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Real developer Fotis Dulos dies in hospital two days after gassing himself with carbon monoxide in his mansion’s garage – before he could face trial for killing his missing wife

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Accused wife killer dies in hospital two days after gassing himself with carbon monoxide in his garage in Framington, Ct., ahead of his trial in the death of his estranged wife
Real estate developer Fotis Dulos, 52, was accused of killing his wife and mother-of-five, Jennifer Dulos who vanished on may 24, 2019 – she remains missing and presumed dead
Fotis Dulos was confirmed dead at died just at 5.32p.m. a Thursday at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York – two days after a suicide attempt inside his home, his lawyer has said
On Tuesday, Dulos tried to take his life inside his garage with a hosepipe taped to his exhaust in an attempted suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning
Dulos left a note protesting his innocence over Jennifer’s murder before his suicide attempt
Dulos’ family are now ‘adamant that his name be cleared’ of murdering his wife Jennifer, so his children will grow up knowing he is innocent
Defense attorney Pattis filed a motion requesting the state continues to pursue the murder case against Dulos posthumously – ‘so that his lawyers can clear his name’
His ex-girl friend, Michelle Troconis, who was living with him at the time of the alleged killing ,is facing charges for aiding and helping to dispose of evidence
Jennifer Dulos and Fotis Dulos 2Suicide: Connecticut based real estate developer Fotis Dulos [left] has died two days after a suicide attempt. He was awaiting trial after being accused of killing his estranged wife Jennifer [right]. The mother-of-five vanished in May and is presumed dead

Accused wife  killer and Connecticut based luxury home builder  Fotis Dulos has died two days after a suicide attempt outside his home, as his family are ‘adamant that his name be cleared’ of murdering his wife Jennifer last year.
Dulos reportedly died at 5.32p.m. Thursday at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, surrounded by family, friends and his legal team.
The 52-year-old suspect had clung to life for more than 48 hours, after trying to take his own life at his home in Farmington, Connecticut, on Tuesday.

 

Fotis Dulos 14After his suicide bid on Tuesday Fotis Dulos was transported [photo],  to Jacobi Medical Center in the NY. He did not recover from the attempt to kill himself with carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage before a court appearance, before he died Thursday
Dulos was transported into Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York on Tuesday after attempting to kill himself with carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage in Connecticut before a scheduled court appearance.
He never recovered and died Thursday

Shortly before midday Tuesday, police officers performing a wellness check when he did not show for a scheduled court appearance, discovered Dulos inside his garage with a hose taped to his exhaust in an attempted suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
They pulled him out for fresh air and rushed him to a New York hospital.
Despite on-the-spot CPR, at one point he was legally dead before being revived.
Reacting to the suicide, his attorney Norm Pattis slammed the public pillorying of his client, saying he was ‘executed’ by public opinion.
The 52-year-old builder  was on bail accused of murdering his estranged wife Jennifer Dulos when he died.

 

Fotis Dulos 11.png Defense attorney Norm Pattis Thursday criticized the public lynching of his client, saying he was ‘executed’ by public opinion. Fotis Dulos seen in orange regulation suit [photo], led by police in Connecticut after being arrested was on on trial for the murder of his ex-wife

 

Fotis Dulos in court 7The family  are seeking that Fotis Dulos, seen [photo], during on of his earliest court appearances last year, be  cleared posthumously of killing his wife Jennifer. Dulos died Thursday after a suicide bid 
Despite the mounting circumstantial evidence, the murder suspect’s family are now demanding that he is cleared posthumously of murdering his wife Jennifer last year. ‘The family is adamant that his name be cleared,’ Pattis said in a statement, after announcing Dulos’ death

In the statement he gave announcing Dulos’ death, Pattis said: ‘Mr. Dulos was tried and convicted in the court of public opinion. Now he has been executed. We remain committed to demonstrating he did not murder Jennifer.’
Dulos’ family are now demanding that he is cleared posthumously of Jennifer’s murder.
‘The family is adamant that his name be cleared,’ Pattis said in a statement, after announcing Dulos’ death.
Defense attorney Pattis filed an ‘unusual motion’ on Thursday requesting the state continues to pursue the murder case against Dulos posthumously – so that his lawyers can clear his name.
In the move, which the Hartford Courant said is ‘unprecedented’, Dulos’ estate would become the defendant because Dulos is now deceased.
‘It’ll be a difficult challenge,’ Pattis said. ‘We intend to proceed on as if he were alive to vindicate him.’

 

Fotis Dulos' SUV 2Dulos was found in his car inside the garage of his estate home in Framington, Ct., Tuesday. The exhaust pipe he used to try to kill himself is shown attached [circle], to his vehicle

 

Fotis Dulos 15EMTs transfer the unconscious Fotis who was transported him by helicopter initially to UConn Health in Connecticut on Tuesday
The motion, which is pending agreement by state prosecutors, states that the family wants Dulos’ children to know their father did not kill their mother.

