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For Jennifer Farber Dulos and her closest friends, her birthday every Sept. 27 was as much a milestone that marked the end of the hectic first month of school with their children settling into another year as it was a birthday celebration.
Friends said Farber Dulos spent much more time planning birthday parties for her five children, including two sets of twins, than she ever did planning for her own. For her 50th birthday last year, there was no big party — she celebrated as she...

Michelle Troconis refused to answer questions this week about the finances of her boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, and his homebuilding company Fore Group Inc. during a deposition Wednesday in a lawsuit over outstanding loans, an attorney representing Dulos’ former in-laws wrote in a motion asking a judge to compel Troconis to talk.
Attorney Richard Weinstein sought to question Troconis, 45, Wednesday on her knowledge about Dulos’ company, Fore Group Inc., in a civil matter that...

The attorney for Fotis Dulos asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to overturn a Superior Court judge’s “unprecedented gag order” that silences lawyers, police and even potential witnesses in his criminal case, saying it unfairly hamstrings his attempt to defend Dulos against almost daily accusations that he murdered his estranged wife.
In a brief filed Wednesday, Norm Pattis said the state has been allowed to use two arrest warrant affidavits charging Dulos with...

The attorney representing Fotis Dulos in the criminal case connected with his estranged wife’s disappearance is asking the state Supreme Court to consider his appeal of a gag order imposed by the judge overseeing the proceedings.
Attorney Norm Pattis contends in a 12-page brief filed Wednesday with the state's highest court that his client's First Amendment rights to free speech are being impeded by the gag order, leaving him defenseless against police leaks and the intense media...

The attorney for Connecticut man Fotis Dulos argued with the judge Thursday during the arraignment for another tampering with evidence charge in the disappearance of the defendant’s estranged wife Jennifer Farber Dulos. Attorney Norm Pattis started attacking the state’s case, but the judge cut him off.
“This business of seriatum arrests–” Pattis said.
“Counsel, this is not the time for the closing arguments,” said the judge.
“Oh,...

The legal team for Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Dulos, has filed a motion requesting access to Jennifer’s medical records.
Jennifer Dulos has been missing since May 24. She was in the midst of a divorce and custody battle with Fotis at the time of her disappearance. Fotis and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, are facing charges of evidence tampering and hindering prosecution in the case.
Read the Fotis Dulos Arrest Affidavit In...

The latest detail on the case of missing New Canaan mother of five, Jennifer Dulos. Dennis Murphy reports.

The husband of missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos is accused of “lying in wait” for his estranged wife before her presumed murder and transporting her body in her Suburban, according to police. Yet he told Dateline NBC that he thinks she’s still alive.
Fotis Dulos, 51, of Farmington, sat down with Dateline NBC at his sprawling, $4.35 million home before he was arrested on Wednesday – for a second time – on a charge of tampering with or fabricating...

In a new TV interview, the estranged husband of a missing mother of five claims he had no part in her disappearance and says he believes she is still alive.
The NBC “Dateline” conversation was recorded before Fotis Dulos was arrested and charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence Wednesday. He was already facing an earlier charge in connection with her disappearance.
He posted $500,000 bond and was released from custody, police said.
Dulos will...

Fotis Dulos, 52, has remained a prime suspect in his estranged wife's disappearance and probable murder ever since she vanished back in May. The following month, Dulos was arrested along with his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, for charges related to hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence. But although both have remained free on bail since June, Connecticut State Police leveled new charges at the dad of five on Wednesday -- this time, after finding some incriminating evidence in a...