDN'T TURN ROMANTIC UNTIL SOME 17 YEARS LATER, AFTER
A CHANCE MEETING AT THE ASPEN AIRPORT.
JENNIFER PUT IT THIS WAY IN HER BLOG...
>> "I WAS HOME, BACK IN NEW YORK, AND AN EMAIL CAME TO ME.
HE WANTED TO GET TOGETHER."
>> Reporter: WHAT DID SHE LIKE ABOUT HIM, EVENTUALLY LOVE ABOUT
HIM?
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, HE WAS A REALLY-- A VERY CHARISMATIC AND
CHARMING PERSON.
HE WAS VERY HANDSOME.
HE WAS SMART AND FUNNY.
>> Reporter: AND AN AMBITIOUS REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER AND
BUILDER OF LUXURY HOMES.
>> HI, I'M FOTIS DULOS AND I'M THE OWNER OF FORE GROUP.
WE'RE CUSTOM BUILDERS WORKING PRIMARILY IN THE HARTFORD AND
FAIRFIELD COUNTIES."
>> Reporter: FOTIS AND JENNIFER MARRIED IN 2004, AND SETTLED IN
FARMINGTON, CONNECTICUT, AN UPSCALE ENCLAVE OUTSIDE
HARTFORD, WHERE OLD MONEY MINGLED WITH NEW.
FOTIS'S SISTER, RENA DULOS KYRIMI.
>> THE COUPLE WAS VERY, VERY HAPPY.
AND IN TWO YEARS, THEY HAD THEIR FIRST SET OF TWINS.
ANOTHER TWO YEARS, THEY HAD THE SECOND SET OF TWINS.
AND ANOTHER TWO YEARS, THEY HAD A LITTLE DAUGHTER.
>> Reporter: THEY MOVED INTO ONE OF FOTIS'S MAGNIFICENT HOMES AT
4 JEFFERSON CROSSING, AND RAISED THEIR CHILDREN WITH ALL THE
ADVANTAGES THAT MONEY AFFORDS-- WITH AN EMPHASIS ON SPORTS,
ESPECIALLY WATERSKIING, FOTIS'S PASSION.
>> THEY WOULD COMPETE INTERNATIONALLY, YOU KNOW,
EVEN AS, YOU KNOW, SIX- OR SEVEN-YEAR-OLDS.
SO, THEY WERE INCREDIBLY GOOD.
BUT THAT WAS ALSO BECAUSE THEY TRAINED INCREDIBLY HARD.
>> Reporter: JENNIFER BELIEVED FOTIS WAS PUSHING THEM TOO HARD,
AND LATER SAID HER KIDS' MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH WAS
SUFFERING BECAUSE OF FOTIS' OBSESSION WITH TRAINING.
>> SHE OFTEN SERVED AS A BUFFER OR A SHIELD.
>> Reporter: AND THAT LED TO FIGHTS, SAYS CARRIE.
DID HE HAVE A TEMPER?
>> HE COULD BE VOLATILE, YES.
>> Reporter: EVEN WITH THE KIDS?
>> SURE.
>> Reporter: LIFE BEHIND THE GRAND BRICK FACÇADE GREW EVER
MORE DISTANT AND UNHAPPY.
THE COUPLE WHO SEEMED TO HAVE IT ALL-- LOOKS, MONEY, CHILDREN--
WERE LIVING ALL BUT SEPARATE LIVES.
WAS SHE LONELY?
>> I'M SURE.
>> FOR ALL OF US WHO WERE OUTSIDE OF THE ROMANCE, WE KNEW
THAT THEY WERE TWO INCOMPATIBLE CHARACTERS.
>> Reporter: BY 2016, FOTIS WAS AWAY AS MANY AS TEN DAYS A
MONTH, OFTEN CHASING THE LATEST WATERSKIING COMPETITION.
>> AND ONE OF HIS TRAVELS TO MIAMI IN THE SKI CLUB WITH HIS
CHILDREN, HE MET MICHELLE.
>> Reporter: MICHELLE TROCONIS WAS FOTIS'S TYPE.
SHE RODE HORSES.
>> [ SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Reporter: SHE REPORTED FOR
ESPN IN SOUTH AMERICA ON SNOW SKIING, AND, EVEN MORE TO
FOTIS'S LIKING, SHE WAS A COMPETITIVE WATER-SKIER.
SOON AFTER MEETING IN MIAMI, FOTIS AND THE VENEZUELAN-RAISED
SINGLE MOTHER BEGAN AN AFFAIR.
>> AND IT WAS SERIOUS.
HE WAS VERY MUCH IN LOVE.
>> Reporter: AND NOT VERY GOOD AT HIDING IT FROM HIS WIFE, SAYS
CARRIE.
IN MARCH OF 2017, JENNIFER CONFRONTED FOTIS, AND HE
CONFESSED.
WAS THAT AN EVENT THAT SHE JUST REALIZED, OKAY, THERE'S NO GOING
BACK?
>> I THINK LEARNING ABOUT THE INFIDELITY WAS...
HORRIBLE.
YOU KNOW, THAT THAT WAS A DEAL-BREAKER FOR HER.
>> Reporter: JENNIFER MOVED HER KIDS INTO A RENTED HOME ABOUT AN
HOUR AND A HALF AWAY IN NEW CANAAN, CONNECTICUT, AND FILED
FOR DIVORCE.
MICHELLE AND HER YOUNG DAUGHTER MOVED INTO FOTIS'S JEFFERSON
CROSSING HOUSE IN FARMINGTON.
