From the beginning of the Dulos case, the custody report has been the center of ongoing controversy. What is it all about? One aspect of this is that the custody report was used to exonerate Fotis Dulos of his wife's murder. Specifically, Fotis Dulos and his supporters stated the he would have no motivation to murder his ex-wife, Jennifer Farber-Dulos, because the custody report indicated that the case was heading in his favor. The report was presented to the Court on May 14, 2019 within days of Jennifer Dulos' death. Prepared by Dr. Stephen Herman, it apparently cast Fotis Dulos in a very positive light. As an aside, Dr. Herman is known widely because he opposed the Yale Study done in the Woody Allen case which stated that Dylan wasn't abused.
The Dulos custody report, I would suspect, was a substantive report because it goes up to a page 50, which was the page Michelle Troconis was reading when Carrie Luft reported her. I point this out because I've seen custody reports that were only three pages long. My question is, why would Michelle have put herself at risk of additional prosecution just so she could wave this custody report around? What in the world did she expect to accomplish? Is she trying to tell us that the custody report showed Jennifer was such a bad person she deserved to die? Was she trying to tell us that actually, despite all evidence to the contrary, Jennifer pulled a "Gone Girl" and the sealed custody report would explain why? Is she trying to comment on the corruption of the Court system for not allowing her to present the custody report which she considered relevant evidence? What?
In order to get as close to an answer as possible, I returned to the early articles which report on Michelle Troconis' attempts to unseal the custody report and transcripts of the May 14, 2019 Court hearings when Dr. Stephen Herman provided testimony regarding his report.
And before I proceed, let me say that I sympathize with Michelle in some ways. I've been in numerous hearings in my own family court case were I had significant evidence which I couldn't present because of the rules of evidence or simply the Court's refusal to be bothered to look at it. There is nothing more frustrating than that experience, where you feel you have information that would exonerate you, but your can't present it. I have often felt that there is a pyramid of evidence, and the judge is on the top of it where there is the least to know. Many times, judges make decisions based upon a very limited, by statute, body of information. This explains decisions that often don't make sense to the general public when they come to light because of a tragic circumstance such as the Dulos case. Of course, I can only speculate Michelle felt this way. I've never spoken to her.
Be that as it may, prior to Michelle's trial, on July 10, 2022 Edmund H. Mahoney, a journalist with The Hartford Courant, reported that Michelle's attorney, Jon Schoenhorn filed a motion stating that he wanted "a transcript of the custody hearing to look for anything that could help Troconis by revealing what may have precipitated Jennifer Dulos' disappearance." This language directly echoed the kind of language Fotis Dulos and his attorney, Norm Pattis, were using when they were in the middle of their speculations that Jennifer had pulled a "Gone Girl." If you look at The Hartford Courant article cowritten by Dave Altimari and Nicholas Rondinone and published on July 17, 2019, Attorney Norm Pattis wrote in a motion he submitted to Court that he wanted access to "the diagnosis and treatment Ms. Dulos received in the weeks before her disappearance as such information may shed light on what may have motivated her to disappear."
This overlapping language leads me to believe that, even now, despite the evidence, a part of Michelle Troconis still believes that Fotis Dulos is innocent and that Jennifer did a "Gone Girl" or she wishes to argue that. I guess love is blind, huh! I conclude this because of Michelle's laser focus on the custody report and the transcript of the court hearing on it, when neither had any significant relevance to the proceedings in her criminal trial. I think it is quite clear that Jennifer Dulos is dead, simply from the items Fotis Dulos threw out during his cruise down Albany Avenue in Hartford on the evening of the murder.
So what's up with posting this custody report and incurring a criminal charge for doing so? At the very least, Michelle could have been saying Jennifer was such a bad person she deserved to die. However, it's amazing, but bad character or behavior still is not solid grounds for killing someone. I guess in our day and age with Trump I actually feel the need to say that. So if Michelle thought that was important to point out, she was sorely mistaken.
On the other hand, Michelle could have been hinting that Jennifer committed a "Gone Girl". Still, the forensic evidence says otherwise and why won't Michelle believe that evidence? The answer to that question lies perhaps in another incident where Michelle posted an article on her computer for all to see about how the State's former top medical examiner, Dr. Henry Lee, falsified forensic evidence, thus leading to the conviction of innocent people. This incident occurred when the Court was hearing testimony about the forensic evidence in Michelle's criminal trial. This leads me to believe that Michelle simply doesn't believe Jennifer is dead to the point where she thinks the forensic evidence is fabricated, or she wants to argue that.
This would explain why Michelle Troconis pled the fifth and refused to cooperate one single iota when she was asked to provide testimony in Fotis' civil trial held in November 2019 regarding the millions of dollars he allegedly owed the Hilliard Farber estate. At every turn, Michelle's acknowledgement of Fotis Dulos' guilt has been weak and unconvincing. I can see it must have been difficult for Michelle to process the fact that the man she passionately loved was also a murderer. Of course, that depends upon wat she did or did not know.
Still, there is no doubt that Fotis Dulos was a very charming man who had a way with the ladies. As soon as Fotis realized that Michelle Troconis was no longer useful to him, he dropped her for a gullible Anne Curry. Then, even as the police closed in and the evidence mounted that Fotis Dulos was clearly guilty, he was able to talk Ms. Curry into lending him $147,000 for bail. As far as I know, as of March 28, 2024, she is continuing to fight to get her money back. What a sucker in a series of suckers Fotis Dulos found it easy to cultivate.
Of course, Michelle Traconis has been convicted in a court of law of conspiracy to commit murder, so perhaps her focus on the custody report is just an attempt to distract us from the true facts of the case pointing towards her guilt. Otherwise, there are so many mysteries in the Dulos case--perhaps this is one of them.
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