Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Missing Connecticut Mom of 5 Jennifer Dulos Estranged Hubby new Claim: medical bill proves my wife is alive!
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Today on Crime Stories, we head to Connecticut. The attorney
- 0:09Speaker 1: for a strange husband, Fotus Dulos, the husband of missing
- 0:15Speaker 1: Connecticut mom of five Jennifer Dulos, is added again with
- 0:20Speaker 1: another theory to drag the missing victim, the mom through
- 0:25Speaker 1: the mud, joining Nancy Grace, Fame trial attorney Penny Douglas,
- 0:29Speaker 1: FIR forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan from Radar Online, Alexis
- 0:35Speaker 1: Terrez Chuck, investigative journalists for Crime Online Dave Mack and
- 0:40Speaker 1: in the Crime Online Studios Jackie Howard Crime Stories with
- 0:50Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. An update from New Canan tonight, We're friends
- 0:58Speaker 1: and family of a missing New can woman are reacting
- 1:01Speaker 1: to the newest claims being made by her estranged husband's attorney.
- 1:06Speaker 1: As we reported, Norm Pattis again asked the Chord for
- 1:09Speaker 1: access to Jennifer Dulos's medical records, saying they show she
- 1:15Speaker 1: saw a doctor six weeks after she disappeared. A spokesman
- 1:19Speaker 1: for the friends and family of Jennifer say the bill
- 1:23Speaker 1: is a routine quarterly statement with no connection to in
- 1:26Speaker 1: person visits. The statement goes on to say to allege
- 1:29Speaker 1: that Jennifer, together with her family orchestrated her own disappearance
- 1:33Speaker 1: is baseless and cruel. Well, the attorney for a strange husband,
- 1:39Speaker 1: Phonus Dulos, the husband of missing Connecticut mom of five
- 1:45Speaker 1: Jennifer Dulos, is added again with another theory to drag
- 1:51Speaker 1: the missing victim, the mom through the mud. Her family
- 1:55Speaker 1: speaking out, I don't blame him. I would be screaming
- 1:59Speaker 1: out as he Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you
- 2:02Speaker 1: for being with us. You were just hearing our friends
- 2:04Speaker 1: there at News twelve Connecticut. Looks like Jennifer Dulos is
- 2:10Speaker 1: a strange husband. Photus Dulos and his lawyer no no
- 2:15Speaker 1: bounds and what they will say to besmirch the name
- 2:20Speaker 1: of Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five. In the last hours,
- 2:25Speaker 1: the family of missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos slam a
- 2:29Speaker 1: claim by a strange husband, Photus Dulos, that she Jennifer
- 2:33Speaker 1: got medical treatment after she disappeared. Jennifer Dulos, as you know,
- 2:39Speaker 1: has been missing now since the end of May. Her
- 2:43Speaker 1: estranged husband, Photus Dulos, facing charges related to her disappearance,
- 2:47Speaker 1: but not kidnapping, not murder, tampering with evidence. He allegedly
- 2:51Speaker 1: is caught on video throwing out bloody clothing, bloody sponges.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Last time Jennifer was seen, she took her children to school,
- 3:02Speaker 1: came home. I don't believe she ever made it out
- 3:05Speaker 1: of the family garage because there is blood spattered. There
- 3:09Speaker 1: is blood dropping, not only in the family garage. Her
- 3:13Speaker 1: cell phone stayed in her car. It never made it
- 3:15Speaker 1: in the home. And that cell phone that she had
- 3:18Speaker 1: with her as she dropped her children off at school
- 3:20Speaker 1: that morning, traveled with her car where it was later
- 3:23Speaker 1: abandoned in a dissly wooded area near a park. That garage,
- 3:29Speaker 1: bloody blood on her car, blood on the other car
- 3:33Speaker 1: that had been parked in the garage, but no Jennifer.
- 3:38Speaker 1: The husband and his girlfriend allegedly spotted throwing out bloody sponges,
- 3:43Speaker 1: bloody cleaning things like a mob bloody T shirts, a
- 3:48Speaker 1: Vineyard Vines T shirt that had belonged to Jennifer, all bloody.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Still no murder charge, no kidnapping charge. And it's just
- 3:57Speaker 1: crazy how he suddenly turns into a neat neck getting
- 4:01Speaker 1: his vehicle belonging to an employee cleaned and detailed, and
- 4:08Speaker 1: then assisting the employee get rid of the back seat
- 4:12Speaker 1: of his own car. Why Because Jennifer's blood was in
- 4:16Speaker 1: the back seat of the employee's car that Fodus Dulos,
- 4:20Speaker 1: the husband took without the employee's knowledge. And now in
- 4:24Speaker 1: the last hours, he and his defense attorneys launched another
- 4:28Speaker 1: claim that Jennifer's really alive and that she has orchestrated
- 4:32Speaker 1: a disappearing act along with her family. Really, what about
- 4:36Speaker 1: all those bloody clothes he allegedly was throwing out with
- 4:39Speaker 1: his lover before we go to our all star panel.
