What Were They Hiding in Trash Cans Around the City? | Forensic Files

Hi, crime junkies. The story I have for you today is a rare example of a murder case going to trial without a body ever
being found. When a mother of five disappeared from her Connecticut mansion in May 2019, the search for her made
national headlines. And once police see surveillance footage of her husband dumping garbage bags into city trash
cans, footage a lot of you have probably seen yourselves, a murder conspiracy involving at least two other people
starts to unravel. We're trying to get to the truth. Michelle, I have no idea where Jennifer is. And
that's 100%. Even if you think you've heard it all. Otis killed Jennifer. You probably haven't until today.
I went as a stupid girlfriend to help him out. We may know who's responsible, but the biggest question still remains.
Where is Jennifer Farber Dulos? On the morning of Friday, May 24th, 2019, Lauren Almeida is as busy as she
always was as the full-time nanny for the five children in the Dulos family. Her day starts early with texts coming
in from her boss, Jennifer Farber Dulos, about the kids. They've got two sets of
pre-teen twins and an 8-year-old girl to look after. So, like managing their calendars was not for the week.
Yeah. So, the mom, Jennifer, had handled school drop off that morning. But Lauren
had an extra to do to juggle today. She was going to have to pick up four of the
five kids from school like midday and drive them an hour away into Manhattan for an orthodontist appointment. Now,
one of the older girls lucked out, doesn't have an appointment, so she's just going to take the bus to a friend's
house after school. So, around 11:00 a.m., Lauren heads over to Jennifer's. And this place is like a seven-bedroom
house that Jennifer's mom had recently bought for her and the kids. Sorry, seven bedrooms.
Yeah. And seven and a half bathrooms. Like, we're talking a bit of a mega mansion, but where they live in
Connecticut, like, this isn't uncommon. New Kanan is in one of the wealthiest counties in the entire country. And a
lot of these families had big money, including Jennifer's. So when Lauren gets to the house, she's kind of
surprised to see Jennifer's Range Rover parked in the garage since Jennifer had told her that she would be taking that
SUV to New York today for an appointment of her own. But Jennifer's Chevy Suburban was gone. So Lauren figures,
you know, she must have had a change of plans or maybe plans went out the window
because when she gets inside the house, there are things left behind that make it seem like Jennifer must have maybe
left in like a rush. Like first, Jennifer's expensive purse is there on the floor between the mudroom and the
kitchen. The mug of tea that Jennifer makes every morning was sitting on the counter alongside the granola bar that
she normally eats for breakfast, like unopened. And a 12-pack of paper towel rolls that Lauren stocked in the pantry
like the night before is almost completely gone. Like 10 of them have been used, which like at first she kind
of figures like, "Oh, the kids must have spilled something. Whatever. Kids will be kids." But like alarm bells because
what soccer fields sized cooler of Kool-Aid do you have to spill to use 10 rolls of paper towels?
Again, I don't know. It's early. Kids be kids. She's got a zillion other things on her mind. So, she just starts like
straightening up the house and then she goes to pick up the kids from school. Now, she had texted Jennifer at some
point asking if one of the girls could use an iPad for the long car ride. Now, she doesn't hear back, which doesn't
really concern her, right? Jennifer's probably at that appointment or whatever. And then she's going to meet
them actually at the orthodontist appointment. So fine. Lauren texts her a few more times anyway with like a
playbyplay for when she does see her phone. She lets her know their ETA to Jennifer's mom's house where they plan
to head first. She lets her know she got there. Ask Jennifer is still going to meet them at the orthodontist. At this
point, it is like hours that have passed. It's 400 p.m. now, and Jennifer hasn't responded to any of the texts.
Like whatever appointment she had, she should be done with, right? At least she should be able to like check her phone
in all this time, right? But again, Lauren just keeps like chugging along. She goes to the kid's
orthodontist, and while there, she tries to finally just call Jennifer, but it goes straight to voicemail, and that is
when Lauren starts to panic. Texts are one thing, but Jennifer always answers her phone. So, while the kids are in
with the orthodontist, she starts calling anyone she can think of who might have heard from Jennifer today.
But she's even more concerned to learn that no one has heard from her at all. And that's when she gets an idea. Not
something she would normally do, but this is starting to feel like not a normal situation.
Lauren checks the iPad that they brought cuz it's logged into Jennifer's Google and Apple ID, so she can actually see
Jennifer's Google calendar, see where her appointments were that day. And so once the kids are done at the
orthodontist, she takes them back to their grandma's. And then she hops in a cab and heads to the address of
Jennifer's last appointment. But the receptionist there tells her that Jennifer never showed up. So Lauren
calls one of Jennifer's best friends. Probably half unsure what to do, half pretty sure she does, but like it
doesn't feel real. But with the friend's encouragement, they call police to report her missing. At around 7:00 p.m.,
they tell the dispatcher Jennifer is missing. And by the way, dispatcher, this is worst case scenario because
Jennifer is in the middle of a very contentious divorce with her children's father, Fotus, who BTW just recently
bought a gun. And like, point taken. Police arrive at Jennifer's house pretty much immediately. They check all around.
I mean, no one is there. There doesn't seem to be any kind of disturbance inside the house. So, they head through
the garage, which at first glance is all organized, clean as well. But one officer takes a really close look at
Jennifer's Range Rover, the one that she was supposed to take to New York, but is
still sitting in the garage. And there on the bumper are tiny specks of red blood spatter. So, police immediately
call for backup. And as they continue to search the garage for more evidence of what happened in it, they find more
blood stains. It's on the floor, other parts of the car. But again, we're talking like tiny drops. And it becomes
clear to the officers that someone did a very serious cleaning job on this garage.
