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[Music] July 2017 during court proceedings 48-year-old Jennifer dulis requested an
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emergency custody order begging the court for sole custody of her five children a portion of the
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request reads as follows quote I'm afraid of my husband I know that filing for divorce and
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filing this motion will enrage him I know he will retaliate by trying to harm me in some way
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he has the attitude that he must always win at all costs he is dangerous and ruthless
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when he believes that he has been wronged during the course of our marriage he told me about sickening Revenge
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fantasies and plans to cause physical harm to others who have wronged him for example
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flying a plane over an ex-client's home and dropping a brick on his house I fear for my family's safety
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and I believe him to be highly capable and vengeful enough to take the children and disappear
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Jennifer's husband 49 year old fotus dulis denied all Jennifer's assertions and responded that Jennifer was unstable
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and unfit to parent their children he said that she took the children from him without warning
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Judge Thomas Cullen denied the emergency custody order instead putting in place a
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plan of custody whereby the parents would share legal custody while the divorce was settled
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judge Colin wrote it is clear that in the weeks immediately preceding the filing of this action
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the atmosphere in the party's home deteriorated the plaintiff was upset over the breakdown of the marriage and
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what she perceived to be the defendants controlling an aggressive behavior the defendant became upset because he
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felt that he could no longer control the situation and unilaterally dictate the outcome
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arguments followed including in the presence of the children things were said in anger
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however the court is hopeful that once things settle down and cooler heads prevail these extremely well-educated
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and accomplished parents will be able to reach an agreement on a mutually acceptable parenting plan
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with the assistance of their experienced and talented counsel but as we shall soon see cooler heads
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did not prevail less than two years later on May 24 2019 at 6 59 PM the New Canaan
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Connecticut Police Department received a report of a missing woman her name Jennifer dulis this report was filed by
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phone by a laurel Watts this is true crime garage and this is the case for Jennifer Doles
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thank you foreign [Music] grew up in Greece part of a large traditional Greek family he excelled in
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both snow skiing and water skiing fotus attended Brown University graduating in 1989 with degrees in economics and
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Applied Mathematics after fotus worked for some big name firms such as Ernst and Young doing
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management consulting he got his master's degree in finance from Columbia University this in 1997. he married his
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first wife in 2000 but then he met Jennifer Farber in the Aspen Airport Jennifer was the beautiful and
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privileged daughter of Hilliard and Gloria Farber because of Hilliard's successes this was an extremely wealthy
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family Jennifer had also attended Brown when fotus was there but they didn't know each other back then Jennifer too
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got her Master's Degree this was in writing from nyu's Tisch School for the Arts
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she was a very busy writer we are talking journalism essays plays and screenplays and even a novel
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she loved reading and traveling it's not clear when exactly Jennifer and fotus started seeing each other but it
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is clear that it was when fotus was still married he divorced in July of 2004 and Jennifer
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and fotis were married within months they lived in the Farmington Valley area in Connecticut where photos started up
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his own company the four group a prominent residential Builder constructing custom luxury homes in the
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wealthy Farmington Valley and Fairfield County areas of Connecticut fotus's Mo was to build a mansion or
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even a small development and move his family into the new home until it sold Jennifer and fotus had two sets of twins
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and a baby girl in quick succession yeah they had a total of three boys and two girls the family was very busy with
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multiple nannies employed at once people were coming and going from their homes constantly this because fotus ran
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his business out of his home whichever house he was living in at the time right now before we get too far along one
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thing I really want to point out here I want to point this out now because later
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in this case there will be a lot of moving pieces so please just note that fotus runs his business out of his home
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so when we say the office or his house either way it's the same location this did not always go over well with
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the neighbors because imagine this you're living in this very wealthy upscale area and this guy's got trucks
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and Men coming and going constantly in what's supposed to be this quiet residential area but also not to mention
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that he is of a different ethnicity so sometimes that doesn't play too well in these areas one neighbor on the four
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group built cul-de-sac of four homes this is an area called Avon called the police on photos numerous times for
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things like residential zoning violations and noise violations this former neighbor recounted to us that
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fotus was enraged by this and confronted her on the street on a number of occasions
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on one occasion threatening her in her own driveway despite this fodis was generally considered to be charming and
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charismatic by most however you can see by this Behavior he was a hot head right
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he insisted on getting his way he was in my opinion controlling and arrogant as well also seems like he was such a a
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bully towards women at some point the family moved to Farmington the address was for Jefferson Crossing this was in
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fact constructed by fotus's company this is a massive Brick Mansion with six bedrooms and a 13 000 square feet of
