Painted rocks with messages like "Justice for Jennifer" can be found in the center of town, outside the police department and in Waveny Park. They serve as a reminder that the community is determined to get answers.

"They haven't given up hope and neither have we," Detective John Kimball of Connecticut State Police Western District Major Crimes says.

Over the course of the investigation, police would arrest Dulos three times.  He would be charged with evidence tampering, hindering prosecution, and eventually murder, felony murder and kidnapping.

Jennifer had filed for divorce following 13 years of marriage after learning Dulos was having an affair.


In court documents, Jennifer alleged "irrational, unsafe, bullying, threatening and controlling behavior," stating she was afraid for her safety.

"I know he will retaliate by trying to harm me in some way," she wrote.

Eight days after Jennifer's disappearance, police arrested Dulos and his live-in girlfriend Michelle Troconis, charging both with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution.

Their arrest warrants state the two were captured on surveillance cameras dumping bloody evidence in a Hartford neighborhood. The items included the shirt Jennifer was wearing the day she disappeared and zip ties with her DNA and items including Jennifer's clothing, paper towels and cleaning supplies.


Investigators also found Jennifer's blood in her garage along with signs of a cleanup, concluding that's where she'd been the victim of a "serious physical assault."

"We developed a significant amount of evidence from the garage that leads us to believe Jennifer is no longer alive," Detective Kimball says. 

Three months later, Dulos and Troconis were arrested again and faced new evidence tampering charges, but this time in connection to a truck police say Dulos borrowed from an employee and drove to New Canaan the morning Jennifer disappeared.

In court documents, police wrote he was "lying in wait at 69 Welles Lane for his wife to return home."

Dulos and Troconis were later seen on video getting the truck police believe carried Jennifer's body cleaned and detailed.

The truck's owner told police Dulos insisted the seats be replaced.

The man did so but held on to them, turning the seats over to police who found Jennifer's blood on one of them.

On Thursday, Jan. 7, 228 days after Jennifer was last seen alive, Dulos was taken into custody a third time - now charged with murder, felony murder, and kidnapping.

"I wanted to make sure we had information from the medical examiner, I wanted to make sure, and we wanted to have all the forensic testing done from the lab and I wanted to give the state police the opportunity to come up with a warrant that explained all of that. When all of those things happened, Detective Kimball sent me the warrant and I signed it," Chief State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo Jr. says.


The warrant included investigators' discovery of Dulos' DNA inside Jennifer's home on a doorknob and mixed with her blood on a faucet.

Police also re-arrested Troconis the same day, this time charging her with conspiracy to commit murder.

Dulos' friend and former attorney Kent Mawhinney was also booked on the same charge.

Police say Mawhinney was at Fotis Dulos' home the morning of Jennifer's death to provide a fake alibi for him.

Police say there's no mistake about who was behind the kidnapping, disappearance and murder of Jennifer Dulos.

"With the death of Mr. Dulos, this case is by no means over," Detective Kimball says,  "I think there are still people out there who possess evidence that could lead us to the whereabouts of Jennifer or at least what happened to her."

Dulos' death doesn't change the charges against Troconis and Mawhinney, both of whom have pleaded not guilty. Both their cases will go forward.

Troconis released a statement on May 21 in which she wrote that she has no idea where Jennifer is. "It's frustrating to remain quiet and rely on the justice system," Troconis says. "I am saddened for the loss that these five children have suffered, being left without both parents in such a short period of time."

"I'm really not going to comment on pending cases but I will say that you know, the evidence is the evidence," Colangelo says.

Police maintain that their top priority continues to be finding Jennifer.

Tips are still coming in daily and work is ongoing to give her loved ones a sense of closure and justice.

In a statement about the one-year anniversary, family's spokesperson Carrie Luft wrote, "The ache of Jennifer's absence doesn't go away. Countless questions remain unanswered. The brutality and inhumanity of her death and disappearance continue to haunt us, without subsiding."


Luft continued, "Somehow an entire year has elapsed. We can see it, and measure it, in the growth of her children, who are taller, stronger, wiser, and more like their mom every day."

"She was gentle, kind, brilliant, and courageous, and we still cannot believe she is gone," Luft says.