‘Mr. Dulos’ children should not be subjected to a lifetime coping with the fictional reality that their father murdered their mother in cold blood on the basis of baseless and rampant speculation,’ the motion says.
Dulos’ family are also trying to harvest his organs, Pattis said.
The family of Jennifer Dulos released a statement asking for privacy as news broke of his death.
‘This is a horrific tragedy all around,’ family spokeswoman Carrie Luft said.
‘Please respect the privacy of the families and loved ones involved.’ 
It emerged earlier Thursday that Fotis Dulos left a suicide note protesting his innocence over Jennifer’s murder. Police searching the Dulos home found the note but with no other clue that could reveal the location of Jennifer’s missing body.
His attorney also confirmed in a court filing Thursday that the note was found in the vehicle with Dulos. In the note ‘he declared his innocence of the infamous and heinous crimes that the State has accused him of and claimed his lawyers have the evidence to prove it,’ the motion states.

Jennifer Dulos and Fotis Dulos 1Before her disappearance, Jennifer Dulos [left] feared her husband Fotis Dulos [right], could hurt her and claimed he threatened to kidnap their children according to court documents 
Rena Dulos 2Shown outside Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx Thursday, Rena Dulos who had traveled from Greece to support her brother throughout his arrest and trial, believes that he is innocent and would never have harmed Jennifer
Jennifer Dulos rental home in New Canaan 1Police said  Jennifer was attacked in the garage of her home [photo], in New Canaan, Connecticut, after dropping her children off at school for the day. The  killer then transported her body out of the home in her own car which was later found abandoned in a park
Police said in arrest affidavits said that Jennifer was attacked in the garage of her home in New Canaan, Connecticut, after dropping her children off at school for the day.
They think her killer then transported her body out of the home in her own car.
The car was found abandoned not far from the property later that day, but there was no sign of her.
Police then found large pools of her blood in the garage. They also said they had surveillance footage of two people who looked like Dulos and Troconis depositing garbage bags at various locations that night that, when tested later, were found to contain Jennifer’s DNA.
She had said in divorce papers that she was afraid of him and their children’s former nanny said she witnessed him ‘chase her through the house’ once.
Dulos, however, gave interviews protesting his innocence.
He said he never harmed her and, at one stage, his attorney suggested Jennifer had killed herself in a Gone Girl style plot to blame it on him.
Police carried out a new search of Fotis Dulos’ home on Wednesday, the day after the suspected murderer was found unresponsive in his garage.
Connecticut State Police confirmed they had executed a new search warrant at the Farmington home.
Mark Motuxzick, a bondsman for Capitol Bail Bonds who had been working with Dulos since his first two arrests has come forward revealing that he spoke on the phone with Dulos just hours before he was found lifeless.
Dulos called him at 9:53 a.m. Tuesday morning asking if he could take over the bond that was up for the emergency hearing that Dulos missed later that day. When he called Dulos back he had a different tone, Motuxzick told NBC Connecticut Wednesday.

 

Police activity at the scene where Dulos attempted suicide 2Connecticut State Police executed a new search warrant at the Farmington home [above], of Fotis Dulos on Wednesday, the day after he tried to kill himself with carbon monoxide poisoning.

 

Police activity at the scene where Dulos attempted suicideCops investigating the scene where Dulos attempted to kill himself reportedly found a suicide note was found in which he maintained his innocence
‘He asked me what do I need to take over, those were his words, the bail that he’s referring to the $6 million,’ said Motuxzick, who was the first bondsman to try to secure Dulos’ most recent $6 million bond.
‘I stated that I would give him a call back in a little while because he said he was on his way to his attorney’s office.’
He said when he called Dulos back about 40 minutes later at 10:34 a.m., he noticed he sounded different and like he was ‘out of breath’.
‘He was like it’s all set something to that effect,’ Motuxzick said.
‘It sounded like he was working out it was almost like he was kind of I don’t know out of breath.’

