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Post by Graveyardbride on Aug 14, 2019 22:02:51 GMT -5
Defense Moves to Suppress Cell Phone Records That Led to Discovery of Bloodstained Clothing
On May 24, Jennifer Dulos disappeared and Fotis Dulos, her estranged husband, and his girlfriend, 44-year-old Michelle Troconis, are suspects – with good reason. Police have disclosed that cell phone records revealed Fotis Dulos traveled to 80 Mountain Road in Farmington, a property owned by his company, The Fore Group, and Albany Avenue, a main thoroughfare in Hartford, on the day his wife vanished.
Cell phone records led New Canaan authorities to contact police in Hartford, a city with an extensive system of surveillance cameras, which captured two individuals resembling Dulos and Troconis in a Black Raptor (Dulos owns a Black Raptor), stopping almost 30 times along Albany Avenue that night to place “multiple” garbage bags into trash bins.
Among the items recovered from the subject bins, authorities discovered a bloodstained Vineyard Vines shirt and brassier Jennifer Dulos was believed to have been wearing on the day she disappeared. Two mops and sponges containing small amounts of blood were also recovered.
Now, Norm Pattis, the lawyer representing Fotis Dulos, wants all evidence resulting from the confiscation of his client’s cell phone suppressed. During a pretrial hearing Friday (August 9) Pattis argued that police took the phone on May 25 without a search warrant and refused to return it. “He didn’t give the state of Connecticut an irrevocable gift,” Pattis told Judge John Blawie. “The state kept it without a warrant. Our view is that the phone and the fruits of that phone are suppressible.”
In a motion filed in June, Pattis requested the court return several items seized by police as part of the investigation into the disappearance of the New Canaan mother of five. Among these items were two iPhones and two vehicles, a Jeep and Chevy Suburban, owned by Fotis Dulos. Judge John Blawie agreed the vehicles should be returned to the defendant.
In commenting on the defense motion to suppress, attorney Brittany Paz, who is not involved in the case, said it would hinge largely on when the evidence was gathered because a defendant is allowed to revoke a consent to search. But this doesn’t mean the judge would rule that all the evidence gathered in connection with the phone would be suppressed. The phone itself contains physical evidence such as text messages and photos.
A key issue the judge will consider is at what point Fotis Dulos asked that the phone be returned. “It will all depend on when the consent to look at the phone was given and when he asked for it back,” Paz explained. If he asked for the phone back after a search warrant was obtained, then there will be no grounds to suppress evidence. However, if he made his request before police obtained the search warrant and was refused, there could be a problem.
The warrant indicates Fotis Dulos, accompanied by an attorney, went to the New Canaan Police Department the day after his wife was reported missing and turned over an iPhone to a detective, which phone was seized by police. “It all hinges on how long before they got the warrant did he ask for it back,” said Paz, who previously worked with Pattis.
Police may be able to claim an exigency because a woman was missing, Paz added. According to the warrant, the phone was seized “under the belief it contained evidence of a crime and/or information which could lead to the discovery of Jennifer Dulos.”
The other issue is the records turned over to police by the cell phone provider. It is unlikely that a judge will rule that the records – which in this case police said led to evidence connecting Fotis Dulos to the disappearance – should be suppressed because investigators could have gathered them without the physical phone. Police obtained search warrants for a forensic review of the cell phone and records associated with the device. The search warrants in the case are sealed until September.
Richard Colangelo, state’s attorney, declined to comment on the request for suppression of the phone records.
The search for Jennifer Dulos has continued for 11 weeks and cost local and state police more than $600,000 in overtime. Because of the blood spatter and bloodstains discovered in the garage of the woman’s home, police believe Mrs. Dulos was the victim of a “serious physical assault.”
Fotis Dulos is due back in Stamford Superior Court September 13, while Troconis is scheduled to appear on August 19.
Sources: Lisa Backus, The Stamford Advocate, August 12, 2019, and CNN Wire, August 13, 2019.
