Jennifer Dulos search leads to New Canaan house where loud banging heard after she disappeared
I drove by 61 Sturbridge today. It is in a small cul-de-sac about a 5 minute drive from Waveny Park. If loud metal banging was coming from the property the morning after JD's disappearance (i.e. dogs barking for hours early on May 25) as reported by MSM, it would not have to be too terribly loud a banging, IMO. The houses are closer together and smaller than, IMO, the aerial picture from William Pitt's website might imply. This is not a secluded estate - rather, the neighbors can see and hear everything because a 2.43 acre lot (for a 9,300 sf house) is not proportional, in my opinion, and I took the widest photo possible without including any neighboring houses' driveways, through my car window. A small "For Sale By Broker" without any logo or name but a telephone number was posted on the front lawn. I saw neighbors across the way - the opposite house faces 61 Sturbridge directly, across a narrow road. If one were to walk to the 61 Sturbridge mailbox box on the cul-de-sac road, one would look face-to-face at the neighbor across the way's front door, a house not half as, umm, is grand the right word? IMO, classic architecture demands a certain symmetry that this house lacks. I will MOO a lot here because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. My companion and I estimate that a reasonable valuation is about the average house price in New Canaan, $1.5 to $2 mm because it is an average house on a street with one or two above average mansions. The higher end valuation is for the 2019 new construction. It is not grand or impressive, IMO. Just another house on a residential street. This is very much a residential, family community cul-de-sac, IMO. I saw teenage neighbors outside the house across the way.
According to Zillow:
Median home comparison
This home is valued 228.1% higher than the median home in 06840
Median Zestimate®
$1,217,200
The Google Maps photo of 61 Sturbridge and 360 degree tour is representative of my impression of the house and the neighborhood except with fewer trees.
FYI: The June 6, 2019 link to the MSM article was posted by oviedo on the Media, Maps, Timeline "No discussion" page but here is the relevant part, MOO:
Connecticut Post
Jennifer Dulos search leads to New Canaan house where loud banging heard after she disappeared
By Jim Shay, Grace Duffield and Lisa Backus
6/6/2019
NEW CANAAN — Neighbors of a Sturbridge Hill Road home being developed by Jennifer Dulos’ estranged husband were woken up the morning after her disappearance by the loud sounds of metal banging coming from the property.
The sounds woke up residents and had dogs barking for hours early on May 25 — the day after Jennifer Dulos was reported missing.
The scene was quiet Thursday outside 61 Sturbridge Hill Road, where neighbors said state police had searched on Wednesday. The property of the 7,000-square-foot home, listed at $4.8 million, is still being developed with a trailer with Fore Group’s name on the side and a metal dumpster located on the property.
A nanny at one home in the neighborhood said state police focused on the metal dumpster located in front of 61 Sturbridge Hill.
One man who lives on the street said police have been to the neighborhood three times since Jennifer Dulos disappeared.
Another neighbor said six state police vehicles were on the property on Wednesday. The man said police requested his security video, which investigators told him did not show any evidence. The man said police returned to his home on Wednesday, requesting additional footage dating back to May 19.
State police detectives were stationed in front of three properties on a Farmington private road connected to Fotis Dulos’ custom home-building company, the Fore Group. The detectives declined to comment as they stood near three properties on Olcott Way. The Fore Group completed two of the homes and owns a third property, which is an empty lot.
One detective was stationed Thursday outside 585 Deercliff Road in Avon. The property is listed on the Fore Group website and is the former primary residence of the Dulos family. The family’s nanny struck and killed Fotis Dulos’ mother in the driveway on the property in a freak accident in 2010.
New evidence led authorities back to the Farmington home Jennifer Dulos shared with her husband until 2017 as the search for the missing New Canaan mother reaches nearly two weeks.
A state police spokesman confirmed troopers assisted with the investigation Wednesday night at Fotis Dulos’ Jefferson Crossing home where an emergency search warrant was granted.