- 4:44Speaker 1: I have a legal expert with me right now. You
- 4:46Speaker 1: know her, well, Penny Douglas Fir, who is no stranger
- 4:50Speaker 1: to a divorce case. She's handled many, many of them,
- 4:53Speaker 1: you know, Penny. I got a problem with this lawyer
- 4:58Speaker 1: dragging Jennifer's name through the suggesting that this mom of five,
- 5:03Speaker 1: very devoted mom of five, would intentionally pull a disappearing
- 5:06Speaker 1: act along with her family and pretend she was murdered
- 5:12Speaker 1: when she's got five children looking for her by pulling
- 5:14Speaker 1: up some old medical bill that was computer generated. How
- 5:18Speaker 1: could this come back and bite the husband in the neck? Well, Nancy,
- 5:22Speaker 1: even with his case, it hurts his case because every
- 5:26Speaker 1: time he makes another allegation. It brings all of this
- 5:30Speaker 1: up again. Everybody starts talking about the bloody clothes. People
- 5:35Speaker 1: who are going to sit on the jury hear about
- 5:37Speaker 1: the bloody clothes, and so I really think that to
- 5:41Speaker 1: benefit his side of the case, he's better off just
- 5:44Speaker 1: saying nothing at all until try. I mean, Penny Douglas,
- 5:48Speaker 1: for you've tried and handled so many cases. How you
- 5:51Speaker 1: and I met, You're on the other side of a
- 5:53Speaker 1: felony case and I was prosecuting it. Long story short,
- 5:57Speaker 1: That's why we have the Fifth Amendment. That is why
- 5:59Speaker 1: it's part of the Bill of Rights, the first ten
- 6:03Speaker 1: amendments to the Constitution. So people will get the hint,
- 6:07Speaker 1: shut the hay up. But apparently he's not getting the message,
- 6:11Speaker 1: because very often he's standing beside his lawyer with a
- 6:13Speaker 1: freaky little smirky smile on his face while his lawyer
- 6:16Speaker 1: drops another bombshell on Jennifer's family. I mean, there's a
- 6:20Speaker 1: chance at these crazy theories. I mean, here's this one.
- 6:24Speaker 1: They get a bill for Jennifer's medical treatment and then
- 6:28Speaker 1: they take to the airwaves claiming, oh, this bill was
- 6:32Speaker 1: after she goes missing. So this show she's alive. The
- 6:36Speaker 1: family fights back and says, no, ageant. It's a computer
- 6:40Speaker 1: generated bill, just like you get an American Express bill
- 6:44Speaker 1: or whatever bill in the mail. This is a bill
- 6:48Speaker 1: for previous medical treatment, whatever it may have been. But Penny,
- 6:53Speaker 1: why would they do this? Well, it makes him look stupid.
- 6:58Speaker 1: I don't understand why they're doing this. Talking period just
- 7:02Speaker 1: doesn't help his side. There's nothing that helps his side.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Once they found this blood on things that he was
- 7:10Speaker 1: throwing in the trash ken and it turned out to
- 7:13Speaker 1: be her blood, He's better off just letting it go
- 7:17Speaker 1: away and letting time pass because bringing things up and
- 7:22Speaker 1: continuing to talk will hurt him tremendously because these things
- 7:27Speaker 1: he's talking about they could come back up at trial,
- 7:31Speaker 1: and when they do, he looks totally crazy. How in
- 7:35Speaker 1: the world did we get here? And where is Jennifer
- 7:38Speaker 1: Dulo's Connecticut mom of five? Take a listen to our
- 7:41Speaker 1: friends at ABC. This is the second time that photos
- 7:44Speaker 1: Dulos has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of
- 7:47Speaker 1: his estranged wife, Jennifer, a mother of five. She's been
- 7:50Speaker 1: missing since May twenty four. Mister Dulos taken an accustomed
- 7:53Speaker 1: to afternoon at his home in Farmington, and we're told
- 7:55Speaker 1: he will be charged with tampering with evidence again. Dulos
- 7:59Speaker 1: and his girlfriend Ltraconas have been free on a half
- 8:01Speaker 1: million dollars bail each since they're arrest in early June.
- 8:04Speaker 1: At the time they were charged with hindering prosecution and
- 8:07Speaker 1: evidence tampering. Dulos has been under GPS monitoring. He is
- 8:10Speaker 1: not allowed to have contact with any of his five children. Meanwhile,
- 8:14Speaker 1: no sighting of Jennifer Dulos since her disappearance. They beliefs
- 8:17Speaker 1: believe a serious assault took place in the Dulos home.
