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48-year-old Jennifer doues 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 enough to take the children and
disappear Jennifer's husband 49-year-old fotus duus denied all Jennifer's assertions and responded that Jennifer
was unstable and unfit to parent their children he said that she took the children from him without warning Judge
Thomas colen denied the emergency custody order instead putting in place a plan of custody whereby the parent 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 defendant's controlling and aggressive behavior the defendant became
upset because he felt that 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 settle 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 Council but as we shall soon see cooler heads
did not Prevail less than 2 years later on May 24th 2019 at 6:59 p.m. the new Kanan
Connecticut Police Department received a report of a missing woman her name Jennifer doues this report was filed by
phone by a laurel Watts this is true crime garage and this is the case of Jennifer
[Music] [Music] douis bodus duus grew up in Greece part of a large traditional Greek family he
excelled in both both snow skiing and water skiing fotus attended Brown University graduating in 1989 with
degrees in economics and Applied Mathematics after fotus worked for some bigname firms such as Ernst and 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 airp report Jennifer was the
beautiful and privileged daughter of Hillyard and Gloria Farber because of hillyard's successes this was an
extremely wealthy family Jennifer had also attended Brown when fotus was there but they didn't know each other back
then Jennifer 2 got her Master's Degree this was in writing from nyu's Tish 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 fotus started seeing each other but it is clear that it was when fotus was still
married he divorced in July of 2004 and Jennifer and fotus were married within months they lived in the Farmington
Valley area in Connecticut where fotus started up his own company the four group a prominent residential Builder
constructing custom luxury homes in the wealthy Farmington Valley and Fairfield County areas of Connecticut fotus his Mo
was to build a mansion or even a small development and move his family into the new home until it sold Jennifer and
fotus 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 Nan he's employed at once people were coming and going from their homes constantly
this because fotus 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 fotus 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 in 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 four group built cesac of four homes this in an area called Avon called the police on fotus numerous times for
things like residential zoning violations and noise violations this former neighbor recounted to us that
fotus 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 fotus 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 and
arrogant as well also seems like he was such a a bully towards women at some point the family moved to Farmington the
address was for Jefferson Crossing this was in fact constructed by fotus company
this is a massive Brick Mansion with six bedrooms and a 13,000 ft of living space
wow yeah this area you could play baseball in this house you could put 20 of my houses in that house this area of
the Farmington Hills is very upscale fotus 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 some bad as there is with most
marriages it is said by friends of Jennifer that she at some point was suspicious she suspected fotus had a
Wandering eye he was wait wait wait so put that eye on a leash so she met him while while he was married they had a
affair that obviously she knew about and now she's questioning his wondering eye
so when the Wonder and I works out in your favor it's okay 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 MH and then I start to wonder I'm like I 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
they 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 cuz
there there's no evidence of that but I've sometimes met couples where instantly I'm going 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 SP 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 treat her is to go outside of the marriage MH and the 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 in Aspen or visiting Greece cuz he has extended family there then in
the early 20 2017 they decided to sell the home they listed the house and enrolled the kids
in the new Canan country school but all of this blew up when Jennifer discovered
in March of 2017 that fotus was in fact having an affair this you know enter Michelle tronis was she a ski instructor
she was I believe down in Argentina so was just I was just making a joke but she was involved in skiing in some form
right now things deteriorated fast once this took place on June 3rd 2017 Lauren aldia who by this point has been
employed by the dueles for over four years now as one of their nannies she says that she witnessed the following
she heard yelling and thuing footsteps as Jennifer ran through the home being chased by a clearly angry photus
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 fotus pounding on the door in Rage Jennifer
braced her back against the locked door and fotus 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 now Lauren soon after observed another incident where she found
Jennifer crying in the driveway she told Lauren that fotus 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
friend's 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 or is this um 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 um you know all these things 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 fotus further because not only did she take the
children but she's refusing to respond to his calls and to his text right now at this point in her life is she a 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 um the 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 toe 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 that is stuck here well and in this scenario we've
