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[Music] July 2017 during court proceedings 48 year-old Jennifer Dulles requested an
emergency custody order begging the court for sole custody of her five children a portion of the request reads
as follows quote I'm afraid of my husband I know that filing for divorce and filing this motion will enrage him I
know he will retaliate by trying to harm me in some way he has the attitude that
he must always win at all costs he is dangerous and ruthless when he believes that he has been wronged during the
course of our marriage he told me about sickening revenge fantasies and plans to
cause physical harm to others who have wronged him for example flying a plane over an ex client's home and dropping a
brick on his house I fear for my family safety and I believe him to be highly capable and vengeful enough to take the
children and disappear Jennifer's husband 49 year old foetus dualists denied all Jennifer's assertions
responded that Jennifer was unstable and unfit to parent their children he said that she took the children from him
without warning Judge Thomas colon denied the emergency custody order instead putting in place a
plan of custody whereby the parents would share legal custody while the divorce was settled judge Colin wrote it
is clear that in the weeks immediately preceding the filing of this action the atmosphere in the party's home
deteriorated the plaintiff was upset over the breakdown of the marriage and what she perceived to be the defendants
controlling and aggressive behavior the defendant became upset because he felt he could no longer control the situation
and unilaterally dictate the outcome arguments followed including in the presence of the children things were
said in anger however the court is hopeful that once things settled down and cooler heads prevail these extremely
well-educated and accomplished parents will be able to reach an agreement on a mutually acceptable parenting plan with
the assistance of their experienced and talented counsel but as we shall soon see cooler heads did not prevail less
than two years later on May 24th 2019 at 6:59 p.m. the New Canaan Connecticut Police Department received a report of a
missing woman her name Jennifer Dulles this report was filed by phone by a laurel watts this is true crime garage
and this is the case of Jennifer Dulles Botes duelists grew up in Greece part of
a large traditional Greek family he excelled in both snow skiing and waterskiing
Fotis attended Brown University graduating in 1989 with degrees and economics and applied mathematics after
Fotis worked for some big-name firms such as Ernst & Young doing management consulting he got his master's degree in
finance from Columbia University this in 1997 he married his first wife in 2000 but then he met Jennifer Farber in the
Aspen Airport Jennifer was the beautiful and privileged daughter of Hilliard and
Gloria Farber because of Hilliard successes this was an extremely wealthy family Jennifer had also attended brown
when Fotis was there but they didn't know each other back then Jennifer too got her master's degree this was in
writing from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts she was a very busy writer we are talking journalism essays plays and
screenplays and even a novel she loved reading and traveling it's not clear when exactly Jennifer and Fotis started
seeing each other but it is clear that it was when Fotis was still married he divorced in July of 2004 and Jennifer
and foetus were married within months they lived in the Farmington Valley area in Connecticut where photos started up
his own company the for group a prominent residential builder constructing custom luxury homes in the
wealthy Farmington valley and Fairfield County areas of Connecticut bonuses mo was to build a mansion or even a small
development and move his family into the new home until it's sold Jennifer and photos had two sets of twins and a baby
girl in quick succession yeah they had a total of three boys and two girls the family was very busy with multiple
nannies employed at once people were coming and going from their homes constantly this because
foetus ran his business out of his home whichever house he was living in at the time right now before we get too far
along one thing I really want to point out here I want to point this out now because later in this case there will be
a lot of moving pieces so please just note that foetus runs his business out of his home so when we say
the office or his house either way it's the same location this did not always go
over well with the neighbors because imagine this you're living in this very wealthy upscale area and this guy's got
trucks and men coming and going constantly and what's supposed to be this quiet residential area but also not
to mention that he is of a different ethnicity so sometimes that doesn't play too well in these areas one neighbor on
the for group built called a sack for homes this in an area called Avon called the police on foetus numerous times for
things like residential zoning violations and noise violations this former neighbor recounted to us that
foetus was enraged by this and confronted her on the street on a number of occasions on one occasion
threatening her in her own driveway despite this foetus was generally considered to be charming and
charismatic by most however you can see by this behavior he was a hothead right he insisted on getting his way he was in
my opinion controlling an arrogant as well also seems like he was such a bully towards women at some point the family
moved to Farmington the address was for Jefferson crossing this was in fact constructed by foetus company this is a
massive brick mansion with six bedrooms in a 13,000 square feet of living space oh yeah this area you could play
baseball in this house you could put 20 of my houses in that house this area the Farmington Hills is very upscale
Fotis was developing a number of properties in this very immediate area now it's not clear exactly when the
marriage started to go south there was some good in some bad as there is with most marriages it is said by friends of
Jennifer that she at some point was suspicious she suspected foetus had a wandering eye he was away with him
wait so put that eye on a leash so she met him why while he was married they had a fair that obviously she knew about
and now she's questioning his wandering eye so when the wonder and I works out in your favor it's ok but now it's not
okay you know I I always immediately think of that as well but then I try to like put myself in the position of
somebody that finds himself in a relationship like this and then I start to wonder I'm like I think what the way
this goes down captain is that a lot of times when you are the one being pursued
or you're starting up this new relationship with this married man or married woman I think you make a lot of
assumptions or at least believe the other person that the marriage that they're in is just horrible like it's a
it's a nightmare it's already over we're living separate lives it's just a matter
of signing some papers well that's what them can make you think right right and then you get involved in this and you
think well we're truly in love he wouldn't do that to me or she wouldn't do that to me we have a great