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Post by jane on Aug 15, 2019 14:11:54 GMT -5
If the husband and girlfriend are on camera throwing things in the trash and the police found bloody clothes and other items in the trash, why aren't they in jail? From what I've read, their bonds are only $500,000 each and both of them are foreigners.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Sept 6, 2019 12:11:24 GMT -5
Evidence Suggests Husband Disposed of Wife’s Body in Borrowed TruckFotis Dulos, the estranged husband of missing mother Jennifer Dulos, has been arrested again in connection with her disappearance. According to an arrest warrant, Michelle Troconis, his girlfriend, told police Jennifer’s body was in a truck he borrowed May 24, the day his wife was last seen. Dulos was arrested Wednesday afternoon at his Farmington home by Connecticut State Police and again charged with tampering with evidence. Troconis turned herself in Thursday afternoon and she, too, is facing an additional tampering charge.
The latest charge against Dulos stems from surveillance photographs that show him dropping a white plastic garbage bag into a trash can at a car wash in Avon where he was having his employee’s truck washed several days after his wife was reported missing. According to the newly-released arrest warrant, police asked Troconis why Fotis Dulos had the truck cleaned and she replied, “Well obviously ... all the evidence says because ... you showed me the picture of the blood in the door, it’s because the body of Jennifer at some point was in there.”
Dulos and Troconis previously pled not guilty and were released after each posted a $500,000 bail. On Wednesday, Dulos posted another $500,000 bail. Troconis bonded out on Thursday.
Norman Pettis, an attorney speaking on behalf of Fotis Dulos, said his client will plead not guilty to the new charge and criticized police for focusing all their attention on his client. An attorney for Troconis said she should be presumed innocent.
The new 43-page warrant revealed additional details concerning the case, including allegations Fotis Dulos drove the truck used by an employee of his construction business to New Canaan May 24, lay in wait for his wife to return home after dropping off their five children at school, after which he drove away with her body. Investigators discovered evidence of a “clean up” in the home’s garage and Jennifer’s blood mixed with the DNA of her estranged husband in a sink.
Dulos later had the employee’s truck washed and detailed without informing the employee and pressured the employee to change the seats in the truck, according to the warrant. Police later found Jennifer’s DNA in the employee’s truck.
Troconis initially gave police “self-contradictory” information, but after pointed questioning, admitted she couldn’t account for her boyfriend’s whereabouts between 8 a.m. and 1 or 2 p.m. on the day of his wife’s disappearance, the warrant said. She also admitted she was riding with Dulos in his Ford Raptor pickup truck as he spent a half-hour disposing of garbage bags in Hartford trash receptacles that night, but claimed she was on her cellphone and didn’t know what he was doing.
The warrant also confirms investigators found handwritten notes in the Farmington home detailing the couple’s schedule of activities on May 24 and 25 – some of which Troconis later admitted were bogus. Troconis allegedly said the notes were to “help them remember” their activities on those dates. Detectives later referred to these as “alibi scripts,” according to the warrant.
Troconis also admitted that the day of Jennifer’s disappearance, Dulos was cleaning what he said was coffee out of his employee’s truck at his Farmington home. She admitted disposing of paper towels from the cleanup, but said whatever it was didn’t smell like coffee.
Pettis said prosecutors are trying to “convince” themselves his client is responsible for his wife’s disappearance. In statements Thursday, he appeared to call into question the accounts of Troconis and the construction employee. “It sounds like the state is trying to convince itself that Fotis is responsible for Jennifer’s disappearance,” Norman Pattis said . “When and if the state decides it can prove its case, we will welcome the chance to meet the case in open court. The new warrant speaks of a lying lover and handyman with something to hide. When do we get the chance to question these folks?” In a statement released to WFSB, Pettis added, “Our hearts go out to Ms. Troconis. We are confident that she will, in the end, tell the truth at trial. The state is a terrifying enemy, but a clean conscience is a powerful ally.”
Andrew Bowman, who represents Troconis, told WFSB: “Remember that Michelle is presumed innocent and she should be. We’re prepared to let judgment in this case rest in the jury’s hands.”
Police say the employee’s alibi of working at a job site all day the day Jennifer Dulos disappeared checked out and they do not believe he was involved.
“It’s an exhausting fight,” Fotis Dulos told reporters Wednesday evening. “I love my children, that’s about it.”
Dulos is scheduled to appear in court September 12 on the new tampering charge. Source: WFSB, September 5, 2019.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 8, 2020 15:02:24 GMT -5
Estranged Husband, Ex-Girlfriend and Attorney Charged and ArrestedFotis Dulos (above left), the estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, who went missing in May, has been arrested on charges of capital murder and murder/kidnaping. Michelle Troconis (center), his former girlfriend, was also arrested on a charge of conspiracy to commit murder. A third individual, Kent Mawhinney (right), an attorney and close personal friend of the husband’s, was arrested on a charge of conspiracy to commit murder.
