He clings to life

Wife-slay susp Dulos ‘dire’ after suicide try

Fotis Dulos lingered in “dire” condition at a Bronx hospital Wednesday, a day after the murder suspect was found unresponsive in his Connecticut garage with his vehicle engine running.

Lawyer Norm Pattis gave the ominous update on his client’s carbon monoxide poisoning shortly before state police got a warrant to finally search Dulos’ Farmington mansion following his attempted suicide, the Hartford Courant reported.

Dulos, 52, was found unresponsive in his garage Tuesday afternoon after he missed an emergency bond hearing that threatened to send him back to jail on charges he murdered his missing wife, Jennifer Farber Dulos, last May.

The luxury home builder was found seated in his vehicle inside the garage with a hose rigged to his tailpipe to asphyxiate him, a source confirmed to the Daily News.

“His medical condition is dire,” Pattis told Stamford Superior Court Judge Gary White at a bond hearing, The Courant reported.

The judge did not revoke Dulos’ murder charge bond amid a challenge over the collateral that secured it, but he did hike it another $500,000 to $6.5 million.

He then issued a warrant for re-arrest but struck an agreement with Pattis and prosecutors that Dulos could remain out of police custody while at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where he was airlifted late Tuesday for treatment in a hyperbaric chamber. Pattis promised the judge his client would not fight extradition back to Connecticut if and when he recovers. Outside the courthouse, Pattis said the deal was important because relatives were en route from Greece and hoped to avoid any barriers to visiting Dulos at his Bronx bedside.

“If his bond were revoked, that would involve repercussions on an interstate basis, and he would have been ‘in custody’ in New York. That would have limited the ability of his family to see him,” Pattis said, explaining that the guards posted outside the hospital room earlier Wednesday were for hospital security.

“By not being in custody, the hospital controls who gets to see him. If he were in custody, Department of Corrections persons would have been placed outside the door. They would have made the rules,” the lawyer said.

Media remained camped out near Jacobi’s entrance and along Pelham Parkway Wednesday, hoping Dulos’ sister might show up and speak. Several unmarked Connecticut State Police vehicles also were spotted leaving the hospital in the early afternoon.