>> SHE SAID SHE HAD MET A CHARMING GUY, THAT HE WAS VERY
FAMILY-ORIENTED LIKE US, THAT SHE W-- HE WAS INTO SPORTS LIKE
HER AND THEY HAD MANY SIMILARITIES.
AND SHE-- SHE REALLY LIKED HIM.
>> Reporter: IT WOULD BE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MICHELLE
TROCONIS'S LIFE.
>> WHERE IS SHE?
WHERE IS SHE?
>> THIS HAS SHATTERED OUR LIFE, BECAUSE MY SISTER IS NOT THE
PERSON THAT THEY'RE SAYING, AND SHE WOULD NEVER BE CAPABLE OF
ANYTHING THEY'VE SAID THAT SHE HAS DONE.
♪ ♪ >> JENNIFER DULOS VANISHED
MAY 24, LEAVING BEHIND FIVE...
>> Reporter: AS THE SEARCH FOR JENNIFER DRAGGED ON, CARRIE LUFT
TRIED TO HOLD ON TO HOPE.
BUT SHE KNEW IN HER BONES AS EARLY AS THE DAY JENNIFER
DISAPPEARED, IT WAS HOPELESS.
>> I HAD A-- A HORRIBLE FOREBODING SENSE THAT SHE WAS
NOT ALIVE.
>> Reporter: THE NEW CANAAN POLICE OFFICERS ALSO HAD A BAD
FEELING AS THEY SEARCHED JENNIFER'S HOUSE THE NIGHT SHE
WENT MISSING.
>> WHEN THEY GO TO THE HOUSE, THEY GO IN THE GARAGE.
THEY NOTICED BLOOD-LIKE SUBSTANCE, BLOOD SPATTER,
THROUGHOUT THE GARAGE.
>> Reporter: SERGEANT VENTRESCA AND DETECTIVE JOHN KIMBALL OF
THE STATE'S MAJOR CRIME SQUAD WERE SUMMONED TO THE SCENE.
>> IN ADDITION TO BLOOD EVIDENCE IN THE GARAGES, THERE WAS
EVIDENCE THAT SOMEONE HAD ATTEMPTED TO CLEAN UP BLOOD.
THERE WERE SWIRLS-- WHAT APPEARED TO BE SWIRL MARKS ON
THE SIDES OF THE VEHICLES.
>> Reporter: ALL THE MARKINGS OF AN UNHAPPY ENDING, SAYS SERGEANT
VENTRESCA.
>> A SERIOUS, VIOLENT ASSAULT OCCURRED IN THAT GARAGE.
I MEAN, THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME SORT OF FOUL PLAY INVOLVED.
>> Reporter: THE SCENE IN THE GARAGE WAS ALL THAT RICHARD
COLANGELO-- NOW CONNECTICUT'S HIEF STATE'S ATTORNEY-- NEEDED.
HE IMMEDIATELY TOOK ON THE CASE.
>> INITIALLY, WHEN IT STARTED, IT WAS A WHODUNIT.
>> Reporter: BUT SOMEONE SOON WENT TO THE TOP OF THE LIST.
AT THE TIME OF HER DISAPPEARANCE, JENNIFER WAS
EMBROILED IN A BITTER DIVORCE AND CUSTODY BATTLE WITH HER
ESTRANGED HUSBAND, FOTIS DULOS.
ACCORDING TO DIVORCE DOCUMENTS, SHE WAS TERRIFIED OF HIM.
"I AM AFRAID THAT MY HUSBAND WILL HARM OUR CHILDREN TO PUNISH
ME."
"HE IS DANGEROUS AND RUTHLESS WHEN HE BELIEVES THAT HE HAS
BEEN WRONGED."
"HE MUST ALWAYS WIN AT ALL COSTS."
>> I DON'T THINK FOTIS LIKED TO LOSE IN ANY ASPECT OF HIS LIFE,
AND I DON'T THINK THAT HE LIKED TO BE LOSING IN COURT AT THE
HANDS OF HIS WIFE.
>> Reporter: HE HAD SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN LAWYER
FEES AND COURT COSTS.
HIS BUSINESS WAS FLOUNDERING.
AND WORSE, HE LOST SHARED PHYSICAL CUSTODY OF HIS
CHILDREN, AFTER GOING AGAINST COURT ORDERS REGARDING HIS
GIRLFRIEND, MICHELLE TROCONIS.
WHAT DID HE DO OR DIDN'T DO?
>> HE DIDN'T COMPLY WITH THE COURT ORDER THAT MICHELLE NOT BE
PART OF THE CHILDREN'S LIVES.
>> Reporter: FOTIS DIDN'T EVEN PRETEND TO HIDE HIS FEELINGS
TOWARD JENNIFER WHEN HE AGREED TO GO TO THE NEW CANAAN POLICE
STATION THE DAY AFTER JENNIFER DISAPPEARED.
DID HE AGREE TO SIT DOWN AND TALK?
>> NO.
>> Reporter: HE'D BROUGHT HIS CIVIL ATTORNEY WITH HIM.
>> AND HIS LAWYER WAS ALREADY ON THE PHONE WITH A CRIMINAL
DEFENSE ATTORNEY AT THE TIME, IN THE PARKING LOT.
>> Reporter: WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO YOU?
>> TO ME, IT WAS ALARMING, BECAUSE THE MOTHER OF YOUR
FIVE CHILDREN ARE MISSING AND YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT IS CALLING
ATTORNEYS.
>> Reporter: BEFORE HE LEFT, FOTIS INADVERTENTLY GAVE THE
DETECTIVES SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN AN INTERVIEW.
>> THE DETECTIVE THAT WAS THERE SAID, "IS THAT YOUR PHONE?"
