CONN. MA’S HELL
Nanny: Hubby tried to hit wife with car before she vanished Battle for House seat gets nasty
Fotis Dulos chased his wife through their Connecticut house and nearly mowed her down with a vehicle during their bitter breakup before she went missing last May, a nanny told police.
The allegations were revealed in 469 pages of search warrant paperwork released Wednesday, a week after prosecutors charged Dulos (inset above) with murdering Jennifer Dulos (inset below) amid the couple’s acrimonious divorce and custody battle.
The nanny, Lauren Almeida, spoke to cops on May 25, the day after Jennifer dropped the couple’s five kids at their school in New Canaan and mysteriously vanished, the paperwork first obtained by Hartford television station WFSB and posted online says.
Almeida said that in June 2017, the same month Jennifer filed for divorce, she found the doting mom crying in the couple’s driveway after an alleged fight with Fotis.
“Jennifer said that her husband tried to hit her with his vehicle and she needed to jump out of the way,” the nanny purportedly said.
On another occasion that same summer, Fotis allegedly chased Jennifer through his Farmington mansion until she reached a bedroom and slammed the door, the nanny’s statement paraphrased in a June 5 search warrant affidavit states.
“[Jennifer] braced herself against the door as her husband kept pounding, trying to open it,” Almeida purportedly told police.
“Almeida said that Jennifer did not want to call the police as she was very afraid of her husband and he threatened to take the children permanently to Greece,” the filing included in the documents released by Stamford Superior Court says. The nanny was mentioned in arrest warrant paperwork released last week when Fotis, his girlfriend Michelle Troconis and a lawyer friend were rounded up in a surprise sting and charged in connection with Jennifer’s slaying.
State police said the nanny arrived at Jennifer’s house at 11:30 a.m. the morning she went missing and found it odd that only two rolls of paper towels were left in the pantry after she had placed a brandnew pack of a dozen rolls there the night before.
Police allege Fotis used the paper towels to clean blood from the scene that same morning.
“I sat there and wondered what had happened last night that they used 10 rolls,” Almeida allegedly told investigators.
She said that when multiple attempts to reach Jennifer later that day failed, her “stomach sank.”
When she learned Jennifer missed an appointment, she said her “first thought was that Fotis did something,” because she believed “Fotis was most likely involved.”
Fotis, 52, and Troconis, 45, were previously arrested on charges of evidence tampering and hindering prosecution.
They pleaded not guilty and were out on bond when police arrested them on separate murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges.
They later made bail and were placed under house arrest.
The head of the state Republican Party called Democratic New York Rep. Max Rose, a decorated military veteran from Staten Island, an “an enemy of the president and democracy.”
Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who’s challenging Rose, retweeted the inflammatory statement Tuesday.
“Max Rose is an enemy of the President and democracy,” state GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy said in a statement endorsing Malliotakis. “He lied to the people of the 11th Congressional District and wasted no time joining the radical left in Washington whose socialist policies and obsessive hatred of President Trump are so extreme they are posing a danger to our nation.”
Malliotakis didn’t back down from her embrace of Langworthy’s vitriolic remarks Wednesday.