Deceased/Not Found CT - Jennifer Dulos, 50, New Canaan, 24 May 2019 *ARRESTS* #44

[sds71]

This is the letter Fotis Dulos’ family sent to the Courant by his sister, Rena Kyrimi, Monday:

Suicide – the last word anyone who knew Fotis would associate with him. Caring and nurturing father, son, brother, and uncle, achiever, hard worker, fighter, loyal friend, accomplished sportsman, book worm, a great cook, unparalleled host. This was Fotis. He would walk into a room and immediately light it up. He was the man everyone wanted to befriend.
Fotis was a loving man much loved by those who actually knew him.

We, the family of this great man, feel let down by the State that pursued and harassed him and us relentlessly and with no mercy, without ever giving him or us a chance to speak our truth and to share, with a world that was too quick to call him a monster, our story. We feel devastated that a man, only 52 years of age, found himself in a dead-end where he saw taking his own life as the only way to be granted peace. We are enraged with the Media that used him to make sensationalistic headlines, thus manipulating public opinion; the Media abandoned the presumption of innocence, seeming heedless of the effect its reporting would have on the children in this case. We are shocked at how Law Enforcement obsessively focused with speculation and circumstantial evidence on an innocent man and turned their back on finding the real perpetrator of this tragedy, who is now at large, still a threat to public safety. Words are not enough to describe our thoughts, emotions, and sorrow...
The family of Fotis Dulos issues statement following his death

 

[afitzy]

HC Article:
Fotis Dulos’ death won’t stop conspiracy cases against Michelle Troconis, Kent Mawhinney, experts say

Quotes from article:

The death of Fotis Dulos brought an abrupt end to his high-profile criminal case, but legal experts said he does not need to be alive for the state to continue its prosecution of the others accused of conspiring with him to kill his estranged wife.[BBM]

Prosecutors will now shift their focus to Dulos’ former girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, 45, and Kent Mawhinney, 54, a lawyer and friend to Dulos. Both face charges of conspiracy to commit murder. Troconis also has pleaded not guilty to charges of hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence.

Legal experts said Dulos does not need to be alive for the state to proceed with its prosecution of Troconis and Mawhinney.[BBM]

“If there was an agreement and if one of them committed the overt act, that’s enough to establish the conspiracy against the surviving defendant,” Quinnipiac law professor William Dunlap said.[BBM]

At times, Dunlap said, accused conspirators, including unindicted co-conspirators who are alleged in an indictment to have engaged in a conspiracy, don’t get charged criminally for a number of reasons, including death.

"These cases are far from over,” William Paetzold, a longtime defense attorney in Connecticut, said.

Going forward, Paetzold said, the question shifts to how much the defense can negotiate against, and how hard prosecutors will pursue stiff sentences.

“It puts the defense behind the eight ball because their negotiation tool was taken away from them,” Paetzold said. “On the flip side, now that his case is over with, is the state going to be much interested in going after these two with harsh punishment?”

Chris Morano, a former chief state’s attorney, said Dulos’ death will make it hard for Mawhinney and Troconis to get plea deals resulting in lighter sentences because they can no longer cooperate with the state to help get Dulos convicted.[BBM]

“If they were hoping to seek credit for cooperating with the government in Mr. Dulos’ case, that case is going to be over,” Morano said.

However, since Dulos’ death Thursday raises questions about whether authorities will ever find Farber Dulos’ body, there’s still the potential for cooperation from Troconis or Mawhinney.

“If either of those defendants know where Jennifer Dulos’ body is located, that would be the ultimate example of cooperation,” Morano said.[BBM]

 

[afitzy]

Video: Memorials to Fotis Dulos added to those near Farmington property

 

[sds71]

“We had contemplated burying Fotis in Farmington but fear desecration of his grave. We will remove his remains to Greece and bid farewell to a nation at war with its ideals,” she wrote.
“We are shocked at how Law Enforcement obsessively focused with speculation and circumstantial evidence on an innocent man and turned their back on finding the real perpetrator of this tragedy, who is now at large, still a threat to public safety,” Kyrimi said. “Words are not enough to describe our thoughts, emotions, and sorrow.”