- 8:21Speaker 1: They found blood splatters and stains, along with evidence of
- 8:24Speaker 1: an attempted cleanup. A man resembling mister Dulos was seen
- 8:28Speaker 1: on surveillance cameras dumping garbage bags in various spots in Hartford.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Dulos has denied any wrongdoing, but again he is under
- 8:35Speaker 1: arrest again and again charged with evidence tampering. And still
- 8:39Speaker 1: the big mystery, what happened to Jennifer Dulos and those
- 8:41Speaker 1: five children without their mom and in a very real
- 8:44Speaker 1: sense now also without their father. What we know right
- 8:47Speaker 1: now is he is facing this allegedly successful real estate
- 8:52Speaker 1: developer facing additional tampering with evidence charges. Now that is
- 8:59Speaker 1: not her make But you've got to ask yourself, why
- 9:03Speaker 1: is the estranged husband tampering with evidence crime stories with
- 9:21Speaker 1: Nancy Grace bombshell in the last hour or the estranged
- 9:30Speaker 1: husband of missing Connecticut Mama five Jennifer Dulos lawyer says,
- 9:36Speaker 1: she's not missing, she's not dead, She's still alive and
- 9:40Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, has fabricated an intricate plan
- 9:43Speaker 1: to stage her own disappearance. This after we learn from
- 9:48Speaker 1: an extensive affidavit that police are eyeing her husband, Photos Dulos,
- 9:53Speaker 1: and his lover because they say the two were caught
- 9:57Speaker 1: on video surveillance video throwing out bloody items and over
- 10:02Speaker 1: twenty stops items that are positive for Jennifer Dulos blood.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Right now, Jennifer's five children are in the temporary custody
- 10:12Speaker 1: of Jennifer's mother, husband Photus Dulos has tried every trick
- 10:17Speaker 1: in the book to get a hold of her medical records.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Why this latest allegation that Jennifer Dulos has faked her
- 10:24Speaker 1: own disappearance, as proven by a computer generated medical bill
- 10:29Speaker 1: that was generated after she goes missing. That is the
- 10:34Speaker 1: evidence the defense lawyer is using for this bizarre claim.
- 10:39Speaker 1: With me right now before we go back to our panel.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Renowned attorney, no stranger to family law courts, Penny Douglas
- 10:47Speaker 1: Fur in the Atlanta jurisdiction. Penny, this is just one
- 10:50Speaker 1: of many, many claims outlandish claims Photus Dulos lawyer has made.
- 10:55Speaker 1: First of all, they said that Jennifer Dulos I had
- 11:00Speaker 1: written a quote Gone Girl novel script and that that
- 11:04Speaker 1: script was basically that screenplay was basically a blueprint for
- 11:09Speaker 1: her disappearance. All right. Another claim that photos Dulos has
- 11:14Speaker 1: thrown out there is that his wife Jennifer had quote
- 11:19Speaker 1: serious psychological problems and was a quote hermit for years
- 11:25Speaker 1: before he asked her for a divorce. Remember he's the
- 11:27Speaker 1: one that was having an affair. Now, this is despite
- 11:31Speaker 1: being banned from speaking about Jennifer by the trial judge,
- 11:38Speaker 1: he goes on to speak to Pronto Thema last week
- 11:41Speaker 1: it's a Greek news website trashing his wife. Now, I
- 11:45Speaker 1: find that very interesting, Penny Douglas Fur, because the court
- 11:50Speaker 1: gave her primary custody. She was the one taking the
- 11:54Speaker 1: children back and forth to school. She was the one
- 11:57Speaker 1: carrying on normal relationships with her friends. She was the
- 12:00Speaker 1: one that wanted a divorce after he was having an
- 12:03Speaker 1: affair with I guess his first lover. Probably not, So
- 12:08Speaker 1: why would he go to the press after being warned
- 12:12Speaker 1: by the trial judge not to do that and trash
- 12:14Speaker 1: her if she had any emotional promises. Probably because of him. Well,
- 12:18Speaker 1: that can easily be turned on him, and divorce cases
- 12:21Speaker 1: are hot beds for this kind of nastiness going back
- 12:24Speaker 1: and forth between the two of them. However, he would
- 12:28Speaker 1: be the first person they look at because if he's
- 12:31Speaker 1: losing in the divorce and she's getting custody and she's
- 12:36Speaker 1: winning these things, he's going to be hostile. He's going
- 12:40Speaker 1: to be angry, and he's going after her. So it's
- 12:44Speaker 1: worse for him in this murder text, well, it's like
- 12:46Speaker 1: he can't be quiet. This interview that he gave this
- 12:49Speaker 1: Greek news outlet was very lengthy and included claims that
- 12:55Speaker 1: he was the one who wanted a divorce in twenty
- 12:58Speaker 1: sixteen and eighteen. The reality is she's the one that
- 13:01Speaker 1: filed for divorce in twenty seventeen. This was published on
- 13:06Speaker 1: September twenty seven weeks after the judge gave a gag
- 13:12Speaker 1: order banning him, and his lawyers were speaking out about
- 13:15Speaker 1: Jennifer's character in any way that could impact the jury's opinion.
- 13:19Speaker 1: And now they've done it again. What about the five children?
- 13:24Speaker 1: They're gonna hear all this? What about that penny? He
- 13:26Speaker 1: sounds like an arrogant socie pan and argante. That's one
- 13:31Speaker 1: way to put it. I look from where I come from.