"YEAH."
"CAN I SEE IT?" HE GAVE IT TO HIM.
HE ASKED HIM FOR THE PASSWORD.
HE TOLD HIM THE PASSWORD.
>> Reporter: FOTIS DEMANDED HIS PHONE BACK, BUT THE DETECTIVE
REFUSED.
INVESTIGATORS GOT A SEARCH WARRANT AND WERE ABLE TO
RETRIEVE THE DATA.
>> AND THEN FROM THERE, WE WERE OFF AND RUNNING.
>> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS TRACKED FOTIS'S CELL PHONE TO
ALBANY AVENUE IN HARTFORD AROUND 7:00 P.M. THE EVENING OF MAY 24,
ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME JENNIFER WAS REPORTED MISSING.
THEY THEN CONTACTED THE HARTFORD POLICE, WHO DOWNLOADED A
TREASURE TROVE OF VIDEOS THAT HAD BEEN CAPTURED ON SECURITY
CAMERAS.
>> Reporter: NEW CANAAN POLICE OFFICER THOMAS PATTEN COULDN'T
BELIEVE HIS EYES.
WHAT ARE YOU SEEING?
>> WELL, AS HE WAS DRIVING AROUND, HE WOULD BE-- HE WAS
DEPOSITING BLACK GARBAGE BAGS IN VARIOUS RECEPTACLES.
OBVIOUSLY, IT WAS INTENT ON SPREADING OUT THE GARBAGE BAGS.
>> Reporter: AND IS HE ALONE?
>> NO, IN-- IN ONE OF THOSE PICTURES, YOU CAN SEE A FEMALE
THAT'S LEANING OUTSIDE OF THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE TRUCK.
>> Reporter: TURNS OUT THAT FEMALE REACHING FOR THE SIDEWALK
WAS MICHELLE TROCONIS.
>> MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS, WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
WHY ARE THEY DUMPING TRASH IN HARTFORD?
>> Reporter: THEY WOULD SOON FIND OUT.
A TEAM OF DETECTIVES WAS DISPATCHED TO GO DIGGING THROUGH
THE TRASH.
>> WELL, SOME OF THE THINGS RETRIEVED FROM THE ALBANY AVENUE
GARBAGE WERE USED ZIP TIES WITH HUMAN BLOOD AND D.N.A. OF
JENNIFER DULOS ON THEM.
FEMALE UNDERGARMENTS.
A VINEYARD VINE SHIRT IN THE SIZE THAT JENNIFER WORE.
THERE WERE TWO PONCHOS WHICH CONTAINED COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF
BLOOD, AND THE D.N.A. OF JENNIFER DULOS.
>> IT'S NOT EVERY DAY SOMEONE THROWS OUT BLOODY EVIDENCE,
BLOODY CLOTHES, YOU KNOW, CUT UP.
I MEAN, WHO DOES THAT?
WE SHIFTED GEARS AND WE-- WE TURNED THIS INTO THE HOMICIDE
INVESTIGATION.
>> Reporter: ON JUNE 1, EIGHT DAYS AFTER JENNIFER VANISHED,
BOTH FOTIS DULOS AND MICHELLE TROCONIS WERE ARRESTED-- NOT FOR
MURDER, BUT FOR TAMPERING WITH OR FABRICATING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
AND FIRST-DEGREE HINDERING PROSECUTION.
>> WE WEREN'T FULLY CONVINCED HE DID THE MURDER YET, BUT HE WAS
INVOLVED IN SOME WAY, SHAPE OR FORM.
>> Reporter: BUT THEY COULDN'T PLACE HIM IN NEW CANAAN THAT
MORNING.
FOR ONE REASON, SAYS SERGEANT VENTRESCA, THE LOCATION OF
FOTIS'S PHONE.
AT THE TIME THAT JENNIFER DULOS DISAPPEARED FROM HER HOUSE, HER
HUSBAND WAS AT HOME.
>> YEAH, YES.
>> Reporter: ACCORDING TO HIS PHONE.
>> ACCORDING TO HIS PHONE, YES.
>> Reporter: AND ACCORDING TO MICHELLE TROCONIS.
SHE TOLD POLICE FOTIS WAS WITH HER THAT MORNING.
"HARTFORD COURANT" REPORTER DAVE ALTIMARI.
>> SHE TOLD THEM THAT FOTIS WAS IN FARMINGTON AT THE JEFFERSON
CROSSING HOME EARLY THAT MORNING, THAT THEY HAD WOKE UP
TOGETHER AND THAT THEY HAD SEX AND THEY HAD A SHOWER.
SO, HER-- IN EFFECT, SHE GAVE HIM AN ALIBI.
>> Reporter: BOTH FOTIS AND MICHELLE WERE RELEASED, EACH ON
A $500,000 BOND, AND ORDERED TO WEAR ANKLE BRACELETS.
THEY WERE ALSO ORDERED NOT TO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER.
MICHELLE MOVED INTO HER OWN APARTMENT AND FOTIS STAYED IN
HIS GLITTERING MANSION AT 4 JEFFERSON CROSSING.
BUT NEITHER WOULD BE ABLE TO ESCAPE THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT.
>> FOTIS WAS TRIED AND CONVICTED IN THE COURT OF THE PUBLIC
OPINION, THAT IS SURE.
>> WHAT THEY HAVE SAID ABOUT MY SISTER, THE MEDIA AND THE
POLICE, IS NOT WHO MY SISTER IS.
>> SHE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.
>> Reporter: RENA DULOS KYRIMI WAS AT HOME IN GREECE WHEN SHE
LEARNED ABOUT HER BROTHER'S ARREST.
