'Enough Is Enough' Fotis Dulos Writes In Final Note: Report

STAMFORD, CT — In his final words, Fotis Dulos, who was accused of murdering his estranged wife, Jennifer Farber Dulos, wrote that he had nothing to do with the killing, reports The Hartford Courant, which obtained a copy of the note and posted a photograph of it.

"If you are reading this I am no more," he handwrote, as the Courant's photograph shows. "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."

Dulos also wrote that neither co-defendants Michelle Troconis, who is his ex-girlfriend, and Kent Mawhinney, an attorney and friend, also had nothing to do with Jennifer Dulos' disappearance. Both Troconis and Mawhinney have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and are scheduled to appear again in court in February.

Fotis Dulos died on Thursday, two days after he was discovered by authorities sitting in a running vehicle in the garage of his Farmington home where he tried to commit suicide. The note reportedly was found in the vehicle with him.

He also says that he loves his children, but essentially prosecutors kept them from him because "the State will not rest until I rot in jail," adding that the narrative about the crime was fabricated by authorities, according to the handwritten note, which you can view in its entirety here.

"My attorney can explain what happened with the bags on Albany Avenue," Dulos wrote. He and Troconis were accused of discarding bags along Albany Avenue in Hartford following Jennifer Dulos' May 24 disappearance. Some of those bags contained items that authorities said tested positive for Jennifer Dulos' blood.

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'Unprecedented' Legal Filing

In the meantime, what do Joan of Arc and Fotis Dulos have in common?

On the surface, not much, except maybe that they both once lived in Europe. But attorney Norm Pattis, who has represented Dulos against the murder and kidnapping charges, is linking the two in a new court motion.

Despite Dulos' death, the investigation into the events at the Farmington house this week is still ongoing, according to Farmington Police Lt. Tim McKenzie.

"On January 30th, 2020 at 5:32 pm, Mr. Dulos was pronounced dead at the Jacobi Medical Center," McKenzie said in a statement to Patch. "His body will be taken to the Manhattan Medical Examiner to determine the cause and manner of his death. The suicide investigation is ongoing and if anyone has any information to add, please contact the Farmington Police Department at 860-675-2400."

And now Pattis is not finished with the case, either. He has filed an unprecedented court motion to substitute Fotis Dulos with his estate as the defendant in the murder case. The odds are extremely long that the tactic will work, but Pattis spelled out the reasons for the motion in the brief. (Sign Up For Patch's Free Real-Time News Alerts In CT)

"Mr. Dulos professed his innocence to the grave, and it was his final wish and the wish of his estate that he be speedily tried before a jury of his peers to establish his innocence before the world," Pattis wrote in the motion obtained by Patch and other media outlets. "The State has made an accusation. The public at large has convicted Mr. Dulos with the due process and the other protections that he was entitled to by law. Mr. Dulos' right to confront these charges and to assert his innocence does not die with him. The Court should afford his estate an opportunity to clear his name."

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Pattis argues that posthumous trials are not new, in fact, Joan of Arc was afforded one after her death, as was "American prospector, lawman, and outlaw Henry Plummer, who was given a trial 120 years after he was hanged. That case "resulted in his acquittal by a hung jury."

"The systematic violation of Mr. Dulos' rights has resulted in the summary end of his life," Pattis wrote. "Those violations have denied Mr. Dulos justice. His estate respectfully requests the Court to grant Mr. Dulos the justice of a posthumous trial not just for the sake of his own name, but also for the sake of his children who he loved more than words could express and who he was barred from expressing his love to because of the Court's protective orders. Mr. Dulos' children should not be subjected to a lifetime of coping with a fictional reality that their father murdered their mother in cold blood on the basis of baseless and rampant speculation. They deserve just answers achieved through just processes even if those just answers do not satisfy the public's bloodlust for tabloid fodder."

In an exclusive interview with Fox61, Pattis said that he is prepared to fight for the motion all the way to the United States Supreme Court, if necessary. He believes he would have prevailed had Fotis Dulos not died, in part because there were "plenty of reasons" to call the State's case into question.

Pattis has an uphill fight on his hands. Legal minds around the state are critical of Pattis' motion, because as one attorney told the Courant, courts "don't have jurisdiction" over deceased people.

Though the charges against Fotis Dulos are taking on a new direction, if they proceed at all, the cases against Troconis and Mawhinney are continuing. Troconis is scheduled to appear in Stamford Superior Court on Feb. 7, and Mawhinney on Feb. 20; Troconis is free on bond, but Mawhinney remains in custody unable to post bond.

Patch reached out to Troconis' attorney, Andrew Bowman, for comment on the case but did not receive a reply. Additionally, a message left for Mawhinney also was not returned.

In addition to the fate of the Troconis and Mawhinney cases, other questions remain, namely what happened to Jennifer Farber Dulos' body? She vanished on May 24, and despite months of searches around the state and even into Westchester County, NY, her body has never been found.

Though a note Fotis Dulos left behind, which authorities found during the suicide investigation, proclaimed his innocence and said Pattis had information that could exonerate him, the note did not have clues as to Jennifer's whereabouts.