Michelle Troconis was found guilty of conspiracy in the complicated case of the murder of Jennifer Dulos (50), wife of her ex-boyfriend Fotis Dulos and whose body has not been found since she was last seen in May 2019 in the midst of an acrimonious divorce. in Connecticut.
A six-member jury returned its verdict yesterday in the Tribunal Superior de Stamford after more than two full days of deliberations. Troconis, who has dual Venezuelan and American citizenship, sobbed when the guilty verdicts were announced and now faces a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison. The sentence is set May 31reported NBC News.
Troconis (49) He had pleaded “not guilty” and denied any involvement in the dramatic crime. His ex-partner, Fotis Dulos, died on January 30, 2020 after agonize for two days in a hospital in the Bronx (NYC) due to self-poisoning with carbon monoxide in the garage of his home in Farmington (Connecticut) after being accused of killing his wife.
“She is innocent of all the charges for which she has been convicted… and I know that time will prove it to her.”
Claudia Mármol – Sister of Michelle Troconis
Today’s verdict is a crucial attribution of responsibility, not a victory. “There can be no victory when five children grow up without their mother.”
Carrie Luft – Friend of Jennifer Dulos
Although the Dulos couple were embarked on a bitter divorce and custody battle over his five children, no one imagined rugged ending from both, opening a mystery not yet solved.
Before committing suicide he left a handwritten letter proclaiming his innocence and wrote: “I want it to be known that Michelle Troconis had nothing to do with Jennifer’s disappearance. And neither is Kent Mawhinney,” his former attorney.
Troconis is a psychologist (UCV 1988) and athlete, she had lived in several countries and at one point was hostess and producer of an ESPN program from Argentina. Yesterday she was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, tampering with physical evidence, and hindering prosecutionamong other charges.
After reading the verdict, state prosecutors asked that the sentence be revoked or increased. bail of $2.6 million from Troconis and The judge agreed to increase it to 6 million. If she meets that amount she will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device and will be subject to home confinement while she appeals the verdict. Otherwise she will be sent to the York Correction Institution prison in Niantic, Connecticut.
“I am really disappointed with this verdict. I don’t think it was the right verdict,” defense attorney Jon Schoenhorn said outside court Friday. “I’m not going to criticize this jury that went through six or seven weeks of evidence and reached its determination. I simply do not agree with their determination.”
Troconis’ family also said they were devastated by the guilty verdicts. “This is definitely a devastating day because My sister is innocent of all the charges for which she has been convicted. And we are sure that she is innocent, and I know that time will prove it to her,” Claudia Mármol told reporters outside the court. “I know everyone wanted answers. “I know that maybe the State is happy that she was finally convicted, or that someone is paying the price, but she is not the one.”
After the verdict, the victim’s friend, Carrie Luft, issued a statement on behalf of Jennifer’s family and friends: “Today’s verdict is a crucial attribution of responsibility, not a victory. There can be no victory when five children grow up without their mother. This verdict represents the meticulous collection, analysis and presentation of evidence to illuminate a series of unconscionable crimes. That immense body of evidence also serves to highlight the gaps that remain in this case; the most important is that Jennifer Farber Dulos has not yet been found. We have lost a mother, a daughter, a sister, a cousin and a dear friend. “Jennifer’s loved ones cannot bury her next to her father.”
The couple’s five children, whom the father could not see by legal order, They went to the hospital to say goodbye before he was taken off life support in 2020. The children were left living in Manhattan (NYC) in the custody of his grandmother mother, Gloria Farber.
Mawhinney, a close friend of Dulos who represented him in $2.5 million in civil lawsuits filed by his mother-in-law, He has also been charged with conspiracy in incidents related to this dramatic case, recalled Stamford Advocate.
Mawhinney is awaiting his own trial for conspiracy to commit murder. of Jennifer Dulos and did not testify in Troconis’ case.
Police believe Dulos, 52, attacked his estranged wife at their elegant home in New Canaan, Connecticut, on May 24, 2019, after she dropped the children off at school. Then, according to authorities, he took his body away in the victim’s truck.
In May 2020 Troconis broke his silence for the first time in the case, to profess his innocence in a statement released by NBC News. “I don’t know anything about the whereabouts of Jennifer Dulos or what may have happened to her (…) It is possible to err in judging others. I don’t know if Fotis Dulos was capable of doing the things that the police and prosecutors accused him of doing. But based on what I learned in the last year, I think it was a mistake to have trusted him.”
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