Michelle Troconis sobs as police interview about Jennifer Dulos’s death played at trial: Updates

Jennifer Dulos’ family has spoken out about the devastating evidence introduced in the trial of the woman accused of conspiring to conceal the slain mother-of-five’s murder.

On day eight, investigators testified that they recovered several items covered in “blood-like substance” stuffed into trash bags and dumped into bins along a four-mile stretch of Albany Avenue in Hartford.

Grim photos of the items were shown in court before the state carefully held up each piece to show to the jury.

State Police Sgt Kevin Duggan testified that the items were pulled from trash bins in Hartford where, according to prosecutors, surveillance video shows Ms Troconis sitting in a black Ford Raptor truck with Dulos as he tossed the bags just hours after Jennifer vanished.

A white bra and Vineyard vines shirt, both of which were cut down the middle and appeared to be soaked with blood, and believed to have been Jennifer Dulos’, prompted a reaction from her close friend Carrie Luft who buried her head in her hands, the CT Insider reported.

Four years after mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos vanished without a trace, her late ex-husband’s lover Michelle Troconis is now facing a judge and jury for her alleged role in the case.

The Independent’s Andrea Cavallier explains the key takeaways from court:

A long-sleeve, striped shirt shown in a Connecticut courtroom this week had turned nearly one solid colour after being soaked in what appeared to be blood, jurors in Michelle Troconis’s murder conspiracy trial heard.

The Vineyard Vines-brand shirt is believed to be what Jennifer Dulos was wearing on 24 May 2019, the day she vanished and was allegedly murdered. Her body has never been found.

The Independent’s Andrea Cavallier reports:

The proceedings will resume tomorrow morning.

Under cross-examination by the defence, Det Reilly said he did not process the ‘alibi scripts’ for fingerprints.

Det Reilly also admitted that he had not found traces of blood at the Farmington home where Ms Troconis, her daughter, and Fotis Dulos lived at the time she went missing.

The defence pointed out that even after eight hours of search at the residence Ms Troconos and Dulos shared, detectives did not find any evidence that could be tied to Jennifer’s disappearance.

The ‘alibi scripts’ included a list of phone calls down to the seconds apparently made or received by Michelle Troconis.

A number of other pages also listed supposed activities Ms Troconis did on the day that Jennifer went missing and the day after. Those included cooking scrambled eggs for her daughter.

Another section read, ‘West Hartford Starbucks ... Two frappucinos ... I did not like the sandwich.”

Prosecutors have previously argued that Ms Troconis and Dulos tried to build a false alibi of

The defence previously asked the judge to ban any mention of the writing as “alibi scripts.” Ms Troconis told law enforcement that she and Dulos wrote the outline of their activities on the eve of Jennifer’s disappearance following advice from their attorneys.