The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
Fotis Dulos note: ‘I refuse to spend even an hour more in jail’
FARMINGTON — Prior to Fotis Dulos’ apparent suicide attempt, he drafted a handwritten letter in which he proclaimed he did not kill his estranged wife, vouched for the innocence of the two others facing charges in the case and said he could not spend any more time in jail.
In the note, obtained by Hearst Connecticut Media Friday night,
Dulos starts off by saying, “If you are reading this I am no more.”
“I refuse to spend even an hour more in jail for something I had NOTHING to do with,” Dulos wrote. “If it takes my head to end this, so be it.”
The note was found by investigators during a search of his Jefferson Crossing home Wednesday night.
In the note, Dulos goes on to say that he wanted “it to be known that Michelle Troconis had nothing to do with Jennifer’s disappearance. And neither did Kent Mawhinney.”
The 52-year-old Dulos died late Thursday afternoon at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y.
At the time of his death, he faced charges of murder, felony murder and kidnapping in connection with the death and disappearance of his estranged wife Jennifer Dulos.
He was arrested on those
recent charges Jan. 7, along with Troconis, his former girlfriend, and Mawhinney, his friend and former attorney.
Troconis and Mawhinney were each charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
“I ask the state to let them free of any such accusations,” Fotis Dulos wrote of them in the note.
Fotis Dulos and Troconis were each charged with tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution in June 2019, just weeks after Jennifer Dulos was reported missing on May 24 to police in New Canaan — where
the mother of five lived with the estranged couple’s children.
Fotis Dulos also pleaded in the letter for someone to, “Please let my children know that I love them. I would do anything to be with them, but unfortunately we all have our limits.”
He claimed that the state would not rest until “I rot in jail.”
Fotis Dulos said his attorney could explain “what happened with the bags on Albany Avenue.” He said “everything else is a story fabricated by the law enforcement.”
He ended the note by saying that he wanted to thank his friends and family that stood by his side.
“Above all Anna Curry I am sorry for letting you down and not continuing the fight,” Fotis Dulos wrote.
Curry was the North Carolina woman who was at Fotis Dulos’ Jefferson Crossing home in Farmington on Tuesday before and after his apparent suicide attempt.
She remained by his side in the hospital in his final days after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning. She also helped him post bond following his arrest on murder charges. The two appear to have been former co-workers at the New York technical consulting firm, Capgemini.
A source close to Fotis Dulos said he went into the garage Tuesday morning after Curry left the Jefferson Crossing home to get groceries.
When Curry returned, police and medics were trying to save Dulos, who was initially considered dead before a weak pulse was detected after 30 minutes of CPR. He was first taken to UConn Health medical center
before he was flown to Jacobi.
Dulos was due in Stamford court for an emergency bond hearing at noon on Tuesday.
Palmetto Surety Corporation, which posted the $6 million bond when Dulos was charged Jan. 7, was no longer willing to guarantee the funds. Palmetto was planning to back out of the bond, after reviewing the potential collateral available from the various real estate properties Dulos owned as part of his development business, Fore Group.
Dulos called Mark Motuzick, of Capitol Bail Bonds in Hartford, just before 10 a.m. Tuesday. Motuzick had twice posted $500,000 bonds for the Farmington resident on the charges from last June.
Motuzick said he told Dulos he’d look into it and call him back.
He told Hearst Connecticut Media earlier this week that when he called Fotis Dulos back at 10:34 a.m., he sounded out of breath and said he was “all set.”
But while Dulos was trying to secure Motuzick as his bondsman, his attorney Norm Pattis had already lined up New York high-profile bondsman Ira Judelson.
For the first time since the investigation began more than eight months ago, 469 pages of search warrants in the case were recently unsealed.
The documents outline how police believe Fotis Dulos, Troconis and Mawhinney allegedly conspired to kill Jennifer Dulos and cover up the crime.
According to arrest warrants, Jennifer Dulos was last seen on a neighbor’s security camera at 8:05 a.m. May 24, returning to her New Canaan home after dropping off her children at a nearby school.
Police believe Fotis Dulos was “lying in wait” and attacked her in the garage, the warrants indicate.
Fotis Dulos and Troconis were caught on video that night in Hartford dumping bags that were later determined to contain Jennifer Dulos’ blood and clothing, according to arrest warrants.
Jennifer Dulos’ blood was also found on the seat of a pickup truck belonging to an employee of Fotis Dulos, according to arrest warrants. Police say Fotis Dulos used the truck on the day his wife was killed, arrest warrants said.