Popular Venezuelan socialite Michel Troconis was seen with his late boyfriend Fotis Dulos in security footage showing him disposing of evidence of his ex-wife's murder, her trial has heard. revealed.
Footage played Monday in Stamford Superior Court shows Dulos wearing a white T-shirt and black baseball cap on the day his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, disappeared in May 2019 in Albany, Hartford, Conn. He has been seen walking down the street.
Occasionally, a man could be seen getting out of a Ford F-150 and throwing unidentified objects into multiple trash cans along city streets.
Police said Dulos and Troconis disposed of 30 bags of items that day, and some of the items inside found the missing biological mothers of the five.
Another video shown in court Monday showed Ms. Dulos throwing an envelope into a storm drain, and a female police officer said Ms. Troconis briefly reached out of her car and ran onto the sidewalk near the sluice gate. It is said that he is reaching out to.
She claims she simply tried to remove the pieces of gum by wiping them on the sidewalk. According to the Hartford Courant.
However, police said they found two license plates inside the FedEx envelope.
Investigators then examined the plates and “found they were not there,” said Police Sgt. Michael Button testified.
Button said officers began examining the plates more closely and noticed that some type of adhesive had been used to change the numbers and letters on the plates.
Prosecutors said in court that when the plates were removed, they matched an older model Chevrolet Suburban that had once been registered to Dulos.
They allege Dulos killed his ex-wife in their New Canaan home on May 24, 2019, after dropping their five children off at school, but her body was never found.
Police said Fotis Dulos waited for Jennifer to get home that morning, then attacked her in the garage and tried to clean up the scene.
The man then placed her body in another SUV and drove off, which was later found abandoned in a local park.
Dulos was charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend, but took his own life in January 2020 at the age of 52.
Troconis, 49, is currently charged with aiding and abetting the concealment of a crime, including conspiracy to commit murder, tampering with evidence, and hindering prosecution.
She denies the charges, and in court Monday her attorney, John Schoenhorn, admitted to police that he was on Albany Street with Dulos on the day his ex-wife disappeared, but he has not been charged with any related crimes. He denied any involvement or knowledge of the matter. Is Faber Dulos missing or dead?
In fact, in a video recording of Troconis being questioned by police, Troconis said he had no idea what Dulos was doing as he continued to get out of the truck, and spent much of the ride texting on his cell phone. He claimed that he continued to do so.
“I have never disputed the fact that Michelle was in that car,” Schoenhorn said after court Monday, according to the Courant.
He said surveillance footage shows it is “absolutely clear that Fotis Dulos was the one who dropped the FedEx envelope down the drain.”
“The bottom line is these are things Fotis Dulos did,” he said. “He's not here to explain himself. I don't think anyone can explain what he was trying to do.”
He added that the evidence presented by the state so far does not prove his client was involved in the alleged crime.
“The bottom line is we haven't seen anything yet to suggest that Michel Troconis knew anything about anything.” [Dulos] I was going to do it,” Schoenhorn said.
Jurors previously heard from the Dulos family's nanny, Lauren Almeida, who told the court the parents were initially “kind to each other” but their relationship soon fell apart and Faber Dulos became his girlfriend. He claimed that he eventually got worse after learning about it. In March 2017, her husband had an affair with Troconis. According to the coolant.
Almeida claimed that Fotis threatened Faber Dulos so frequently that he fled his Farmington home in fear, filed for divorce from the safety of a five-star hotel in Manhattan, and hired a bodyguard.
Police also testified that they found what appeared to be blood on a black Range Rover that was found in the victim's garage.
However, the Troconis family continues to maintain Michel's innocence.
“We come together as a family, because that's who we are, and we come together to support my sister,” Claudia Troconis said outside the Stamford courtroom Thursday.
“She is a mother, a daughter, a sister, an amazing mother and an amazing human being,” she continued. “And we know that the truth will prevail and justice will be served because she is innocent…This has been unfair for the past four and a half years.”