In addition to blood – which proved to be that of Jennifer Dulos – in the house she was renting, and videos of Dulos and Troconis dumping items in trash cans, investigators also found compromising “alibi scripts” in the home occupied by the two. When confronted, Troconis admitted she and Dulos prepared the notes to account for their actions on the day her lover’s wife went missing. Although the authorities say there is evidence Fotis Dulos was “lying in wait” at his wife’s home the day she went missing, in a September Dateline appearance, Dulos claimed he had nothing to do with her disappearance and believes she is still alive. At one point, Norman Pattis, who represents Dulos, cited the book and film Gone Girl and suggested Jennifer Dulos staged a similar disappearing act.
According to Pattis, the prosecutor has requested a $6 million bond. Troconis is being held on a bond of $2 million.
Mawhinney, 54, is a South Windsor lawyer who represented Dulos in a case against his mother-in-law. The authorities became suspicious of the attorney when he provided an alibi for Dulos and Troconis the morning of the disappearance. Mawhinney initially denied meeting with the pair, then in a subsequent interview, told investigators he fell on May 25, suffered a concussion and could not recall a meeting or phone contact with Dulos or Troconis the previous day. Phone records indicated Dulos called Mawhinney the night his wife vanished. “I don’t remember having contact with him. If there’s a phone call, I guess I did, but I don’t remember having contact with Fotis,” the lawyer insisted. He also claimed he had to replace his phone because it was damaged during said fall.
Then on August 7, Jay Lawlor, a member of the Windsor Rod & Gun Club in East Granby – which was founded by Mawhinney – told authorities he and a friend, Lee McKay, discovered a large hole on the property that “100 percent [was] a human grave.” The two men were hunting on May 18 when they came across “an area of disturbed ground.” The hole was approximately 2- x 6-foot and 3-feet-deep, with grill grates on top to conceal it. The hunters also saw a large blue tarp and two bags of lime nearby. Unaware of anyone missing at the time – Jennifer Dulos didn’t disappear until the following week – they did their best to cover the hole, so no one fall into it, and moved on.
Curious, McKay returned to the site a few days later and found the hole partially filled with rainwater, but the lime was gone. The following month, he reported the hole was completely filled in and covered “as neat as a pin” with shrubbery. Investigators checked the area, but found nothing.
After Lawlor told police his story, the area was checked a second time, but no evidence of human remains were found.
Mawhinney has had previous run-ins with the law: He was arrested twice in 2019, once for allegedly raping his wife and a second time for violating a protective order. He is being held on a $2 million bond.
The family of Jennifer Dulos released a statement thanking the state of Connecticut and local police “for their tireless commitment and diligent, painstaking work. Although we are relieved that the wait for these charges is over, for us, there is no sense of closure,” the statement read. “Nothing can bring Jennifer back. We miss her every day and will forever mourn her loss.”
In the meantime, the five Dulos children remain in the custody of Gloria Farber, their maternal grandmother.Sources: Jennifer Henderson and Bryan Gingras, CNN, January 7, 2020; Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, January 7, 2020; Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, January 8, 2020, and The Associated Press.
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Post by steve on Jan 9, 2020 2:41:55 GMT -5
For a lawyer, this dude isn't very smart.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 28, 2020 14:53:26 GMT -5
Fotis Dulos on Life Support Following Suicide Attempt
According to an early report, Fotis Dulos, 52, had committed suicide, but a faint pulse was detected following 30 minutes of CPR by first responders. At that point, he was rushed to the hospital, where it is said he remains unconscious and on life support.
When contacted for a comment, Norman Pattis, the attorney representing Dulos, said, “I am told Mr. Dulos is en route to the hospital with a pulse. Our thoughts and prayers are with him.”
It appears Dulos attempted to take his own life moments after learning authorities were taking steps to revoke his bond on the grounds it had been secured by wildly-overvalued real estate. A Superior Court judge in Stamford was expected to hold an emergency hearing at noon today to discuss the $6 million bond Dulos posted following his arrest on January 7, and sources say the bond was likely going to be revoked.