Like a 10 rolls of paper towel cleaning job. Yeah. I don't know what they used, but
police start searching, not just the garage, but like the neighborhood, the surrounding areas, and they pretty
quickly find Jennifer's black Chevy Suburban abandoned at a place called Waven Park, which is like 10 minutes
from her house. According to Rich Cohen's book, Murder in the Dollhouse, the car is backed up against a tree.
gear shift is like stuck in reverse. Doors are locked and when they look in the windows, they don't see any sign of
Jennifer in the vehicle, but they do see quote the cleanup of a bloodlike substance. And it's at this moment when
this becomes a full-blown missing person search. And when police question Lauren,
she tells them that if something bad happened to Jennifer, there is only one person it could be. her husband of 14
years, soon to be ex-husband Fotus. And they learn that she and Fotus were years
deep into a divorce with no end in sight. And it was, I mean, clearly messy to put it lightly. I mean, so much so
that in Jennifer's divorce filing from 2 years prior, which would have been in 2017, she described Fotus' behavior as
irrational, unsafe, bullying, threatening, and controlling. She also claimed in those same documents that
he'd verbally and physically attacked her to the point that she filed for an emergency order for full custody, but
that got denied by the courts. Now, right before she filed for divorce, she fled their home with their kids, telling
Fotus that she was visiting her dad's grave, which was in upstate New York. But instead, she actually took them to a
hotel in New York City, and hired bodyguards. Now, Fotus lashed back by accusing her of kidnapping their kids,
and they had been at each other's throats ever since. in court appearances that were racking up millions of dollars
in legal bills for them both. But it wasn't always that way, right? Like it usually never is.
Jennifer and Fotus both attended Brown University, but they didn't really hit it off until years later when they
randomly bumped into each other at an airport in Aspen, Colorado. Though Fotus was married when they reconnected, he
assured Jennifer that he was in the process of getting a divorce. And in 2004, about a month after that marriage
was officially over, he and Jennifer were married. And they had a few seemingly happy years growing their
family. They had four kids in four years through IVF, then a baby girl, and they
were each growing their careers. Fodus was running a construction and home flipping business, fully funded to the
tune of millions by Jennifer's dad, by the way. And Jennifer was a writer. She'd once been a budding playwright in
New York. But at this stage of her life, she wrote for the news site Patch and blogged about being a stay-at-home mom.
And when they first started out, Fotus was constantly moving the family in and out of whatever home he was flipping,
which ended up putting Fotus in control and ended up putting Jennifer on edge. And that tension extended outside of the
walls of their home. According to Cohen's reporting, Fotus and Jennifer's dad came to blows when Jennifer's dad
threatened to cut him off financially. So, they argued back and forth for a bit, and eventually Fotus threw a chair
at him. Now, it missed and I don't know how that got resolved, but her dad continued to finance Fotus' business
dealings. And the business and probably Jennifer's dad's wealth funded trips to Greece, where he was from, to water ski.
Like this dude was obsessed with water skiing. He also had the oldest twins on this like grueling schedule of
practicing and traveling for water skiing competitions whether they wanted to or not. By 2011, Fotus finished
building them a nearly $4 million mansion in Farmington, which is another wealthy suburb in Connecticut that too
was financed by Jennifer's parents. And even then, like from the outside, Jennifer seemed happy. But their nanny
Lauren tells police that the facade had started to crack. Like Footus was never home. He's always abroad. And then when
Jennifer's father, her like lifelong protector, died in early 2017, Jennifer was just like lost in her grief. Then
follow that by her finding out that Fotus was cheating. And this wasn't just a fling. on a trip to Miami to water
ski, of course, with the kids. Botus introduced Lauren to a woman that he called a friend, Michelle Traonus. Now,
she's a fellow water skier from Venezuela who lived in Miami with her own pre-teen daughter, and her daughter
was like a pre-Olympic skier. Lauren tells detectives that she didn't say anything at the time, but she noticed
that in that like quote unquote first meeting, the kids already seemed to know Michelle. And Jennifer must have felt
it, too, because she told Lauren about her suspicions. So, she ends up leaving the trip early and confronted Fotus
about the affair via text. And things quickly went downhill from there. Like, Fotus became more and more controlling.
Wait, did he deny the affair when Jennifer confronted him about it? No, not at all. Like he was pretty much
like, "Yeah, no, this is Michelle and actually would you mind moving out so Michelle and her daughter can move in."
I know. And he's like, you know, you can still come and go as you want. Like everything will be fine.
No. Same. Jennifer's like not having it. And that is around the time that she left
with the kids. And Michelle and her daughter like fully moved into the Farmington house not long after.
So just to be clear, are they all sharing a house? No. No. No. So this is what I'm saying.
So Jennifer, she doesn't go back to live in the Farmington house, the one that they just built.
Okay. She leaves. Her mom buys her that other house, whatever. She files for divorce.
But the kids were spending a fair amount of time in the Farmington house with Fotus, Michelle, and Michelle's
daughter. Like instant blended family here. Fus and Michelle clearly did not care about what was best for the kids.
But we know that Fotus did care about money. He's gotten very accustomed to his lavish lifestyle. But now that he
and Jennifer were divorcing, his mother-in-law wanted that couple of million back that they had loaned him to
start the business. And it turns out Fotus was another couple of million in debt. So his feet are to the financial
fire. And it seems like he was using the kids almost like a pawn at this point. A
divorce battle turns into a custody battle that just gets uglier and uglier until Jennifer disappears. And with that
comes the possibility of sole custody of the kids, which could mean access to the
children's trust fund set up by Jennifer's parents. 2 million per kid. That is $10 million that would take care
of his debt, keep his lifestyle up, at least for a little bit. So, police hear all of this and at the same time, I
mean, they've been searching high and low for Jennifer along with Jennifer's loved ones. I mean, even canines have
been sent out to track Jennifer's scent. They're doing aerial searches of the woods and ponds nearby. Police are
handing out flyers. They know finding her will help tell them what happened, but there is little doubt in anyone's
mind about who is behind it. Police are as suspicious of Fotus as everyone else is. Now, Lauren is in
pretty constant contact with police, and she tells them the next day that Fotus has been texting her since late Friday
night and is like dead set on seeing the children, which she says she's not going
to let happen until they find Jennifer. And they're being taken care of like under close watch at their grandmother's
apartment. So, the day after Jennifer disappears, police meet briefly with Fotus. And weirdly though, they don't
know why he's sporting a new haircut. Like the dude's got a fully shaved head and this guy's not one to usually like
rock a buzz cut. Are they Are they talking to Michelle too at this time? Not yet. Um like they have only got eyes
for Fotus at this point. But this would be the only time that Fotus ever meets with police. He has his
divorce attorney with him. So even this meeting, this one that he does have is shortlived. They don't get anything from
him like he's not talking. In this meeting though, investigators do ask to see his phone, and he hands it over,
which would turn out to be a mistake for him. Good for everyone else, though, because when they do a data dump on the
phone, they're able to map out Footus' whereabouts on the day that Jennifer disappeared. And this is where things
start getting weird. The data shows that on the day Jennifer vanished, Fotus was in Farmington until
about 700 p.m., his phone is moving around the Farmington house, which is like only something you can say about a
$4 million mansion, right? Like moving around the house. It's like locking. It's unlocking. He answers a call from a
friend in Greece. The phone never leaves the house, which is like all fine and good since police think that Jennifer
went missing from her house in New Canaan. But it's always a good reminder to give people about phone data. It
shows that your phone was there, not you. Right. But after 7, he goes somewhere unusual into downtown Hartford,
Connecticut, which is like 25 minutes away from his house to potentially the sketchiest street in the city, Albany
Avenue. This is an area of high crime that police know really, really well. What was he doing there?