- 13:33Speaker 1: A penny, we call it a horse's rear end they
- 13:36Speaker 1: aka jackass. They're not concerned about their children. They care
- 13:41Speaker 1: about one person themselves. And he's showing he doesn't care
- 13:45Speaker 1: about his children by exactly what he's doing now. And
- 13:49Speaker 1: I don't understand why the judge is not holding him
- 13:52Speaker 1: in intent. I don't understand it either. Now. The reality
- 13:56Speaker 1: is that time after time after time, he Fotus Duelos,
- 14:01Speaker 1: through his lawyer, is violating the judge's gag order and
- 14:05Speaker 1: dragging his I believe dead wife through the mud while
- 14:09Speaker 1: he and his girlfriend, Michelle traconis walk free. Where is
- 14:15Speaker 1: Jennifer Dulos, well, better put, where is her body? To
- 14:19Speaker 1: syndicate A talk show host Dave mac Dave, I want
- 14:22Speaker 1: to start at the beginning. Where did she go missing?
- 14:27Speaker 1: When did she go missing? She dropped her children off
- 14:29Speaker 1: at eight am. The next thing we know is that
- 14:32Speaker 1: she missed an eleven am appointment. At twelve noon, the
- 14:35Speaker 1: cleaning lady came by and there was nobody home. So
- 14:38Speaker 1: the police have tightened the timeline down to the last time. Wa, whoa, whoa,
- 14:44Speaker 1: Dave Mac. Sorry, but I've got to isolate something. You
- 14:46Speaker 1: just said she dropped the children off at school eight am.
- 14:49Speaker 1: And let me just tell you, these people aren't slouch
- 14:53Speaker 1: as they live in a very upscale area, possibly one
- 14:55Speaker 1: of the most expensive areas outside of nine two one zero.
- 14:59Speaker 1: It's surround the New Canaan area of Connecticut. And I
- 15:03Speaker 1: learned living in New York that all the rich people
- 15:08Speaker 1: would leave after work and take a train to New Canaan.
- 15:13Speaker 1: I mean the really, really wealthy people. So I can't
- 15:17Speaker 1: identify where the woman was living. The husband was living
- 15:21Speaker 1: in a four point three million dollar mansion, but they
- 15:23Speaker 1: had split up. Long story short, this is where I'm
- 15:26Speaker 1: going with this, Dave Mac. Eight Am to eleven am
- 15:32Speaker 1: with Me, Dave Mac. Syndicated talk show host Josica Morgan,
- 15:34Speaker 1: I need you on this one. You know, when I'm
- 15:37Speaker 1: making a cup of hot tea first thing in the morning,
- 15:39Speaker 1: at about five AM, I do not expect a kidnap
- 15:43Speaker 1: to go down. What I'm saying is, I've been prosecuting
- 15:48Speaker 1: for many, many years, and it's much more unlikely for
- 15:53Speaker 1: violent crime to occur first thing in the morning. Now
- 15:56Speaker 1: this is just anecdotal for me, but it's really when
- 16:00Speaker 1: you see a kidnap or a murderer or a violent
- 16:02Speaker 1: crime occur first thing in the morning, what is that?
- 16:07Speaker 1: I always say, Um, I felt perfectly perfectly safe going
- 16:11Speaker 1: out in hand delivering subpoenas first thing in the morning,
- 16:14Speaker 1: because all the dopers would still be asleep like vampires.
- 16:17Speaker 1: So what is it that the crimes do happen? But
- 16:21Speaker 1: it's very rare first thing in the morning. Yeah, you're right, Nancy.
