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Mom-of-five murdered, husband dead by suicide and his lover on trial: The Jennifer Dulos case

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“I am afraid of my husband,” Jennifer Dulos wrote in 2017 court documents as she filed for divorce from husband Fotis Dulos.

“I know that filing for divorce and filing this motion will enrage him. I know he will retaliate by trying to harm me in some way.”

Two years later, the mother-of-five’s ominous prediction appeared to come true.

On 24 May 2019, Jennifer dropped the former couple’s five children off at their elite, private school in New Canaan, Connecticut.

She hasn’t been seen or heard from since. Her body has never been found.

Months later, Jennifer’s estranged husband Fotis was arrested and charged with her murder.

The luxury home builder, originally from Greece, insisted he was innocent – with his attorney even making the wild claim that Jennifer staged her own disappearance akin to the plot in the movie Gone Girl.

But the case against Fotis never went to trial as he killed himself one morning when he was due to appear in court.

With Jennifer and Fotis both

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