State insurance regulators determined there were serious problems with the real estate valuations and transmitted the information to Palmetto Surety, the South Carolina insurer that underwrote the bond. Specifically, the bond was secured by six pieces of real estate – two of which are in foreclosure and a third that is substantially overvalued.
Early Tuesday, Palmetto instructed its local lawyer, A. Ryan McGuigan, to make a motion to revoke the bond. McGuigan said he notified State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo of the impending revocation at approximately 8:30 a.m. and Colangelo, in turn, notified Pattis around 9 o’clock.
McGuigan reported he and a private bondsman arrived at the Dulos home in Farmington around 11:30 a.m. to serve notice they would be formally requesting revocation of the bond, and encountered what he described as a “state of confusion.”
Two Farmington patrol cars had already arrived and were quickly joined by dozens of police officers and emergency medical personnel. First responders found Dulos sitting in his car in the smoke-filled garage of his home and McGuigan said the man appeared unresponsive. He was moved to the backyard, where emergency personnel immediately began resuscitation efforts that continued for an extended period of time. EMTs initially believed Dulos was dead, but after approximately 30 minutes, a faint pulse was detected.
Last week, Superior Court Judge Gary White restricted Dulos to home confinement because he had tampered with a memorial created for Jennifer Farber Dulos, his missing wife, near the home they once shared. White told Dulos if he violated the conditions of his release again, the court would double the bond to $12 million. The hearing was requested by Colangelo after Dulos was observed on January 17 “to get out of his vehicle and remove items from a memorial that was set up” at the end of a private road leading to the home. “Mr. Dulos is on the edge of what he has the right to do,” Coangelo told the court. “I would ask that you remove his permission to leave for work and do it in black and white so that he knows what he can do. It shouldn’t be that hard but apparently it is.”
Pattis acknowledged it wasn’t smart of Dulos to remove items from the memorial, but added the memorial was set up near his client’s home to taunt him.
Source: Dave Altimari, Edmund H. Mahoney, Emily Brindley and Amanda Blanco, The Hartford Courant, January 28, 2020.
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Post by catherine on Jan 28, 2020 17:06:34 GMT -5
There's no better indication of guilt than a serious suicide attempt and since he's on life support, I'd say this one was serious.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 30, 2020 11:32:30 GMT -5
Fotis Dulos Likely Brain Damaged, Judge Issues Re-Arrest WarrantsRelatives of Fotis Dulos, who is on life support following a suicide attempt, have been urged to say their goodbyes because it appears the accused killer will not recover. “Doctors said brain damage is inevitable because of the amount of time he was unresponsive,” a source reported. “He is completely reliant on life support.”
The Defendant’s sister, Rena Dulos Kyrimi, who still lives in their native Greece, is his closest living adult relative. She and her daughter are on their way to New York.
Following his suicide attempt, Dulos was airlifted to Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx, New York, for treatment in a hyperbaric chamber. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used in cases of acute carbon monoxide poisoning to quickly raise the level of oxygen in a patient’s blood and reduce carbon dioxide levels.
In the meantime, a superior court judge issued three re-arrest warrants for Dulos and increased his bond to $6.5 million for failure to appear in court. Additionally, police executed a new search warrant on the Dulos home late Wednesday afternoon.
“We remain committed obviously to the proposition that Mr. Dulos is not guilty of the crimes charged and hope that he recovers so that we can vindicate him in a court of law,” Norm Pattis, who represents Dulos, told reporters. Concerning his client’s suicide attempt, Pattis said, “I saw nothing that led me to believe that. I look back and wonder what I missed.” Sources: Nicole Chavez and Alec Snyder, CNN, January 30, 2020; Louise Boyle and Ben Ashford, The Daily Mail, January 29, 2020; WVIT, January 29, 2020; and The Stamford Advocate, January 29, 2020.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 30, 2020 19:15:35 GMT -5
Fotis Dulos Pronounced Dead
Norm Pattis, attorney for Fotis Dulos, has announced the death of his client, who was pronounced dead at 5:32 p.m. He had been in what was described as “dire” condition at Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx, New York, for the past two days.
