‘Wife killer’ Fotis Dulos pronounced dead two days after suicide attempt
Dulos, who pleaded not guilty to his wife's murder, was declared dead at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York.
A man accused of killing his estranged wife was pronounced dead two days after a suicide attempt, his attorney said.
Fotis Dulos, 52, was arrested this month and charged with capital murder in connection with the disappearance in May of his wife, Jennifer Dulos, whose body has not been found.
Dulos, who pleaded not guilty to his wife’s murder, was declared dead at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York after he was found unconscious from carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage on Tuesday.
The father of five had just learned he was set to appear in court for an emergency hearing regarding a problem with his $6 million bond, which may have led to the bond’s revocation and his imprisonment.
His attorney Norm Pattis said: ‘The potential for a bond revocation was devastating news.’
Pattis said his client’s suicide does not amount to an admission of guilt.
‘We say it was more of a conscience overworn with the weight of the world that was too busy to listen and that wanted a story more than it wanted the truth,’ Pattis said.
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Jennifer Dulos was reported missing in May 2018 after she failed to show up to multiple appointments in New York City.
She was last seen dropping her children off at school in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Investigators later found Fotis’ DNA in her home and her blood was discovered in her sink. Jennifer’s car was later found a few miles away from her home and her blood was also found in the car.
Her estranged husband was considered a suspect almost immediately because the two had been locked in a bitter custody battle following their separating.
Jennifer Dulos accused her husband of having a violent temper in court documents.
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In a 2017 affidavit, she wrote: ‘I am afraid of my husband. I know that filing for divorce and filing this motion will enrage him. I know we will retaliate by trying to harm me in some way.’
Investigators later found surveillance footage of two people resembling Fotis Dulos and Michelle Troconis, his girlfriend, throwing out garbage bags in dumpsters scattered all around Hartford, Connecticut.
Troconis and Dulos’s friend Kent Mawhinney were charged with compsiracy to commit murder earlier this month.
Police later found the trash bags, which they said contained gloves, cleaning supplies and clothes with Fotis’ DNA and Jennifer’s DNA on them.
Throughout the case, Fotis Dulos maintained his innocence, claiming he had nothing to do with his wife’s disappearance.
In a suicide note left at his home, Dulos ‘declared his innocence of the infamous and heinous crimes that the State has accused him of,’ according to his attorney.