seen it through the throughout the time of doing the show and and learning a lot
about abusive situations and here Jennifer is in this abusive situation ation 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 uh 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 them 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
text 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 kind of carrot here uh 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'd also really like to read what those texts are cuz I'm
sure they're not just hey are you okay please let me know you're okay I'm sure those texts were verly 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 Kanan uh 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 them themselves you know Dire Straits we don't have much money we're going to have to go live
someplace else on an emergency situation the house that she's renting is a 9,800 square ft home that
that the Zillow website estimates its value at $3.5 million well you can't go from 13 ,000 to
1,200 13,000 to 9,000 it's also closer to her mother to Jennifer's mother who is quite helpful with the children and
and 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 500 motions between them in her court filings Jennifer claimed that
fotus quote EX exhibited irrational unsafe bullying threatening and controlling Behavior end quote heck you
heard the statement in the trailer of his violent fantasies of revenge against people who have wronged him or or
threatening to take the kids and go to Greece yeah she also said that fotus 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 fotus scary Behavior had significantly intensified as the proceedings went along and states that
she was now afraid for her safety the judge required the doues 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 fotus 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 in all in the court
filings we spoke with one of Jennifer's friends who saw photus at an Avon uh Connecticut restaurant some time after
Jennifer left the home fotus 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 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 you 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 fotus was having an affair with Michelle 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 fotus she worked at for
group with him at some point she was from V Venezuela went to college in 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 fotus and she was a mother to a pre-teen 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 2008 18
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 fotus 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 lium found that fotus actions were causing psychological harm to the children for people who don't know what
a guardian ad light 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 um interview the children about each parent they also interview the
parents and other people around them to get an 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 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 and 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 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 disillusion of the marriage people can act like fools and
so I think by having the guardian ADL them in place it kind of calms that down as far as the parents interaction and
relation ship 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 vus was awarded
only regular supervised public visitation and recorded speaker phone telephone calls with the kids
specifically he would be allowed to 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 fotus was also restricted
and was to be monitored by the court on May 24th 2019 at 6:59 p.m. the new Canan Connecticut Police Department
received a report Jennifer doues who resided at 69 Wells Lane was believed to be missing this was filed by phone by a
friend of Jennifer's Laurel Watts the friend received a call from Jennifer's Nanny remember Lauren we have
a laurel and a 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 text something she said never happened and remember by this
point in time in our timeline Lauren has worked for Jennifer for over 6 years so
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Angie that [Music] all right cheers mates cheers to you Captain after police receiv received the
call 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 cell phone 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 mhm so right away this welfare check this possible missing person's call is going to turn into a
fullblown investigation the investigators find additional evidence specifically several suspected fresh
blood stains on the garage floor spatter on the wall drops of blood and partial bloody shoe prints a black 2017 Suburban
s V was missing this according to the nanny so the very smart new Canan 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 Canan PD and the Connecticut State Police yeah plus we're 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 Jennifer's 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 she returned home immediately
therea after 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 Waverly Park this is just 3 miles from the home
Jennifer Suburban was found abandoned the black one yeah so this is a 300 acre Park in New Canan 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 Canan police issued a
silver alert for Jennifer and her family issued a statement to the public as well
asking or 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 shoe print
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 its lights its running lights were on and its transmission was in Reverse
blood spatter and other blood evidence was found on both the interior and exterior of the vehicle including the
rear cargo area the weather tech # not a sponsor rear cargo mat was missing from
the vehicle hash can be a sponsor if the money's right I love WeatherTech investigators pulled Jennifer's cell
phone records and determined the following the last text from her phone was to the nanny to Lauren at 7:57 a.m.