Well, that's what detectives are wondering. But again, Fotus isn't talking. So what they do is they check
their command center that monitors surveillance cameras all around Hartford and they task one lucky analyst to comb
through all of the video from that day. Now, it's important to note FOTUS has like an entire fleet of vehicles and he
is known to borrow his employees cars whenever he feels like it, but primarily he drives his black Ford Raptor, which
is this F-150 pickup truck. So, this analyst uses software that can pull out footage of specific vehicles from all
the footage that they have. And he's able to isolate footage of Fotus' Ford Raptor with a man who looks a lot like
Fotus behind the wheel, and he's turning on to Albany Avenue at around 7:31 p.m.
Now, in the bed of his truck, he has got several big black trash bags. So, he turns onto a side street, which
unfortunately doesn't have cameras. He's out of view for about 7 minutes and when
he turns back onto Albany Avenue, the surveillance footage shows that almost all of those trash bags, poof, they're
just gone. There's only a few bags left and some other things in the bed of his truck that are hard to make out on
video. So, police assume that he dumped some of the bags while he was out of camera's view. And it becomes clear that
he's dumping whatever it is he's got back there when he starts doing it on camera. Like, no question about it
anymore. Surveillance footage shows that Fotus stops, gets out, puts something in
a trash can. 2 minutes later, he pulls over again on this like busy road with people all around and put something else
in another trash can. The actual number of stops he makes is hotly debated because again, they're not all caught on
camera. But in another video, there is footage of him stopping in front of a restaurant to take what looks like
almost like a floor mat out of a car, specifically a WeatherTech mat that, by the way, there are WeatherTech mats
missing from Jennifer's Suburban. But he takes what looks like this WeatherTech mat out, drags them over to the side of
the restaurant, and then he drives a little further down the road, and guess what they spot on one of those cameras?
Dude's not alone. During one of their stops, the passenger side door opens and a woman who looks a lot like Michelle
leans out like touches the ground. It's not clear why. And while she's doing whatever she's doing, Fotus comes over
right next to her and slides something down a storm drain. So investigators see on even more surveillance footage that
after making their trash runs, Fotus and Michelle go to a Starbucks nearby and they get food and they get frappuccinos.
Yeah. You know, totally your usual Friday night errands, dump evidence, get fraps, the usge.
Over the next couple of days, investigators start swarming the local trash processing plants with cadaavver
dogs. And they also bring in a sewer crew to like pump out all the water in the storm drain looking for whatever it
was that Fotus was throwing away. And through this all, Fotus still isn't talking. Michelle still hasn't been
questioned yet either, by the way. And she's just like going about her weekend. She's getting her hair done. She's going
water skiing. Of course, on the same pond, by the way, as the cops were literally searching for Jennifer's body
in that same week. What? Yeah. But she's not going to be living her best life like that for long.
Because all the searching that investigators are doing is starting to tell a story. A story that doesn't make
Fotus or Michelle look very good. Police get their first win when they pull up a
FedEx envelope from that drain. Like that's what they find in there. And inside are two Connecticut license
plates. At first they look just like regular plates, whatever. But detectives realize that someone has tampered with
them. There's tape added to some of like the numbers or letters or whatever to change its appearance. Like for example,
a D was changed to a B. And when they figure out what the original plate was and they run it, they get a match. They
are expired plates registered to FOTUS. How long had he been planning all of this?
Makes you wonder, right? I mean, like here's the thing. My dad kept old plates for like I don't know what reason
like to hang in garages. He literally did. Like I get that but like did he have this laying around? Like it's an
interesting tidbit nonetheless. Did he use it because it was something already there or was this something?
I know because this divorce remember has been going on for years now. They find that. But what they find next is the
real clencher. Police find what was in some of those trash bags. And I think everyone
watching this case unfold on the news at the time was terrified that Jennifer, or
more likely parts of Jennifer would be in those bags. But when they open them, what they find are two ponchos, sponges,
and lots and lots of paper towels, just like the ones missing from Jennifer's pantry. And all of it is covered in
blood. There's also a box cutter, zip ties, gloves, a piece of a mop, like pretty much a cleanup kit. And they
also find Jennifer's clothes in these bags, a bra and a long sleeve vineyard vine shirt. And eerily, the shirt had a
slogan on it that says, "Every day should feel this good." These clothes were also drenched in blood. And when I
say drenched, I mean drenched in blood. I mean, police have to be thinking the worst at this point.
They do. Like any hope of finding Jennifer alive is pretty much out the window, especially when DNA testing
comes back and confirms that all of that blood was Jennifer's. And it's her DNA on pretty much everything that they find
in the bag, including the zip ties, a sponge, the gloves, and one poncho. But guess whose DNA is on one of the garbage
bags? Votus' and Michelle's. And that's enough for investigators. I mean, not enough for
murder charges yet, but enough to get them both on hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence in connection
with Jennifer's disappearance. So, just 8 days out from her going missing, they hit both of them with the lesser
charges. Investigators are confident that Fotus killed Jennifer by this point, but they need proof.
Physical evidence would do. I mean, that would be great, right? But a confession
could be even better. And they're hoping that they can get Michelle to flip. So,
they haven't even talked to her yet. Still, like, why is beyond me, but now is their time. And to everyone's
surprise, Michelle is willing to talk. Did she get an attorney? Yeah. So, after her arrest, she hires a
defense attorney, this guy Andrew Bowman, and the both of them sit down for her first interview with detectives,
and they sit down for hours that night. But flipping is not what she does. It is
full Tammy Wette, stand by your man. Mhm. and she provides Fotus with what she seems to think is a rockolid alibi.
According to Michelle, Fodus was at the Farmington house with her all morning, just like his phone data would suggest.
She said they took a shower together and had sex. Then she left the house while he stayed back. But don't worry, she can
fully account for her time, too, because she said she went to this stop and shop.