 

Mark Motuxzick 1Bondsman Mark Motuxzick, [photo], who had been working with Dulos since his first two arrests has come forward revealing the suspected wife killer may have  resolved to end it all just before his suicide bid
‘Unfortunately I don’t know if it just all got to him at that point and he said to heck with it,’ said Motuxzick.
The bondsman told NBC Dulos always told him he loved his children and that he had an explanation for the accusations against him but the bond might have ‘put him over the edge’.
‘Whatever happened along the way with the bond being posted I think this was possibly a something that just might’ve put him over the edge,’ Motuxzick said.
Adding to the pressure, the company which insured his $6million bond and got him out of jail reneged on it on Tuesday over doubts around the equity of the real estate assets he put up as security.
Fotis was due in court at noon that day, but failed to show up.
Palmetto Surety Company, which originally posted the bond, had recently learned that two properties offered as collateral, including the real estate developer’s mansion in Farmington, were subject to foreclosure and a third was overvalued by over $300,000.
Faced the prospect of having his $6 million bond revoked at an emergency court hearing Tuesday, Dulos apparently was ‘losing his mind’ at the prospect of having to go back into custody.
Norm Pattis (right) and Kevin Smith (left) 1‘It was a lynching by the public’: Dulos’ attorneys Norm Pattis seen [right] in court Wednesday with his partner Kevin Smith [left], at the bond  hearing, railed at the reaction of the public to his client’s case which he claims drove Dulos to suicide.
Police arrived to check on him and saw him through a window, sitting in his vehicle in the garage, showing ‘obvious signs of medical distress’.
They broke into the car to drag him out into the fresh air and perform CPR. He was then taken to UConn Health via ambulance where he remained in a critical condition.
He was airlifted to the hospital in the Bronx to have treatment in a hyperbaric chamber, later in the afternoon.
Before Dulos died Thursday, the judge issued a warrant for his re-arrest and added $500,000 to his bail.
Dulos’ attorney Pattis said on Wednesday he never anticipated his client would try to take his own life.
‘A lawyer’s commitment is to be a shepherd to his client and to walk them through the valley of the shadow of death…
‘Sometimes you make a call where you think your client is self destructive. That is based on the best judgement you can see.
‘I saw nothing that made me believe that so I look back and wonder what I missed,’ he said outside court.

 

Fotis Dulos rescue 1
Emergency workers are shown trying to revive Fotis Dulos at his home in Farmington, Connecticut, on Tuesday after he was discovered unconscious from self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning inside his garage
The new girlfriend who put up nearly $150,000 for his bond and was with him the morning of his suicide attempt
Moving on already Fotis Dulos according to reports had a new girlfriend who had fronted thousands of dollars in cash in order for him to make bond and who was with him the morning he attempted suicide.
Documents show that Anna K. Curry, 42, put up $147,000 in cash and said she would pay an additional $272,000 to secure the $6million bond that Dulos posted after he was charged with Jennifer’s murder.
Curry was seen at Dulos’ home on Tuesday in the hours before he was due to attend a hearing at Stamford Superior Court where he feared his bond would be revoked and he would be jailed.
She left Dulos’ home around 10.30am to run errands and returned to find police officers fighting to revive him on the driveway, according to sources.

 

Anna K. Curry 2New beau: Before his suicide attempt and death, Fotis Dulos new girlfriend Anna K. Curry [photo] reportedly paid 147,000 in cash for his bail bond
Dulos who had so-conspirator Michelle Troconis, living in his home along with her daughter, when he is accused of killing his estranged wife Jennifer is now in a relationship with Curry, according to neighbors. Meanwhile his ex-girlfriend, Troconis, has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder..
A neighbor revealed that ‘A young woman has been at his’ house several times over the past few months. They’ve been out jogging together. She’s been driving one of his cars.’
The Hartford Courant first reported that Curry wrote two checks for a total of $147,000 on January 9, according to public records, in order to pay the bail bondsman his fee on the $6million bond. Dulos contributed a check for $1,000.
The conditions of Dulos’ $6million bond meant putting up 7 per cent of that amount or $420,000 in cash, to prevent him awaiting trial in jail.
According to the filing, Curry also agreed to pay the balance of just over $272,000 in 15 installments until April 2021 to secure the $6million bond.
In the court documents Dulos listed Curry as his ‘best friend’.

 

Michelle Troconis 5At the time of the alleged murder Fotis was living with then girlfriend Michelle Troconis is seen [red coat],  being led from the state trooper barracks in Bridgeport after processing, is facing charges related to conspiracy to commit murder.
Fotis Dulos maintained he was innocent of murdering his wife until the very end, even left a suicide note protesting his innocence over Jennifer’s murder before attempting suicide.
He gave interviews saying he never harmed her and, at one stage, his attorney suggested Jennifer had killed herself in a Gone Girl style plot to blame her death on him.
Hopes of any admission of guilt have been dashed after Dulos succumbed to his injuries Thursday – not before authorities allegedly found a note in which he continued to proclaim his innocence.
In the note ‘he declared his innocence of the infamous and heinous crimes that the State has accused him of and claimed his lawyers have the evidence to prove it,’ the motion states.
Relatives were urged to come to the hospital to say their goodbyes to the Dulos before he passed away as his chances of recovery appeared to dwindle. Had he somehow managed to survive, doctors believe brain damage would have been ‘inevitable because of the amount of time he was unresponsive’.
Family members flew in from Greece to be with him in his final hours and his affairs were ‘being put in order’, according to the source.
Rena Dulos, his sister who lives in their native Greece, was his closest living adult relative. She traveled to New York with his niece Angelika to say goodbye to her brother.
Rena Dulos 1Relatives of Fotis Dulos flew in to say their goodbyes. His sister Rena Dulos is seen [L-R] speaking with her brother’s attorney, Norm Pattis, at the hospital on Thursday shortly before Fotis Dulos died at 5.32p.m.