on the morning of the 24th yeah then the phone left the wells lanee home around 10:30 a.m. and arrived at the Waverly
Park around 10:38 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 uh on a tower I'm sorry near the park the phone has never been located
that we know of if it if it has been found we've not been told that by police right police did 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 Canan and the Farmington area video showed that at around 10:25 a.m. a black 2017 Chevy
Suburban pulled out of 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 10:30 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 uh others others statements quote entered the
residence from an area not covered by surveillance cameras end quote according to police records surveillance footage
also captured a vehicle traveling Northbound on the Meritt Parkway going away from the park and toward Farmington
this at 11:12 a.m. just 3 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 when Jennifer's phone arrived at the park and when it
was shut down at 11: 09 a.m. right right and then 3 minutes later just 3 minutes
later someone is seen on video driving away at 1:01 a.m. on May 25th the new Canan PD called fotus duelist and asked
him some very basic questions one of these was the date of his last visit to nanan right he responded that it was on
May 22nd when he had last had a super vised visit with his children the day after Jennifer was reported missing May
25th fotus met with new Canan police at headquarters this was at 2:40 in the afternoon he was very polite in the
manner that he showed up about 3 hours late for the scheduled uh meeting uh detectives had to sit there waiting on
him now upon request fotus did hand over his phone 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 we we're going to analyze your phone and he's like oh crap
I need that back well he was just embarrassed by all the dickpics he had saved the police informed Fus 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 ask 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 fotus 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 fotus cell phone 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 in seizure affidavit fotus phone had answered a call on the morning of May
24th that's the morning in question at 8:24 a.m. but fotus attorney made several public statements about fotus
had 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 1 p.m. on May 23rd until 1:16 p.m. on the 24th fotus his
phone was at his residence at 4 Jefferson Crossing which again is also his office right the alarm on the cell
phone 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 text but showed no outgoing activity
at 1 16 p.m. the cell phone left fotus 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 1:37 p.m. the phone
stayed there for more than 2 and 1/2 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 in 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 in order here from the upscale Farmington and Avon suburbs where fotus
and family had bounced around from new construction to new construction right 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's phone on Albany Avenue for half an hour between 710 and
7:41 p.m. was Michelle tron'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 stopping multiple times at 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 Raptor bore many similarities to one owned by
fotus duus video footage showed several veral 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 in 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 in
Garden Street did you say inserting I did okay inserting an item inserting 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 right
from the rear of the Suburban investigators pulled video surveillance from photo his neighbors
homes and see that's the thing that people don't they people's murderous brains have not caught up to technology
yet everybody's got a camera on their on their doorbell now yeah everybody's got
cameras they're 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 D Dirt Cheep D Dirt Cheep or doing them you know some de de do yourself Dunder I can't even
talk they're going to 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 Ford Jefferson Crossing at 820 that or sorry 812 that
night right it would have taken about 20 minutes to get back to 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 fotus doues and his girlfriend at the time yeah we got to make sure that
that is photus in well police seized the Raptor this on May 31st it was just one of several
Vehicles fotus had registered to him on the same day the 31st a week after Jennifer vanished detectives obtained
warrants to collect DNA and fingerprints from photus duus and Michelle tronus 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 uhhuh but
his last name is is guyi he's the project manager for fotus company an employee of fotus he drove up in a
vehicle register to the company this is a je a Jeep Cherokee detectives inquired
as to what he had been doing he told them that he stopped by fotus other house in Avon to remove the seats from
fotus Porsche this was at fotus insistence okay there the seats from this Porsche were
in the back of this Jeep this is obviously strange right right when Michelle and fotus 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 fotus was covered in poison ivy now of course
fotus is a builder his defense no doubt that this could be from any of his building sites but what's interesting
here is that within a week of his wife Vanishing right fotus 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 fotus dulus 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 sewards and 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 a
they got a lot of things backing up their statement that they say we believe this to be fotus and Michelle right now