relationship we have five children and we live in a big beautiful brick mansion that we play baseball in and I'm not
saying this happened for for certain because there's no evidence of that but I have sometimes met couples where
instantly I'm going to this guy seems a little controlling of his wife and they normally have a lot of children it's
almost like they put that into play as a way to control their people at home yeah
well and as you said you get the vibe that he's a bit of a bully towards women there's there
one way to bully a woman is in mistreat her is to go outside of the marriage and
they these two are both attractive well-educated people the other issue and I think where her
suspicions come into play is he's gone a lot he's away from the home a lot he's at water ski competitions that he
participated in these are in other states sometimes in other countries he's out skiing an aspen or visiting greece
because he has extended family there then in the early 2017 they decided to sell the home they listed the house and
enrolled the kids in the New Canaan country school but all of this blew up when Jennifer discovered in March of
2017 that foetus was in fact having an affair this you know enter Michelle true CONUS was she a ski instructor she was I
believe down in Argentina so I was just making a joke she was involved in skiing
in some form right now things deteriorated fast once this took place on June 30 2017
Lauren al Media who by this point has been employed by the doula PSA's for over four years now as one of their
nannies she says that she witnessed the following she heard yelling and thudding
footsteps as Jennifer ran through the home being chased by a clearly angry foetus Jennifer ran into the master
bedroom and slammed the door behind her Lauren and one of the children were already in this room so they're in the
room with her as well and she says she could hear foetus pounding on the door and rage Jennifer braced her back
against the locked door and photos finally walked away realizing you know probably realizing that one of his kids
and the nanny were in this room as well and had witnessed the whole thing right shaking in fear Jennifer told
Lauren that she was very afraid of her husband and that he had threatened to take all five of their kids away from
her and moved to Greece a lauren soon after observed another incident where she found Jennifer crying in the
driveway she told Lauren that foetus had tried to run her down with his vehicle and she had to jump out of the way of
his car as he drove off in in another fit of rage yeah but to be fair a lot of times if your friends going through a
divorce you only kind of hear one side of whatever is happening and especially if you've been friends with that couple
for a long time sometimes you have to you know take that story with a little bit of a grain of
salt and say is this actually happening is he being as threatening as she claims
or is this just to get me on her side well it could be to get her on her side the the only the only issue I take with
that is we one of these things events she witnessed herself right right she was present there and probably afraid as
well and she's look I'm sure that they had some kind of friendly relationship but at the end of the day she's the
nanny she works for both of them right you know all these things out devil's advocate there these things are all
adding up of course and eventually Jennifer is going to have enough of this behavior she packs up her things and
left taking the five children with her now at this time the five children they range
in age from 8 to 13 she's away with the kids and she's going to really upset foetus further because not only did she
take the children but she's refusing to respond to his calls and to his texts right now at this point in her life is
she avid writer no I think the the writing slowed down significantly once she started having children right
because sometimes as this divorce happens you'll see the was one of the parents used the
children as leverage go away not respond and then sometimes the other spouse uses
money as leverage but she comes from money so I'm just pointing out that she has a lot more options than the average
mother with five kids would have oh yes you're you're spot-on man she comes not only does she come from money she comes
from wealth right her her family is extremely wealthy and she wasn't like snobby about it or weird about it or
anything like that she was from all accounts I could find she's pretty down-to-earth I think the major concern
here and we've seen this unfortunately too many times where someone has easy access to live in another country right
takes the children and goes to that other country and then we have a hard time getting those kids back for the
parent that is stuck here well in this scenario we've seen it through the throughout the time of doing this show
and and learning a lot about abusive situations and here Jennifer's in this abusive situation and a lot of times
these women that that have the five kids that have no money that have no means because they're staying at home and
doing this huge job of raising the kids that the spouse then like I said controls that money and these women in
abusive situations have a really hard time of just it's not as easy as just packing up everything and getting out of
there so the fact that she has these resources is really good yeah and I think the threat of what she is afraid
of is very real here we have a guy that could very easily just take the children
he says he's taking him to McDonald's one afternoon and next thing you know they're on a plane to Greece and he's
shacking up with family there and she has lost her children right so she's not responding to his phone calls or to his
texts I think it's out of fear that he's going to take the children not so much that
she's trying to hold them or dangle them over his head like some kind of carrot here
he gets upset he calls the police this is on June 19th to report his children as missing saying quote I'm worried
about my wife and kids because they left to go to New York and I haven't been able to get in touch with them I've been
texting and I see that the texts are being delivered but no one is responding to me
end quote police found the children I would also really like to read what those texts are because I'm sure they're
not just hey are you okay please let me know you're okay I'm sure those texts were verbally abusive well the the
police's statement is that they did find the children and they found them quote safe and secure with their mother
now Jennifer moved into 69 Wells Lane in New Canaan this is a very exclusive town
of less than 20,000 people a suburb of New York City this house I mean it sounds like you know I hate to keep kind
of running around this here that she comes from wealth and has plenty of money most people in this situation
would find themselves you know dire straits we don't have much money we're gonna have to go live someplace else on
an emergency situation the house that she's renting is a nine thousand eight hundred square feet home that that the
Zillow website estimates its value at three point five million dollars we can't go from thirteen thousand to
twelve hundred yeah thirteen thousand nine thousand it's also closer to her mother to
Jennifer's mother who is quite helpful with the children and in with Jennifer now she Jennifer filed for divorce on