- 16:24Speaker 1: I mean, even even swat teams and you know, drug
- 16:27Speaker 1: task forth like you had stated, they will, they will
- 16:30Speaker 1: go and serve warrants at these violent offenders homes generally
- 16:34Speaker 1: at that period of time, because you know, these people
- 16:36Speaker 1: are not going to be out of the bed by
- 16:37Speaker 1: that time. Oh oh h w l no, because they've
- 16:41Speaker 1: been up all night long breaking the law. Selling dope,
- 16:45Speaker 1: driving around town trying to steal things an arm rob
- 16:47Speaker 1: m M. You can set up a whole battering ram
- 16:50Speaker 1: outside inside a doper's door at six am. They won't
- 16:54Speaker 1: know anything's going on. They're dead to the world till
- 16:56Speaker 1: about three pm. So can I just get a yes
- 16:59Speaker 1: no on that, Scott? Yes? So, Dave, Matt, you're telling
- 17:02Speaker 1: me she goes missing between eight and eleven. She even
- 17:05Speaker 1: wanted to disappear and get away from her life mighty
- 17:10Speaker 1: early in the morning. And we don't have any signs
- 17:13Speaker 1: of her clothes being packed, or a bus ticket, a
- 17:16Speaker 1: plane ticket, nothing like that, do we, Dave. When the
- 17:19Speaker 1: police actually went to her rented home in New Canean,
- 17:22Speaker 1: they found traces of blood and obvious signs that have
- 17:26Speaker 1: been cleaned up so that the maid could not realize
- 17:30Speaker 1: what had happened. So I'm assuming they use luminar or
- 17:32Speaker 1: something along those lines to determine that it was enough blood.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Who is they and who used the luminar? I'm sorry
- 17:40Speaker 1: the police. The police all converged on her home to
- 17:43Speaker 1: try to find her. And again we've got an eight
- 17:46Speaker 1: am dropping off at school. By eleven am, she misses
- 17:49Speaker 1: an appointment and by twelve noon, the maid says there's
- 17:51Speaker 1: nobody here. When the police show up to investigate, they
- 17:54Speaker 1: find traces of blood at such a level that they
- 17:57Speaker 1: believe it had been cleaned up in an effort to
- 17:59Speaker 1: conceal from the maid when she arrived it in. Her
- 18:02Speaker 1: family says she was quote afraid for her life. That's
- 18:06Speaker 1: what we're learning. That she was a quote nervous wreck
- 18:09Speaker 1: after filing for a divorce from husband Fotus Dulos, her
- 18:12Speaker 1: husband of thirteen years. Now, according to police, over thirty
- 18:18Speaker 1: items of clothing and sponges bloodied have been found on
- 18:25Speaker 1: a four mile stretch in Connecticut that DNA apparently matching
- 18:30Speaker 1: up to Jennifer Dulos. But according to the husband's lawyers
- 18:37Speaker 1: that the missing mom, Jennifer Dulos, writes a five hundred
- 18:41Speaker 1: page Gone Girl's style script many years ago, and he
- 18:46Speaker 1: is now claiming she had a quote troubled pass end
- 18:49Speaker 1: quote struggled with drugs her whole life. That's interesting, straight
- 18:54Speaker 1: out to Radar Online dot COM's Alexis terres Chuck, investigative reporter,
- 18:58Speaker 1: because he's had five child with her, and I don't
- 19:00Speaker 1: recall him ever calling de facts or causing any disturbance
- 19:05Speaker 1: about the mom using drugs or ever having any problem
- 19:09Speaker 1: leaving his children alone with her. Nope, none whatsoever. This is,
- 19:12Speaker 1: according to her family, is coming from out of nowhere,
- 19:15Speaker 1: that these are really dirty tactics to blame a victim,
- 19:18Speaker 1: and they've never heard of any of this. And this
- 19:21Speaker 1: novel that she wrote. She is a New York University
- 19:24Speaker 1: n why you graduate in literature and she loved to
- 19:27Speaker 1: write when her mom had met So this is just
- 19:29Speaker 1: an old story that she wrote. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 19:48Speaker 1: Welcome back by Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories of
- 19:51Speaker 1: Fotus Dulos, the estranged husband of missing Connecticut mom of
- 19:54Speaker 1: five Jennifer. Dulo's lawyer has stuck his foot in his
- 20:00Speaker 1: very big mouth once again, this time claiming that because
- 20:05Speaker 1: of a computer generated medical bill the family says medical
- 20:10Speaker 1: services rendered long before it and Jennifer went missing, that
- 20:14Speaker 1: it's proved she's alive and has as now perpetrating a
- 20:18Speaker 1: fantastical hoax not only us, the public, the court system, prosecutors, investigators,
- 20:24Speaker 1: but on her own five children as well, that she's
- 20:29Speaker 1: really gone on her own volition, faked disappearance in order
- 20:34Speaker 1: to quote get back at him. There have been so
- 20:37Speaker 1: many claims. In fact, one of the outlandish claims Penny
- 20:40Speaker 1: Douglas for with me are now family lawyer in the
- 20:43Speaker 1: Atlanta jurisdiction and beyond is that catch this? I hope
- 20:47Speaker 1: you're sitting down, Penny, that she committed revenge suicide. That
- 20:54Speaker 1: was one of the claims photos Dulos is made through
- 20:58Speaker 1: his lawyer that despite him so much, that she killed
- 21:01Speaker 1: herself just to get back at him. Yeah, forget about
