CT JENNIFER DULOS: Missing from New Canaan, CT - 24 May 2019 - Age 50 *Troconis GUILTY of Conspiracy* (1 Viewer)

New Canaan mom Jennifer Dulos is missing: Here’s what we know​

Fotis Dulos, 51, is the estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, 50. She has been missing since May 24, 2019. Fotis Dulos operates a building company, The Fore Group. He has built custom homes in Fairfield and Litchfield counties and the Farmington Valley. In her initial divorce filing, Jennifer Dulos described her husband’s affinity for water skiing, which she characterized as an “obsession.” She said he insisted on their children training to be world-class water skiers, and had them on a strict training regimen that she believed was dangerous and excessive, and sometimes would go on from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

New Canaan mom Jennifer Dulos is missing: Here’s what we know

Wednesday, Sept. 4

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JENNIFER DULOS has been missing from New Canaan, CT since May of 2019. Her husband committed suicide after her disappearance.

Jennifer Dulos mysteriously vanished during a custody dispute, her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, was under suspicion.But it wasn't until January 2020 that Fotis was arrested for her murder. A few weeks after his arrest, he died from an apparent...

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Michelle Troconis' first lawyer ‘not making excuses’ about his actions during Jennifer Dulos case

Serving a 14-and-a-half-year prison term, she is challenging her conviction, claiming her first attorney was not effective.

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Andrew Bowman could have done more during his roughly eight-month representation of Michelle Troconis, he conceded from the witness stand Monday during a trial in which his former client is challenging her conviction and more than 14-year prison sentence in connection with the death of Jennifer Dulos.

For example, he could have asked a prosecutor threatening to charge her with murder in the days after Dulos’ disappearance to give Troconis immunity before she voluntarily spoke to police about the case.


The exchange exemplified much of the questioning Monday morning of Bowman, Troconis’ first witness in the case, a so-called habeas trial in which Troconis has sued the commissioner of the state’s Department of Correction challenging the legality of her conviction asserting Bowman gave her ineffective counsel.

Again and again, Brown questioned Bowman about certain steps he didn’t take in his representation of Troconis in the days after Jennifer Dulos’ disappearance, which police were working feverishly to investigate as press coverage snowballed.

The central issues during Monday's questioning of Bowman by Brown: Was Troconis prepared enough to talk to the police following her arrest on charges of tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution? And should she have kept talking to them after it became clear they didn't believe her?


For Monday’s trial, which is taking place at state Superior Court in the Rockville section of Vernon, Troconis claims Bowman was ineffective because he allowed her to be questioned by police on three separate days for hours without sealing a deal for immunity from prosecution or informing her the discussions could work against her in court, according to court documents.

Troconis is seeking to overturn her 2024 conviction on several counts, including conspiracy to commit murder, and be released from prison. As she was brought into the courtroom for Monday's proceedings, she smiled to family members in the public gallery before taking a seat next to her lawyers, Brown and Adele Patterson. Throughout Bowman's testimony she leaned forward to listen to his answers, occasionally resting her chin on her hand, reviewing documents, taking notes, and conferring with attorneys.

Taking place over three days — Monday, Jan. 9 and Jan. 16 — Judge Carl Schuman will have 120 days to issue a ruling on whether her counsel was ineffective. If the ruling is that her counsel was ineffective, the judge also must decide what the remedy would be, which possibly includes vacating her conviction. That may result in a second trial.

 

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Michelle Troconis tries again for prison release while appealing conviction in Jennifer Dulos case

Prosecutors noted in court papers that she has already had such a request denied twice, and the third also should be denied.

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Michelle Troconis tries again for prison release while appealing conviction in Jennifer Dulos case​

Michelle Troconis, convicted in the death of Jennifer Dulos, again is seeking to be released from prison while her appeal is pending.

But state prosecutors said she already has been turned down twice in her requests to be released on bond after her 2024 conviction, so her third attempt to be released while her appeal is pending also should be denied, court papers said.

 

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Judge denies Michelle Troconis’ habeas petition after conviction in death of Jennifer Farber Dulos

The judge found that her first attorney did not provide ineffective counsel when he allowed her to participate in three police interviews following Jennifer Farber Dulos’ disappearance.

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Judge denies Michelle Troconis’ habeas petition after conviction in death of Jennifer Farber Dulos​

A judge has denied Michelle Troconis’ first bid to overturn her conviction in the disappearance and death of Jennifer Farber Dulos.

In a written decision filed late Monday, Judge Carl Schuman made a finding that Troconis’ first attorney, Andrew Bowman, did not provide ineffective counsel when he allowed her to sit in on three different interviews with police — which were presented extensively at her trial in 2024 in connection with Farber Dulos’ presumed death. Prosecutors pointed to inconsistencies and her untruthful statements as evidence that she was helping cover for Fotis Dulos, who authorities believe attacked and killed his estranged wife at her New Canaan home in May 2019 as the two were in the midst of contention divorce proceedings and a custody battle.

In a 46-page decision denying the habeas petition, Schuman described Bowman’s strategy to mold Troconis into a witness who could cooperate against Dulos as “reasonable, if not sound.” He noted that this strategy only unraveled after Dulos died following a suicide attempt in January 2020, leaving no one who Troconis could cooperate against — something Schuman said Bowman could not have possibly foreseen.

Schuman also noted that Bowman continually told Troconis that she did not have to speak to police and that, if she did, he stressed that she had to tell the truth, he wrote. Her decision to not be truthful or forthcoming during the interviews, Schuman wrote, falls on her and not Bowman’s advice.

“For those falsehoods and omissions, the court cannot hold Bowman responsible,” Schuman wrote. “Bowman repeatedly told (Troconis) that she had to tell the truth if she decided to interview with the police.”

Troconis’ “reluctance to do so was her own decision, not that of Bowman,” Schuman concluded. “No one can say for certain what would have happened had (Troconis) been completely forthright in the interviews from the beginning. …”

Following Schuman’s decision, Troconis’ family issued a statement expressing their disappointment.

“We are deeply disappointed by the denial of Michelle’s habeas petition, but our commitment to her innocence and to the truth remains unchanged,” the family wrote. “This habeas case centered on the failures in her legal representation, but this ruling does not alter the fundamental truth: Michelle Troconis had no involvement in the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos.

“Nearly seven years after the events that forever altered so many lives, Michelle and our family continue to endure the emotional, personal and public consequences of a case we believe failed to fully recognize the truth,” the family wrote. “We remain determined to ensure that the evidence is fully and fairly presented, and our family, along with friends and supporters throughout Connecticut, stands firmly by her side, committed to ensuring that all issues raised in her case receive full and fair review.”

The law firm that filed Troconis’ habeas petition did not immediately answer an email seeking comment.