By Rob Frehse, CNN
(CNN) — Explosive new details were released Wednesday in the case of a Connecticut mother who has been missing for three months, and her estranged husband was rearrested.
Fotis Dulos was charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. This is in addition to previous charges in the case. He has denied any connection to the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos, mother of his five children. The pair had been engaged in a contentious child custody battle.
A 38-page warrant (attached at the bottom of this article) released Wednesday by the Connecticut State Police includes details about a “bloodlike substance” found in a truck Fotis Dulos had been driving and “alibi scripts” recovered from his office.
The vehicle that Fotis Dulos is believed to have driven on May 24, the day his wife disappeared, belongs to one of his employees. After he used it, he had the interior cleaned, his girlfriend Michelle Troconis told police — but he also instructed the employee to replace the seats.
The employee told police that he resisted swapping out the seats, and that Dulos became “pushy” and angry over the issue. Dulos eventually told him that he was worried that strands of his wife’s hair might have been transferred to the truck’s interior because he had hugged her days earlier.
The employee switched the seats out and decided to keep them without telling Dulos, according to the warrant. On the old seats, police found a “bloodlike substance” that contained Jennifer Dulos’ DNA.
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Police also found what detectives called “alibi scripts” in the business office of Fotis Dulos’ company, according to the warrant.
The handwritten notes outlined specific times and activities for the day Jennifer Dulos was reported missing and the day after, according to the warrant. The notes were written by Dulos and Troconis to “help them remember” their activities, Troconis said, according to the warrant. The notes also listed the times and duration of phone calls and individuals called, according to the warrant.
The notes were proven to be inaccurate and “included alibi witnesses who were later determined to be false,” according to the warrant. Troconis later admitted the events did not happen.
Jennifer Dulos, 50, was last seen driving a 2017 Chevrolet Suburban on May 24 in New Canaan, police said. Her friends reported her missing after she missed appointments and they hadn’t heard from her for 10 hours. Authorities found her car near a park not far from her house.
In the warrant, police also presented surveillance video images of Jennifer’s vehicle heading toward her residence at 8:05 a.m. that day. The image is captioned: “This photograph is the last known photograph of Jennifer alive. At the time this footage was recorded, Dulos is believed to have been lying in wait at 69 Welles Lane for his wife to return home. The crime and clean-up are believed to have occurred between 8:05 AM and 10:25 AM.”
Images in the new arrest warrant show a vehicle believed to be Dulos’ employee’s truck parked about 100 feet from where the missing woman’s Suburban was later found abandoned.
The warrant alleges Fotis Dulos parked the truck, then went to his estranged wife’s home to lie in wait for her to return. It alleges he drove her body away from her home in her car, then put the body into the borrowed truck.
On Wednesday, Dulos’ attorney Norm Pattis reacted to the new arrest.
“It sounds like the state is trying to convince itself that Fotis is responsible for Jennifer’s disappearance. When and if the state decides it can prove its case, we will welcome the chance to meet the case in open court. The new warrant speaks of a lying lover and handyman with something to hide. When do we get the chance to question these folks?”
Pattis said Dulos intended to plead not guilty to the new charges.
Dulos gave a short statement to reporters outside the Connecticut State Police office on Wednesday.
“It’s an exhausting fight,” he said. “I love my children. That’s about it.”
Dulos and Troconis were arrested in June and charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence after arrest warrants said officers found “(m)ultiple areas of suspected blood spatter” in Jennifer Dulos’ home.
Investigators discovered stains that tested positive for human blood on the woman’s garage floor, the arrest warrants said, and evidence of attempts to clean up the scene of what investigators concluded was “a serious physical assault … and Jennifer Dulos was the suspected victim.”
And the day she went missing, surveillance cameras captured someone matching the description of her estranged husband getting out of his truck and putting “multiple garage bags into various trash receptacles” in the Hartford area, authorities said. Detectives later recovered clothing and household goods from trash receptacles with Jennifer Dulos’ blood on them.
Both Dulos and Troconis have pleaded not guilty to those charges. Both were released on bond, surrendered their passports and were forced to wear GPS monitoring devices.
Dulos posted $500,000 bail on the new charge Wednesday, according to the warrant, and is scheduled to be back in court on September 12.
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