- 21:05Speaker 1: raising her five children. I mean, Penny, I kill anybody
- 21:09Speaker 1: that tried to separate me from my children. So why
- 21:12Speaker 1: did she fight the custody case? Why did she go
- 21:15Speaker 1: for custody? Why did she go through all this? Typically
- 21:18Speaker 1: when a sociopath does something, they won't blame the other
- 21:23Speaker 1: person and claim they did the same thing that the
- 21:27Speaker 1: sociopath has done. So anything, he's blaming her and saying
- 21:32Speaker 1: she did it's probably exactly what he did. Take a
- 21:35Speaker 1: listen to our friends at CBS. The defense attorney Gone
- 21:39Speaker 1: Blowe to lift the veil of privacy and review Jennifer
- 21:43Speaker 1: Dulos's medical records. The prosecution objected, this is exactly what
- 21:47Speaker 1: this is. It's a fistianttorney. The defense attorney Norm Pattis
- 21:53Speaker 1: says the records show Jennifer underwent fourteen thousand dollars in
- 21:57Speaker 1: testing in the three months prior to her disappearance, with
- 22:01Speaker 1: charges for blood work, diagnostic and reproductive testing. Pattis says
- 22:06Speaker 1: it could help prove the defense theory that Jennifer disappeared
- 22:10Speaker 1: on her own. Accord desponded. The judge denied the request
- 22:18Speaker 1: for now. Phodis Dulos is charged with taking bloody evidence
- 22:22Speaker 1: from his wife's home and disposing of it. The two
- 22:25Speaker 1: were going through a bitter divorce. Her whereabouts and condition
- 22:29Speaker 1: remain a mystery. There are no rg During a fight
- 22:34Speaker 1: with Prosecutor Richard Colangelo over a proposed gag order, Pattis
- 22:38Speaker 1: dropped this piece of news. There's a lot that I
- 22:42Speaker 1: could say, and he hadn't said. For evan who were
- 22:45Speaker 1: aware of a lot of visiting money that was taken
- 22:48Speaker 1: from mister Dulos to accounts by Jennifer, I hadn't going
- 22:52Speaker 1: to impressive. Colangelo replied that Pattis has given the media
- 22:56Speaker 1: incorrect information, such as claiming codefendant Michelle Trucks, Dulos's former girlfriend,
- 23:02Speaker 1: took him past a light detector test. The prosecutor says
- 23:06Speaker 1: that quote never happened. Does it never end with this guy,
- 23:09Speaker 1: Penny Douglas Fur, Will it never end the way he's
- 23:13Speaker 1: trashing her? First of all, she's dead, and now this
- 23:20Speaker 1: claiming that she stole money from him. Let me tell
- 23:23Speaker 1: you something, Penny Douglas Fur, the grandmother in this case,
- 23:26Speaker 1: I'm referring to Jennifer's mother, who is now taking care
- 23:29Speaker 1: of her five little children, is now looking for the
- 23:34Speaker 1: money Photus Dulos owes her. Photus Dulos borrowed over a
- 23:39Speaker 1: million dollars from Jennifer's parents to help his failing construction company.
- 23:47Speaker 1: He fancied himself as a designer of mansions for wealthy
- 23:54Speaker 1: builders in the New England area, and he borrowed heavily
- 23:59Speaker 1: from Jennifer's parents, which he never paid back, I might add.
- 24:06Speaker 1: And now in the most recent development, the grandmother, Jennifer's
- 24:10Speaker 1: mother wants to know why he photos Dulos is not
- 24:13Speaker 1: paying child support. The grandma has all five children. It's
- 24:18Speaker 1: hard enough for me to raise the twins and work.
- 24:19Speaker 1: Can you imagine a grandmother in Manhattan? You know how
- 24:22Speaker 1: hard is the hellicab in Manhattan. She's raising these five
- 24:27Speaker 1: children in Manhattan and now claiming he is not paying
- 24:32Speaker 1: child support. And now they jump up and claim she
- 24:36Speaker 1: Jennifer took his money. He's living off her. He's a leech. Penny, Nancy.
- 24:42Speaker 1: Everything he is claiming that she did is something he did.
- 24:48Speaker 1: He's an associate pan And when they claim that their
- 24:53Speaker 1: wife does something, it's exactly what they did. They always
- 24:58Speaker 1: pretend the other person did it. And he claims she's
- 25:04Speaker 1: on heroin, and he makes up all these stories that
- 25:07Speaker 1: means he was using it. That's why he's staying all
- 25:12Speaker 1: these things. I'm so beside myself because these children are
- 25:18Speaker 1: going to read all this one day when they get
- 25:21Speaker 1: old enough to research about their mom and her disappearance,
- 25:27Speaker 1: the suggestion that she took money from him. He owes
- 25:33Speaker 1: her and her family so much money, according to the grandma,
- 25:38Speaker 1: That's why he couldn't go through the divorce and Nancy,
- 25:41Speaker 1: because if they went through the divorce, these all these
- 25:44Speaker 1: that he's calling loans, it would be he's trying to
- 25:49Speaker 1: pretend they were gifts. And so when they came up
- 25:53Speaker 1: in the divorce, most likely the judge would have said
- 25:57Speaker 1: it's a marital debt, and he would have split it
- 26:01Speaker 1: and made him pay some and made her pay some.
- 26:04Speaker 1: But the bottom line is he would have had to
- 26:07Speaker 1: pay those back and he would have had a court
- 26:09Speaker 1: order ordering him to pay her family the money back.
- 26:14Speaker 1: You know what, Penny, this is the way our system works.