She can prove it because she took a selfie with like this robot thing that drives around looking for people who
might be stealing or whatever. And then she saved the receipt for that trip as well. Oh,
good. She stopped by a friend's place who she says can vouch for her. And then she of
course went water skiing. Naturally, from her account, there is no way Footus was anywhere near Jennifer when Jennifer
vanished. Jennifer's house in New Cananan is more than an hour's drive from the house in Farmington. And
Michelle conveniently saw Fotus in Farmington like every few hours that morning. Of course, she says her and
Fotus have lunch together. Then at 3:30, she goes to a property that Fotus is renovating on Mountain Spring Road. And
this Mountain Spring Road, this is less than 5 minutes from their Farmington house. So, she says she's going there to
clean at 3:30. I have to bring all the cleaning material to clean the house because the
house was a mess at 80. I Yeah, but I mean he calls you. Fus calls you. Says we have to go to 80 mountain spring to
clean. Is that is that what you're saying? Yes. Okay. Vot meets up with her later. And then
they go on their ride for Fraps. The end. Normal day. And her story seems solid, almost too solid, like rehearsed.
Mhm. And that's because it is. You see, police have been doing methodical searches of each of the properties owned
by Fotus' company. And guess what they found at the Farmington house? Some handwritten notes and photo copies of
those notes in the trash and then stuffed into a briefcase. And what is written on those pages is stranger than
anything I could get away with writing in fiction. The notes they find are different
versions of a timeline, like hour by hour, sometimes down to the minute, of what Fotus and Michelle were allegedly
doing the day Jennifer disappeared. And there's a timeline of phone calls that they both made and received that day.
They are detailed and they hit every part of what Michelle told police that they both did. And I assume like a
little trip to dump evidence isn't on that whole timeline schedule thing. Oh, definitely not. That is where the
written timeline ends and the phone data security footage like like diverge from
the story. According to these notes, they never went to Albany Avenue. They went straight to Starbucks. And listen,
investigators go on to dub these the alibi scripts. In their eyes, these timelines were FOTUS and Michelle's
attempt to get their story straight, to account for Fotus' whereabouts and to back everything up with receipts and
selfies with stupid robots or whatever and call logs. Like, do they think they pre-planned the
alibi and were working on like the best version or they wrote this after to make
sure that they had their stories like all lined up? They think they pre-planned it and then went and like
acted it out, but like who makes photo copies? I mean, you need multiple copies of the
script if everyone learn their lines. That's the thing. Like I couldn't wrap my head around.
Well, and then to keep them just to like have them there. But per Michelle, she said that's not
why any of it was made. Like these aren't scripts. We didn't photocopy. So, everyone like had some like this is all
a misunderstanding. Okay. So, listen. They bring her in again on June 6th. They questioned her about
these timelines, about the alibi scripts, whatever you want to call them. But she said they did it based on his
attorney's advice. I guess he told them that they needed to be able to give full
accounts of their days, like on the day Jennifer disappeared, May 24th, and then
the next day. So why leave out that ride on Albany Avenue? I know. So she says that to her it was
just a ride to Starbucks. Like she's like, I didn't leave anything out. I told like I I said we went to Starbucks,
which is what we did. But she's like, "I didn't even notice that Footus was making all these stops." She's like, "I
was on my phone. I wasn't paying attention." And then I only really looked up when like that time I opened
the door and leaned out and touched the sidewalk, which she says was to wipe gum
off of her finger. So, she just like didn't notice the multiple times he pulled over in this like pretty sketchy
area, hauled full trash bags out of the bed of his truck. I he went down like a little like alley at some point in time.
That is her story. But Albany Avenue is not the kind of street that you like don't notice you're on.
Right. And the crazy part to me is like it's not even on your way to the Starbucks
that they went to. Like that's the part that I can't reconcile. And I have to tell you the story really
quick. So our reporter Taylor, she covered this case. I told you at the top a ton like as it was happening. She
actually drove the route herself. And she wrote a front page story in the Hartford for Current that this wasn't
just a quick detour to dump these bags. This was at least a 36-inute trip passing the Starbucks that they
eventually went to driving to another town and then looping back around to the Starbucks.
And Michelle's attorney at the time was not happy about this headline. He actually like stormed up to Taylor in
the morning that the story ran, told her it was BS. So, it definitely hit a nerve
with him. And I feel like like shows she was doing the right thing. Yeah. And like listen, like I don't even
know what you're mad about. Like maps be maps. Like what? Like you can't argue with that. Anyway, Michelle does tell
police at one point that she asked Footus, "Why are we here?" So, like at some point she had to have looked up and
been like, "Uh, yeah." But she says Fotus was like, "Oh, don't worry about it." And she was like, "Oh,
okay. Okay." Now, when they look at her phone data, it seems to line up to her story, too.
So, while Fodis' phone data is like in the house showing him there the whole time, hers is, too. But it's like
somewhere else in the house. This house is giant. Exactly. And listen, like preliminarily
when they look at her phone data, it seems to line up with her story cuz like Wotus' phone is somewhere in the house.
Like there are, you know, parts where like her phone is in the house too, but like different parts of the house.
Giant house, right? But here's where things start to kind of fall apart. It's hard to stick
to the script when you don't have the script in front of you. That's not a script. Whatever. And when they talked
to her a second time around, she suddenly can't remember if she actually saw Footus at the Farmington house after
8:00 a.m. on the day Jennifer disappeared. She now doesn't think they had sex or had lunch together, which
like were big parts of the story. Say those are like kind of big diversions from what she originally
said. No. And her excuses she tells police like, "Oh, it's a big house. It's not
like she's in his face all the time." But as far as I know he was there. That's what I like. I knew he was there
but I necessarily see him and police aren't buying it. They're done listening to a story that they know isn't true and
they are ready to play hard ball. During the second interview, they tell Michelle
verbatim that she is the most hated woman in America. Have you looked at the Was it all? Have
you seen your face plastered? I mean, I'll be honest with you, you're probably one of the most hated women in America
right now. And even though they don't know this for sure, they tell her that Jennifer is dead and that Fotus killed
her. Detectives also tell her that Fotus had been trying to get back with Jennifer. Like this part's a lie. We
know that's not true, but they're I think trying to get under her skin. And I think it works. These interviews
are recorded and you can see that she's distraught, but it still doesn't quite get her to crack. So investigators have
to keep digging. And when police find more surveillance videos, this time from a major highway in Connecticut and
cameras near Jennifer's house in New Kanan, they're finally able to map out where Fotus really was that morning. And
it wasn't at the Farmington house with Michelle. So, remember how I mentioned that Fotus
was known to just like borrow his employees cars? Well, it turns out that's exactly what
he did. The morning Jennifer disappeared, he took a red Tacoma pickup truck that belonged to his project
manager. This guy Pavvel Gumi, it was parked at the Farmington house cuz that's where photos like ran his
business out of like one wing of the house. So, he was able to take it like right from there that morning. And when
police zero in on that truck using surveillance footage from the rest stop on the highway, they watch a man who
looks like Footus, but again, this is where I want to point out like but with a shaved head. And I couldn't figure out
what the shaved head was about. But when you look at his project manager, his project manager has a shaved head.