his mug shot when he's arrested fotus is head nearly shaved at this time a former
neighbor told us that fotus 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 fotus is criminal attorney Norm pattis least he didn't die at bleach blonde
like Scott Peterson did I noticed you showed up to the garage today fully bald oh fully shaved uh that's the work of
the Lord um fotus is criminal attorney this his name is Norm pattis he made public statements that fotus 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 this time he also said that fotus his girlfriend Michelle tronus could provide
him a complete Alibi for that morning now we should point out though on the day that fotus was arrested Michelle too
was arrested and charged with the same charges during the arrest interview of Michelle she told detectives that fotus
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 fotus was in the four group office with his business lawyer Kent
mwini mwini MWI something like that at 8:15 a.m. she did errands she ran errands between 9 and 11:30 a.m. this
included a drop off of a purse to a friend who had left it at her in photos's home the night before a trip to
simsberry stoping 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 H and another visit she made to a
different friend's house she danced around the question of whether fotus 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 fotus that day I'm guessing this would be right around the time of when we have the police saying
fotus his phone finally leaves the house what makes for a decent alibi as we know
fotus 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 fotus called her and asked her to come over to the other home this is the 80 mountain
spring Roadhouse 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 1:37 p.m. fotus is visible on surveillance footage driving his Suburban this is a different Suburban
for those keeping score at home over to the mountain spring Roadhouse 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 when her
phone and his phone tracked 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 and his phone traveling along Albany Avenue on
the night of May 24th at the same time right to which Michelle said fotus wanted to go to Starbucks in Hartford
she admitted to investigators that fotus 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 and fotus
so she's Cooperative on that level yeah but she yeah I 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 you'd 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. photus 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 that's cute that they got matching
bracelets yeah both of these individuals would be considered Flight Risk so you you have to take some additional steps
to make sure that they are going to stay and actually you're that you will see them in court eventually right the next
day police executed an unannounced search warrant of fotus 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 trash can of his office they found a document it outlined the activities and
I'm using air quotes there of fotus and Michelle on Friday May 24th and Saturday
May 25th it mirrored exactly what Michelle told investigators about fotus being home with her and fotus 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 as ZZ Top would
say they got me under pressure her story is going to change she admits that she cannot account for
fotus whereabouts on the day in question from about 8 a.m. until noon or maybe even 100
p.m. she goes on to tell DET detectives when she woke up at 640 a.m. fotus was home but he left the house soon
thereafter and left his cell phone in the home office she says sometime around 1 they had a quick lunch before fotus
left again at approximately 300 p.m. MH she received the call from fotus 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 p.m. fotus employee GUI
arrived and again we have video footage to suggest that this was actually at 5:00 p.m. at around 5:20 p.m. she says
she went home Detectives confronted Michelle with the handwritten 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 fotus to quote help
them remember and quote what they did on the 24th she said these were all false the notes were
false detectives refer to the notes as The Alibi script right so how are they false they're just
she's saying somebody else made them up well remember her story changes 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 to 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 fotus said to her at one point in their relationship that I hope Jennifer
disappears detectives told Michelle that they believe fotus killed Jennifer and involved Michelle by making her clean up
right 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 disturbing well she's basically implying that she was cleaning
the house and that fotus was cleaning the body of 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 with 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 gini now remember he's the guy that removed the car seats from the
Porsche placing them in the back of the Jeep gini told them meaning investigators the
following he says on May 24th he was working a four group construction site in new Canan this is 3.4 miles from
Jennifer's house he was driving the Ford Raptor registered to the Ford group each
day of that week earlier that week on Monday the 20th gu mini parked his own vehicle this is a red Toyota Tacoma in
the driveway of fotus 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 fotus all day until he
received a text at 213 when he was asked if gini was planning on returning to the office gini
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 four group arriving at 4:58 when gu mini arrived he was surprised to find fotus and Michelle at
the home home and asked them what they were doing they responded that they were cleaning gin's Tacoma his truck was