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living space wow yeah this area you could play baseball in this house you could put 20 of my houses in that house
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this area of the Farmington Hills is very upscale fotus was developing a number of properties in this very
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immediate area now it's not clear exactly when the marriage started to go south there was some good and some bad as
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there is with most marriages it is said by friends of Jennifer that she at some point was suspicious she suspected fotus
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had a Wandering eye he was wait so put that eye on a leash so she met him why while he was married
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they had an affair that obviously she knew about and now she's questioning his wondering eye so
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when the Wonder and I works out in your favor it's okay but now it's not okay you know I I always immediately think of
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that as well but then I try to like put myself in the position of somebody that finds himself
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in a relationship like this and then I start to wonder I'm like I I think what the way this goes down Captain is that a
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lot of times when you are the one being pursued or you're starting up this new relationship with this married man or
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married woman I think you make a lot of assumptions or at least believe the other person that
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the marriage that they're in is just horrible like it's a it's a nightmare it's already over we're living Separate
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Lives it's just a matter of signing some papers well that's what them can make you think right right and then you get
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involved in this and you think well we're truly in love he wouldn't do that to me or she wouldn't do that to me we
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have a great relationship we have five children and we live in a big beautiful Brick Mansion that we play baseball in
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and I'm not saying this happened for for certain because there's no evidence of that but I have sometimes met couples
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where instantly I'm going to this guy seems a little controlling of his wife and they
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normally have a lot of children it's almost like they put that in to play as a way to control their people at home
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yeah well and as you said you get the vibe that he's a bit of a bully towards women there's there one way to bully a
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woman is and mistreat her is to go outside of the marriage and these two are both Attractive
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well-educated people the other issue and I think where her suspicions come into play is he's gone a lot he's away from
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the home a lot he's at water ski competitions that he participated in these are in other states sometimes in
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other countries he's out skiing in Aspen or visiting Greece because he has extended family there
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then in the early 2017 they decided to sell the home they listed the house and enrolled the kids
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in the New Canaan country school but all of this blew up when Jennifer discovered
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in March of 2017 that fotus was in fact having an affair this you know enter Michelle traconis was she a ski
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instructor she was I believe down in Argentina so I was just making a joke she was
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involved in skiing in some form right now things deteriorated fast once this took place on June 3rd 2017 Lauren
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Almedia who by this point has been employed by the Dulles for over four years now as one of their nannies
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she says that she witnessed the following she heard yelling and thudding footsteps as Jennifer ran through the
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home being chased by a clearly angry fotus Jennifer ran into the master bedroom and slammed the door behind her
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Lauren and one of the children were already in this room so they're in the room with her as well
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and she says she could hear photos pounding on the door in Rage Jennifer braced her back against the locked door
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and photos finally walked away realizing you know probably realizing that one of
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his kids and the nanny were in this room as well and had witnessed the whole thing right
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shaking in fear Jennifer told Lauren that she was very afraid of her husband and that
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he had threatened to take all five of their kids away from her and moved to Greece
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now Lawrence soon after observed another incident where she found Jennifer crying
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in the driveway she told Lauren that fotus had tried to run her down with his vehicle and she
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had to jump out of the way of his car as he drove off in in another fit of rage yeah but to be fair a lot of times
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if your friend's going through a divorce you only kind of hear one side of whatever is happening
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and especially if you've been friends with that couple for a long time sometimes you have to
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you know take that story with a little bit of a grain of salt and say is this actually happening is he being
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as threatening as she claims or or is this um just to get me on her side well it could
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be to get her on her side the the only the only issue I take with that is we one of these things events she witnessed
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herself right right she was present there and probably afraid as well and she's look I'm sure that they had some kind of
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friendly relationship but at the end of the day she's the nanny she works for both of them right
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um you know all these things Devil's Advocate there these things are all adding up of course and eventually
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Jennifer is going to have enough of this Behavior she packs up her things and left taking the five children with her
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now at this time the five children they range in age from 8 to 13. she's away with the kids and she's going
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to really upset photos further because not only did she take the children but she's refusing to respond to his calls
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and to his text right now at this point in her life is she Avid writer no I think the the writing slowed down
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significantly once she started having children right because sometimes as this divorce happens you'll see
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um the one of the parents used the children as leverage go away not respond and then sometimes the other spouse uses
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money as leverage but she comes from money so I'm just pointing out that she has a lot more options than the average