So he is so he shaved his head to look more like the project manager who would normally be driving that car
maybe. I don't know. So So they see him they see but it's it looks like photos again just with a
shaved head drive 70 miles toward New Canaan. Okay. Then security footage from a local
school bus shows that same truck in New Kanan at 7:57 a.m. parked at a nearby spot, which should sound familiar,
Waveny Park, where Jennifer's Suburban was found missing its WeatherTech mats. Right now, we don't know how long the
Tacoma had been parked there by that time that the school bus caught that footage, but what investigators find
next indicates that it was probably parked there before 7:30 because an analyst watching the surveillance video
also spots something else. There is a wheel of a bicycle poking out of the bed of the Tacoma. And it all comes together
for police when a security video from one of Jennifer's neighbors shows a man in a hooded sweatshirt riding a bike
from the direction of Waven Park right into Jennifer's neighborhood that morning at around 7:30 a.m. Then that
same camera shows Jennifer getting home from dropping the kids at school, pulling her Suburban into the garage
where police now believe Votus was lying in wait for her. Nothing actually gets captured on
cameras for a while after that cuz this is when police believe that Footus was killing Jennifer and scrubbing the
garage clean. And then the next thing we see is at 10:25 a.m. That's when Jennifer's Suburban drives out of their
neighborhood and toward Waven Park, presumably with Jennifer's body inside. And can cameras pick up who's driving
the vehicle? No. No. It's not clear enough who was driving the Suburban that time. and
there aren't any cameras in the park. But police believe that photos moves Jennifer's body from her Suburban into
the Tacoma that he was driving, abandons the Suburban, and then drives back onto
that property that he was renovating in Farmington to meet Michelle, who remember was like conveniently at the
property to like clean that day. And this is when more neighborhood security cameras come into play. Botus and
Michelle, mostly Michelle, are captured on a neighbor's camera going back and forth between their house and the
property that they're cleaning and then another property that Fotus is working on nearby. Police question Michelle
about these trips and she tells them that she went to the property to clean it because Fotus' company had scheduled
a last minute showing. They're just trying to like sell this house. So, she got there, went back to go get a broom,
and then drove back. Then when she returned, she had everything she needed, including sponges, paper towels, black
trash bags, a lot of the same things that they found in the evidence dump on Albany Avenue. Right.
But weird girl that you're like super helpful this one specific day because a project manager for Fotus' company told
police that he didn't remember Michelle ever cleaning a single one of their properties before, ever. Like, first
time for everything. and cleaning apparently put her in the mood because she also tells police that she and Fotus
did something sexual up against the Tacoma in the driveway. Now, to this day, no one knows where and when Fotus
apparently got rid of Jennifer's body. There is a chance that Fotus got rid of it or handed it off to someone in New
Kanan or somewhere in between New Kanan and Farmington. I mean, they've got some
surveillance footage of him leaving Jennifer's house, heading back to Farmington, arriving at the house that
he was renovating, but there are like gaps in the footage where he could have pulled off somewhere that police don't
know about. The thing I keep coming back to is there is also a chance that her body was still inside the Tacoma in that
moment that Fotus and Michelle were up against the truck, which is like twisted and sick to think about. So, police
search all of Fotus' work properties, including this property that they're renovating on Mountain Spring Road. And
they even search the woods around it, peering down into a septic tank that they find on the property. They don't
find anything of note except for they do make note of a black Porsche that is parked in this like super crowded garage
at one of the houses. And they make note of this one because they see that the seats of this car are missing from the
front. And those seats become a key piece of evidence that helps investigators because those seats aren't
actually missing. They're just not in the Porsche. Those seats are now in Pavll's Tacoma that Fotus was driving
the day Jennifer disappeared. And police find this out days later when they pull
Pavell over and he tells them what went down. He says that Fotus took the Tacoma
without him asking on the day that Jennifer disappeared. He had it until the afternoon when Pavvel met Fotus at
the Mountain Spring property. Fotus didn't even want to give it back. Even offered to let him use his Raptor for
the weekend. But Pavvel's like, "Dude, just like give me my truck back. Like, what are you doing?" And Fus finally
agrees, but Michelle has the keys. So convenient. So they call her to bring them back and Pavell does take the
truck. But then for the next few days, Fotus is like blowing him up, calling and calling, telling Pavll that he needs
to get new seats in the Tacoma. Bodus says he'll buy them for him or give him the seats from his Porsche. But Pavell
is like, "Dude, like, no, I'm okay. It's a work truck. Like, why would I be getting new seats?" But Footus pushes.
And while doing so, he tells Pavvel not to text about the seats using the word seats to like we should speak in a code
and call it hardware. Okay. Uh this is all bizarre. Is Pavvel living under a rock? Like does he know this man's wife
is missing and and Fotus is like the prime suspect? So it has to become suspicious to him
because I don't know what he was thinking at first, but eventually Fotus changes his tune and he basically says,
"Okay, listen. I saw Jennifer that week, like the week before she disappeared. So, police might find one of her hairs
in the truck and that wouldn't be good for me. But, by the way, Pavvel, you better not
say anything because he's quick to remind him like, you aren't a US citizen. Like, this dude's from Poland
and if you get entangled in a missing person's case, it could be really bad for you.
So, Pavvel gets freaked out. He does switch the seats in his Tacoma for the Porsche seats like Fotus tells him to,
but here's the kicker. He doesn't get rid of the Tacoma seats. He tells police that he kept them just in case they
wanted them. And of course, they want them. Yeah. So, he works out a deal with detectives.
He gets immunity in exchange for his cooperation. Uh, immunity for what? Well, I mean, technically, he tampered
with evidence. like even if he didn't fully know it was evidence. So maybe that some people have speculated maybe
he was helping Fotus at Jennifer's house at the time of the murder or somewhere in New Kanan after I mean remember there
were two bloody ponchos which could have meant that Fotus had an accomplice for the actual murder or maybe he just
doubled up on ponchos to avoid I I don't know. Right. But if they put photos at the
house based on video footage of him riding the bike, wouldn't they know if someone else was there or not?
