Investigators found no evidence that the body of Jennifer Dulos was at a Hartford trash plant after an extensive search that lasted nearly three weeks last spring, according to the lead prosecutor in the case of the death and disappearance of the New Canaan mother.
“We didn’t find any evidence of that,” Chief State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo said in an interview Friday on WPLR’s Chaz & AJ show.
priority.
“That has been our No. 1 focus since Jennifer went missing back in May,” Colangelo said in the radio interview. “We’ve unturned every stone that we possibly could, we’re still looking.”
It was the first extensive interview Colangelo has given on the case since his request for a gag order in the case was granted in September. The gag order, which the defense has appealed to the state Supreme Court to overturn, prohibits anyone involved, including witnesses, from speaking publicly about the case.
Colangelo was the state’s attorney in charge of the Judicial District of Stamford and Norwalk when Jennifer Dulos was reporting missing on May 24. He was appointed chief state’s attorney, overseeing the Division of Criminal Justice, on Jan. 30 — the same day Fotis Dulos died from an apparent suicide.
Colangelo said he was with attorney Kevin Smith, one of the members of the Dulos defense team, when Farmington police found the 52-year-old inside his running SUV in the garage of his home on Jan. 28. Colangelo and Smith were waiting for Dulos at the Stamford courthouse for an emergency bond hearing where a judge could have sent him back to jail.
It was “real sad,” Colangelo said. “I was sitting with Kevin Smith when it was happening in real life.”
Prosecutor: No ‘evidence’ of Jennifer Dulos at Hartford trash plant
So if the body did not go to MIRA, what are the other possibilities?
- LE thinks body left Welles in JDs Suburban driven by FD per AW. Could have been disposed of in NC en route to Waveny, handed off at Waveny, taken elsewhere during the 43 minute interval (JD phone turned off 11:08am so presumably FD was at Waveny parking spot at that time.)
These would all be pretty high-risk of visibility and/or body being found I would think. Although I would like to know what LE has to say about FDs foray to Silver Spring Rd on June 25, when KM was doing his 2nd interview with LE and the MIRA search had just ended.
-average mph on Tacoma trip between NC rest stop and 80MS (all between 57-60mph entire route) suggests no time to drop body along this route, otherwise average mph between timepoints would be drastically lowered. Given age and condition of vehicle and need to avoid being pulled over for speeding likley FD was keeping to 60mph average. (Side note, although midday, still surprising to me he could make that good time given the usual traffic backup and unpredictability along the lower portion of the route at least. FD lucked out with traffic!)
-MOO: highly likely that body was brought back to 80MS. Where did it go after that?
-disposal in afternoon of 5/24, AW says they believe that FD was at 80MS all afternoon. But MT was rolling back and forth in various vehicles. How well are these 2 vehicles tracked that afternoon? Could the body have been in one of them and then handed off to someone else? There are SW requests for cell tower dumps that afternoon at The Pond, and various other locales. FD could have disposed in woods behind/around 80MS.
Gap in AW between FD arrival at 80MS 12:20 and him returning in Suburban at 1pm with MT following. Could FD have brought body to 4JC in that time, for burial behind 4JC late at night? Or for pickup or handoff to someone else? We would assume that LE would have cam of anyone else arriving or leaving 4JC or 80MS that day or night.
-did FD leave 4JC after returning from Albany that night? Or could he have buried her out back behind 4JC in the night? Or very early Saturday? FD was texting LA around 5am on Saturday.
One thing we do know is the clothing had been removed (this is hard to write) by Friday evening since the clothes were in the Albany trash. The condition and number of bags taped together, ripped open and knotted, ponchos, etc in Albany trash suggest that most of the activity relating to the murder and disposal was completed by the time they left on the Albany run. Either they put the body into some sort of container, or had disposed of or handed it off already. Otherwise there would have been additional cleanup needing disposing. It seems like most of the operation was likely concluded by the time of the Albany run.
I doubt FD kept the body around past very early Saturday am as he was planning to pick up the kids. He would be planning on having them for long term and thus would have needed to get the body out of the way before he had the kids on his hands.
This is all MOO and just current thinking in light of Colangelo interview.
