‘Gone Girl’ reference gets juror booted from trial

A judge on Friday dismissed a juror in the trial of a Connecticut woman accused of helping her boyfriend cover up the murder of his estranged wife, after the panelist likened the case to the novel and movie “Gone Girl.”

“Gone Girl,” a 2012 novel by Gillian Flynn turned into a 2014 film, is about a woman who fakes her own disappearance and her husband, who becomes a suspect.

Michelle Troconis, 49, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder on allegations that she helped her thenboyfriend, Fotis Dulos, cover up the killing of his wife, Jennifer Dulos, in 2019. Troconis has pleaded not guilty.