Not necessarily. So like even though they've got like footage, right, of the Tacoma and all of that, there are blind
spots in the neighborhood where someone could come in and not get caught on camera. So there's no proof that there
was anyone else involved. It's just there's no proof that there wasn't. Right. And I don't know how far they dug
into Pavll because the deal that he made with them for immunity, it kind of like
halts any investigation into him. But to be clear, immunity deals aren't usually on the table when murder charges
are involved. So like, wait, so did they ever do a data dump on Pavll's phone? Well, no, they did. So, and this is why,
like, again, I think there's like this theory of did he help or whatever. like it actually his phone put him in New
Canaan, but he was at a legitimate construction site in that town that he was he was like working for FOD but not
at it never puts him at Jennifer's house. So he gives him these seats and they light up when they're sprayed with
luminol and like and then the black light goes over to like test for the presence of blood.
So then they send the Tacoma seats off for like official DNA testing, right? Like this is a good indicator, but we've
got to prove that it's it is blood and it is hers, right? But that's not all they learned
from Pavll. He also tells them about a conversation he heard a few months back like before Jennifer disappeared when
Fotus was talking about putting down their family dog. I guess Michelle chimed into this conversation calling
Jennifer a and said that she should be buried in the backyard next to the dog. So clearly like Michelle tons of bad
blood there, right? Like it's not like we can just say Fotus didn't like Jennifer. Michelle is clearly like
feeding into that too. The thing is though, they've searched the yards. Like Jennifer is not there.
So where is Jennifer? [Music] While they're waiting for the DNA results from the seeds, Fotus and
Michelle are both out on bond. There's still no body, and so there's still no murder charge. And Fotus is gearing up
for a fight. Remember, he has brought in his divorce attorney already, but he's got this other guy as well, his longtime
friend, sometimes business attorney, Kent Moy. This dude's on speed dial for him. But he also at this point decides
to hire a criminal attorney. And he doesn't just hire anybody. He hires Norm Pattis, whose client list includes Alex
Jones. You know, the guy that claimed that Sandy Hook was a hoax. So, like, not a great guy. Yeah, you are the
company you keep. And as if this case wasn't enough of a media spectacle already, Norm takes it to another level
and he tries dragging our girl Gillian Flynn into this hot mess. Rude, right? I know you have, but I don't know
if all the crime junkies have read Gone Girl or seen the movie. Both obviously. And you know the one where Roseman Pike
plays a woman who leaves her husband and in doing so methodically frames him for
her murder. Well, that is what Norm says happened here. He claims that he read a
manuscript that Jennifer wrote with a similar plot and says that Jennifer gone girl herself to try and ruin Fotus'
life. No one is buying that. Her family and friends know that she would never leave
her kids. And police are very clear that they are looking for a body, not a diabolical wife. The only diabolical
people we have here are Fotus and Michelle. Where do people find these attorneys? Like I get it, like everyone
needs a good defense, right? But in my book, there's like a line, right? You have this guy throwing out these wild
scenarios that victim blame this woman who's already dead. I know. And then you have like his lawyer, Fotus' original
lawyer, who's like I guess in my mind when they like create the alibi scripts at some point, I mean,
we're already off the rails there. Well, yeah, but like and if if they're like, well, my lawyer told me to write
it. Did like did you are you saying it? Like I I agree. And we can also lump Footus' lawyer friend Kent in all of
this too because get this. So they find that Kent had helped start a gun club in
this nearby town years earlier. He left the club but interestingly rejoined it a
couple of months before Jennifer vanished. Now here's the really interesting part.
In early June, two members of that same gun club remember that they saw something weird and they decide to call
police. They say that they were walking through a wooded area of the club just a
few days before Jennifer vanished when they saw this large pit in the ground, a 6ft pit that looked a lot like a grave.
Someone had tried to hide it. There are like two grates over it, branches, leaves, like trying to camouflage it.
But when they look inside, like they moved it all, nothing was there. Just like a tarp and two bags of lime. So
knowing that he has this connection to the gun club. This weird thing happened at the gun club, but he also has a
connection to FOTUS, the police start looking into Kent a little more closely. Okay. Did they go look at this hole?
They did. It seemed like someone had tried to cover it up even more after news broke about this discovery. like it
had conveniently been filled back in by the time that state police went to check
it out. And then when they tested the area, there was no evidence that there were ever human remains buried there.
But their investigation into Kent certainly didn't stop because, as it turns out, Kent was also in the middle
of a very contentious divorce. He had actually been charged with raping his wife, a charge that has since been
dropped. But his wife had a protective order against him. Though police learned that Kent was still trying to contact
her through photos. And since Norm is bringing up plots from works of fiction, maybe there is another one that we
should talk about. I feel like we talked about this before, like a little strangers on a train situation. Police
begin to connect the dots. Both of these men had very tumultuous relationships with their ex-wives or soon to be
ex-wives or current wives, whatever, and reasons to want those wives gone. Police
records show that investigators begin to suspect that Kent may have also been involved in Jennifer's disappearance.
And is there any specific evidence tying him to her disappearance or just like this weird hole at his gun club and his
connection to Fod? So his name is also mentioned in the alibi scripts. According to Fotus and
Michelle's timelines, Fotus and Kent met at the Farmington house that morning, which again would place Fotus in
Farmington, not New Kanan. And when police first asked Kent about this, he said that he never knew of any meeting.
But then when they asked him a second time, he said they did have a meeting scheduled there that morning, but Fotus
never showed up. He's like, "Oh, I I came. I waited for like an hour. I gave up." And he said he didn't talk to
Fotus, but oops. Like his phone is broken. He fell down the stairs the day after Jennifer vanished and broke it and
also like hit his head. So like ah my memor is kind of fuzzy. I can't be certain.
A series of unfortunate events. Yeah. So broken phone and amnesia or not, police are able to pull his cell
records and see that he did talk to Fotus on May 24th after all. While Fotus was on Albany Avenue dumping evidence.
So, police interview Michelle again with this new information and she changes her
story again. At this point, she's done protecting Fotus because they're not even dating anymore. So, she is ready to
tell what seems to be closer to the truth. Remember, she said that she wasn't sure if she saw Fotus at the
Farmington house that morning his wife vanished. Or at least that was her second version of events. Well, now she
says she never saw him there. She's sure of it. Back then, Mhm. I always thought he was
in the house, but thinking I never saw him. Mhm. I never heard his voice, so obviously he wasn't.