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mother with five kids would have oh yes you're you're spot on man she comes not only does she come from money she comes
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from wealth right her her family is extremely wealthy and she wasn't like snobby about it or weird about it or
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anything like that she was from all accounts I could find she's pretty down to earth I think the major concern here
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and we've seen this unfortunately too many times where someone has easy access to live in
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another country right takes the children and goes to that other country and then
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we have a hard time getting those kids back for the parent that that is stuck here
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well and in this scenario we've seen it through the throughout the time of doing
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the show and and learning a lot about abusive situations and hear Jennifer's in this abusive situation and a lot of
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times these women that that have the five kids that have no money that have no means because they're staying at home
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and doing this huge job of raising the kids that the spouse then like I said controls that
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money and these women in abusive situations have a really hard time of just it's not as easy as just packing up
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everything and getting out of there so the fact that she has these resources is really good yeah and I think the threat
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of what she is afraid of is very real here we have a guy that could very easily just take the children he says
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he's taking them to McDonald's one afternoon and next thing you know they're on a plane to Greece and he's
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shacking up with family there and she has lost her children right so she's not responding to his phone calls
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or to his text I think it's out of fear that he's going to take the children not
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so much that she's trying to hold them or dangle them over his head like some kind of carrot here uh he gets upset he
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calls the police this is on June 19th to report his children is missing saying quote I'm worried about my wife and kids
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because they left to go to New York and I haven't been able to get in touch with
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them I've been texting and I see that the texts are being delivered but no one is responding to me end quote police
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found the children I'd also really like to read what those texts are because I'm
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sure they're not just hey are you okay please let me know you're okay I'm sure those texts were verbally
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abusive well the the police's statement is that they did find the children and they found them quote safe and secure
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with their mother now Jennifer moved into 69 Wells Lane in New Canaan this is a very exclusive town of less than 20
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000 people a suburb of New York City this house I mean it sounds like you know I hate to keep kind of running
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around this here that she comes from wealth and has plenty of money most people in this situation would find
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themselves you know Dire Straits we don't have much money we're gonna have to go live
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someplace else on an emergency situation the house that she's renting is a 9 800 square feet home that that the
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Zillow website estimates its value at 3.5 million dollars well you can't go from 13
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000 to 1200. 13 000 to 9 000. it's also closer to her mother to Jennifer's mother who
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is quite helpful with the children and and with Jennifer now she Jennifer filed for divorce on June 20th 2017 and from
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the get-go the proceedings were contentious the two parties have filed nearly 500
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motions between them and her court filings Jennifer claimed that photos quote exhibited irrational
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unsafe bullying threatening and controlling Behavior end quote heck you heard the statement
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in the trailer of his violent fantasies of revenge against people who have wronged him or are
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threatening to take the kids and go to Greece yeah she also said that fotus made a specific threat to kidnap the
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children and take them to Greece or another country and quote you will never find us is what she says he said if if
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she did not agree to his terms in the divorce he's trying to control this whole divorce thing
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Jennifer emphasized that fotus's scary Behavior had significantly intensified as the proceedings went along and states
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that she was now afraid for her safety the judge required the dolysis to refrain from any travel
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keep the kids away from any romantic partners that they may have and to work to establish a mutually agreeable
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custodial plan fotus was losing it with this situation this situation is beyond his control
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he reasserted his claims that Jennifer was an unfit mother and that she was a Pill Popper this in all in the court
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filings we spoke with one of Jennifer's friends who saw fotus at an Avon Connecticut restaurant sometime after
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Jennifer left the home fotus insisted on telling her over and over again that his
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wife was crazy and that she was a Pill Popper and to be brutally honest here Captain I'm kind of
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dumbing that down a little bit it it was it went on and on and on with this guy trying to convince this person that
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Jennifer was just some crazy pill popping unfit mother yeah I mean he's trying to say hey she's crazy for
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wanting to divorce me even though I'm cheating on her well he's one hell of a skier yeah so we already named the woman
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that fotus was having an affair with Michelle conus that possibly could have been more well
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a little background here I mean it appears that their relationship was pretty tight Michelle was seven years
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younger than photos she worked at four group with him at some point she was from Venezuela went to college in
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Argentina and had been a TV host and producer for a ski show on ESPN on the ESPN network in Argentina
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of course Michelle moved in with fotus and she was a mother to a pre-teen daughter who lived with the both of them
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now Jennifer requested that the court prevent her kids from being exposed to this woman that her husband was living
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with in January of 2018 after months of back and forth legal motions and hearings