June 20th 2017 and from the get-go the proceedings were contentious the two parties have filed nearly five hundred
motions between them and her court filings Jennifer claimed that photos quote exhibited irrational unsafe
bullying threatening and controlling behavior and quote heck you heard the statement in the trailer of his violent
fantasies of revenge against people who have wronged or threatening to take the kids and go
to Greece no she also said that photos made a specific threat to kidnap the children and take them to Greece or
another country and quote you will never find us is what she says he said if if she did not agree to his terms in the
divorce he's trying to control this whole divorce thing Jennifer emphasized that foetus is scary behavior had
significantly intensified as the proceedings went along and states that she was now afraid for her safety the
judge required the doula says to refrain from any travel keep the kids away from
any romantic partners that they may have and to work to establish a mutually agreeable custodial plan foetus was
losing it with this situation this situation is beyond his control he reasserted his claims that Jennifer was
an unfit mother and that she was a pill popper this and all in the court filings
we spoke with one of Jennifer's friends who saw foetus at an Avon Connecticut restaurant sometime after Jennifer left
the home Fotis insisted on telling her over and over again that his wife was crazy and that she was a pill popper and
to be brutally honest here captain I'm kind of dumbing that down a little bit it was it went on and on and on with
this guy trying to convince this person that Jennifer was just some crazy pill popping unfit mother yeah I mean he's
trying to say hey she's crazy for wanting to divorce me even though I'm cheating on her well he's one hell of a
skier yeah so we already named the woman that foetus was having an affair with Michelle Warner CONUS possibly could
have been more well a little background here I mean it appears that their relationship was pretty tight Michelle
was seven years younger than photos she worked at Ford with him at some point she was from
Venezuela went to college and Argentina and had been a TV host and producer for a ski show on ESPN on the ESPN network
in Argentina of course Michelle moved in with foetus and she was a mother to a preteen daughter who lived with the both
of them now jennifer requested that the court prevent her kids from being exposed to this woman that her husband
was living with in January of 2018 after months of back-and-forth legal motions and hearings Jennifer again filed a
request for an emergency custody order this time a different judge found that foetus had violated court orders
multiple times he lied under oath and manipulated his kids into lying for him and a psychiatrist hired by the guardian
ad litem found that focuses actions were causing psychological harm to the children for people who don't know what
a guardian ad litem is it's a it's basically the lawyer for the children that is appointed by the court so they
act in the best interest of the children they interview the children about each parent they also interview the parents
and other people around them to get a idea of how the inner household works yes and I think this is so important and
I love that we do this because you can't trust going into this you know you're thinking of course both these parents
would have the children's best interest at heart right but that's usually not well I shouldn't say usually but a lot
of the times it's not the case I guess right because one of them could be trying to manipulate the system or try
to work things in their favor look I understand that our judicial system is in the courts system that we have is not
perfect but it's things like this think well but it's things like this that remind me that it is a good system that
it's set up to be a good system and it's one of the better ones in the world well
look there's a lot of people out there that are good parents they're just bad at being
married so but going through that process of the dissolution of the marriage people can act like fools and
so I think by having the guardian ad litem in place it kind of calms that down as far as the parents interaction
and relationship with their kids during this process on March 20th 2019 just last year the court definitively awarded
Jennifer sole physical custody of the kids and final decision-making authority regarding the children foetus was
awarded only regular supervised public visitation and recorded speaker phone telephone calls with the kids
specifically he would be allowed to see his kids on Wednesdays and alternating Fridays and Saturdays for a couple of
hours at a time but again only in the presence of a court-appointed supervisor and in public places he could not have
private conversations with the kids or speak to them in Greek he was not permitted to enter the home where
Jennifer and the kids lived under any circumstances any communication between Jennifer and photos was also restricted
and was to be monitored by the court on May 24th 2019 at 6:59 p.m. the New Canaan Connecticut police department
received a report Jennifer dualists who resided at 69 Wells Lane was believed to
be missing this was filed by phone by a friend of Jennifers Laurel watts the friend received a call from Jennifer's
nanny remember Lauren we have a Laurel and a little Lauren who was with the with four of Jennifer's children in New
York City the way this comes about captain is Jennifer missed three scheduled appointments that day not only
that Jennifer is not answering the nanny's calls and texts something she said never happened and remember by this
point in time in our timeline Lauren has worked for Jen for over six years so we seem to have a
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two officers drove out to Jennifer's residence once there they are trying the usual
tactics knocking on the doors and windows looking in the windows and calling Jennifer's cellphone they are
getting absolutely zero response so after many failed attempts to reach Jennifer or get someone to answer the
door Lauren over the phone gave the officers the code to the keypad on the three-car
garage the officers made their way in immediately they spotted quote suspected blood evidence this is found on the
floor on the and on the driver's side of a Range Rover parked in the middle bay mm-hmm so right away this welfare check
this possible missing persons call is going to turn into a full-blown investigation the investigators find
additional evidence specifically several suspected fresh bloodstains on the garage floor spatter on the wall drops
of blood and partial bloody shoe prints a black 2017 suburban SUV was missing this according to The Nanny so the very
smart New Canaan PD contacted the Connecticut State Police Western District Major Crime Squad
for investigative and crime-scene processing so almost immediately this is a joint criminal investigation between
the New Canaan PD and the Connecticut State Police yeah plus we at some point we're going to get others involved and
this will include federal and other local agencies at 69 Wells Lane this whole place
now obviously captain is a crime scene police quickly established a timeline of Jennifers morning first she drove her
