Fotis Dulos and Jennifer Farber Dulos.Photo: New Canaan Police Department/AP/Shutterstock; Courtesy Farber Family
“State Police Western District Major Crime detectives are responding to Mountain Spring Road in Farmington for investigative purposes, following up on old leads,” Connecticut State Police said in a statement.
Investigators have searchedthe property before, but theyshowed up this timewithan excavator,Fox 61, theHartford Courantand theConnecticut Postreport.
In January 2020, on the day Fotis Dulos was supposed to appear in court to face a murder charge in connection with the disappearance of his estranged wife, the mother of his five children, he was found unconscious inside his SUV in the garage of his home on Jefferson Crossing in Farmington.
He died days later – and with him, answers to what happened to his wife, 50, who vanished in May 2019 after dropping their children off in school in New Canaan, where she lived after filing for divorce from her husband, who was cheating on her with his mistress, Michelle Troconis.
Investigators found blood in the garage of her New Canaan home, where they believe she was “violently assaulted,” police have said.
Shortly afterward, her black Chevy Suburban was found abandoned near a local park several miles away.
At the time of her disappearance, Jennifer Dulos was enmeshed in a contentious divorce and custody battle with her ex. Police allege that Fotis was “lying in wait” and attacked his estranged wife in her garage on the day she died, court documents show.
They also found a"mixture" of Fotis Dulos’s blood – and Jennifer Dulos’s blood -on the kitchen faucet inside the house, the prosecutor said, theNew Canaanitereported.
Fotis was seen on surveillance footage getting rid of garbage bags in Hartford and at a car wash, say police.
On Tuesday, among those on hand to help look for Jennifer Dulos' remains at the Mountain Spring home – which is just minutes away from the Jefferson Crossing home - was cemetery geophysics expert Robert Perry, aka the “Bone Finder,” Fox61 reports.
“They feel like the body was buried out in the backyard and this is what I do, so I said sure no problem,” Perry told Fox 61.
“I check for anomalies in the ground or ground disturbance and there were four areas that I checked that had ground disturbance in it. I was looking for some sort of indication, like a skull or some bones or something like that, that would give off something on the scan and I saw nothing there at all.”
Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.
Investigators also searched inside the house, including the basement.
“We then went into the house, there was an anomaly about 18 inches in the ground and the anomaly was elongated, it looked like it could have been a grave but I think it was a pipe,” Perry told Fox61.
Investigators may return to search the woods surrounding the property, Fox61 reports.
Searchers were combing the property because the home is about to be sold, the Connecticut Post reports.
The 10,000 square-foot home was listed for nearly $1.7 million.
In the meantime, Troconis as well as Fotis Dulos’s lawyer, Kent Mawhinney, still face charges in the case.
Their lawyers did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