Kyrimi also echoed her brother’s concerns with the family court system. Dulos had complained about the enormous costs of the divorce from paying a court-appointed monitor more than $175,000, to hiring experts and court monitors. He also complained that the court unfairly kept him from seeing his children and allowed his wife’s attorneys to control the courtroom.

“Will the State now investigate the circumstances that led to this horrible end? A family court system lacking accountability? A family court system bleeding the estate of Gloria Farber, while destroying a loving man’s relationship with his children?” Kyrimi wrote.

“We are not alone in wondering how great wealth can be abused to destroy a family. We call the Judiciary System, in the name of justice, to publicly release the family relations study in the family case; Fotis had no motive to kill. We demand nothing less than the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

The statement ends saying that the case is far from over.
Family of Fotis Dulos says he was ‘in a dead-end where he saw taking his own life as the only way to be granted peace’

 

[afitzy]

Interview with Former State Atty Morano about no body case prosecution - murder vs felony murder:

Analysis: What’s Next for the Fotis Dulos Case?

 

[Ruminations]

This is the letter Fotis Dulos’ family sent to the Courant by his sister, Rena Kyrimi, Monday:

Suicide – the last word anyone who knew Fotis would associate with him. Caring and nurturing father, son, brother, and uncle, achiever, hard worker, fighter, loyal friend, accomplished sportsman, book worm, a great cook, unparalleled host. This was Fotis. He would walk into a room and immediately light it up. He was the man everyone wanted to befriend.
Fotis was a loving man much loved by those who actually knew him.

We, the family of this great man, feel let down by the State that pursued and harassed him and us relentlessly and with no mercy, without ever giving him or us a chance to speak our truth and to share, with a world that was too quick to call him a monster, our story. We feel devastated that a man, only 52 years of age, found himself in a dead-end where he saw taking his own life as the only way to be granted peace. We are enraged with the Media that used him to make sensationalistic headlines, thus manipulating public opinion; the Media abandoned the presumption of innocence, seeming heedless of the effect its reporting would have on the children in this case. We are shocked at how Law Enforcement obsessively focused with speculation and circumstantial evidence on an innocent man and turned their back on finding the real perpetrator of this tragedy, who is now at large, still a threat to public safety. Words are not enough to describe our thoughts, emotions, and sorrow...
The family of Fotis Dulos issues statement following his death

Ummm...sorry for your loss? Seriously. I’m sorry; it is tragic.

But he killed Jennifer. You know it, too. Don’t make his memory worse by compounding the lies and delusions.

Everyday he had the opportunity to be a better person. I am sorry he killed himself instead of making that choice.

 

[afitzy]

Jennifer Dulos: How the Police Made a ‘No-Body’ Murder Case

 

[annekris]

“We had contemplated burying Fotis in Farmington but fear desecration of his grave. We will remove his remains to Greece and bid farewell to a nation at war with its ideals,” she wrote.
“We are shocked at how Law Enforcement obsessively focused with speculation and circumstantial evidence on an innocent man and turned their back on finding the real perpetrator of this tragedy, who is now at large, still a threat to public safety,” Kyrimi said. “Words are not enough to describe our thoughts, emotions, and sorrow.”

Kyrimi also echoed her brother’s concerns with the family court system. Dulos had complained about the enormous costs of the divorce from paying a court-appointed monitor more than $175,000, to hiring experts and court monitors. He also complained that the court unfairly kept him from seeing his children and allowed his wife’s attorneys to control the courtroom.

“Will the State now investigate the circumstances that led to this horrible end? A family court system lacking accountability? A family court system bleeding the estate of Gloria Farber, while destroying a loving man’s relationship with his children?” Kyrimi wrote.

“We are not alone in wondering how great wealth can be abused to destroy a family. We call the Judiciary System, in the name of justice, to publicly release the family relations study in the family case; Fotis had no motive to kill. We demand nothing less than the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

The statement ends saying that the case is far from over.
Family of Fotis Dulos says he was ‘in a dead-end where he saw taking his own life as the only way to be granted peace’

So they’re returning to Greece with his remains. Godspeed. Notably there’s just one passing reference to the CHILDREN who have lost both parents. Truly good riddance.