Well, probably he wasn't in the house. And remember how his phone was in Farmington all morning and answered that
call from his friend in Greece? Well, Michelle admits that was actually her. She answered the call, which by the
way was planned in advance. And she says this time that she wasn't alone. Kent was at the Farmington house and he
directed her to answer the call. And I hear like like noise, but I did hear Ella. Ella is hello in Greek.
In Greek and that was about it. Like the communication didn't go through. There was no further phone calls.
No. Then I left. Then I went downstairs. You and Ken didn't have any conversation
after that? No. No, no, I left because well, I wanted to go to the supermarket. I had to do things.
And she says that when she was cleaning the Mountain Springhouse, Fotus handed her a paper towel with these big brown
stains on them and she put them into the garbage bag. She said that she thought that Fotus just like spilled coffee or
something. I'm sorry. Coffee, blood, huge difference. I know, but I think this is
her way of explaining why her DNA is probably on the trash bag with blood evidence in it.
And police actually figure out that dumping those trash bags wasn't the only way the couple was getting rid of
evidence. Security cameras are the unsung hero in this case because even more surveillance
video captures photos driving Pavvel's red Tacoma again 5 days after Jennifer vanishes, this time to a car wash. And
it turns out replacing the seats wasn't enough for Fotus. like he wanted to deep
clean this vehicle too. So he dropped the truck off at a car wash, paid cash to get full detailing and he asked to
leave it there for a while, but Michelle followed him there and picked him up. So
that's how she knows about this. She's telling them about this now. Police think this was another attempt by Footus
to destroy evidence with Michelle's help, right? So on September 4th, Fotus gets hit with
more hindering and tampering charges. So does Michelle and she turns herself in the next day. And while Michelle is
starting to cooperate, Vodus definitely is not. He again gets out on bail and starts doing interviews. On one TV hit,
he wishes Jennifer and her family happy holidays. Like he is fully keeping up this facade that he thinks she's still
alive out there trying to frame him. Wait, where are the kids during all this? Jennifer's mom has full custody by this
point and and they at least have Lauren. She like stays on as their nanny, so they've got some semblance of stability
still. But like, dude, I don't even know like this. Like, we tal we've done cases like
this before where it's like, I don't know how your world isn't just like so raw,
like upside down, upside down, right? So, I don't know what they're thinking about the
investigation or their dad or like what their grandparents are telling them, but
the investigation is moving on. And after months, police finally feel that it's time to upgrade the charges. On
January 7th, 2020, Votus gets charged with murder, felony murder, and kidnapping in Jennifer's disappearance.
And Michelle and Kent are charged with conspiracy to commit murder. And it's in their arrest warrants that police lay
out exactly what they think happened to Jennifer. Police say that Fotus woke up early on May 24th. He went and grabbed
Pavll's Tacoma with his childhood racing bike in the bed and drove to New Kanan.
He parked at the Waven Park, rode his bike to Jennifer's, somehow got into her garage, and then laid in weight.
Jennifer came home from dropping off the children at school, opened the garage, drove in, closed the garage door, and
then based on the blood spatter, it seems like Jennifer might have been just about to walk into her door, her back
turned when Futus attacked from behind, they think. Now, it's still unclear exactly how Jennifer died because her
body is still missing, but it seems like Fotus struck Jennifer, caused her to fall, and become incapacitated. The Emmy
was confident that she suffered non-servivable wounds based on the amount of blood that they found in all
of the evidence that was dumped. And I don't know when she died. Like, that's not clear. But Fotus spent hours
cleaning up that garage. He even went into the house, took her paper towels, and left behind one spot of Jennifer's
blood mixed with a trace of his own DNA on her kitchen faucet, and then another tiny DNA sample on her doororknob. Then
police believe that he zip tied her by her ankles and wrists, and then put her and his bike into her Suburban, drove
back to the park where he either transferred her body to the Tacoma or did something else with it, maybe gave
it to someone else to dispose of, and then drove back to Farmington. Michelle, police say, knew about it all along and
helped establish an alibi, helped get rid of evidence. Kent, they allege, did the same. As part of a scheme for the
two men to help each other get rid of their wives. Now, despite a $6 million price tag on his bail, Botus makes bond,
bankrolled by another woman who has moved in with him, this friend named Anna Curry, who forks over a large sum
of cash. Anna, girl, I know I could do an entire series on like wags of killers. It is
truly unbelievable to me. But like I don't know their arrangement. Again, like friend, whatever it is, it doesn't
last long. You see, there was an issue with the bond. So, Fotus was scheduled for a bail hearing on January 30th, and
he was expected to be going to jail for the long haul after this. Well, the morning that Fotus is supposed to appear
in court, media have like swarmed his Farmington house, hoping to catch sight of him. They're like, "Waiting. They're
waiting. He's not coming out." So, when court marshals realize that Fotus wasn't
on his way to court where he's supposed to be, they make their way over to his house. Remember, this is like an
enormous place. It has this long driveway. So, most of his cars aren't even visible from the road. But when
investigators get closer, they see that there in the garage is Footus' Raptor, and inside is Photus, barely clinging to
life. First responders pull him out. They start CPR. a scene that is captured on video by news helicopters. He's
eventually airlifted to a hospital in the Bronx and put on life support until his children can come a few days later
and say goodbye. And later, the very day that they came to see him, Fotus is pronounced dead. He had poisoned himself
with carbon monoxide. Inside the home, they found a suicide note that says he couldn't serve another
day for something he didn't do. And he also writes that Michelle and Kent are innocent. Now, this doesn't stop
anything else that's moving forward. Michelle and Kent are still facing trials. There's no easy out for them.
With delays from the pandemic and endless pre-trial motions from their defense attorneys, their cases take
years to get to a courtroom. So, from 2020 to 2023, they're both out on bond. Sometimes with ankle monitors, like
maybe sometimes not. Michelle is just like living her life in Miami. Gets permission from the court to travel as
she pleases. Kent at one point tried to remove his own ankle monitor and then he
petitioned the court to have it removed saying that like because it's not fair cuz he wants to go ice skating and he
can't fit ice skates over his ankle bracelet. Like dude, priorities. You are charged with
plotting a murder. For real. Maybe don't worry about going ice skating right now. Jury selection for
Michelle's trial started in October of 2023. It was hard to find an unbiased jury. Like I said at the top, like this
was making national headlines, but they do. And that same month, a judge legally
declares Jennifer dead. Even before Michelle's trial began, it was clear what her defense was going to argue. And
I bet you can't even guess it because it's not the gone girl thing. They say that Michelle didn't understand English.
