Possible knife clue on missing mom of 5
A Connecticut crackhead peddled a possible key piece of evidence in the hunt for a missing suburban mom for a $5 rock of cocaine.
The man, released from jail last week on two minor charges, told the Hartford Courant about finding a knife inside a garbage can not far from the spot in Hartford where other evidence was found as investigators searched for Jennifer Dulos, who disappeared on May 24.
The man claimed the knife was beneath a blood-soaked pillow stuffed in a trash can on Albany Ave., and he placed the cushion back inside before pocketing the blade, the newspaper reported.
He then swapped the weapon for the crack with a drug dealer known to him only as “Fudge.”
“I was thinking stupid,” he told the Courant. “I was on that crack. I wanted a hit so bad I went looking for somebody to sell me some crack.”
According to the man, there was “about a quart of blood on the pillow, all over the pillow. I tell you, whoever got hurt got hurt real bad.”
Dulos, a 50-year-old mother of five, was reported missing by friends after she failed to appear for previously scheduled appointments.
Authorities discovered her 2017 Chevrolet Suburban a few miles away from the house where she lived with her kids, who are currently in New York City with their maternal grandmother.
According to court records, Dulos had recently filed for divorce from her husband, Fotis Dulos (inset left).
The husband and his ex(inset right) girlfriend Michelle Troconis pleaded not guilty to charges of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and hindering prosecution in relation to the disappearance. Both are free on bond.
On the day his estranged wife went missing, Fotis Dulos was allegedly caught on surveillance video dropping bags into trash cans in the same area where the knife, bloody pillow and additional items were recovered.
Police, prior to their interview with the knife-finding man, recovered several other items allegedly dumped on Albany Ave., including the bloody Vineyard Vines shirt that authorities believe Dulos was wearing when she disappeared.
The paper withheld the man’s identity because he could emerge as a witness in the case.
He was set free after doing time on misdemeanor charges of failure to appear and trespassing.
Authorities said they also have video of Fotis Dulos placing a FedEx mailer box into a storm drain.
It was later recovered and revealed to contain a doctored license plate to a car he previously owned.
Prosecutors have said investigators uncovered evidence of an assault in the garage of Jennifer Dulos’ New Canaan, Conn., home but have not yet found her body.
Investigators are so far treating her case as both a criminal investigation and a missing persons case.