 

[Myvice]

NP has certainly brainwashed FD's family. I would imagine it is much the way that FD used his mind control.

It's just sad. IMO

 

[Myvice]

Someone needs to show FD's family clips of NP saying he would be able to get a fair jury. Hopefully NP hasn't convinced them that public opinion isn't what convicts someone here. I doubt they know what the evidence is. They've probably just been told it was all circumstantial and easily disproven.

NP is a POC! JMO

 

[afitzy]

 

[MsJosie]

They will be gone soon and LE can eject them if necessary, no eviction process is necessary IMO. AC and FD relatives are ‘transient guests’, not tenants, and therefore subject to ejection by law enforcement at any time. They do not have any rights as tenants such as an eviction process because they are not tenants; and squatters need 15 years of occupancy (see link below) to establish a case for squatters rights in CT. Since the property is in receivership the receiver could have the transient guests ejected by LE anytime but kindly gave them until Friday Feb 7 to wrap up their affairs.

this is interesting reading: “For example, a person who lived in his fiancée's home for several years and contributed to household expenses was held not to be a tenant because he paid no fixed amount as rent, had no fixed period of occupancy, and was in a romantic relationship with the homeowner which she could have terminated at any time (Allstate Ins. Co. v. Palumbo, 109 Conn. App. 731, 740 (2008).”
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/rpt/2010-R-0069.htm

Statute on squatters aka ‘adverse possession’ https://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/rpt/2006-R-0032.htm

Thanks...will Read all. Interesting about squatters for different states....from what I have learned elsewhere

 

[afitzy]

 

[CTGrammy]

In the Trials of Both MT and KM, the Prosecutor will bring in All the Evidence they have against Fd along with the evidence against MT and KM.

Just because Fd is deceased, does Not Exclude the evidence LE has against Fd from being presented in court, in the cases against MT and KM.

In other words, it is still Game On for ALL Charges against the two defendants MT And KM.

Fd's death changes Nothing.

IMO.

 

[Leizl]

Here you go:


"Conn. 593 (2003)). Someone is an accomplice or criminally liable for the acts of another if he or she acts with the mental state required to commit a crime and solicits, requests, commands, or intentionally aids another to engage in criminal conduct."

Here is the longer explanation from the CT penal code:

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/rpt/2012-R-0134.htm
...
"Penal Code
Table 1 displays all of the crimes in the Penal Code arranged by classification. It displays the authorized prison sentences for each and any mandatory minimum sentence that applies.

In addition to the crimes listed in the table, the Penal Code punishes attempting or conspiring to commit any of them or acting as an accomplice to one of them.

Attempt or conspiracy is a crime “of the same grade and degree as the most serious offense which is attempted or is an object of the conspiracy, except that an attempt or conspiracy to commit a class A felony is a class B felony” (CGS § 53a-51). If someone is convicted of attempt or conspiracy to commit a crime other than a class A felony that carries a mandatory minimum sentence, the offender would be subject to that mandatory minimum sentence (see State v. Moran, 264 Conn. 593 (2003)).

Someone is an accomplice or criminally liable for the acts of another if he or she acts with the mental state required to commit a crime and solicits, requests, commands, or intentionally aids another to engage in criminal conduct. These offenders can be punished as if they were the principal offenders (CGS § 53a-8). It also appears that someone who is an accomplice to a crime that is punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence would be subject to that mandatory minimum.

Table 1: Penal Code Crimes Arranged By Class, With Authorized

Prison Sentences and Mandatory Minimum Sentences ..."

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/rpt/2012-R-0134.htm

Ok, first, nothing in the penal code

Am I An Accessory To A Connecticut Crime?
Defenses to Accomplice Liability

• In any prosecution in which the criminal liability of the defendant is based upon the conduct of another person it shall be a defense that the defendant terminated his complicity prior to commission of the offense:
  • Wholly depriving it of effectiveness in the commission of the offense and
  • Manifesting a complete and voluntary renunciation of their criminal purpose

Those above are the defenses for conspiracy.