- 26:17Speaker 1: The constitution protects the defendant, the accused, the suspect. Okay,
- 26:22Speaker 1: nothing protects the victim, and in this case, nobody is
- 26:26Speaker 1: there to protect Jennifer Dulos. As a matter of fact,
- 26:30Speaker 1: as we go to air, we learn even more the
- 26:34Speaker 1: attorney for Jennifer Dulos his mom, is renewing a call
- 26:38Speaker 1: for information on how this defense lawyer, Norm Patous, is
- 26:43Speaker 1: being paid. The attorney representing the mom, Gloria Farber, in
- 26:48Speaker 1: her two point five million dollars loose at lawsuit against
- 26:52Speaker 1: the strange husband photos Dulos and his company, is asking
- 26:55Speaker 1: the judge to reconsider his decision to quass their supp
- 27:00Speaker 1: issue to the criminal defense lawyer. Now, I can tell
- 27:04Speaker 1: you right now, she's not going to get any information
- 27:07Speaker 1: out of the defense lawyer because that is protected by
- 27:10Speaker 1: the attorney client privilege and there's no way they're going
- 27:13Speaker 1: to give it up even who's paying the bill. It's
- 27:16Speaker 1: not going to happen. But we also learn in all
- 27:20Speaker 1: of these documents that, according to attorney Richard Weinstein, who's
- 27:26Speaker 1: representing Jennifer's mom, he's been trying to claim, trying to
- 27:30Speaker 1: prove claims that Fotus Dulas transferred a ton of money
- 27:35Speaker 1: to Greece from his real estate company, and they're trying
- 27:41Speaker 1: to find all that money. Meanwhile, meanwhile there are claims
- 27:48Speaker 1: that he's not paying child support to the grandma. I mean, oh,
- 27:51Speaker 1: what a tangled web we weave when first we practice
- 27:55Speaker 1: to deceive. This is typical, especially with builders, because they
- 28:01Speaker 1: control their money. I've been on the other side in
- 28:05Speaker 1: divorces with builders and their favorite thing is to take
- 28:09Speaker 1: the cash out movement to another country and the wife
- 28:14Speaker 1: would have to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to
- 28:18Speaker 1: track and trace that money. And that's why they do
- 28:23Speaker 1: it that way. I will bet you if there was
- 28:26Speaker 1: any money in that business, it's in another country in
- 28:30Speaker 1: another person's name. We also know that foreclosure on Photus
- 28:37Speaker 1: Dulo's home is happening right now in their Farmington mansion.
- 28:43Speaker 1: This as Photus Dulos has launched even new claims against
- 28:48Speaker 1: his missing wife Jennifer, claiming a that she's a runaway
- 28:53Speaker 1: with somebody else. B That she's fabricated a hoax along
- 28:59Speaker 1: with her family to perpetrate her disappearance on her children. Three,
- 29:04Speaker 1: that she has committed revenge suicide, killing herself just to
- 29:10Speaker 1: get back at him for that she had written a
- 29:15Speaker 1: gone Girl type novel or screenplay, and that this is
- 29:20Speaker 1: what her disappearance it's all about. Now he's claiming she's
- 29:24Speaker 1: stolen from him, while her mom is having to chase
- 29:28Speaker 1: him down allegedly for child support and for all the
- 29:32Speaker 1: money he borrowed from her his in laws, and now
- 29:37Speaker 1: they're claiming that she's really alive based on a medical document.
- 29:42Speaker 1: It just never ends. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Welcome
- 30:02Speaker 1: back on Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. In the
- 30:05Speaker 1: last hour as his strange husband photos Dulos heading to
- 30:08Speaker 1: court in a civil matter, heading back to court because
- 30:13Speaker 1: his missing wife mother is going after him for money
- 30:21Speaker 1: millions of dollars she claims he borrowed, and for closing
- 30:27Speaker 1: on the Farmington mansion that he was living in. Sounds
- 30:30Speaker 1: like his whole business was propped up by Jennifer Dulos
- 30:34Speaker 1: mom and dad. Meanwhile, the five children living with Grandma
- 30:37Speaker 1: in Manhattan. To Penny Douglas for joining us from the
- 30:42Speaker 1: legal angle, Penny, what's their game? What are they doing
- 30:46Speaker 1: right now? They're sitting there trying to make up a defense.
- 30:50Speaker 1: They're trying to come up with a defense that they
- 30:53Speaker 1: can make at least one person on the jury boss
- 30:56Speaker 1: so he will not be convicted of killing his wife.
- 31:01Speaker 1: But they are apparently violating court orders, which is going
- 31:06Speaker 1: to get them into very difficult water because if the
- 31:09Speaker 1: judge is furious with you for violating court orders, that's
- 31:13Speaker 1: not the way you want to start any trial. Where
- 31:16Speaker 1: is Jennifer Dulos? What happened to this loving, doting mom
- 31:22Speaker 1: of five. Fotus Dulos fifty one, a real estate developer,
- 31:29Speaker 1: seemingly successful in for about two million dollars to Jennifer's parents.
- 31:37Speaker 1: We also know that in the last hours, Jennifer's mother
- 31:43Speaker 1: has filed motions demanding that the husband, Photus Dulos reveal
- 31:51Speaker 1: all of his financial records and any alleged sneaky dealings.