suburban and dropped the kids off at school this at 7:58 a.m. surveillance footage collected from the area shows
returned home immediately thereafter arriving at 8:05 a.m. parking the suburban in the garage the door closed
behind her she was not seen after that time and no other vehicles left from or arrived to the home until the suburban
left again at 10:25 a.m. even more troubling around 8:30 p.m. that night at Waverley Park this is just three miles
from the home Jennifer suburban was found abandoned the black one yeah so this is a 300 acre
park in New Canaan and it's a fancy park there are wooded areas but it's a city park not a State Forest right at this
time the New Canaan police issued a Silver Alert for Jennifer and her family issued a statement to the public as well
asking for help and or witnesses so by this time captain law-enforcement are searching both the park and the home
let's go through their findings crime scene techs at the home went to work swabbing the garage and surfaces inside
the home as well they found blood spatter in the garage on the wall and on the driver's side door of the Range
Rover as well as a large stain or stains on the garage floor that appeared to be
cleaned up blood this was wiped in a manner that left obvious stains to the trained eye partial bloody shoeprint
impressions are found on the garage floor droplets of blood were in various spots on the exterior of the Range Rover
well it seems like there was blood evidence all over this garage there was even blood that was found on the both
garbage cans and on the handle of one of the garbage cans as well all of this blood proved to be of human origin now a
little side note here there are many news articles that state that blood was found
on a tablet and cell phone which was found in the master bedroom this is not true it's not true a tablet and cell
phone were found in the master bedroom they were taken into evidence but they didn't have blood on them and to push it
a step further it's unclear whose phone and tablet this was right inside the house there was no indication of a
struggle or confrontation the attack seemed to have been limited to just the garage as for the suburban that was
found in the park when it was located it's lights it's running lights were on and it's transmission was in Reverse
blood spatter and other blood evidence was found on both the interior and exterior of the vehicle including the
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Jennifer's cell phone records and determine the following the last text from her phone was to the nanny to
Lauren at 757 a.m. on the morning of the 24th yeah then the phone left the wells
Lane home around 10:30 a.m. and arrived at the Waverly Park around 10:30 8 a.m. it remained there in the same location
in the park until it was disconnected from the network at 11:09 a.m. when it last pinged near a tower on a tower I'm
sorry near the park the phone has never been located that we know of if it has been found we've not been told that by
police right police did the man they did so much work in this case it's very impressive
not only how much work they did but how quickly they moved and how smart their movements in tactics were here they
collected surveillance footage from nearly 80 sources primarily this would be neighbors and businesses near
Jennifer's home and the park right so they got footage from all the major roadways in between
New Canaan and the Farmington area video showed that at around 10:25 a.m. a black
2017 Chevy Suburban pulled out a Jennifer's garage and drove off various cameras captured it driving
a route toward the park where it was eventually found police surmised that Jennifer's phone was inside the vehicle
because her cell phone arrived in the park area at 10:38 a.m. basically the same time as noted this footage showed
no vehicles arriving or leaving Jennifer's property other than her black suburban so it looks like the person or
persons involved in her disappearance and this is from others others statements kuo entered the residence
from an area not covered by surveillance cameras and quote according to police records surveillance footage also
captured a vehicle traveling northbound on the Merritt Parkway going away from the park and toward Farmington this at
11:12 a.m. just three minutes after Jennifer's phone went off of the network so according to the time frame police
had now established there was a 30 minute gap between wind Jennifer's phone arrived at the park and when it was shut
down at 11:09 a.m. right and then three minutes later just three minutes later someone is seen on video driving away at
101 a.m. on May 25th the New Canaan PD called Fotis doulas and asked him some very basic questions one of these was
the date of his last visit to New Canaan right he responded that it was on May 22nd when he at last had a supervised
visit with his children the day after Jennifer was reported missing May 25th Fotis met with New Canaan police
at headquarters this was at 2:40 in the afternoon he was very polite in the manner that he showed up about three
hours late for the scheduled meeting detectives had to sit there waiting on him now upon request foetus did hand
over his iPhone and gave them the passcode to the phone but right he very quickly demanded it be returned when he
realized they intended to keep it like like we didn't want to just look at this for a couple seconds dude we were gonna
analyze your phone and he's like oh crap I need that back well he was this embarrassed by all the dick pics he had
saved the police informed foetus that he had that they had secured his phone with
the intention of obtaining a warrant to search its contents basically they're saying we don't have the warrant yet
you've handed us your phone you want it back we only asked for it because we intend on getting a search warrant and
I'm sure they're probably telling him there's no reason why we wouldn't be able to secure this warrant you you
you're at a loss here buddy so immediately when this goes down Fotis says end of interview and he leaves now
he did have an attorney present for all of this this going on here now a forensic exam of foetus is cellphone
plus a second phone that he was required to turn over pursuant to the search warrant that we just mentioned gave
police some more information according to the search and seizure affidavit foetus his phone had answered a call on
the morning of May 24th that's the morning in question at 8:24 a.m. but Fotis attorney made several public
statements about foetus having an alibi phone call presumably this was it supposedly a call from a friend in
Greece but there was more they also discovered the following from approximately 10:00 p.m. on May 23rd
until 116 p.m. on the 24th photos his phone was at his residence at for Jefferson crossing
again is also his office right the alarm on the cellphone had gone off at 4:20 a.m. on the 24th and was manually shut
off immediately thereafter the phone stayed at the home and received incoming calls and texts but showed no outgoing
activity at 1:16 p.m. the cellphone left focuses residence and traveled to another home owned by his company the
four group this was at 80 Mountain Spring Road in Farmington 2.1 miles away it arrived there at 1:30 7 p.m. the
phone stayed there for more than two and a half hours before traveling back to for Jefferson crossing this at 4:17 p.m.