Jennifer’s disappearance and alleged murder is believed to have occurred on May 24, in the midst of an ugly divorce and custody battle over their five children, Jennifer vanished without a trace.
She was last seen arriving home at around 8a.m. after dropping the children off at school that morning and then missed several appointments in New York City that day.
Her car, a Chevrolet Suburban, was abandoned in a parking lot near to her home.
Her body has never been found.
Surveillance footage allegedly shows Dulos in a pickup truck with his then-girlfriend Michelle Troconis disposing of garbage bags of items, some of which were later recovered and found to be stained with Jennifer’s blood.
Sources told the Hartford Courant that police later recovered blood-soaked sponges and a Vineyard Vines shirt that Jennifer was wearing when she went missing.

 

Surveillance cameras capture Fotis Dulos movement 2.JPGSurveillance footage (pictured) shows the last known images of Jennifer driving home, where police say Dulos ‘lay in wait’, after she dropped her children at school at around 8am on May 24
Surveillance cameras capture Fotis Dulos movement 3
At 11.12am, after the alleged attack, the truck – allegedly with Dulos in it – is filmed making its way back to where he lives. 
Fotis Dulos 10Dulos is shown on May 29 withdrawing $500 cash before visiting a car wash to clean his employee’s car on the day Jennifer vanished
Surveillance cameras capture Fotis Dulos movement 6Fotis is seen in footage from Russell Speeders Car Wash in an alleged attempt to clean the car
Jennifer Dulos 5Jennifer, seen with the couple’s five children [photo], and her husband had been locked in a vicious custody battle for the last two years. In 2017 divorce documents, Jennifer stated that she was ‘afraid’ of Fotis and he would ‘harm’ her
They also have traffic and school bus camera footage of a man they believe was Dulos driving a pickup truck to New Canaan on the morning Jennifer disappeared; surveillance video of Dulos getting the truck washed and detailed days after she vanished; and evidence that Jennifer’s DNA was found on the truck’s passenger seat, according to a police warrant.
State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo Jr. said in court last year that Jennifer’s blood also was found mixed with Dulos’ DNA on the kitchen sink faucet of her home in New Canaan.
Authorities believe that Dulos drove an employee’s red Toyota Tacoma truck to New Canaan, and lay in wait for Jennifer to return home from the school run.
Dulos is believed to have murdered Jennifer sometime over the next two hours.
Jennifer’s SUV was seen leaving her house at around 10.20a.m. Police believe Dulos was driving the car.
Dulos was then allegedly picked back up by surveillance cameras at 11.20a.m. back in the truck.
The most explosive claims in the warrant came from Pawel Gumienny, the employee whose truck Dulos allegedly used.
Gumienny claims Dulos urged him to keep one of his cars instead of taking back his truck that day.
Five days later, Gumienny said he found out that Dulos and Troconis had washed his truck without his knowledge.
Dulos then repeatedly urged him to replace and get rid of the seats of his truck and grew angry when his employee failed to do so at first.
Police found a ‘bloodlike substance’ containing Jennifer’s DNA on the seats, despite Dulos’ alleged attempts to clean the car
Investigators are convinced Jennifer is dead.

 

Michelle Troconis, [left] and Kent Mawhinney (right),1c0-conspirators charged: Michelle Troconis [left], Fotis’ live-in girlfriend at the time of Jennifer’s disappearance, and his civil attorney Kent Mawhinney, [right], are charged with conspiracy to murder for their alleged roles in plotting and covering up Jennifer’s death
Dulos’ ex-girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, and his friend and civil attorney, Kent Douglas Mawhinney, are charged with conspiracy to murder for their alleged roles in plotting and covering up Jennifer’s death.
Dulos and Troconis had previously been charged with evidence tampering and obstruction in Jennifer’s disappearance. Previously Dulos’ criminal attorney proposed that Kent Mawhinney could provide an alibi that cleared his client of wrongdoing.
Troconis is accused of helping Dulos dispose of evidence on the day of Jennifer’s disappearance. They were both captured on surveillance disposing of the items that tested positive for Jennifer’s blood.

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