Jury Selection Begins For Michelle Troconis In Jennifer Dulos Case

STAMFORD, CT — Jury selection began Wednesday in Stamford Superior Court for the upcoming trial of Michelle Troconis, one of two suspects in the 2019 disappearance of New Canaan mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos, reported News 12 Connecticut.

Testimony and the presentation of evidence in the trial is expected to begin in January, and on Tuesday, a judge ruled that most of the evidence seized during a search of Fotis Dulos' Farmington home in 2019 can be used in the trial, the Stamford Advocate reported.

Jennifer Dulos vanished from her New Canaan home on May 24, 2019, and is presumed to be dead. At the time of her disappearance, she and Fotis Dulos, her estranged husband, were in the midst of a contentious divorce and custody battle over the five children they shared.

Authorities have not found Jennifer Dulos' body. Fotis Dulos was charged with kidnapping and murdering Jennifer, but he took his own life in January 2020 and never stood trial in the case.

Troconis, Fotis' former girlfriend, and Kent Mawhinney, a former attorney and one of Fotis' friends, are accused of assisting Dulos in the murder plot.

Both Troconis and Mawhinney have pleaded not guilty; a trial date for Mawhinney has not yet been set.

Read the News 12 Connecticut story; read the Stamford Advocate story.

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