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Jennifer again filed a request for an emergency custody order this time a different judge found that photos had
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violated court orders multiple times he lied under oath and manipulated his kids
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into lying for him and a psychiatrist hired by the guardian ad litem found that fotus's actions were
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causing psychological harm to the children for people who don't know what a guardian ad litem is it's a it's
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basically the lawyer for the children that is appointed by the court so they act in the best interest of the children
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they interviewed the children about each parent they also interviewed the parents
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and other people around them to get an idea of how the inner household works yes and I think this is so important and
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I love that we do this because you can't trust going into this you know you're thinking of course both
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these parents would have the children's best interest at heart right but that's usually not well I shouldn't say usually
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but a lot of the times it's not the case I guess right because one of them could
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be trying to manipulate the system or try to work things in their favor look I understand that our judicial
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system is in in the courts system that we have is not perfect but it's things like this I think well but it's things
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like this that remind me that it is a good system that it's set up to be a good system and it's one of the better
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ones in the world well look there's a lot of people out there that are good parents they're just bad at being
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married so but going through that process of the disillusion of the marriage people
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can act like fools and so I think by having the guardian Adel item in place it kind of calms that down as far as the
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parents interaction and relationship with their kids during this process on March 20th 2019 just last year the court
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definitively awarded Jennifer's Soul physical custody of the kids and final decision-making Authority regarding the
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children fotus was awarded only regular supervised public visitation and recorded speakerphone telephone calls
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with the kids specifically he would be allowed to see his kids on Wednesdays and alternating Fridays and Saturdays
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for a couple of hours at a time but again only in the presence of a court appointed supervisor and in public
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places he could not have private conversations with the kids or speak to them in Greek
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he was not permitted to enter the home where Jennifer and the kids lived under any circumstances any communication
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between Jennifer and fotus was also restricted and was to be monitored by the court
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on May 24th 2019 at 6 59 PM the New Canaan Connecticut Police Department received a
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report Jennifer dulis who resided at 69 Wells Lane was believed to be missing this was filed by phone by a friend of
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Jennifer's Laurel Watts the friend received a call from Jennifer's Nanny remember Lauren we have
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a laurel and a Lauren who was with the with four of Jennifer's children in New York City
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the way this comes about Captain is Jennifer missed three scheduled appointments that day not only that
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Jennifer is not answering the nanny's calls and texts something she said never happened and remember by this point in
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time in our timeline Lauren has worked for Jennifer for over six years so we seem
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to have a serious situation here Jennifer dulis has reported missing [Music] [Music]
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all right cheers mates cheers to you Captain after police received the call two officers drove out to Jennifer's
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residence once there they are trying the usual tactics knocking on the doors and
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windows looking in the windows and calling Jennifer's cell phone they are getting absolutely zero
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response so after many failed attempts to reach Jennifer or get someone to answer the door Lauren over the phone
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gave the officers the code to the keypad on the three-car garage the officers made their way in
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immediately they spotted quote suspected blood evidence this is found on the floor on the and on the driver's side of
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a Range Rover parked in the Middle Bay so right away this welfare check this possible missing person's call is going
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to turn into a full-blown investigation the investigators find additional evidence specifically several suspected
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fresh blood stains on the garage floor spatter on the wall drops of blood and partial bloody shoe prints a black 2017
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Suburban SUV was missing this according to the nanny so the very smart New Canaan PD contacted the Connecticut
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State Police Western District major crime squad for investigative and crime scene processing so almost immediately
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this is a joint criminal investigation between the New Canaan PD and the Connecticut State Police yeah plus we're
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at some point we're going to get others involved and this will include Federal and other local agencies
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at 69 Wells Lane this whole place now obviously Captain is a crime scene police quickly established a timeline of
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Jennifer's morning first she drove her suburban and dropped the kids off at school this at 7 58 a.m
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surveillance footage collected from the area shows she returned home immediately
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thereafter arriving at 8 05 a.m parking the Suburban in the garage the door closed behind her she was not
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seen after that time and no other vehicles left from or arrived to the home until the Suburban left again at 10
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25 A.M even more troubling around 8 30 p.m that night at Waverly Park this is just three miles
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from the home Jennifer Suburban was found abandoned the black one yeah so this is a 300 acre
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Park in New Canaan and it's a fancy park there are wooded areas but it's a city park not a state forest right
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at this time the New Canaan police issued a silver alert for Jennifer and her family issued a statement to the
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public as well asking for help and or Witnesses so by this time captain law enforcement are searching both the