then at 5:21 the phone returned to the mountain Spring Road home and then went back to Jefferson Crossing again then at
7:10 p.m. the phone traveled to Albany Avenue and Hartford Connecticut now anybody that has followed this case
knows what's going to go down here because this was all over the news before we get into that a little
explanation of geography is an order here from the upscale Farmington and Avon suburbs where foetus in family had
bounced around from new construction to new construction Albany Avenue is the most direct route into downtown Hartford
in just a matter of four or five miles albany avenue takes travelers directly to the inner city
along with photos phone on albany avenue for half an hour between 710 and 741 p.m. was michelle trakone is's phone
intrigued by this movement of the phones investigators obtained surveillance footage from the hartford pd cameras
that are located throughout the city right this is going to be able to tell them how many people are in the car
possibly yeah in the vehicle that we're talking about the footage captured a black Ford Raptor pickup truck making
multiple stops multiple times of multiple locations those are expensive trucks this is along
several miles of Albany Avenue now this surveillance footage did not capture the
license plate of the vehicle but police were able to determine that the wraptor bore many similarities to one owned by
phonus Dulles video footage showed several black trash bags in the bed of the truck so what was this truck doing
driving along stopping every hundred yards or so well they could see a Caucasian male wearing a baseball hat
and a light-colored shirt emerging from the vehicle at each stop and placing garbage bags and trash receptacles one
portion of the video also captured a woman of thin build leaning out of the truck another piece of video showed the
man inserting an object into a storm drain at the corner of Albany Avenue and Garden Street did you say insuiting I
did okay inserting an item in 13 should have got Morgan to say these lines surveillance footage also showed the man
disposing of a rug or could it be the missing WeatherTech mat from the rear of the suburban investigators pulled video
surveillance from Focuses neighbors homes and see that's the thing that people don't date people's murderous
brains have not caught up to technology yet everybody's got a camera on their on
their doorbell now everybody's got cameras there they're cheap to install we've advertised several great brands on
this show you can put them on your house and guess what if your neighbors are up
to some dirty deeds done dirt cheap done dirt cheap or doing them you know some deep do-it-yourself done dirt I can't
even talk what I'm gonna catch you on camera and that's what we're seeing here captain they see video surveillance from
his neighbor's homes that show the Ford Raptor arriving at for Jefferson crossing at 8:20 that sorry 8:12 that
night right it would have taken about 20 minutes to get back that address from Albany Avenue so this
is all lining up there's a lot of things to suggest that the person that they're
seeing in that Raptor that's making the stops is in fact foetus doulas and his girlfriend at the time yeah we got to
make sure that that is foetus in thirteen well police seized the Raptor this on May 31st it was just one of
several vehicles photos had registered to him on the same day the 31st a week after Jennifer vanished detectives
obtained warrants to collect DNA and fingerprints from foetus doulas and Michelle truck owners who have not been
by this point even remotely helpful in this investigation while detectives sat outside of their house awaiting for the
return of the couple they had a bit of luck you know sometimes you get lucky in these investigations this guy and I'm I
struggle with his first name I think his first name captain is Powell uh-huh but
his last name is guy meaning he's the project manager for photos his company an employee of focuses he drove up in a
vehicle registered to the company this is a Jeep Cherokee detectives inquired as to what he had been doing he told
them that he stopped by focuses other house and Avon to remove the seats from Focuses Porsche this was at Focuses
insistence okay there the seats from this Porsche yeah were in the back of this Jeep this is obviously strange
right right when Michelle and foetus showed up that evening they were ordered to drive to the State Police barracks
there detectives obtained DNA hair and fingerprint samples from both and when they did so they noticed foetus was
covered in poison ivy now of course foetus is a builder his defense no doubt that this could be from
any of his building site but what's interesting here is that within a week of his wife vanishing
right foetus developed symptoms that he was possibly in the woods at some point afterward both were permitted to leave
the police station then just a week after his wife was reported missing foetus doulas was arrested on June 1st
2019 the charges tampering with physical evidence and hindering prosecution so they were able to positively ID him on
that that footage dropping trash can bags into sewers and other places I think that to get a 100% confirmation
that it was in fact him and Michelle they're not 100% on it but they're pretty darn close they got out they got
a lot of things backing up their statement that they say we believe this to be foetus and Michelle right now his
mugshot when he's arrested foetus is head nearly shaved at this time a former neighbor told us that foetus never
shaved his head before so this is weird is he trying to change or disguise himself in some manner yeah we see this
constantly foetus is criminal attorney norm pattice she didn't diet bleached blonde like Scott Peterson did I noticed
you showed up to the garage today fully bald Oh fully shaved that's the work of the Lord