>> I THOUGHT THAT THIS WILL BE AN ISSUE OF ONE OR TWO DAYS AND
THE POLICE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE MAKING A MISTAKE.
>> Reporter: SHE WAS WRONG.
HE QUICKLY BECAME THE PRIME SUSPECT IN A MULTI-AGENCY MURDER
INVESTIGATION.
>> FOTIS WAS THE EASY SOLUTION FOR THE POLICE.
>> FOTIS, WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNIFER?
>> Reporter: AND AN EASY TARGET FOR THE PRESS, SAYS RENA.
>> WHY WAS THERE D.N.A. IN HER NEW CANAAN HOME?
>> THE CAMERAS WAS FOLLOWING HIM WHEN HE WAS JOGGING, WHEN HE WAS
GOING TO THE GROCERY STORE.
PEOPLE ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
THEY NEVER GAVE THIS...
OPPORTUNITY TO FOTIS.
NEVER.
>> Reporter: AFTER THE ARREST, RENA, FOTIS'S ONLY SIBLING, FLEW
FROM ATHENS TO STAND BY HER BROTHER'S SIDE.
>> WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO THE LIFE OF AN INNOCENT PERSON?
I KNOW THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO DO SUCH A THING.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.
IT IS A BIG NO.
>> Reporter: IN DECEMBER 2019, FOTIS' ATTORNEY ALLOWED
"48 HOURS" INTO FOTIS' HOME.
HE WAS UNDER A GAG ORDER AND REFUSED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
AND WE WERE WITNESSES TO AN ALMOST SURREAL SCENE OF A MAN
SUSPECTED OF A MONSTROUS CRIME RELAXING WITH HIS FAMILY.
HIS NIECES ANGELIKA AND KLELIA HAD JUST ARRIVED FROM EUROPE.
>> IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE HERE WITH HIM DURING THIS
CHRISTMAS, BECAUSE IT'S A TOUGH CHRISTMAS.
>> TRYING TO SUPPORT HIM AND BE THERE FOR HIM TO KEEP HIS
SPIRITS UP.
>> Reporter: FOTIS WAS BANNED BY THE COURT FROM SEEING HIS OWN
CHILDREN.
>> IT'S VERY, VERY HARD.
THESE KIDS ARE HIS HEART AND HIS SOUL.
EVERY DAY HE WAKES UP AND IT'S JUST-- YOU SEE IT IN HIS FACE.
>> Reporter: THEY TRIED TO CHEER HIM UP BY DOING ALL OF THEIR
FAVORITE THINGS...
>> PLAYING BOARD GAMES AND COOKING AND TALKING AND-- WE'VE
ALWAYS BEEN CLOSE.
WE-- WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS TOGETHER, SO...
>> YEAH, IT WAS INCONCEIVABLE.
>> Reporter: THEY KNEW IT COULD BE THEIR LAST CHRISTMAS ALL
TOGETHER.
FOTIS'S ATTORNEY HAD TOLD HIM TO EXPECT MURDER CHARGES AFTER THE
NEW YEAR.
>> WE WILL BE HERE TO...
STAND BY-- BY HIS SIDE, WHATEVER IT COMES.
>> Reporter: LIKE RENA, MICHELLE TROCONIS'S FAMILY COULDN'T
BELIEVE IT WAS HAPPENING.
HER SISTER, CLAUDIA.
>> MY MOM CALLED US AND TOLD US MICHI HAS BEEN ARRESTED.
AND I REMEMBER DROPPING TO THE FLOOR AND SAYING, "WHY?
WHY?
WHAT HAPPENED?" IT'S BEEN DEVASTATING.
>> Reporter: AND JUST LIKE RENA, THEY REFUSE TO EVEN THINK ABOUT
THE POSSIBILITY 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'S NEVER BEEN REVENGEFUL.
YOU KNOW, SHE'S A MOTHER HERSELF.
>> SHE WOULDN'T HARM ANYBODY OR ANYONE.
>> Reporter: WE MET MICHELLE'S FATHER, CARDIAC SURGEON CARLOS
TROCONIS, AND SISTERS DANIELLA AND CLAUDIA IN FARMINGTON.
THEY ARE SPEAKING OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME.
>> SHE'S NOT THE PERSON THAT THEY'VE PORTRAYED AND THEY'VE
ACCUSED HER OF.
>> THEY'VE SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, SHE'S A WHORE, THAT, YOU KNOW,
SHE ENTERED THIS.
THAT SHE SHOULD ROT IN JAIL.
>> Reporter: THEY SAY THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF MICHELLE AS A
HOMEWRECKER IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
AND WHAT DID FOTIS TELL MICHELLE ABOUT HIS MARRIAGE?
>> THAT IT WAS THE SAME.
THAT HE WAS SEPARATED.
THAT THEY EACH HAD THEIR SEPARATE LIVES AND THAT THEY
WERE GOING THROUGH AN AMICABLE DIVORCE BECAUSE THEY HAD THE
FIVE CHILDREN.
>> Reporter: FOTIS DULOS LIED TO MICHELLE?
>> IT APPEARS THAT HE DID ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION, WHICH,
IN MY VIEW CASTS SUSPICION ON HIM.
>> Reporter: MICHELLE, WHO ACCOMPANIED HER FAMILY TO OUR
INTERVIEW, REFUSED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, BUT HER ATTORNEY,
JON SCHOENHORN, DID.
HE CLAIMS FOTIS DECEIVED MICHELLE WITH LIE AFTER LIE, AND
THAT INCLUDED THE TRIP TO 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 THOSE BAGS, SHE HAD
NO IDEA WHAT HE WAS ACTUALLY DOING.