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park and the home let's go through their findings crime scene texts at the home went to work swabbing the garage
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and surfaces inside the home as well they found blood spatter in the garage on the wall and on the driver's side
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door of the Range Rover as well as a large stain or stains on the garage floor that appeared to be cleaned up
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blood this was wiped in a manner that left obvious stains to the trained eye partial bloody shoe print impressions
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are found on the garage floor droplets of blood were in various spots on the exterior of the Range Rover well it
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seems like there was blood evidence all over this garage there's even blood that
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was found on the both garbage cans and on the handle of one of the garbage cans as well
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all of this Blood proved to be of human origin now a little side note here there
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are many news articles that state that blood was found on a tablet and cell phone which was found in the master
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bedroom this is not true it's not true a tablet and cell phone were found in the master
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bedroom they were taken into evidence but they didn't have blood on them and the push it a step further it's unclear
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whose phone and tablet this was right inside the house there was no indication of a struggle or a confrontation the
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attacks seemed to have been limited to just the garage as for the Suburban that was found in
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the park when it was located its lights its running lights were on and its transmission was in reverse
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blood spatter and other blood evidence was found on both the interior and exterior of the vehicle including the
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rear cargo area the WeatherTech hashtag not a sponsor rear cargo mat was missing
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from the vehicle hashtag can be a sponsor if the money's right I love WeatherTech investigators pulled
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Jennifer's cell phone records and determined the following the last text from her phone was to the nanny to
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Lauren at 7 57 a.m on the morning of the 24th yeah then the phone left the wells
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Lane home around 10 30 a.m and arrived at the Waverly Park around 10 38 a.m it remained there in the same location in
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the park until it was disconnected from the network at 11 09 a.m when it last pinged near a tower
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uh on the tower I'm sorry near the park the phone has never been located that we
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know of if it has been found we've not been told that by police right police did
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man they did so much work in this case it's very impressive not only how much work they did but how quickly they moved
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and how smart their movements and tactics were here they collected surveillance footage from nearly 80
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sources primarily this would be neighbors and businesses near Jennifer's home and the park right so they got
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footage from all the major roadways in between New Canaan and the Farmington area
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video showed that at around 10 25 a.m a black 2017 Chevy Suburban pulled out of Jennifer's garage and drove off
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various cameras captured it driving a route toward the park where it was eventually found
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police surmised that Jennifer's phone was inside the vehicle because her cell phone arrived in the Park area at 10 38
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a.m basically the same time as noted this footage showed no vehicles arriving or leaving Jennifer's property other
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than her black Suburban so it looks like the person or persons involved in her disappearance
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and this is from uh other others statements quote entered the residence from an area not covered by surveillance
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cameras and quote according to police records surveillance footage also captured a vehicle traveling Northbound
00:37:19
on the Merit Parkway going away from the park and toward Farmington this at 11 12
00:37:27
a.m just three minutes after Jennifer's phone went off of the network so according to the time frame police
00:37:36
had now established there was a 30-minute gap between when Jennifer's phone arrived at the park and when it
00:37:43
was shut down at 11 09 a.m right right and then three minutes later just three minutes later someone is seen on video
00:37:53
driving away at 101 am on May 25th the New Canaan PD called photus doulas and asked him some
00:38:03
very basic questions one of these was the date of his last visit to New Canaan right he responded
00:38:11
that it was on May 22nd when he had last had a supervised visit with his children
00:38:18
the day after Jennifer was reported missing May 25th fotus met with New Canaan police at headquarters this was
00:38:27
at 2 40 in the afternoon he was very polite in the manner that he showed up about
00:38:35
three hours late for the scheduled uh meeting uh detectives had to sit there waiting on him now upon request photos
00:38:43
did hand over his iPhone and gave them the passcode to the phone but right he very quickly demanded it be
00:38:52
returned when he realized they intended to keep it like like we didn't want to just look at this for a couple seconds
00:38:59
dude we we we're going to analyze your phone and he's like oh crap I need that back well he was just embarrassed by all
00:39:06
the dick pics he had saved the police informed photos that he had that they had secured his phone with the intention
00:39:15
of obtaining a warrant to search its contents basically they're saying we don't have the warrant yet you've handed
00:39:22
us your phone you want it back we only asked for it because we intend on getting a search warrant and I'm sure
00:39:28
they're probably telling him there's no reason why we wouldn't be able to secure this warrant you you're
00:39:33
at a loss here buddy so immediately when this goes down fotus says end of interview and he leaves now he did have
00:39:42
an attorney present for all of this this going on here now a forensic exam of fotus's cell phone plus a second phone
00:39:51
that he was required to turn over pursuant to the search warrant that we just mentioned gave police some more
00:39:58
information according to the search and seizure affidavit fotus's phone had answered a
00:40:05
call on the morning of May 24th that's the morning in question at 8 24 a.m befotus's attorney made several public
00:40:13
statements about photos having an alibi phone call presumably this was it supposedly a call from a friend in
00:40:23
Greece but there was more they also discovered the following from approximately 10 pm on May 23rd until 1
00:40:31
16 pm on the 24th photos phone was at his residence at four Jefferson Crossing which again is also his office right the
00:40:43
alarm on the cell phone had gone off at 4 20 a.m on the 24th and was manually shut off immediately thereafter the
00:40:52
phone stayed at the home and received incoming calls and text but showed no outgoing activity
00:41:00
at 1 16 PM the cell phone left photos's residence and traveled to another home owned by his company the four group this
00:41:10
was at 80 Mountain Spring Road in Farmington 2.1 miles away it arrived there at 1 37 PM the phone
00:41:19
stayed there for more than two and a half hours before traveling back to Fort Jefferson Crossing this at 4 17 pm