foetus is criminal attorney is his name is norm panis he made public statements that photos could not have been involved
in what happened to Jennifer on the morning of the 24th of May as he had been on the phone this was a call he
took a phone call at this time he also said the photos his girlfriend Michelle truck onus could provide him a complete
alibi for that morning now we should point out though on the day that foetus was arrested Michelle too was arrested
and charged with the same charges during the arrest interview of Michelle Sheetal
old detectives that foetus was home with her on the morning of the 24th and that
they had been intimate in the shower yeah I don't believe a thing this piece of [ __ ] has to say she said that she
made breakfast for her daughter and drove her to school that morning Fotis was in the for group office with
his business lawyer Kent Mawhinney Mawhinney Mulaney something like that at 8:15 a.m. she did errands she ran
errands between 9:00 and 11:30 a.m. this included a drop-off of a purse to a friend who had left it at her and photos
his home the night before a trip to Simsbury stop and shop where she took pictures with the store robot you know
like some stores have a you know a mascot of sorts okay that's what I take this to be the store robot Marty and
another visit she made to a different friend's house she danced around the question of whether Fotis was home all
of this time you know she's simply saying when I left he was still there and his business attorney was there with
him and when I got back they were both still there so that's her way of kind of saying that he was at the house the
whole morning without fully saying I saw him at the house the entire morning right so she says that at some point she
had lunch with Fotis that day I'm guessing this would be right around the time of when we have the police saying
Fotis his phone finally leaves the house what makes for a decent alibis we know Fotis his phone was by the police's
statements located in that home all morning long until they left for lunch right the problem is all activity on the
phone is coming into the phone none of it is going out she said that later that day Fotis
called her and asked her to come over to the other home this is the 80 Mountain Spring Road house to help clean it for a
showing the next day she brought over a vacuum Swiffer paper towels Clorox and garbage bags
she said she arrived between 2:15 and 3:00 p.m. but we actually know this to be different
it was 137 PM foetus is visible on surveillance footage driving his suburban this is a different suburban
for those keeping score at home over to the mountain spring road house at 136 with Michelle following in the Jeep and
they clearly arrived at the home at 137 we have video footage backing this up right but at some point wasn't her phone
and his phone track together like as far as like the cell phone ping technology yeah they they know this to be the case
and they're going to ask her why you know why is your phone in his phone traveling along Albany Avenue on the
night of May 24th at the same time to which Michelle said foetus wanted to go to Starbucks in West Hartford she
admitted to investigators that Fotis drove the Raptor and that he did stop multiple times to deposit items wrapped
in trash bags into receptacles she told them that she did not know what was in the trash bags and that she really
didn't know what he was doing she said that she was on the phone the entire time and really wasn't paying any
attention Michelle confirmed that the video footage obtained by the police of the
Raptor was in fact of her in photos so she's cooperative on that level yeah but she's yeah that's me that's him
that's his Raptor but I don't know what he was doing and I wasn't paying attention and you think you'd ask we
also have footage that shows this is from the Starbucks that she mentioned it shows the couple entering the store at
7:59 p.m. Fotis and michelle both posted bond and were released from police custody
they were required though to wear ankle monitoring bracelets they were required to remain in the state and to surrender
their passports both of these suit that they got matching bracelets yeah both of
these individuals would be considered flight risk so you you have to take some additional
to make sure that they are going to stay and actually your that you will see them
in court eventually right the next day police executed an unannounced search warrant of Fotis house this is when they
seized the following items various computers servers flash drives and hard drives stop and shop plastic trash bags
seven cell phones and the trash can in the office this is in the trashcan of his office they found a document it
outlined the activities and I'm using air quotes there of foetus and Michelle on Friday May 24th and Saturday May 25th
it mirrored exactly what Michelle told investigators about foetus being home with her and photos having a meeting
with his business lawyer this appears to be a cheat sheet to help them prepare for the interrogation you know let's get
our stories straight now police want to talk to Michelle again because a ZZ Top would say they got me under pressure
mm-hmm her story is going to change she admits that she cannot account for focus's whereabouts on the day in
question from about 8:00 a.m. until noon or maybe even 1:00 p.m. she goes on to tell the detect detectives when she woke
up at 6:40 a.m. Fotis was home but he left the house soon thereafter and left his cell phone
in the home office she says sometime around 1:00 they had a quick lunch before Fotis left again at
approximately 3:00 p.m. she received the call from Fotis asking her to bring the
cleaning supplies to the mountain spring road property again we know that this was closer to 115 at around 4:00 p.m.
photos his employee guy Meany arrived and again we have video footage to suggest that this was actually at 5 p.m.