HE'D INVITED HER TO GO OUT TO STARBUCKS, BUT HE CLAIMED HE
HAD TO JUST... TAKE CARE OF A FEW ITEMS.
PRACTICALLY THE ENTIRE TIME HE'S DRIVING IN HARTFORD, SHE'S ON
EITHER WHATSAPP, TEXTING OR MAKING PHONE CALLS DURING THAT
WHOLE TIME.
>> Reporter: HE SAYS SHE WAS CHATTING WITH FRIENDS AND
FAMILY.
WHAT IS SHE DOING THERE?
>> SHE TOLD THE POLICE THAT SHE HAD-- WAS CHEWING GUM, AND SHE
HAD GOTTEN IT ON HER FINGERS AND SHE TRIED TO FLING IT OUT THE
WINDOW.
IT WOULDN'T COME OFF, SO SHE WIPED HER HAND ON THE SIDEWALK.
>> Reporter: SHOENHORN RECENTLY RELEASED EXCERPTS FROM
INTERROGATION VIDEOS HOPING TO PROVE HIS POINT, THAT MICHELLE
WAS COOPERATIVE, EVEN HELPFUL, AND REPEATEDLY DENIED ANY
INVOLVEMENT IN JENNIFER'S DISAPPEARANCE.
>> Reporter: BUT DETECTIVES BELIEVED SHE KNEW MORE THAN SHE
WAS SAYING.
>> Reporter: BUT THE MORE SHE TALKED, THE MORE SUSPICIOUS THEY
BECAME.
REMEMBER, MICHELLE TOLD THE POLICE IN HER FIRST INTERVIEW
THAT FOTIS WAS WITH HER THE MORNING JENNIFER DISAPPEARED,
THAT THEY HAD A SHOWER AND WERE INTIMATE.
BY THE THIRD INTERVIEW, SHE WAS TELLING A DIFFERENT STORY.
REPORTER DAVE ALTIMARI.
>> AND EVERY TIME THEY WOULD PUSH HER, SHE CHANGED HER STORY.
AND THEN BY THE THIRD TIME, SHE BASICALLY TOLD THEM THAT IT WAS
A LIE, THAT HE WAS NOT IN THE HOUSE ON THAT MORNING AS SHE HAD
INITIALLY TOLD THEM.
>> Reporter: SHE ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED THAT FOTIS HAD LEFT
HIS PHONE BEHIND.
>> THE PHONE BEING IN FARMINGTON WAS CLEARLY PART OF THE ALIBI.
AT LEAST THAT'S THE STATE POLICE'S BELIEF, THAT HE LEFT
THE PHONE THERE SO NO ONE WOULD KNOW WHERE HE WAS.
>> Reporter: AFTER EIGHT MONTHS OF INVESTIGATION, ON JANUARY 7,
2020, THE POLICE ARRESTED MICHELLE FOR CONSPIRACY TO
COMMIT MURDER.
>> IT'S BEEN DEVASTATING BECAUSE WE KNOW MY SISTER IS INNOCENT.
>> Reporter: SOMETIMES WOMEN DO RIDICULOUS THINGS FOR LOVE.
>> NOT MY SISTER.
>> THAT'S NOT MICHELLE.
>> OTHER WOMEN, BUT NOT MY SISTER.
>> MICHELLE WOULD NEVER HARM ANYONE IN ANY WAY.
>> Reporter: BUT WOULD SHE POSSIBLY COVER UP FOR A MAN SHE
LOVED?
>> NO!
SHE WOULD NEVER PUT HERSELF IN HARM'S WAY, NOT EVEN HERSELF OR
HER DAUGHTER.
NO, SHE'S NOT CAPABLE OF DOING SO.
>> THAT WOULD AFFECT HER LIFE, SO SHE WOULDN'T.
>> Reporter: THE POLICE CAME FOR FOTIS THE SAME DAY.
RENA WAS THERE.
>> IT WAS LIKE A MOVIE.
THEY WENT OUT OF THE CARS WITH THE WEAPONS LIKE THEY WERE GOING
TO ARREST AL CAPONE.
IT WAS A TERRIBLE MOMENT.
IT WAS TERRIBLE MOMENTS, BELIEVE ME.
>> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THEY HAVE THE KILLER.
BUT THEY STILL DON'T HAVE THE VICTIM: JENNIFER DULOS.
AND FOTIS'S ATTORNEY, NORM PATTIS, SAYS THAT RAISES
QUESTIONS WHETHER THERE WAS A MURDER AT ALL.
>> WE DEFY THE STATE TO PROVE THAT SHE IS IN FACT DEAD.
>> HERE'S OUR MESSAGE TO THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT:
MR. DULOS IS NOT GUILTY.
WE ARE READY FOR THE COURT.
THERE'S THE COURTHOUSE.
IF YOU WANT TO TRY THE CASE, BRING IT ON, OKAY?
>> Reporter: NORM PATTIS LIKES TO STIR THINGS UP, AND HE DID A
GOOD JOB OF IT FOR HIS CLIENT, FOTIS DULOS.
>> THERE IS NO BODY THAT WE'RE AWARE OF, AND I'M SICK AND TIRED
OF HEARING ABOUT IT.
>> Reporter: HE AIMED STRAIGHT FOR THE STATE'S WEAK SPOT:
NO BODY, NO MURDER.
>> WE TAKE THE POSITION THERE IS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO
CONCLUDE THAT SHE'S EVEN DEAD.
