Michelle Troconis Found Guilty In Jennifer Dulos Murder Conspiracy

A jury Friday found a Connecticut woman guiltyof conspiring with her boyfriend to kill his estranged wife, a mother of five who disappeared in 2019.

Michelle Troconis, 49, was also found guilty on five other counts of tampering with physical evidence and hindering prosecution connected to Fotis Dulos’ presumed killing of Jennifer Dulos, who was last seen dropping off their five children at school on the morning of March 24, 2019. The Duloses had been in the middle of a contentious two-year divorce battle and custody dispute, which placed strict restrictions on when and how Fotis Dulos could see the couple’s children.

The six-member jury deliberated for three days after hearing more than seven weeks of testimony before finding that Troconis helped Dulos create an alibi for the time of the killing, and later helped him clean up and dispose of evidence of the crime.

Troconis faces up to 50 years in prison, according to the Stamford Advocate, citing Connecticut state statute.

Jennifer Dulos’ body has never been found, but she was declared officially dead by a state judge in October.

Fotis Dulos was facing capital murder and kidnapping charges when he died by suicide in January 2020.

Troconis could be heard audibly crying as the verdicts were read, leaning against her attorney Jon Schoenhorn. After he whispered that she could sit, she put her head on the table and sobbed, with attorney Audrey Felsen rubbing her back as the jury was polled.

Connecticut Superior Court Judge Kevin Randolph set a bond of $6 million, denying her defense’s request that she remain free on her original bond of $2.1 million. Troconis was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs.

Jennifer Dulos’ family called the ruling a “crucial attribution of