Jennifer Dulos case: Michelle Troconis released on bail after another arrest

BRIDGEPORT – Michelle Troconis traveled Thursday afternoon after a new charge of falsification of evidence related to the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos.

Troconis went to the state police at Troop G Barracks in Bridgeport around 1:30 pm and was released just before 3 pm after posting a $ 100,000 bail.

His lawyer, Andrew Bowman, refused to discuss the details of the case after his release but told reporters that his client was to be presumed innocent.

Fotis Dulos, 52, and Troconis, 44, pleaded not guilty to obstructing the prosecution and falsification of evidence related to Jennifer Dulos' disappearance.

Fotis Dulos was arrested on Wednesday for alleged falsification of evidence related to his role in cleaning up a red Toyota van belonging to one of his workers, suspected by police of being used for the disappearance of his wife announced the arrest warrant.

Fotis Dulos will be brought before the State Superior Court in Norwalk on September 12 and will appear for his next pre-trial hearing the next day in Stamford. Troconis will be charged in Norwalk on September 18 and will hold his next pre-trial hearing on September 20 in Stamford.

State police arrested Fotis Dulos Wednesday afternoon at his home in Farmington, while Troconis was making arrangements to surrender on Thursday.

"Our thoughts are going to Mrs. Troconis," said Fotis Dulos' defense attorney Norm Pattis on Thursday. "We are confident that she will end up telling the truth at the trial. The state is a terrifying enemy, but a clean conscience is a powerful ally. "

These remarks mark a change from a statement he made public after the arrest of his client on Wednesday, in which he described Troconis as a liar in his statements to the police.

Troconis met with the investigators for the third time on August 13 and admitted that she had "not told the truth" in her two previous interviews, according to Fotis Dulos' recent arrest warrant.

The latest arrest warrant provides new information and a detailed chronology of the day of Jennifer Dulos' disappearance.

Troconis told the police that she had not seen Fotis Dulos when she woke up around 6:40 am the day Jennifer Dulos was gone. She had already told the police that the two had taken a shower that morning.

On June 3, two days after the arrest of Fotis Dulos and Troconis, state police reported finding handwritten notes in Jefferson Crossing's home in Farmington, which investigators had dubbed "alibi scripts" ".

The tickets, found in the Fotis Dulos headquarters for his real estate development company, Fore Group, specified the hours and activities of his place of residence, as well as that of Troconis, on May 24 and 25, according to the latest mandate. 'stop.

The pages included specific activities and schedules, incoming and outgoing telephone calls, information that was later found to be inaccurate, and alibi witnesses found to be false, in accordance with the terms of reference.

According to the police, on May 24, Fotis Dulos borrowed a truck owned by an employee of his company and drove from his home in Farmington, New Canaan, where he waited for the return of his ex-wife to testify. the couple's children in school.

According to the police, Jennifer Dulos was allegedly a victim of "serious physical assault" after discovering bloodstains and splashes in the garage of her home in Welles Lane.

The warrants indicate that the police believe that Fotis Dulos was the author, and then disposed of Jennifer Dulos' body, although he was not charged with murder.

According to the mandate, the New Orleans School Bus CCTV placed the red truck belonging to Fotis Dulos' colleague 100 feet from where the investigators found the abandoned Jennifer Dulos SUV near Waveny Park.

Fotis Dulos then asked his employee, who was the owner of the van, to replace the seats with those of a Porsche that he owned, according to the terms of reference. According to the warrant, the owner of the truck was eliminated as a suspect by cell phone data "inconsistent with his involvement in the crime".

The warrants indicate that the vehicle was seen returning to Farmington, where he arrived this afternoon. Later in the day, Fotis Dulos and Troconis were seen in surveillance videos in Hartford, where they then found trash containing Jennifer Dulos' blood, according to arrest warrants.

Tests on seats revealed that the police were in the vehicle that day – and that the employee kept it after Fotis Dulos "insisted" to change it – revealed that they contained blood-like substance "with the DNA of Jennifer Dulos, according to the mandates.

In an interview, Troconis said he saw Fotis Dulos clean up what he described as a spilled coffee from the employee's truck on the afternoon of the disappearance, the mandate said. She confided to the police a towel that Fotis Dulos had given her "did not smell coffee", according to the mandate.

Five days after the disappearance, Troconis told the police that she had followed Fotis to an Avon car wash, where he had the employee's truck cleaned, and later deposited it for recovery, the company said. mandate.

The police asked Troconis why Fotis Dulos had had the car cleaned five days after his wife's disappearance. She replied, "Of course … all the evidence says because … you showed me the picture of the blood in the door because Jennifer's body was there at some point," said the warrant.