there as well gimini and fotus left at 502 to shuttle the two four group Vehicles the Raptor and a black Suburban
back to for Jefferson Crossing Michelle stayed behind with the white Jeep and G's
Tacoma fotus then drove gini back to Mountain road to pick up his own vehicle the Tacoma but it was locked Michelle
had locked it and taken the keys photus asked gimini to just keep the Raptor over the weekend and he fotus would
return the Tacoma to G later right gini declined and fotus had to call Michelle at 5:116 p.m. to drive over with the
keys gini got into his own vehicle the Tacoma and drove home this made may seem on the surface as a lot of nonsense but
really Captain what does this look like to to to me it looks like fotus 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 toyot
y Tacoma gini said that he had been told by fotus to discard the old seats in his
Tacoma take out the seats of your truck man and throw them away and replace them
with seats taken from my Porsche this plus the fact that fotus had access to the vehicle all week made
detectives extremely suspicious yeah they went back and pulled surveillance footage along likely routes between DS's
residence and the crime scene and sure enough they found the red Tacoma belonging to
gini traveling at various points between Farmington and laam Road in new Canan on
May 24th specifically the red Tacoma traveled Southbound on Meritt Parkway and went to uh new Canan a school bus
dash cam video spotted the Tacoma parked at 7:40 a.m. at a turnaround on lapam road this is 100
feet from where Jennifer's Suburban was found so if somebody attacked her in the
garage placed her and 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 100 ft
away that you could use as some type of getaway vehicle if you needed to leave the Suburban there so the the red Tacoma
was seen on video on the Meritt Parkway this is Northbound in new Canan 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 1222 p.m. so detectives used the Toyota Tacoma footage as well as
the footage obtained earlier of Jennifer Suburban to in to conclude the following
fotus 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 8:05 and 10:25 a.m. duelist is believed to have been operating the V the victim's
vehicle the Suburban MH which is carrying the body of Jennifer doues and a number of other items associated with
the crime which occurred in the garage of the residents now Lauren Alam media the uh she's the The Nanny detectives
interviewed her at length amongst other details she said a couple of days before
Jennifer disappeared fotus 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 play he's dumb
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 mudroom
and the kitchen and Jennifer's mug of tea tea and 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
12pack she had purchased the previous day to her astonishment only two rolls were left as she stated to 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
text and called Jennifer never getting any answer or response meanwhile Jennifer was missing appointments just
before 700 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 3 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 doues and that of her husband fotus douis Jennifer's blood was all
over the garage and photos's 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 fotus 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 match MH this Blood did match Jennifer's well and like
you were saying too 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 but not the trash cans well we'll get into that cuz 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 two
license plates both plates had altered numbers and letters somebody somebody dummied them up right these plates were
expired but at one time had been registered to fotus duus 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 on the video they did go and they they raided let's say those trash cans that you had mentioned
they conducted a 3- week search of materials uh and recycling Authority trash plant in in Hartford this is where
all the garbage from those bins and dumpsters would have eventually ended up uh the vast majority of the trash
collected from the 24th apparently they're they're to burn it in this area had not been burnt yet right
uh because the plant was this is they got lucky again on the investigation the plant was a day behind scheduled 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 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 ft 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 3 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 fotus 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 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 bra with blood on it a black leather work glove with blood stains 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 service 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 doulis but the chief State's Attorney stated in an interview that police found
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Brief Summary

Jennifer Doulis's disappearance leads to a complex investigation revealing domestic abuse and evidence against her husband Fotus Doulis.

Key points

Emergency Custody Request. Jennifer Doues fears for her safety and requests sole custody of her children.
Deteriorating Marriage. The court notes the escalating tension between Jennifer and Fotus.
Threats of Kidnapping. Fotus allegedly threatens to take the children to Greece if Jennifer doesn't comply.
Jennifer's Disappearance. Jennifer Doues is reported missing after failing to show up for appointments.
Evidence Found at Home. Police discover suspected blood evidence in Jennifer's garage, indicating foul play.
Timeline Established. 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 situation between Jennifer and Fotus.

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Tension

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