Search For Missing New Canaan Mom Takes A Grim Turn: Report

NEW CANAAN, CT — The search for missing New Canaan mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos is now 12 days old, and authorities are now conducting the sad, grim task of looking for her remains in heaps of garbage at a refuse facility in the Hartford area, reports WFSB-TV.

Estranged husband Fotis Dulos, and his girlfriend Michelle Troconis, are accused of making more than two-dozen stops along a four-mile stretch of Albany Avenue in Hartford to dump bags of garbage and other items over the weekend following Jennifer Dulos' disappearance on May 24.

Police were able to recover some of the discarded items, many of which were stained with blood that authorities later discovered was that of Jennifer Dulos.

On Tuesday and again Wednesday, authorities, assisted by cadaver dogs, sifted through mounds of garbage at the trash facility, reportedly looking for bone and other remains of Jennifer Dulos.

The New Canaan Police Department had not publicly classified the case as a homicide investigation as of Wednesday, but the department is reaching out to anyone with certain surveillance footage in the days surrounding Jennifer Dulos' disappearance.

Fotis Dulos, who remains in custody on bail of $500,000, and Troconis appear to have tripped up by taking their cell phones with them when they dumped the bags and bloody items, which matched their whereabouts with surveillance footage obtained by police, writes the New York Post.

The couple have been charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and first-degree hindering prosecution, and New Canaan Police Chief Leon Krolikowski said at the time of their arrest that additional charges may be forthcoming as the criminal investigation continues.

Troconis is currently free after posting bond, but she had to surrender her passport and agree to wear a GPS monitoring device.

Attorneys for Fotis Dulos and Troconis have declined to comment on the case, and Carrie Luft, spokesperson for Jennifer Dulos' family, did not immediately reply to Patch's request for comment.

Whether Fotis Dulos, whose luxury home-building business was in financial straits, according to The Hour, will make bond appears unlikely. His business, the Fore Group, Inc., is millions of dollars in debt, including at least $2 million he owes to his mother-in-law, Gloria Farber, and Farber's late husband's estate. She has sued Fotis Dulos over the debt, and she is also seeking custody of his and Jennifer Dulos' five children.

Jennifer Dulos filed for divorce and custody of the children from Fotis in 2017, and two years later, the case was still pending at the time of her disappearance, and the acrimony between the former couple had not subsided.

In addition to reportedly telling the court that she feared Fotis, Jennifer Dulos also accused him of having an affair with Troconis.

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