Wait, what? Yeah, to be fair, English is not Michelle's first language. She was raised in South America. Her first
language is Spanish, but we know Michelle speaks English. All of her police interviews are in English.
Yeah, you've never brought that up before. Exhibit A. It does impose in my mind that I'm
sleeping with someone that is thinking of killing someone. Like, if I would have like I would have not be
there like with my daughter. Well, not only did you think about it while you were sleeping with him, he involved you
in the cleanup. Yeah. Well, that's like even worse. Like, I hate him. But still, her attorney is adamant that
Michelle never should have been interviewed in English. He says the case should be thrown out. And Michelle is
she eventually gets like locked into this defense. Like, she actually uses an interpreter throughout the trial and
only speaks in Spanish in court, even when speaking to her family. When the trial starts in January of 2024,
prosecutors plan to prove that Michelle not only knew she was helping get rid of
evidence on Albany Avenue, but that she plotted with FOTUS to kill Jennifer. The
trial lasts months until March 1st when a jury finally finds Michelle guilty on the charge of conspiracy to commit
murder and charges of hindering a prosecution, tampering with evidence, and conspiring to tamper with evidence.
She gets sentenced to 14 and 1/2 years in prison and that is where she is now appealing her conviction. Michelle has
filed a habius petition to get released arguing that her rights were violated and that her conviction should be
overturned and we reached out to her attorney for comment and he gave us a brief explanation on what that petition
means generally. Basically, Michelle is arguing that she was led astray by her first lawyer when he gave her bad advice
to sit down with police for like multiple interviews. And by the way, at some point, Michelle was arrested again
during her trial for contempt of court. And so, she's also like awaiting a trial
on that separate charge. Now, all these years later, Kent, that dude is still waiting to face a jury.
So, he's out on bond, but just hasn't been like consistently listed as on the trial list without a start date
scheduled, which I was like, I couldn't understand. I've never seen before. So, our reporter, Taylor, has heard from
insiders at the courthouse that Kent likely won't go to trial and that maybe a plea deal may be on the way. Now, the
whole time, Kent's lawyer maintains his innocence, too. Says he never colluded with Fotus or dug a humansized grave in
the gun club property or whatever. So, we'll see if anything ever comes of that or if it's like a forever waiting game.
When our reporter Taylor spoke to Jennifer's friends, they described her as a wonderful mother who loved her
children. But she was much more than just a mother. Like, she was a friend. She was a daughter. She was an academic,
a writer. And her friends want to make sure that that part isn't forgotten. You guys, Jennifer took every step she could
to safely leave her husband with resources most people don't have. Every year in the US, more than a thousand
women are killed by intimate partners, and women are at the highest risk of being killed when they leave their
abusers. The statistics are so high that Jennifer isn't even the only woman named
Jennifer in Connecticut to be murdered by an aranged spouse. In 2007, Jennifer Magnano was shot dead by her husband on
the front steps of her home in Terraville, Connecticut, when she was required to come back to the state for a
custody hearing, despite being super afraid because she knew her husband was dangerous. Together, those two Jennifers
are the namesake of Jennifer's Law, a domestic violence legislation that extends access to protective orders to
women who are victims of coercive control. It is terrifying. And what is even scarier is that many states still
don't offer protections to victims of that type of abuse. We're going to provide some resources in the show notes
for more information on this and how you can get involved and change that because
you guys abuse isn't just physical abuse. It is important to know not just like the signs of it, what to
look for, not even in your own relationships, but in the relationships of people you love. So, we're going to
also provide resources to anyone who is or maybe knows someone who finds themselves in a situation like
Jennifer's. You guys, we literally get emails from listeners every week who tell us that they finally left for good
because of a story that they heard on our show. And maybe today that's you. Like, you know the warning signs or you
can feel it. You're trying to convince yourself that's other people. It's not you. Your partner's going to change. Or
yes, they hurt you, but they would never kill you. Maybe it's even better in this
very moment, but how many times has it been better before? And then it got bad again, and then it got even worse. On
average, it takes people seven times to leave for good. But you're not guaranteed seven opportunities. Leaving
is not easy, but it is the only way you get out alive. I don't want to have to tell your story one day. Jennifer's kids
lost both of their parents in one fell swoop. Jennifer's children have rarely spoken publicly, but when they all gave
victim impact statements at Michelle's sentencing, they looked right at her and they each begged her, a woman they once
trusted, to finally tell them where their mom is. And that's the piece of this solved case that investigators
still need help with. If you or anyone you know knows anything about the whereabouts of Jennifer Farber
Dulos or any details about her disappearance, the location of her remains, please email cold.case@ct.gov.
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Today, we dive into the gripping case of Jennifer Dulos, a Connecticut mother of five who vanished on May 24, 2019, amid a bitter divorce from her husband, Fotis Dulos. We uncover the shocking details of the case, including surveillance footage of Fotis and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, dumping bloodied evidence in Hartford trash bins, the discovery of Jennifer’s abandoned SUV near Waveny Park, and the heart-wrenching testimony of nanny Lauren Almeida. With a focus on the messy divorce, the suspected murder in New Canaan, and the tragic aftermath, we explore one of the most haunting unsolved mysteries in recent history. Join us as we piece together the evidence and honor Jennifer’s memory.

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Brief Summary

Jennifer Dulos disappeared in 2019; her husband Fotus is suspected of murder, with evidence of conspiracy involving his girlfriend Michelle.

Key points

The Disappearance of Jennifer Farber Dulos. A mother of five vanishes from her home, leading to a complex investigation.
A Contentious Divorce. Jennifer's tumultuous relationship with her husband escalates as she files for divorce.
Discovery of License Plates. Police discover tampered license plates linked to Fotus, raising suspicions about his involvement.
Blood Evidence Found. Investigators find trash bags containing blood-soaked items and Jennifer's clothing, confirming fears.
Michelle's Alibi. Michelle provides a seemingly solid alibi for Fotus, claiming they were together all morning.
Surveillance Footage Reveals Truth. Footage shows Fotus was not at the Farmington house but was in New Canaan when Jennifer disappeared.

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