Police have renewed their hunt for missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos — on Thursday bringing cadaver dogs and scouring a septic tank at the Avon mansion where she once lived with her estranged husband, who was charged with her murder before he committed suicide in January, according to reports.
At least a dozen state police vehicles pulled up to the Sky View Drive home where Jennifer and Fotis Dulos lived briefly in 2010, years before their bitter divorce battle and her disappearance on May 24, 2019, the Hartford Courant reported.
Police converged on the property with cadaver dogs and called in a septic tank company to drain a 2,000 gallon, 16-foot deep tank on the site, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
The Courant said the couple lived at the house for several months in 2010 while their Jefferson Crossing estate — where Fotis Dulos later took his life — was being finished.
Fotis Dulos’ home construction company, Fore Group, also worked on the Sky View Drive property for several months in 2018 to conduct repairs after pipes burst inside the house, the outlet said. The property has since been vacant.
The company had a contract with the property owner, attorney David Ford, to demolish the house, but it’s unclear when that was due to take place.
Police had previously been on the property as part of the investigation, but did so without a warrant and without cadaver dogs to search woods behind the house, the Courant said. They did not comment on their renewed interest in the property.
Police believed Fotis Dulos, 52, a luxury home builder, killed Jennifer inside her New Canaan home, stuffed her body into her Chevy Suburban, and drove to Waverly Park in the town, where he allegedly moved her body into an employee’s pickup truck.
Her body has never been found.
Fotis Dulos was out on $6 million bail and was due in Stamford Superior Court for a bail hearing on the morning he locked himself in the garage of his Jefferson Crossing mansion — less than 2 miles from the Avon property — and attempted to kill himself.
He died two days later from carbon monoxide poisoning.
His ex-girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, pleaded not guilty in February to charges of conspiracy to commit murder in the case.