00:41:29
then at 5 21 the phone returned to the mountain Spring Road home and then went back to Jefferson Crossing again
00:41:38
then at 7 10 pm the phone traveled to Albany Avenue in Hartford Connecticut now anybody that has followed this case
00:41:46
knows what's going to go down here because this was all over the news before we get into that a little
00:41:52
explanation of geography is an order here from the upscale Farmington and Avon suburbs where photos and family had
00:42:02
bounced around from new construction to new construction Albany Avenue is the most direct route into downtown Hartford
00:42:11
in just a matter of four or five miles Albany Avenue takes Travelers directly to the inner city
00:42:19
along with fotus's phone on Albany Avenue for half an hour between 7 10 and 7 41 pm
00:42:27
was Michelle traconis's phone intrigued by this movement of the phones investigators obtained surveillance
00:42:35
footage from the Hartford PD cameras that are located throughout the city right this is going to be able to tell
00:42:42
them how many people are in the car possibly yeah and the vehicle that we're talking about the footage captured a
00:42:48
black Ford Raptor pickup truck making multiple stops stopping multiple times at multiple locations those are
00:42:56
expensive trucks this is along several miles of Albany Avenue now this surveillance footage did not capture the
00:43:04
license plate of the vehicle but police were able to determine that the Raptor bore
00:43:09
many similarities to one owned by fotus Dulles video footage showed several black trash bags in the bed of the truck
00:43:18
so what was this truck doing driving along stopping every 100 yards or so well they could see a Caucasian male wearing
00:43:27
a baseball hat and a light colored shirt emerging from the vehicle at each stop and placing garbage bags and trash
00:43:35
receptacles one portion of the video also captured a woman of thin build leaning out of the truck
00:43:43
another piece of video showed the man inserting an object into a storm drain at the corner of Albany Avenue and
00:43:51
Garden Street the Piro did you say inserting I did okay inserting an item inserting I should have got Morgan to
00:43:59
say these lines surveillance footage also showed the man disposing of a rug or could it be the missing WeatherTech
00:44:07
mat right from the rear of the Suburban investigators pulled video surveillance from
00:44:14
fotus's neighbors homes and see that's the thing that people don't they people's murderous brains have not
00:44:23
caught up to technology yet everybody's got a camera on their on their doorbell now yeah everybody's got cameras they're
00:44:31
they're cheap to install we've advertised several great brands on this show you can put them on your house and
00:44:37
guess what if your neighbors are up to some Dirty Deeds Thunder cheap Done Dirt Cheap or doing
00:44:43
them you know some d d do it yourself Done Dirt I can't even talk they're gonna catch you on camera and
00:44:51
that's what we're seeing here Captain they see video surveillance from his neighbor's homes that show the Ford
00:44:57
Raptor arriving at Fort Jefferson Crossing at 8 20 that or sorry 8 12 that night right it would have taken about 20
00:45:05
minutes to get back to that address from Albany Avenue so this is all lining up there's a lot of things to suggest that
00:45:13
the person that they're seeing in that Raptor that's making the stops is in fact photos doulas and his girlfriend at
00:45:20
the time yeah we gotta make sure that that is photos well police seized the Raptor this on
00:45:28
May 31st it was just one of several Vehicles photos had registered to him on the same day the 31st a week after
00:45:38
Jennifer vanished detectives obtained warrants to collect DNA and fingerprints from fotus dulis and Michelle draconis
00:45:47
who have not been by this point even remotely helpful in this investigation while detectives sat outside of their
00:45:58
house awaiting for the return of the couple they had a bit of luck you know sometimes you get lucky in these
00:46:05
investigations this guy and I'm I struggle with his first name I think his first name Captain is Powell
00:46:13
but his last name is Guy Mini he's the project manager for fotus's company an employee of photos he drove
00:46:21
up in a vehicle registered to the company this is a a Jeep Cherokee detectives inquired as to what he had
00:46:30
been doing he told them that he stopped by fotus's other house in Avon to remove
00:46:37
the seats from fotus's Porsche this was at fotus's insistence okay there the seats from this Porsche were
00:46:49
in the back of this Jeep this is obviously strange right right when Michelle and fotus showed up that
00:46:57
evening they were ordered to drive to the state police barracks there detectives obtained DNA hair and
00:47:06
fingerprint samples from both and when they did so they noticed fotus was covered in poison
00:47:13
ivy now of course fotus is a builder his defense no doubt that this could be from
00:47:19
any of his building sites but what's interesting here is that within a week of his wife Vanishing right photos
00:47:27
developed symptoms that he was possibly in the woods at some point afterward both were permitted to leave
00:47:34
the police station then just a week after his wife was reported missing photostulus was
00:47:40
arrested on June 1st 2019 the charges tampering with physical evidence and hindering prosecution
00:47:50
so they were able to positively ID him on that that footage dropping trash can bags into sewers and
00:47:59
in other places I think that to get a 100 percent confirmation that it was in fact him and
00:48:07
Michelle they're not 100 on it but they're pretty darn close they gotta they got a lot of
00:48:13
things backing up their statement that they say we believe this to be fotus and Michelle right now his mug shot when
00:48:21
he's arrested fotus's head nearly shaved at this time a former neighbor told us that photos never shaved his head before
00:48:29
so this is weird is he trying to change or disguise himself in some manner yeah we see this constantly fotus's criminal
00:48:38
attorney Norm pattis diet bleach blonde like Scott Peterson did I noticed you showed up to the
00:48:47
garage today fully bald oh fully shaved uh that's the work of the Lord um fotus's criminal attorney is his name
00:48:59
is Norm patis he made public statements that photos could not have been involved
00:49:05
in what happened to Jennifer on the morning of the 24th of May as he had been on the phone this was a call he
00:49:13
took a phone call at this time he also said the photos his girlfriend Michelle traconis could provide him a complete
00:49:20
Alibi for that morning now we should point out though on the day that fotus was arrested Michelle too
00:49:26
was arrested and charged with the same charges during the arrest interview of Michelle
00:49:33
she told detectives that fotus was home with her on the morning of the 24th and that they had been intimate in the
00:49:40
shower yeah I don't believe a thing this piece of [ __ ] has to say she said that
00:49:46
she made breakfast for her daughter and drove her to school that morning fotus was in the four group office with his
00:49:53
business lawyer Kent mawini mawini mawaini something like that at 8 15 A.M she did errands she ran errands between
00:50:04
9 00 and 11 30 a.m this included a drop off of a purse to a friend who had left it at her and photos his home the night
00:50:12
before a trip to Simsbury Stop and Shop where she took pictures with the store robot
00:50:19
you know like some stores have a you know a mascot of sorts okay that's what I take this to be the store robot Marty
00:50:28
uh in another visit she made to a different friend's house she danced around the question of whether fotus was
00:50:36
home all of this time you know she's simply saying when I left he was still there and his business attorney was
00:50:43
there with him and when I got back they were both still there so that's her way of kind of
00:50:51
saying that he was at the house the whole morning without fully saying I saw him at the house the entire morning
00:50:57
right so she says that at some point she had lunch with fotus that day I'm guessing
00:51:05
this would be right around the time of when we have the police saying fotus's phone finally leaves the house
00:51:12
what makes for a decent Alibi is we know fotus's phone was by the police's statements located in that home all
00:51:20
morning long until they left for lunch right the problem is all activity on the phone is coming into the phone none of
