Michelle Troconis, the Connecticut woman convicted of helping her boyfriend murder his estranged wife in 2019, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday. Troconis was convicted this year on six criminal counts, including the top charge of conspiracy to commit murder in connection to the death of Jennifer Dulos, a New Canaan mother of five. Prior to sentencing, Stamford Superior Court Judge Kevin Randolph vacated Troconis' conviction on one count of conspiracy to tamper with evidence.
Troconis’ boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, a luxury home builder and suspect in his estranged wife’s disappearance , died in 2020, two days after attempting suicide . The man was suspected of killing Jennifer Dulos at her home before driving away with her body, which has never been found. Fotis Dulos denied killing his wife, who vanished May 24, 2019 .
She’s been since declared dead by a probate court. “I’ve been left with a hole inside of me that I will never be able to fill," the victim's son Petros Dulos, who was 13 when his mother was killed, told the court Friday. "My mother was everything to me.
" As his parents were in the midst of divorce, the teen said he'd often lashed out at his mother. "The defendant’s actions mean that I will never be able to tell my mom how sorry I am for not being a better son when she needed me," he said. "I will never be able to tell mom how proud of her courage I am (and) most importantly how much I love her.
This fact haunts me every day." Troconis mounted a.
