Police bring excavator to Farmington home
Investigators following up on ‘old leads’ at ex-Dulos property
State police, who have spent more than a year and a half searching for Jennifer Farber Dulos, returned with an excavator Wednesday to a Farmington home once owned by the homebuilding company of Fotis Dulos, her estranged husband who was charged with her killing.
The development comes a day after state police detectives returned to the home on Mountain Spring Road with police dogs and dug several holes on the property. A state police spokesman said investigators had returned to “follow up on old leads” in the disappearance and presumed death of Farber Dulos, a mother of five whowasliving in New Canaan at the time she vanished.
The excavator was seen digging holes along the wood line adjacent to the home, but left the area about 11:45 a.m.
State police said Wednesday that they did not have any updates on the search to release to the public.
“As you are aware, over the past day or so, our Western District Major Crime Squad detectives havebeenonthepropertyfollowing up on leads. Our main goal is to work toward giving the family of Jennifer Dulossomesense of closure, whichiswhywe’reherecontinuing to investigate ... the disappearance,” Trooper Josue Dorelus, a state police spokesman, said during a news conference livestreamed by local media. “Ourmaingoalisagaintoprovide that sense of closure to the family. ... This is still an active and ongoing investigation and as you are aware we’re very limited in terms of what we can and cannot say.”
State police referred questions to the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney, but the office declined to comment Wednesday.
Dulos, who lived in a different home in Farmington, died by suicide in January 2020 while facing a murder charge in connection with Farber Dulos’ death. Despite extensive searches at numerous locations across the state — including days spent sifting through garbage at the trash-to-energy plant in Hartford — no trace of her body has been found.
Dr. James Gill, the state’s chief medical examiner, determined, based on evidence, including a large amount of her blood in her NewCanaan home, that Farber Dulos likely suffered an injury that was “non-survivable without medical intervention.” State police found no evidence that she was seen by a medical doctor following her disappearance. He has not issued a death certificate because the body has not been found.
OnTuesday, Robert Perry, owner of a New Hampshire-based company that specializes in ground penetrating radar to locate unmarked graves, assisted state police in their search at the Mountain Spring Road home. He said afterward that investigators had not discovered any remains but that he would return if needed.
“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,” he told FOX 61.
The home was owned by Fore Group, Dulos’ high-end building company, and arrest records show that he visited the home on the day Farber Dulos went missing.
It was foreclosed on by People’s United Bankandhasbeenlisted for sale at nearly $1.7 million, records show. Anonline listing for the homeshowsasale is contingent. Anattorney representing the bank in the foreclosure did not immediately return a call for comment.