Search for Jennifer Dulos enters third week.
A court proceeding has been scheduled Tuesday in Jennifer and Fotis Dulos’ divorce case as investigators continued their search for the missing New Canaan mother.
Police continued to search a Hartford trash facility Saturday, according to the Hartford Courant.
NBC Connecticut cited an unnamed employee of the facility as saying some of the evidence police are looking for may have been burned before the search started.
Meanwhile, a new court date has been set in the Dulos’ contentious divorce case after Michael Rose, a lawyer representing Fotis Dulos, asked a judge to let him withdraw from the case.
“Good cause exists to grant this motion because considerations other than compensation prevent the firm from continuing to represent the defendant,” Rose wrote in a motion filed Thursday. “Counsel represents that the withdrawal will have no effects on the client’s interests.”
A proceeding in the case is scheduled for Tuesday at 2 p.m., according to the Judicial Branch website.
As the search entered its third week, Michelle Troconis was seen Friday afternoon guiding investigators into the woods behind her boyfriend’s Farmington property.
Troconis and Fotis Dulos have each been charged with tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution. While Fotis Dulos remains jailed on $500,000 bond, Troconis has been released on bail and is required to wear an electronic monitoring device.
Troconis met with state police investigators and the state’s attorney for several hours Thursday at her lawyer’s Westport office.
Investigators spent the past week at a Hartford garbage dump sifting through trash they say came from receptacles where Fotis Dulos was seen tossing bags containing his estranged wife’s blood the night she disappeared.
Recent searches have also focused on properties tied to Fotis Dulos’ custom homebuilding company, the Fore Group.
Police searched a metal dumpster this week outside a New Canaan home being developed by the company. Neighbors of 61 Sturbridge Hill Road said they were awakened by the loud sounds of metal banging in the predawn hours the morning after Jennifer Dulos went missing.
Police have also focused on Fotis Dulos’ primary residence on Jefferson Crossing in Farmington, where he has been living with Troconis and her daughter. Jennifer Dulos moved from the property with her five children when she filed for divorce in 2017.
Authorities spent last weekend searching the property and returned late Wednesday with an emergency search warrant. They were seen leaving that night with two boxes of evidence.
Authorities were back at the home on Friday when drone footage captured Troconis and her attorney, Andrew Bowman, leading investigators into a wooded area behind the property.
Police have declined to comment about the searches and what evidence they have recovered.
“She is still considered missing and, as stated previously, an active criminal investigation is occurring,” New Canaan Police Lt. Jason Ferraro said Friday.
Jennifer Dulos was last seen around 8 a.m. on May 24 after dropping her children off at New Canaan Country School.