at around 5:20 p.m. she says she went home detectives confronted Michelle with the
and written notes that they had found in the trash Michelle admitted to investigators that this list of specific
times and activities was written by her and foetus to quote help them remember and quote what they did on the 24th she
said these were all false the notes were false detectives referred to the notes as the alibi script right so how are
they false there's she's saying somebody else made them up well remember her story changes hmm the the notes that
they find on this document are of the first story that she gives to detectives now once they're showing hey we got
evidence that this stuff isn't real she's walking it back right and saying look okay this these are false
statements that we wrote on these notes this was - yes it was to help us remember what we did that day but
they're they're all a lie she admitted to detectives that Fotis said to her at one point in their relationship that I
hope Jennifer disappears detectives told Michelle that they believed Fotis killed
Jennifer and involved Michelle by making her clean up she said quote I hate him because of that
end quote she also said and this this is weird that she had been cleaning the house not cleaning Jennifer take that
for what you will but I find that statement to be what disturbing well she's basically implying
that she was cleaning the house and that Fotis was cleaning the body of Jennifer
investigators said Michelle continued to provide answers which were vague evasive
and contradictory they believed that she was withholding a significant amount of
information and they also said that they had identified several aspects which indicate a significant amount of
pre-planning prior to this crime the detectives returned to the Jefferson Crossing house
Michelle on June 7th they were seen searching the woods behind the home we don't know if anything was found during
these searches but it appears not only is she walking back her statements and changing her story that she might be
working with police at this time pal guy Meany now remember he's the guy that removed the car seats from the Porsche
placing them in the back of the Jeep I mean II told them meaning investigators the following he says on
May 24th he was working a four group construction site in New Canaan this is three point four miles from Jennifer's
house he was driving the Ford Raptor registered to the fore group each day of that week earlier that week on Monday
the 20th guy Meeny parked his own vehicle this is a red Toyota Tacoma in the driveway of Focuses place and drove
the Raptor most of the week this apparently is normal practice he typically would switch out the vehicles
at the end of the work week on the 23rd he did not see photos all day until he received a text at 213 when he was asked
if guy meanie was planning on returning to the office guy meanie got there around 4:30 and says no one was home so
he proceeded over to the house at 80 Mountain Spring Road also owned by the for group arriving at 4:58 when guy
meaning arrived he was surprised to find photos and Michelle at the home and asked them what they were doing they
responded that they were cleaning guy meanies tacoma his truck was there as well i mean IAM Fotis left at 502 to
shuttle the two for group vehicles the Raptor and a black suburban back to for Jefferson crossing Michelle stayed
behind with the white Jeep and guy me nice Tacoma Fotis then drove guy meanie back to
Mountain spring road to pick up his own vehicle the Tacoma but it was locked Michelle had locked it and taken the
keys photos asked guy meanie to just keep the Raptor over the weekend and he foetus would return the Tacoma to guy
meaning later right guy Meany decline and foetus had to call Michelle at 5:16 p.m. to drive over with the keys guy
Meany got into his own vehicle the Tacoma and drove home this may seem on the surface as a lot of nonsense but
really captain what does this look like took to me it looks like foetus is trying to set up a situation where he is
able to keep the Tacoma right and use this other guy's vehicle for what we don't know now laid out in the second
arrest warrant detectives have identified the vehicle used in the commission of the crime as a 2001 toyota
tacoma guy Meany said that he had been told by photos to discard the old seats in his tacoma take out the seats of your
truck man and throw him away and replace them with seats taken from my Porsche this plus the fact that foetus had
access to the vehicle all week made detectives extremely suspicious yeah they went back and pulled surveillance
footage along likely routes between Dulles as residents and the crime scene and sure enough they found the red
Tacoma belonging to guy Meany traveling at various points between Farmington and
Lapham Road in New Canaan on May 24th specifically the red Tacoma traveled southbound on Merritt Parkway and went
to New Canaan a school bus dashcam video spotted the Tacoma parked at 7:40 a.m. at a turnaround on Lapham Road this is
100 feet from where Jennifer's suburban was found so if somebody attacked her in
the garage placed her in and presumably killed her there right placing her in her own suburban
drove it and moved it to the park who knows where it went you know now we have this vehicle parked a hundred feet away
that you could use as some type of getaway vehicle if you needed to leave the suburban there so the rich the red
Tacoma was seen on video on the Merritt Parkway this is northbound in New Canaan
at 11:12 a.m. the rim of a bicycle is visible in the back of the truck it turned into the driveway at 80 Mountain
Spring Road at 12:22 p.m. so detectives used the toyota tacoma footage as well as the footage obtained earlier of
Jennifer's suburban to into conclude the following foetus is believed to have been lying in wait at 69 Wells Lane for
Jennifer to return home the crime and cleanup are believed to have occurred between 805 and 10:25 a.m. doulas is
believed to have been operating the victim's vehicle the suburban which is carrying the body of Jennifer doulas and
a number of other items associated with the crime which occurred in the garage of the residence now Lauren ala media
the she's the nanny detectives interviewed her at length amongst other details she said a couple of days before
Jennifer disappeared photos showed up hours early for a supervised visit with the kids so this visitation was always
on the same schedule and he's early but he's acting confused like he doesn't know that he's pleased um yeah so Lauren