>> Reporter: PATTIS LAUNCHED A PUBLIC CAMPAIGN TO CAST FOTIS AS
A LOVING FATHER UNFAIRLY DEPRIVED OF SEEING HIS CHILDREN.
>> I LOVE MY CHILDREN.
I THINK ABOUT THEM ALL THE TIME.
I MISS THEM VERY MUCH.
>> Reporter: AND JENNIFER AS THE VILLAIN.
>> WE ARE ACTIVELY CONTEMPLATING A REVENGE SUICIDE HYPOTHESIS AS
AN EXPLANATION FOR HER DISAPPEARANCE.
>> Reporter: ANOTHER DEFENSE THEORY?
"GONE GIRL."
>> I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MY WIFE.
>> Reporter: PATTIS SUGGESTED THAT, JUST LIKE IN THE THRILLER
AND HIT MOVIE, JENNIFER DISAPPEARED TO FRAME HER HUSBAND
FOR MURDER.
>> WHEN ATTORNEY PATTIS RAISED IT AND TALKED ABOUT IT, I BEGGED
HIM TO DO IT IN FRONT OF A JURY.
YOU COULD DRIVE A BUS THROUGH ALL THE HOLES IN THAT THEORY OR
THAT ARGUMENT.
>> Reporter: EVEN SO, CHIEF STATE'S ATTORNEY RICHARD
COLANGELO KNEW THAT PROVING MURDER WITHOUT A BODY WAS NOT
GOING TO BE EASY.
>> WE TRIED TO LEVERAGE EVERYTHING WE COULD, AND WE
DIDN'T LEAVE ANY STONE UNTURNED.
>> Reporter: BIT BY BIT, ATTORNEY COLANGELO SAYS THEY
BUILT A CASE OF PREMEDITATED MURDER AND COVER-UP, A STORY
THEY LAID OUT IN DETAILED ARREST WARRANTS.
IT STARTS IN THE PRE-DAWN HOURS OF MAY 24, WITH THIS OLD RED
TACOMA TRUCK.
NOT FOTIS'S TRUCK, BUT A TRUCK THAT BELONGED TO ONE OF HIS
WORKERS.
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE FOTIS TOOK THE TACOMA WITHOUT PERMISSION
AND LEFT THE 80 MOUNTAIN SPRING ROAD PROPERTY, ONE OF THE HOMES
OWNED BY HIS COMPANY, AROUND 5:35 A.M.
HE THEN DROVE IT 70 MILES SOUTH TO NEW CANAAN.
>> WE CRUNCHED ABOUT 12 HOURS OF VIDEO SURVEILLANCE OF THE
MERRITT PARKWAY, WHERE WE EVENTUALLY LOCATED A RED TOYOTA
TACOMA PICKUP TRUCK MATCHING THE WORKER'S TOYOTA TACOMA DRIVING
SOUTHBOUND.
>> Reporter: AT 7:57 A.M., THE TACOMA, PICTURED HERE IN A
SCREEN GRAB FROM THE ARREST WARRANT, WAS SPOTTED AGAIN BY A
PASSING SCHOOL BUS, THIS TIME IN NEW CANAAN.
THE TACOMA WAS PARKED ON A COUNTRY ROAD NEAR WAVENY PARK.
>> THIS IS WHERE HE HAD PARKED IT.
>> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE FOTIS HAD BROUGHT A
BICYCLE WITH HIM, AND BIKED THE LAST THREE MILES TO JENNIFER'S
HOUSE.
>> HE CAME OVER IN THE BACK ROAD OVER THERE.
HE WAITED FOR HER TO DROP THE KIDS OFF AT SCHOOL.
SHE CAME HOME IN THE MORNING.
SHE ENTERS THE GARAGE.
THAT'S WHERE THE VIOLENT ASSAULT OCCURRED IN THE HOUSE.
>> Reporter: FOTIS LEFT BEHIND TWO PIECES OF EVIDENCE CRITICAL
TO THE INVESTIGATION, SAYS THE SERGEANT: HIS D.N.A. ON THE DOOR
KNOB OF THE MUDROOM, AND A MIXTURE OF HIS AND JENNIFER'S
D.N.A. ON A FAUCET INSIDE JENNIFER'S HOUSE.
>> FOTIS DULOS'S D.N.A. BEING IN THAT HOUSE IS HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS
IN NATURE.
IT SHOULDN'T BE IN THE HOUSE.
>> Reporter: SERGEANT KEN VENTRESCA BELIEVES FOTIS SPENT
ABOUT TWO HOURS CLEANING UP, THEN PUT JENNIFER'S DEAD OR
UNCONSCIOUS BODY IN THE BACK OF HER SUBURBAN AND DROVE IT AWAY.
>> AND THEN HER VEHICLE IS LEFT ABOUT 3.5 MILES AWAY DOWN ON
LAPHAM ROAD NEAR WAVENY PARK.
>> Reporter: JUST 100 FEET FROM WHERE POLICE SAY HE HAD PARKED
THE TACOMA.
> THERE'S STORM DRAINS DOWN HERE.
>> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR THE NEXT
40 MINUTES.
>> WE SEARCHED ALL, ALL THIS WHOLE AREA.
>> Reporter: IT'S POSSIBLE FOTIS USED THAT TIME TO GET RID OF
JENNIFER'S BODY, BUT THEY THINK IT'S MORE LIKELY THAT HE WAS
TRANSFERRING INCRIMINATING MATERIALS FROM THE SUBURBAN TO
THE TACOMA.
>> IF HE HAD THINGS TO MOVE, LIKE A LOT OF BLOODY CLOTHING,
HE HAD TO DO SO CAREFULLY, AND HE HAD TO WAIT FOR BREAKS IN
TRAFFIC.