00:51:27
it is going out she said that later that day photos called her and asked her to come over to
00:51:34
the other home this is the 80 Mountain Spring Road House to help clean it for a showing the next day she brought over a
00:51:43
vacuum Swiffer paper towels Clorox and garbage bags she said she arrived between 2 15 and 3 P.M
00:51:52
but we actually know this to be different it was 1 37 P.M fotus is visible on surveillance footage driving
00:52:02
his Suburban this is a different Suburban for those keeping score at home over to the mountain spring Roadhouse at
00:52:09
136 with Michelle following in the Jeep and they clearly arrived at the home at 1 37. we have video footage backing this
00:52:19
up right but at some point when her phone and his phone tracked together like as far as like the cell phone ping
00:52:26
technology yeah they they know this to be the case and they're going to ask her why you know why is your phone and his
00:52:34
phone traveling along Albany Avenue on the night of May 24th at the same time right
00:52:40
to which Michelle said fotus wanted to go to Starbucks in West Hartford she admitted to investigators that fotus
00:52:47
drove the Raptor and that he did stop multiple times to deposit items wrapped in trash bags into receptacles
00:52:56
she told them that she did not know what was in the trash bags and that she really didn't know what he was doing she
00:53:04
said that she was on the phone the entire time and really wasn't paying any attention
00:53:09
Michelle confirmed that the video footage obtained by the police of the Raptor was in fact of her infotus so
00:53:16
she's Cooperative on that level yeah but she's yeah I that's me that's him that's
00:53:22
his Raptor but I don't know what he was doing and I wasn't paying attention and he'd think he'd ask we also have footage
00:53:29
that shows this is from the Starbucks that she mentioned it shows the couple entering the store at 7 59 pm fotus and
00:53:38
Michelle both posted Bond and were released from police custody they were required though to wear ankle monitoring
00:53:47
bracelets they were required to remain in the state and to surrender their passports both of these then they got
00:53:54
matching bracelets yeah both of these individuals would be considered Flight Risk so you you have to take some
00:54:01
additional steps to make sure that they are going to stay and actually you're that you will see them in court
00:54:07
eventually right the next day police executed an unannounced search warrant of fotus's house this is when they
00:54:15
seized the fall following items various computers servers flash drives and hard drives Stop and Shop plastic
00:54:23
trash bags seven cell phones and the trash can in the office this is in the trash can of his office they found a
00:54:33
document it outlined the activities and I'm using air quotes there a fotus and Michelle on
00:54:40
Friday May 24th and Saturday May 25th it mirrored exactly what Michelle told investigators about photos being home
00:54:50
with her and photos having a meeting with his business lawyer this appears to be
00:54:57
a cheat sheet to help them prepare for the interrogation you know let's get our stories straight
00:55:04
now police want to talk to Michelle again because as easy top would say they got me under pressure
00:55:12
her story is going to change she admits that she cannot account for photos's whereabouts on the day in
00:55:20
question from about 8 A.M until noon or maybe even 1 pm she goes on to tell the detectives when
00:55:29
she woke up at 6 40 AM fodis was home but he left the house soon thereafter and left his cell phone in the home
00:55:37
office she says sometime around one they had a quick lunch before fotus left again at approximately 3 P.M she
00:55:48
received the call from fotus asking her to bring the cleaning supplies to the mountain Spring Road property again we
00:55:56
know that this was closer to 115. at around 4 pm fotus's employee guy mini arrived and again we have video footage
00:56:05
to suggest that this was actually at 5 pm at around 5 20 p.m she says she went home
00:56:13
detectives confronted Michelle with the handwritten notes that they had found in the trash
00:56:19
Michelle admitted to investigators that this list of specific times and activities was written by her and fotus
00:56:28
to quote help them remember and quote what they did on the 24th she said these were all false the notes were
00:56:39
false the detectives referred to the notes as The Alibi script right so how are they false there's
00:56:47
she's saying somebody else made them up well remember her story changes the the notes that they find on this
00:56:54
document are of the first story that she gives to detectives now once they're showing hey we got evidence that this
00:57:02
stuff isn't real she's walking it back right and saying look okay this these are false
00:57:09
statements that we wrote on these notes this was to yes it was to help us remember what we did that day but
00:57:14
they're they're all a lie she admitted to detectives that photos said to her at one point in their relationship that I
00:57:22
hope Jennifer disappears detectives told Michelle that they believe fotus killed Jennifer and
00:57:30
involved Michelle by making her clean up right she said quote I hate him because
00:57:36
of that end quote she also said and this this is weird that she had been cleaning the house
00:57:43
not cleaning Jennifer take that for what you will but I find that statement to be
00:57:50
disturbing well she's basically implying that she was cleaning the house and that
00:57:55
photos was cleaning the body of of Jennifer investigators said Michelle continued to
00:58:02
provide answers which were vague evasive and contradictory they believed that she was withholding a
00:58:10
significant amount of information and they also said that they had identified several aspects which
00:58:18
indicate a significant amount of pre-planning prior to this crime the detectives returned to the Jefferson
00:58:27
Crossing house with Michelle on June 7th they were seen searching the woods behind the home we don't know if
00:58:36
anything was found during these searches but it appears not only is she walking back
00:58:42
her statements and changing her story that she might be working with police at this time
00:58:50
guy Meaney now remember he's the guy that removed the car seats from the Porsche placing them in the back of the
00:58:56
Jeep garmini told them meaning investigators the following he says on May 24th he was working a
00:59:06
four group construction site in New Canaan this is 3.4 miles from Jennifer's house
00:59:13
he was driving the Ford Raptor registered to the four group each day of that week earlier that week on Monday
00:59:22
the 20th guy mini parked his own vehicle this is a red Toyota Tacoma in the driveway of fotus's place and
00:59:31
drove the Raptor most of the week this apparently is normal practice he typically would switch out the
00:59:39
vehicles at the end of the work week on the 23rd he did not see photos all day until he received a text at 2 13
00:59:49
when he was asked if guy meanie was planning on returning to the office guy mini got there around 4 30 and says
00:59:58
no one was home so he proceeded over to the house at 80 Mountain Spring Road also owned by the
01:00:05
four group arriving at 4 58. when guy mini arrived he was surprised to find fotus and Michelle at the home
01:00:13
and asked them what they were doing they responded that they were cleaning guy minis Tacoma his truck was there as
01:00:22
well left at 502 to shuttle the 2-4 group Vehicles the Raptor and a black Suburban
01:00:30
back to Fort Jefferson Crossing Michelle stayed behind with the white Jeep and guy minis Tacoma
01:00:39
fotus then drove guy mini back to Mountain Spring Road to pick up his own vehicle the Tacoma but it was locked
01:00:47
Michelle had locked it and taken the keys photos asked guymini to just keep the Raptor over the weekend and he photus
01:00:56
would return the Tacoma to guy mini later right guy meanie declined and photos had to call Michelle at 5 16 pm
01:01:05
to drive over with the keys guy mini got into his own vehicle the Tacoma and drove home this may seem on
01:01:14
the surface as a lot of nonsense but really Captain what does this look like to me it looks like
01:01:22
fotus is trying to set up a situation where he is able to keep the Tacoma right and use this other guy's vehicle
01:01:30
for what we don't know now laid out in the second arrest warrant detectives have identified the
01:01:38