Guilty of Murder
The following are not defenses to criminal liability in 53a-8

• That the person who actually committed the crime did not face prosecution or conviction.
• Such other person is not guilty of the offense in question because such other person lacks criminal responsibility or legal capacity or awareness.
• That the offense in question can happen only by a particular class or classes of persons and the person acting as an accomplice does not belong to such class or classes, and, thus, is legally incapable of committing the offense in an individual capacity.

The above outlines what are NOT defenses to conspiracy. According to law, FD does not have to be prosecuted or convicted of anything. The State does not have to convict FD. It was always a case within a case. All FD actions will be outlined explicitly during trial. Same as if he was alive. Jury decides whatever they decide, but there is no legal basis to drop charges just because FD is dead. There's just not.

*sigh* I don't think the law means what you think it does. Yes, they can prosecute people who are peripheral without prosecuting the main player, but they still need to be able to make the case against the peripheral players, which in this instance they can't because they have a circumstantial case against FD with no direct witnesses. It isn't that they can't prosecute him, it is that they can't prove that a crime even occurred at this point. They don't have a body, they have no witnesses that link the peripherals to the main crime, so while it isn't absolutely required that the main person be prosecuted IN EVERY CASE in order to prosecute the peripherals IN THIS CASE they don't have anything to prosecute on without FD being tagged for it.

I used the example of the Pazuzu Algarod case, his girlfriend was prosecuted and served like 3 years, but there were several people who knew of her direct involvement including a direct witness. A case like that is what I believe the law is referring to, where there is independant evidence of the persons involvement.

My prediction is they pursue the obstruction and drop the rest. You must think I have some influence over the way the courts going to decide this because I can not understand why you care so much what I think that you just keep coming at me. You know, changing my mind won't change the outcome, right?

 

[MDATCA]

“We had contemplated burying Fotis in Farmington but fear desecration of his grave. We will remove his remains to Greece and bid farewell to a nation at war with its ideals,” she wrote.
“We are shocked at how Law Enforcement obsessively focused with speculation and circumstantial evidence on an innocent man and turned their back on finding the real perpetrator of this tragedy, who is now at large, still a threat to public safety,” Kyrimi said. “Words are not enough to describe our thoughts, emotions, and sorrow.”

Kyrimi also echoed her brother’s concerns with the family court system. Dulos had complained about the enormous costs of the divorce from paying a court-appointed monitor more than $175,000, to hiring experts and court monitors. He also complained that the court unfairly kept him from seeing his children and allowed his wife’s attorneys to control the courtroom.

“Will the State now investigate the circumstances that led to this horrible end? A family court system lacking accountability? A family court system bleeding the estate of Gloria Farber, while destroying a loving man’s relationship with his children?” Kyrimi wrote.

“We are not alone in wondering how great wealth can be abused to destroy a family. We call the Judiciary System, in the name of justice, to publicly release the family relations study in the family case; Fotis had no motive to kill. We demand nothing less than the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

The statement ends saying that the case is far from over.
Family of Fotis Dulos says he was ‘in a dead-end where he saw taking his own life as the only way to be granted peace’

If he hadn't been deemed abusive to the children there would have never been a guardian.

 

[spaz1959]

This is the letter Fotis Dulos’ family sent to the Courant by his sister, Rena Kyrimi, Monday:

Suicide – the last word anyone who knew Fotis would associate with him. Caring and nurturing father, son, brother, and uncle, achiever, hard worker, fighter, loyal friend, accomplished sportsman, book worm, a great cook, unparalleled host. This was Fotis. He would walk into a room and immediately light it up. He was the man everyone wanted to befriend.
Fotis was a loving man much loved by those who actually knew him.