IT COULD'VE TAKEN 40 MINUTES.
>> WE BELIEVE THE BODY OF JENNIFER DULOS WAS TRANSFERRED
TO THE TACOMA AND TAKEN NORTH.
>> Reporter: WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNIFER AFTER THAT, THEY DON'T
KNOW.
WHAT THEY DO KNOW IS THAT THE TACOMA RETURNED TO 80 MOUNTAIN
SPRING ROAD AT 12:22 P.M.
MICHELLE TOLD THE POLICE THAT FOTIS MET HER FOR LUNCH AROUND
1:00.
MICHELLE'S ATTORNEY, JON SCHOENHORN.
>> I HAVE SEEN NO EVIDENCE THAT MICHELLE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT
WHAT FOTIS DULOS HAD DONE DURING THE DAY, OTHER THAN THE TIME
THAT THEY HAD LUNCH TOGETHER.
>> Reporter: AFTER LUNCH, ACCORDING TO MICHELLE, THEY
SPENT MUCH OF THE AFTERNOON AT THE 80 MOUNTAIN SPRING PROPERTY
CLEANING.
SHE CLAIMS FOTIS WAS GETTING THE HOUSE READY TO SHOW TO A CLIENT.
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.
>> Reporter: TO BE DISCARDED IN THOSE TRASH CANS LATER THAT
EVENING.
FIVE DAYS LATER, FOTIS AND MICHELLE TOOK THE TACOMA TO THE
CAR WASH AND DETAIL SHOP.
>> FOR A 20-YEAR-OLD TOYOTA WORK TRUCK, IT WAS IMMACULATE.
YOU CAN EAT OFF THE FLOORBOARDS IN THIS TRUCK.
THAT'S HOW CLEAN IT WAS, BY THE TIME WE GOT IT.
>> Reporter: BUT FOTIS MADE ONE MAJOR MISCALCULATION, SAYS
RICHARD COLANGELO.
WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THE EMPLOYEE WHO ACTUALLY OWNED THAT
TACOMA?
>> THAT MR. DOULOS WANTED HIM TO CHANGE OUT THE SEATS AND GET RID
OF THEM.
BUT HE KEPT THEM IN HIS GARAGE.
AND WHEN WE WENT TO EXECUTE THE SEARCH WARRANT, HE SAID, "HEY,
DO YOU WANT THE SEATS?" SO HE GAVE US CONSENT TO TAKE
THEM, AND WE TOOK THEM.
>> ON THE PASSENGER SEAT, THERE WAS A BLOOD-LIKE STAIN ON THE
FABRIC OF THE SEAT, WHICH WAS CUT OUT, TESTED AT THE LAB, AND
IT CAME BACK TO JENNIFER DULOS'S D.N.A. BLOOD.
AND THAT WAS PARAMOUNT FOR THIS INVESTIGATION.
>> Reporter: THERE WAS STILL A LOT MISSING.
INVESTIGATORS NEVER FOUND A MURDER WEAPON AND COULDN'T EVEN
POSITIVELY IDENTIFY FOTIS AS THE DRIVER OF THE TACOMA IN THE
SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE, BUT THEY BELIEVED THEY HAD ENOUGH
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TO PROVE FOTIS KILLED HIS WIFE.
BUT THE CASE WOULD NEVER GO TO COURT.
>> I COULD NEVER IMAGINE HE HAD SUCH A TRAGIC END.
>> Reporter: ON A COLD WINTER DAY THREE WEEKS AFTER HIS ARREST
FOR MURDER AND KIDNAPPING, FOTIS DULOS WAS ORDERED TO COURT FOR
AN EMERGENCY HEARING ON WHETHER TO REVOKE HIS BOND.
HE NEVER MADE IT.
>> I CALLED HIM AND CALLED HIM AND CALLED HIM.
>> Reporter: WHEN FOTIS FAILED TO SHOW UP, ONE OF HIS
ATTORNEYS, KEVIN SMITH, ALERTED AUTHORITIES.
EMERGENCY RESPONDERS RUSHED TO HIS HOME.
THEY FOUND HIM LOCKED IN THE GARAGE, IN THE FRONT SEAT OF HIS
SUBURBAN, SURROUNDED WITH PICTURES OF HIS FIVE CHILDREN,
ALMOST DEAD FROM CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING.
E.M.T.s SHIELDED HIS MOTIONLESS BODY AS THEY FRANTICALLY WORKED
TO GET A HEARTBEAT.
>> I CAN TELL YOU THEY ARE STILL ADMINISTERING C.P.R.
>> Reporter: AND THEN, THEY FOUND A FAINT PULSE.
HE WAS STILL ALIVE.
FOTIS WAS AIRLIFTED TO JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER IN THE BRONX.
>> HE IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER A SUICIDE ATTEMPT AT HIS
HOME.
>> Reporter: FOTIS'S SISTER RENA WAS ON THE NEXT TRANSATLANTIC
FLIGHT OUT OF GREECE.
>> WE HAD TO BE THERE BECAUSE WE HAD HOPES THAT MAYBE HE CAN COME
BACK AND HE CAN BREATHE BY HIMSELF.
>> Reporter: BUT IT WAS NOT TO BE.
>> I COULD NEVER IMAGINE THIS WOULD HAPPEN.
>> Reporter: TWO DAYS AFTER ATTEMPTING SUICIDE, FOTIS WAS
TAKEN OFF LIFE SUPPORT.
>> FOTIS DULOS WAS DECLARED DEAD TONIGHT AT 5:32.
