Grandmother seeks custody of missing woman’s 5 children
The Associated Press06/04/19, 12:56
This photo provided by the New Canaan Police Department shows Michelle C. Troconis, left, and Fotis Dulos, right. Police in Connecticut have arrested a missing mother of five's estranged husband and his girlfriend on charges of evidence tampering and hindering prosecution. New Canaan authorities announced Sunday, June 2, 2019, the arrests of 51-year-old Dulos and 44-year-old Troconis. Both were detained on $500,000 bail and are scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Norwalk Superior Court. Details of the allegations were not released. (New Canaan Police Department via AP)
The mother of a missing Connecticut woman has filed for custody of her daughter’s five children.
Gloria Farber filed the motion Monday in Connecticut Superior Court, the same day the children’s father, 51-year-old Fotis Dulos, and his 44-year-old girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, were charged in the disappearance of 50-year-old Jennifer Dulos.
The children have been staying with Farber in New York since Jennifer Dulos was reported missing. She was last seen dropping the children off at school on May 24.
This undated photo released Friday, May 31, 2019, by the New Canaan, Conn., Police Department shows Jennifer Dulos, missing since May 24 when she was last seen dropping off her children at school. (New Canaan Police Department via AP)
Fotis Dlos and Troconis are charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution. Arrest warrants link the pair to videos of trash bags being dumped in areas where Jennifer Dulos’ blood was later found .
Police, along with several dogs trained to find cadavers, were searching a Hartford trash plant on Tuesday.
CORRECTS SLUG TO MISSING MOTHER – Michelle C. Troconis is arraigned on charges of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and first-degree hindering prosecution at Norwalk Superior Court in Norwalk, Conn. Monday, June 3, 2019. Troconis and Fotis Dulos were arrested at an Avon hotel late Saturday night and held on a $500,000 bond for charges of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and first-degree hindering prosecution. Fotis Dulos is the estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, the 50-year-old mother of five who has been missing since May 24. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool)Fotis Dulos is arraigned on charges of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and first-degree hindering prosecution at Norwalk Superior Court in Norwalk, Conn. Monday, June 3, 2019. Fotis Dulos, and his girlfriend, Michelle C. Troconis, were arrested at an Avon hotel late Saturday night and held on a $500,000 bond for charges of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and first-degree hindering prosecution. Fotis Dulos is the estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, the 50-year-old mother of five who has been missing since May 24. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool)
