Suspect Caught Trespassing At Fotis Dulos' Farmington Home: PD

FARMINGTON, CT — A 61-year-old Plainville, CT man, who police said claims to be writing a book on the case, was arrested at the home of the late Fotis Dulos last week, and before Dulos' suicide, he reported scared Dulos who called the police on him.

Brad Ragaglia, and a woman named Simona Raneri, 51, of Plantsville, CT were found at Dulos' Farmington home on Mountain Spring Road at about 5:35 p.m. on Feb. 2, according to a police report obtained by Patch. A Farmington police officer had spotted their two vehicles parked behind the garage of the home, not visible from the road.

Ragaglia was arrested, while Raneri received a summons. The incident occurred three days following Fotis Dulos' death, but the Greenwich Time reports that Ragaglia had trespassed at Dulos' home before. Additionally, Ragaglia had peppered him with questions about the death of Dulos' estranged wife, Jennifer Farber Dulos, whom Fotis was accused of murdering.

Ragaglia's unsolicited visits to the Dulos' house before he died had so unnerved the 52-year-old murder suspect that he had reported him to the police on more than one occasion. A Farmington police detective even warned Ragaglia not to have any contact with Dulos, and to stay away from the house.

"It was also discovered that Ragaglia had attempted to contact members of Fotis Dulos' family," while he was still alive, according to police, and he also reportedly sent texts to Fotis on more than one occasion.

In addition to the texts, Ragaglia, who reportedly had talked his way into Dulos' home on at least one occasion, also gave Dulos two religious books and bottles supposedly containing holy water and magnesium pills.

Dulos asked police to test them because he thought they might contain poison, according to the publication.

Police said that some of the texts sent by Ragaglia to Dulos might have been by mistake, because they appeared to be directed to someone else. One of the texts reportedly said that Ragaglia was being sent by god to help end the murder case quickly.

In the Feb. 2 incident, Ragaglia was charged with first-degree trespass, while Raneri was issued an infraction on a charge of simple trespass. Ragaglia was released after posting a $1,500 non-surety bond and is scheduled to appear in Hartford Superior Court on Feb. 19. Raneri has an answer date of Feb. 21.

Read the Greenwich Time story.

Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly mentioned Simona Raneri's involvement in the trespassing incident. She was issued an infraction on a charge of simple trespass.