>> Reporter: THAT EVENING, "48 HOURS" DROVE WITH NORM
PATTIS TO FOTIS'S JEFFERSON CROSSING HOME IN FARMINGTON.
>> I'M ANGRY, I'M HURT, I'M DETERMINED, I'M SAD.
>> Reporter: PATTIS MET KEVIN SMITH AT THE HOUSE.
TOGETHER THEY SECURED THE HOME, AND REFLECTED ON THE DAY'S
EVENTS.
>> YOU KNOW, MR. DULOS WAS TRIED AND CONVICTED IN THE COURT OF
PUBLIC OPINION, AND ULTIMATELY, IN OUR VIEW, EXECUTED IN THAT
COURT.
>> Reporter: FOTIS WENT TO HIS GRAVE PROFESSING HIS INNOCENCE.
IN HIS SUICIDE NOTE, HE WROTE, "I REFUSE TO SPEND EVEN AN HOUR
MORE IN JAIL FOR SOMETHING I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH."
AS YOU SIT HERE RIGHT NOW, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT FOTIS DULOS
KILLED HIS WIFE, JENNIFER?
>> YES.
>> TO ME, THE SUICIDE OF FOTIS DULOS WAS, IN ESSENCE, AN
ADMISSION OF GUILT IN HIS INVOLVEMENT IN HIS WIFE'S
MURDER.
>> Reporter: DETECTIVE JOHN KIMBALL BELIEVES FOTIS KNEW IT
WAS OVER.
HE KNEW HE WAS LIKELY GOING TO JAIL AFTER THE BOND HEARING, AND
MIGHT NEVER GET OUT.
AND THE MAN WHO HATED TO LOSE WAS NOT ABOUT TO LIVE WITH A
MURDER CONVICTION.
>> BECAUSE FOTIS COMMITTED SUICIDE BEFORE HE WENT TO TRIAL,
HE WILL NEVER BE CONVICTED OF HIS WIFE'S MURDER.
IT'S FRUSTRATING THAT HE DIDN'T SEE JUSTICE.
>> Reporter: BUT RENA SAYS SHE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING TO
CLEAR HER BROTHER'S NAME.
>> HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY TRIAL.
SO THEY CANNOT CALL HIM A MURDERER WITHOUT A TRIAL.
>> Reporter: EVEN WITH FOTIS DEAD, THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
IS MOVING FORWARD.
WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE MICHELLE TROCONIS?
>> WELL, I THINK THE RIGHT EXPRESSION HERE IS, SHE'S LEFT
HOLDING THE BAG.
>> BUT THEY'VE SPENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF TAXPAYER MONEY.
SO HERE THEY ARE.
THEY GOT TO SHOW SOMETHING FOR THEIR EFFORT AT THIS POINT.
>> Reporter: MICHELLE TROCONIS ISN'T THE ONLY ONE FACING TRIAL.
FOTIS'S FRIEND AND SOMETIME LAWYER KENT MAWHINNEY IS ALSO
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY.
HE WAS AT FOTIS'S HOUSE THE MORNING JENNIFER WENT MISSING,
AND POLICE SAY HE WAS "FREQUENTLY VAGUE OR EVASIVE...
AND OTHERWISE SUSPICIOUS TO INVESTIGATORS."
BUT, AFTER SPENDING NINE MONTHS IN JAIL, HE IS FREE ON A REDUCED
BAIL.
HE HAS TURNED STATE'S WITNESS, AND, ACCORDING TO MICHELLE'S
ATTORNEY JON SCHOENHORN, HE IS NOW IMPLICATING MICHELLE TO SAVE
HIMSELF.
IN A STATEMENT TO "48 HOURS," SCHOENHORN WROTE, "THESE NEW
ACCUSATIONS DIRECTLY CONTRADICT WHAT HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS IN
2019, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CHANCE TO CROSS-EXAMINE HIM."
KENT MAWHINNEY'S ATTORNEY TOLD US HE COULDN'T COMMENT ON AN
ONGOING CRIMINAL CASE.
BOTH MICHELLE TROCONIS AND KENT MAWHINNEY HAVE PLEADED NOT
GUILTY.
IF EITHER ONE OF THEM CAME UP WITH INFORMATION THAT LED TO
FINDING JENNIFER, WOULD THERE BE A DEAL FOR THEM?
>> BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M A VERY OPEN-MINDED PERSON, SO I'M NOT
GOING TO CLOSE THE DOOR ON ANYTHING.
>> Reporter: I WILL TAKE THAT AS A YES, THAT'S HOW MUCH YOU WOULD
LIKE TO KNOW WHERE JENNIFER IS.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> Reporter: NOT A DAY GOES BY THAT SERGEANT KENNETH VENTRESCA
DOESN'T THINK ABOUT JENNIFER DULOS.
>> I'M CONFIDENT WE ARE GOING TO FIND HER BODY, AND WE ARE NOT
GOING TO STOP.
YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT THE KIDS, AND NOW THE FIVE CHILDREN
DON'T HAVE A MOM OR A DAD.
>> LIKE, THEY ALL EMBODY JENNIFER IN SO MANY WAYS.
AND SHE JUST DID SUCH A GREAT JOB OF INSTILLING THEM WITH LOVE
AND DELIGHT.
>> Reporter: JENNIFER LEFT A LEGACY IN WORDS.
A PARTING GIFT TO THE FIVE CHILDREN SHE ADORED.
>> "BREATHE, BE ALIVE, SLOW DOWN, ENJOY LIFE.
DO LESS, BUT LIVE MORE FULLY.
HEALTHY, CALM, JOYFUL AND AT PEACE."
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