A very rough recap of some of the highlights of MT’s involvement in JFD’s disappearance
(please feel free to add/edit)
Fotis first met Michelle Troconis, a 42-year-old competitive water-skier originally from Venezuela, during a 2016 water-skiing trip to Miami with his children. She shared common interests (water and snow skiing). They quickly began a romantic relationship, MT moved from Florida to Connecticut with her daughter and became an employee of the FORE GROUP.
Jennifer found out about the affair in March 2017 and in June 2017 moved out of the family home and filed for divorce the day after that move.
Two years of unresolved divorce strife and mistreatment of JFD, FD realized the only way to unravel his surmounting financial debts (7 million +) was to gain access to his children’s trust fund money, so he allegedly killed his wife to have sole custody of their 5 children and their money which would seem to solve his financial situation.
The morning of May 24, 2019 Jennifer Farbor Dulos was allegedly murdered at her home in New Canaan.
On May 25th, FD declined to be interviewed by police or assist in the investigation, but he did hand over his phone, which proved to be invaluable to the investigation and to his demise. When MT was interviewed on her activities the morning of 5.24, she said she and Fotis woke up, showered together, and had sex. Troconis took her daughter to school, and when she returned to the house, she saw Fotis and Kent Mawhinney meeting in the home office around 8:15 a.m. At 8:24 a.m., one of Fotis’ friends called him on his cellphone from Greece. (Later learned from Homeland Security investigation of the friend’s phone that the call and Kent’s presence was prearranged the day before). This was all a ruse to appear that Fotis was in his home office and answered the call at 8:15.
That afternoon, Fotis and MT spent the afternoon shuttling back and forth between their home and another Fore Group property just two miles away. They claimed to be cleaning the house with Clorox, paper towels and garbage bags etc.
Later that evening (?), CCTV show FD throwing garbage bags into several trash cans and a cargo liner from JFD’s Suburban, license plates, knife? etc…10 miles aways from his home while MT was sitting in the passenger seat chatting on the phone (at times watching him toss trash bags). Police said they were able to recover some of the garbage bags and found a number of items soaked in Jennifer’s blood. Also, FD’s DNA on many items and MT’s DNA on three bags.
By August, Fotis’ alibi had unraveled (police had substantial evidence tracking Fotis’s whereabouts etc.). In a follow-up interview with police, Troconis then told them a new storyline that she actually did not see Fotis the morning of JFD’s disappearance and that only she and KM were in the home office. She answered the ringing phone from the call coming in from Greece (encouraged by Kent Mawhinney). Schoenhorn, MT’s new attorney disputes that she intentionally lied or misled the police. He said that she was confused and was challenged by the English language. KM also said that he did not see Fotis that morning.
It took over 7 months to pull together enough evidence to charge FD & MT (conspiracy to commit murder) on 1.7.2020. They had already been charged with tampering with evidence in September, 2019. On 1.28, 2020, FD was due back in court for an emergency hearing about revoking the bond, yet instead of heading to court, he choose to attempt suicide and a few days later, he died.
October 4th, Jury selection begins for MT’s trial. Trial scheduled January, 2024.