vehicle used in the commission of the crime as a 2001 Toyota Tacoma guy meany said that he had been told by
01:01:47
photos to discard the old seats in his Tacoma take out the seats of your truck man and throw him away and replace them
01:01:54
with seats taken from my Porsche this plus the fact that photos had access to the vehicle all week made
01:02:01
detectives extremely suspicious yeah they went back and pulled surveillance footage along likely routes between
01:02:09
Dulles residents and the crime scene and sure enough they found the red Tacoma belonging to
01:02:16
guy mini traveling at various points between Farmington and Lapham Road in New Canaan on May
01:02:24
24th specifically the red Tacoma traveled Southbound on Merritt Parkway and went to uh New
01:02:32
Canaan a school bus dash cam video spotted the Tacoma parked at 7 40 a.m at a turnaround on Lapham Road this is 100
01:02:43
feet from where Jennifer's Suburban was found so if somebody attacked her in the
01:02:51
garage placed her and presumably killed her there right placing her in her own Suburban drove it and moved it to the
01:03:01
park who knows where it went you know now we have this vehicle parked a hundred feet away that you could use as
01:03:10
some type of getaway vehicle if you needed to leave the Suburban there so the rich the red Tacoma was seen on
01:03:18
video on the Merit Parkway this is Northbound in New Canaan at 11 12 A.M the rim of a bicycle is visible in the
01:03:30
back of the truck it turned into the driveway at 80 Mountain Spring Road at 12 22 pm
01:03:39
so detectives used the Toyota Tacoma footage as well as the footage obtained earlier of Jennifer's Suburban to Inc to
01:03:47
conclude the following fotus is believed to have been lying in weight at 69 Wells Lane for Jennifer to
01:03:55
return home the crime and cleanup are believed to have occurred between 805 and 10 25 am
01:04:03
duelist is believed to have been operating the V the victim's vehicle the Suburban
01:04:09
which is carrying the body of Jennifer doulas and a number of other items associated with the crime which occurred
01:04:17
in the garage of the residents now Lauren alamedia the uh she's the The Nanny detectives interviewed her at
01:04:26
length amongst other details she said a couple of days before Jennifer disappeared photos showed up hours early
01:04:34
for a supervised visit with the kids so this visitation was always on the same schedule
01:04:42
and he's early but he's acting confused like he doesn't know that he's plays Dumb yeah
01:04:49
so Lauren said that on the morning of the 24th she arrived at Jennifer's house this at
01:04:55
11 30 a.m she noticed that the Suburban at this time was gone but the Range Rover was still there as we know parked
01:05:04
in the garage she saw Jennifer's purse on the floor in the doorway between the mud room and the
01:05:11
kitchen and Jennifer's mug of tea in an unopened granola bar were on the kitchen
01:05:16
counter Lauren washed the mug and as she reached for a paper towel she noticed that the
01:05:22
roll was depleted so she went to get another from the 12 pack she had purchased the previous day
01:05:32
to her astonishment only two roles were left as she stated to detectives quote I sat
01:05:39
there and wondered what happened last night that they used 10 rolls of paper towels yeah very fishy Lauren also said
01:05:47
that she noticed the rear mudroom door which led outside it was unlocked which is extremely
01:05:54
strange this is a door that was always kept locked throughout the day the day in question she said she text
01:06:03
and called Jennifer never getting any answer or response meanwhile Jennifer was missing appointments just before 7
01:06:10
PM she and Jennifer's friend Laura Watts decided to call the police department now they told officers that Jennifer was
01:06:19
missing and she was going through a divorce with a man this is one part that we left out earlier who had threatened
01:06:25
her in the past and they knew him to own a firearm detectives had Lauren view crime scene
01:06:33
photos of the garage and she was very familiar with the setup there and in fact had just cleaned the
01:06:41
garage for Jennifer on the 21st so just three days earlier she noted that two things were missing
01:06:48
one was a cleaning supply bucket full of cleaning materials that would be used by
01:06:54
the housekeeper the second item that was missing was a set of camping pillows that would be used by the kids
01:07:03
as we said investigators conducted testing of the house at Wells Lane the evidence collected there according
01:07:11
to one of the arrest warrants was a mixture of biological material of the victim Jennifer dulis and that of her
01:07:19
husband fotus doulas Jennifer's blood was all over the garage and fotus's DNA was found in a smear of Jennifer's blood
01:07:30
left on the kitchen faucet inside the home and that's important because he was ordered not to go in that house correct
01:07:39
so looking at this you're thinking okay this attack occurred Jennifer lost this fight
01:07:47
is probably was the attacker and whatever happened he may have went inside afterwards and washed up
01:07:57
Tess performed on 14 swabs taken from the Suburban registered to Jennifer that was found in the park
01:08:06
provided damning evidence there was blood inside the vehicle on the Upholstery and on the mats this Blood
01:08:15
did match Jennifer's one like you were saying too they're driving down a road with multiple bags and disposing them
01:08:24
and they they did recover some of them correct yeah they retrieved the item that was
01:08:29
inserted to the storm drain but but not the trash cans well we'll get into that because that it gets quite
01:08:37
a bit complicated this whole story is frankly complicated but in the storm drain
01:08:44
they find a FedEx box inside the box two license plates both plates had altered numbers and letters somebody somebody
01:08:53
dummied them up all right these plates were expired but at one time had been registered to
01:09:01
photos doulas right so another piece of evidence suggesting that it was him in fact on that video not to mention that
01:09:10
we have his girlfriend claiming that it was them that they saw in the video they did go
01:09:17
and they they raided let's say those trash cans that you had mentioned they conducted a three-week search of
01:09:25
materials uh and recycling Authority trash plant in in Hartford this is where all the garbage from those
01:09:34
bins and dumpsters would have eventually ended up uh the vast majority of the trash
01:09:40
collected from the 24th apparently they're there to burn it in this area had not been burnt yet right
01:09:48
uh because the plant was this is they got lucky again on the investigation the plant was a day behind schedule because
01:09:55
of the Memorial Day holiday right right so it had not all been fully processed and I guess they run it through some
01:10:05
kind of shredding process before they incinerate it it had gone through this Shredder
01:10:12
process so this is going to make things again complicated the amount of garbage from the Albany Avenue area that police
01:10:19
using police dogs as well had to sift through was piled as high as 20 feet over an area half the size of a football
01:10:28
field 15 to 20 detectives went through 30 it's estimated at 30 to 35 tons of trash
01:10:37
daily for three weeks police also executed a major search along Albany Avenue on May 31st
01:10:45
utilizing canines and troopers on the ground and air searches as well trying to find all the things that were
01:10:55
dumped by photos along his Drive in these painstaking searches police were able to recover some two dozen
01:11:03
evidentiary items which included garbage bags containing women's clothing a with a substance on the items that
01:11:13
appeared to be blood plastic zip ties which were stained with what appeared to be blood a white
01:11:20
T-shirt stained with what looked like blood a bra with blood on it a black leather work glove with blood stains a
01:11:30
bath towel with red stains cleaning and household goods such as a kitchen sponge
01:11:36
again with red stains these items were submitted to the Department of Emergency Services and public protection forensic
01:11:45
laboratory for forensic testing on June 10th the report from the lab came back the substance on many of the items was
01:11:54
determined to be blood and it was the blood of Jennifer doulas but the chief State's Attorney stated in
01:12:03
an interview that police found no evidence of Jennifer's actual body being in the Hartford trash plan
01:12:11
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