said that on the morning of the 24th she arrived at Jennifer's house this at 11:30 a.m. she noticed that the suburban
at this time was gone but the Range Rover was still there as we know parked in the garage she saw Jennifer's purse
on the floor in the doorway between the mud and the kitchen and Jennifer's mug of
tea in an unopened granola bar were on the kitchen counter Lauren washed the mug and as she reached for a paper towel
she noticed that the roll was depleted so she went to get another from the 12-pack she had purchased the previous
day to her astonishment only two rolls were left as she stated two detectives quote I sat there and wondered what
happened last night that they used 10 rolls of paper towels yeah very fishy Lauren also said that
she noticed the rear mudroom door which led outside it was unlocked which is extremely strange this is a door that
was always kept locked throughout the day the day in question she said she texts and called Jennifer never getting
any answer or response meanwhile Jennifer was missing appointments just before 7:00 p.m. she and Jennifer's
friend Laura Watts decided to call the police department now they told officers that Jennifer was missing and she was
going through a divorce with a man this is one part that we left out earlier who
had threatened her in the past and they knew him to own a firearm detectives had Lauren view crime-scene
photos of the garage and she was very familiar with the setup there and in fact had just cleaned the garage for
Jennifer on the 21st so just three days earlier she noted that two things were missing one was a cleaning supply bucket
full of cleaning materials that would be used by the housekeeper the second item
that was missing was a set of camping pillows that would be used by the kids as we said investigators conducted
testing of the house at wells Lane the evidence collected there according to one of the arrest warrants was a mixture
of biological material of the victim Jennifer Dulles and that of her husband foetus dualists Jennifer's blood was
all over the garage and focuses DNA was found in a smear of Jennifer's blood left on the kitchen faucet inside the
home and that's important because he was ordered not to go in that house correct
so looking at this you're thinking okay this attack occurred Jennifer lost this fight Fotis probably
was the attacker and whatever happened he may have went inside afterwards and washed up tests performed on 14 swabs
taken from the suburban registered to Jennifer that was found in the park provided damning evidence there was
blood inside the vehicle on the upholstery and on the mats this blood did match Jennifer's one like you were
saying - they're driving down a road with multiple bags and disposing them and they they did recover some of them
correct yeah they retrieved the item that was inserted to the storm drain but but not
the trash cans well we'll get into that because that it gets quite a bit complicated this whole story is frankly
complicated but in the storm drain they find a FedEx box inside the box - license plates both plates had altered
numbers and letters somebody somebody dummied them up these plates were expired but at one time had been
registered to foetus doulas right so another piece of evidence suggesting that it was him in fact on that video
not to mention that we have his girlfriend claiming that it was them that they saw in the video they did go
and they they raided let's say those trash cans that you had mentioned they conducted a three-week search of
materials in recycling Authority trash plant in in Hartford this is where all the garbage from those bins and
dumpsters would have eventually ended up the vast majority of the trash collected
from the 24th apparently they're there to burn it in this area had not been burnt yet right because the plant was
this is they got lucky again on the investigation the plant was a day behind schedule because of the Memorial Day
holiday right right so it had not all been fully processed and I guess they run it through some kind of shredding
process before they incinerate it it had gone through this shredder process so this is going to make things again
complicated the amount of garbage from the Albany Avenue area that police using police dogs as well had to sift through
was piled as high as 20 feet over an area half the size of a football field 15 to 20 detectives went through 30 it's
estimated at 30 to 35 tons of trash daily for three weeks police also executed a major search
along Albany Avenue on May 31st utilizing canines and troopers on the ground and air searches as well trying
to find all the things that were dumped by Fotis along his drive in these painstaking searches police were able to
recover some two dozen evidentiary items which included garbage bags containing women's clothing a with a substance on
the items that appeared to be blood plastic zip ties which were stained with what appeared to be blood a white
t-shirt stained with what looked like blood a brawl with blood on it a black leather work glove with bloodstains a
bath towel with red stains cleaning and household goods such as a kitchen sponge
again with red stains these items were submitted to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection forensic
laboratory for forensic testing on June 10th the report from the lab came back the substance on many of the items was
determined to be blood and it was the blood of Jennifer doulas but the chief state's attorney stated in an interview
that police found no evidence of Jennifer's actual body being in the Hartford trash plan
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Brief Summary

Jennifer Dulos went missing amid a contentious divorce from Fotis Dulos, who became a prime suspect in her disappearance.

Key points

Emergency Custody Request. Jennifer Dulles fears for her safety and requests sole custody of her children.
Deteriorating Marriage. The judge notes the breakdown of the Dulles marriage and the atmosphere in their home.
Divorce Proceedings. Jennifer files for divorce amidst claims of Fotis' threatening behavior.
Fotis' Threats. Fotis allegedly threatens to kidnap the children during divorce proceedings.
Jennifer Dulles Reported Missing. Jennifer Dulles is reported missing after failing to keep appointments, raising alarms.
Timeline of Jennifer's Disappearance. Police establish a timeline of Jennifer's movements leading up to her disappearance.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Cooler heads did not prevail.

Narration about the deteriorating marriage.

6:01WatchMar 4, 2020

Tension

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