“His family came in from Greece and decided today to donate his organs so that he will live on in some form – in the assistance that he can provide to others in their own individual struggles,” Pattis told reporters. “As to those who contend that Mr. Dulos’s death reflects a consciousness of guilt, we say ‘no,’ we say it was more a conscience over-worn with the weight of a world that was too busy to listen and that wanted a story more than it wanted the truth. We’re not bitter and we’re not accusing anyone of having driven him to his death, we wonder why – in the court of public opinion – the presumption of innocence was so quickly satisfied.”
According to a motion to preserve evidence filed today in superior court, a note was found in the car in which Dulos was discovered. “Upon information and belief, in the course of executing a search of Fotis Dulos’s car,” the motion reads, “law enforcement officials recovered a note in which he declared his innocence of the infamous and heinous crimes that the State has accused him of and claimed his lawyers have the evidence to prove it.”
Sources: Dave Altimari, The Hartford Courant, January 30, 2020, and ABC News, January 30, 2020.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Feb 1, 2020 14:34:57 GMT -5
Anna Curry, the Latest Dulos Girlfriend, and Transcript of Suicide NoteFollowing is a transcript of the note found in the black Chevy Suburban in which Fotis Dulos attempted to take his own life:
1/28/2020
All,
If you are reading this I am no more. I
refuse to spend even an hour more in jail
for something I had nothing to do with.
Enough is enough. If it takes my head to
end this, so be it. I want it to be
known that Michelle Troconis had nothing
to do with Jennifer’s disappearance
and neither did Kent Mawhinney. I ask
the State to let them free of any such
accusations. I also ask the State to
stop harassing my friends Andreas
Toutziaridis, and Anna Curry. They are
honorable people. Please let my
children know that I love them, I would
do anything to be with them, but
unfortunately all have our limits. The
State will not rest until I rot in jail.
My attorney can explain about what happened
with the bags on Albany Avenue.
Everything else is a story fabricated by
the law enforcement. I want to thank
all my family and friends that stood by me
this difficult time. Above all Anna Curry,
I am sorry for letting you down and not
continuing the fight.
Fotis
Anna Curry (above), a North Carolina financial advisor who bears a striking resemblance to Jennifer Dulos, helped Fotis Dulos make his $6 million bond. She was staying with him at his Farmington home when he went into the garage, attached a hose to his vehicle and turned on the engine, but was not there when the incident occurred. She had gone to run errands at approximately 10:30 that morning and when she returned around noon, found paramedics working to save Dulos.
According to Norm Pattis, Curry and Dulos had been friends for several years. “It is my understanding and belief these were old friends who developed a friendship years ago at work and out of loyalty to that friendship, she has assisted Mr. Dulos,” the attorney told a reporter. “We should all be lucky enough to have such a loyal friend.”
Curry, a graduate of Duke University, and Dulos met in New York City when both were employed by Capgemini, a multinational corporation that provides consulting, technology, professional and outsourcing services. She worked at the company as a senior consultant in wealth management strategy from 1999 to 2003, and Dulos was a manager at Capgeminin from 1997 to 2004.
After leaving Capgemini, Curry went to Merrill Lynch, where she was employed as a financial planner from 2003 to 2006. She then took a job as vice president and private client advisor at the Wilmington Trust Company. She also was employed by Trust Sollus Wealth Management and Foundation Source before leaving New York for her native North Carolina in 2013 for a job at LPL Financial.
In addition to contributing cash to Dulos’s bail, Curry also signed a $3 million promissory note to the Palmetto Surety Corporation, the company that initially insured the bond.
It is reported Curry traveled to New York to be at Dulos’s bedside at Jocobi Medical Center, where he died.
Andreas Toutziridis, also mentioned in the suicide note, grew up with Dulos in Greece and has been one of his staunchest supporters since Jennifer Dulos vanished in May 2019.
Sources: Kaylee Merchak, WTNH, January 31, 2020; Tara O'Neill, The Stamford Advocate, January 29, 2020; The Hartford Courant, January 29, 2020; and WWLP.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Oct 7, 2023 17:40:54 GMT -5
Jury Selection Begins in Girlfriend’s TrialIt’s been four years since Jennifer Dulos, a 50-year-old mother of five, disappeared from her New Canaan home. Her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, a developer, became an immediate suspect.
After he and then girlfriend Michelle Troconis were captured on video discarding items in trash receptacles along the highway between New Canaan and Hartford, both were arrested on charges of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and hindering prosecution. In January 2020, they were arrested again, this time on charges of capital murder and murder/kidnaping. By the time of their second arrest, the two were no longer a couple.