- 31:57Speaker 1: We understand that he had borrowed heavily from Jennifer's parents
- 32:01Speaker 1: to the teen of one or two million dollars to
- 32:03Speaker 1: prop up his construction business. Jackie Howard, what can you
- 32:06Speaker 1: tell me? Jennifer's mother, Gloria Farber, has been caring for
- 32:10Speaker 1: her five grandchildren since Jennifer went missing. Back on May
- 32:14Speaker 1: twenty fourth, Farber filed emotion seeking all of photos Dulos's
- 32:18Speaker 1: corporate and individual financial records. That's because Dulos is looking
- 32:23Speaker 1: to get custody of his kids from Farber. Farber says, though,
- 32:27Speaker 1: that Dullos doesn't have the means to support his children,
- 32:30Speaker 1: claiming he has no source of income, has defaulted on
- 32:33Speaker 1: mortgages owes her late husband's estate as you said, more
- 32:37Speaker 1: than one point seven million dollars. Farber also claims there
- 32:41Speaker 1: has not been in any child support payments in more
- 32:44Speaker 1: than two years. In return, his defense team has filed
- 32:48Speaker 1: a motion on Jennifer's mother demanding she's submit to a
- 32:53Speaker 1: mental evaluation. You know what that's playing dirty? It is Nancy,
- 32:58Speaker 1: But you know you don't have to worry about j
- 33:00Speaker 1: His mom, Gloria Farber, take a listen to this from
- 33:02Speaker 1: our friends at WTNA, lawyers for the estranged husband of
- 33:05Speaker 1: Jennifer Dulos, now asking for her mother to be evaluated
- 33:10Speaker 1: a legal battle plays out over custody of the couple's children.
- 33:14Speaker 1: Laura Ingle is following this story for US Laura Asander Well.
- 33:17Speaker 1: The motion for psychological evaluation was filed early this morning
- 33:21Speaker 1: by a lawyer representing Photos Dulos the family. Lawyer for
- 33:25Speaker 1: Dulos asking the court to appoint a psychologist to conduct
- 33:29Speaker 1: this evaluation of his children's grandmother, Gloria Farber, saying they
- 33:32Speaker 1: have no choice but to make such a request to
- 33:35Speaker 1: ensure that his five children, who she has temporary custody
- 33:38Speaker 1: of area, who safely cared for now. He claims that
- 33:42Speaker 1: Gloria Farber, the mother of his estranged wife Jennifer, has
- 33:45Speaker 1: previously been psychiatrically hospitalized and had once threatened to kill
- 33:50Speaker 1: herself and her late husband, adding that electric shock therapy
- 33:55Speaker 1: was discussed by family members as an option for the
- 33:58Speaker 1: treatment at the time. The attorney Gloria Farber tells US
- 34:01Speaker 1: she will be filing a formal written statement in response
- 34:05Speaker 1: to all this. Fotus Dulis and his girlfriend Michelle for Konis,
- 34:08Speaker 1: You'll remember, are accused of tampering with evidence and hindering
- 34:11Speaker 1: prosecution in the disappearance of his estranged wife, who has
- 34:15Speaker 1: been missing since May twenty fourth. Their five children have
- 34:18Speaker 1: been staying with their grandmother ever since, and Fotus Dulos
- 34:21Speaker 1: has not been granted access to his kids. Jennifer Dulos,
- 34:25Speaker 1: her mother, Gloria Farber, has responded to a motion filed
- 34:29Speaker 1: on behalf of her son in law Fotus Dulos. You
- 34:32Speaker 1: may recall that his defense attorney requested that Farber undergo
- 34:36Speaker 1: a psychiatric evaluation. Farber says she has no objection to this,
- 34:41Speaker 1: adding that her son in law should be evaluated as well,
- 34:45Speaker 1: going on to say that the motion is salacious and
- 34:48Speaker 1: demonstrates Fotus Dulos's capacity for cruelty. As you all know,
- 34:52Speaker 1: Jennifer file for divorce in twenty seventeen, has been locked
- 34:56Speaker 1: in an acrimonious legal battle for custody of their twin boys,
- 35:02Speaker 1: another set of twins, boy girl and a daughter. All
- 35:06Speaker 1: the children very young, between eight and thirteen years old.
- 35:11Speaker 1: Jennifer had written in court documents, I am afraid for
- 35:14Speaker 1: my family's safety. Wow, to get an idea what she
- 35:19Speaker 1: looks like to me, she looks a little bit like
- 35:21Speaker 1: Jennifer Garner. Trying to figure this all out, Alexis, what
- 35:27Speaker 1: more can you tell us? For the last two years,
- 35:29Speaker 1: Jennifer has been fighting for US for custody of her
- 35:32Speaker 1: five children. In multiple court documents, she has claimed that
- 35:36Speaker 1: she's afraid for her life. She's afraid of him. He
- 35:38Speaker 1: is somebody that she really feels I could really do
- 35:41Speaker 1: harm to her and the children, and she has been
- 35:44Speaker 1: stagging a judge to give her custody of the children.
- 35:47Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy Grace crime Story, signing
- 35:51Speaker 1: off goodbye friend,