Attorney for Fotis Dulos questions whether missing New Canaan woman Jennifer Farber Dulos was ill or may have been undergoing pregnancy testing
Sept 10, 2019
The attorney for Fotis Dulos, in court filings Tuesday, said he is seeking access to the medical records of Dulos’ missing wife and mother of his five children in an effort to determine whether she was undergoing pregnancy testing or suffers from a serious disease, disclosures that could bolster defense attorneys’ “Gone Girl” theory about her disappearance.
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This is the second time that Pattis has attempted to access Farber Dulos’ medical records. Pattis has suggested that Farber Dulos may have staged her own disappearance in a plot similar to Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel “Gone Girl,” in which a wife pretends to vanish to frame her husband for murder.
On Tuesday, Carrie Luft, Farber Dulos’ friend and family spokesperson, said:
“This is yet another desperate attempt by the attorney for Mr. Dulos to distract from the charges against his client. Jennifer has always taken excellent care of her health. She has now been missing for more than three months. Her children, family, and friends are grieving her absence. This is one more gratuitous and cruel legal maneuver that harms her children, now and into the future.” bbm
Last month, Superior Court Judge John Blawie denied Pattis’ first motion to get the medical records agreeing with State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo, who called the motion a “fishing expedition.”
“I don’t think, given the state of this record, you’ve sufficiently shown enough of a basis for the court to grant this motion. I think it is speculative at this juncture,” Blawie said.
In denying the motion, Blawie said he would revisit it if Pattis produced more compelling evidence.
As in the first motion, Pattis said that Dulos has in his possession billing records that show $14,000 worth of medical tests, blood work and other diagnostic treatment from February through April of this year.