We, the family of this great man, feel let down by the State that pursued and harassed him and us relentlessly and with no mercy, without ever giving him or us a chance to speak our truth and to share, with a world that was too quick to call him a monster, our story. We feel devastated that a man, only 52 years of age, found himself in a dead-end where he saw taking his own life as the only way to be granted peace. We are enraged with the Media that used him to make sensationalistic headlines, thus manipulating public opinion; the Media abandoned the presumption of innocence, seeming heedless of the effect its reporting would have on the children in this case. We are shocked at how Law Enforcement obsessively focused with speculation and circumstantial evidence on an innocent man and turned their back on finding the real perpetrator of this tragedy, who is now at large, still a threat to public safety. Words are not enough to describe our thoughts, emotions, and sorrow...
The family of Fotis Dulos issues statement following his death

Dear Lord, I just threw up.

 

[Gardenista]

This is the letter Fotis Dulos’ family sent to the Courant by his sister, Rena Kyrimi, Monday:

Suicide – the last word anyone who knew Fotis would associate with him. Caring and nurturing father, son, brother, and uncle, achiever, hard worker, fighter, loyal friend, accomplished sportsman, book worm, a great cook, unparalleled host. This was Fotis. He would walk into a room and immediately light it up. He was the man everyone wanted to befriend.
Fotis was a loving man much loved by those who actually knew him.

We, the family of this great man, feel let down by the State that pursued and harassed him and us relentlessly and with no mercy, without ever giving him or us a chance to speak our truth and to share, with a world that was too quick to call him a monster, our story. We feel devastated that a man, only 52 years of age, found himself in a dead-end where he saw taking his own life as the only way to be granted peace. We are enraged with the Media that used him to make sensationalistic headlines, thus manipulating public opinion; the Media abandoned the presumption of innocence, seeming heedless of the effect its reporting would have on the children in this case. We are shocked at how Law Enforcement obsessively focused with speculation and circumstantial evidence on an innocent man and turned their back on finding the real perpetrator of this tragedy, who is now at large, still a threat to public safety. Words are not enough to describe our thoughts, emotions, and sorrow...
The family of Fotis Dulos issues statement following his death

 

[MemPat]

This is the letter Fotis Dulos’ family sent to the Courant by his sister, Rena Kyrimi, Monday:

Suicide – the last word anyone who knew Fotis would associate with him. Caring and nurturing father, son, brother, and uncle, achiever, hard worker, fighter, loyal friend, accomplished sportsman, book worm, a great cook, unparalleled host. This was Fotis. He would walk into a room and immediately light it up. He was the man everyone wanted to befriend.
Fotis was a loving man much loved by those who actually knew him.

We, the family of this great man, feel let down by the State that pursued and harassed him and us relentlessly and with no mercy, without ever giving him or us a chance to speak our truth and to share, with a world that was too quick to call him a monster, our story. We feel devastated that a man, only 52 years of age, found himself in a dead-end where he saw taking his own life as the only way to be granted peace. We are enraged with the Media that used him to make sensationalistic headlines, thus manipulating public opinion; the Media abandoned the presumption of innocence, seeming heedless of the effect its reporting would have on the children in this case. We are shocked at how Law Enforcement obsessively focused with speculation and circumstantial evidence on an innocent man and turned their back on finding the real perpetrator of this tragedy, who is now at large, still a threat to public safety. Words are not enough to describe our thoughts, emotions, and sorrow...
The family of Fotis Dulos issues statement following his death

Gimme a break! If FD wanted people to speak better of him he should have behaved better.

One day all the video, cell phone records, DNA evidence, bloody footprints, etc. will be displayed for all to see.

Then "this great man" will be truly exposed and his family can slink back to Greece with egg on their faces.

By the way, wasn't it Pattis who denied that there even was a "great tragedy" with a "perpetrator"? Didn't he blame Jennifer herself in his "Gone Girl" scenario? How was that supposed to make the children feel?

This statement has to infuriate all the LE folks who spent weeks up to their elbows in garbage trying to get justice for Jennifer. They will be committed to seeing everything come to light.
Bring it on!

MOO

 

[afitzy]

Regarding the date Fd committed suicide this is the first report I've seen that tags times on the movements of a person that sounds to be AC times mentioned 11:18am (arrives), 11:28am (leaves), 11:54am (phone call for welfare check to FPD).