On January 28, Fotis Dulos attempted to take his own life in the garage of his home, and although he was still alive when EMTs arrived, he was left brain dead from carbon monoxide poisoning and removed from life support a few days thereafter.
Now, Troconis is facing trial for her participation in the disappearance of her former lover’s wife alone, and jury selection began Wednesday, October 4.Sources: Liz Hardaway, The Stamford Advocate, October 4, 2023, and CBS News, October 5, 2023.
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Post by kitty on Oct 8, 2023 6:04:40 GMT -5
If her boyfriend did the killing, why doesn't this woman just admit it and tell police where the body is buried?
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Post by jason on Oct 8, 2023 15:13:33 GMT -5
If her boyfriend did the killing, why doesn't this woman just admit it and tell police where the body is buried? Never underestimate the stupidity of a woman in love. If she hadn't been complicit in the murder, she would have entered a plea. She was probably as responsible for what happened as he was. She may have been the one who actually killed Jennifer Dulos. Even if Fotis struck the fatal blow, administered the fatal stab wound, or whatever, this bitch was there and helped him try to cover up the crime. |
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Post by snowfairy on Oct 9, 2023 15:59:01 GMT -5
Never underestimate the stupidity of a woman in love. If she hadn't been complicit in the murder, she would have entered a plea. She was probably as responsible for what happened as he was. She may have been the one who actually killed Jennifer Dulos. Even if Fotis struck the fatal blow, administered the fatal stab wound, or whatever, this bitch was there and helped him try to cover up the crime. |
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 24, 2024 12:15:38 GMT -5
Michelle Troconis on Trial for Conspiring with Boyfriend in Murder of Jennifer DulosThe trial of Michelle Troconis, former girlfriend of Fotis Dulos, began January 10 and has now entered its 9th day with jurors viewing various items of evidence. Among the items of evidence presented were a blood-soaked Vineyard Vines shirt, T-shirt and torn bra, zip ties, gloves, plastic ponchos, a white towel and a box cutter, all recovered from Hartford trash receptacles. At one point Michelle Manning, supervising assistant state attorney, held up a poncho for the jury as a witness testified it was leaking a blood-like substance when recovered by police.
Although Troconis, 49, isn’t captured on video handling the items, she is shown sitting in the vehicle as Dulos disposes of the incriminating material. She is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution.
In one video viewed by jurors, Dulos is seen tossing an envelope into a storm drain as Troconis reaches down to the sidewalk near the sewer gate, however, Jon Schoenhorn, her attorney, claimed she was simply discarding a piece of gum by wiping it on the sidewalk.
“Nothing that was in those bags will be shown to have had anything to do with Michelle Troconis or that she knew what was in any of those bags,” Schoenhorn told reporters outside the courtroom. Nonetheless, her DNA was found on some of the trash bags.
Some of the most intriguing testimony, thus far, was that of Lauren Almeida, the nanny who looked after the five Dulos children. When called to the stand last week, she told the jury she began working for the Dulos family in 2012 and spoke of ski and beach vacations to places like St. Barts, Florida, Greece, Virginia and Colorado. She said Jennifer was a devoted mother, but Fotis Dulos worked a lot and didn’t have a chance to spend a lot of time with the kids. There is, of course, nothing unusual about a husband and father who spends most of his time at work, and Ms. Almeida recalled he and Jennifer “seemed to get along just fine.” Then things began to change, she continued. Mrs. Dulos told her she “had this feeling that he [her husband] was acting weird. I didn’t really believe her at first. I believed him to be an honest guy and I couldn’t imagine him having an affair when there were five little kids involved,” the young woman said. “I told her I didn’t think it was true ... she was very anxious, kind of tight and she seemed upset. ... The big dynamic change was in March 2017,” she remembered, “which is when Jennifer found out about the affair. A few months after that it would totally change.”
Ms. Almeida continued caring for the children after Jennifer Dulos moved out of the Jefferson Crossing home and rented a house in New Canaan. After her employer disappeared in May 2019, she relocated with the children to the home of their maternal grandmother, Mrs. Louise Farber, in New York.
Sources: WVIT, January 24, 2024; Patrick Reilly, The New York Post, January 23, 2024, and Dave Collins, Associated Press, January 11, 2024.
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