A rare French bike, a bloody doorknob and Jennifer Farber Dulos’ DNA on zip ties among new evidence against Fotis Dulos
Investigators charged Fotis Dulos with the murder of his estranged wife after they discovered his DNA on the doorknob of the mudroom door in her New Canaan home as well as in a garbage bag police recovered from a trash can in Hartford where police said Dulos dumped evidence, according to a 35-page arrest warrant affidavit released Tuesday.
The affidavit includes several new pieces of evidence police said they discovered linking Dulos to the crime, including zip ties smeared with Jennifer Farber Dulos’ blood and a missing French bicycle police believe Dulos used when he was a child.
State police released the arrest warrant affidavit following Dulos’ third arrest in connection with the May 24 disappearance of Farber Dulos. Dulos was charged with felony murder, murder and kidnapping. The kidnapping charge state police said is based on DNA evidence they say shows that Farber Dulos was bound with zip ties and placed in a garbage bag inside the garage of her New Canaan home.
It’s the third time that Dulos has been arrested and while many details of what happened on May 24 — the day Jennifer Farber Dulos was last seen — have been publicized previously, the warrant affidavit does reveal some new evidence that closes some possible loose ends in the case, while not answering the enduring mystery — where is Farber Dulos’ body? In an answer to that question, the state medical examiner says in the affidavit that she suffered “non-survivable” injuries in her garage.
Police said Dulos’ DNA was found on the inside knob of the mudroom door of her home. Dulos had been to the house two days before she went missing for a visit with the couple’s five children, but witnesses said he never went inside the home.
There’s also other DNA evidence taken from the garbage recovered from Albany Avenue trash bins in Hartford where police said Dulos was seen on surveillance video dumping trash bags the same night his wife disappeared. That evidence includes a black garden glove with Dulos’ DNA on the interior, a black Husky glove with Farber Dulos’ DNA on the outside of it, zip ties with Farber Dulos’ DNA and at least one garbage bag with the DNA of Dulos, Farber Dulos and Dulos’ girlfriend at the time, Michelle Troconis, the affidavit says...