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Fotis Dulos Held On $6M Bond In Murder Case

Erik Trautmann
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Associated Press
Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, a missing mother of five, is arraigned on murder and kidnapping charges in Stamford Superior Court Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020.

Bond was set at $6 million Wednesday for a Connecticut man accused of murdering his wife.

Fotis Dulos made his first court appearance since police charged him with murder and kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of his wife, Jennifer.

He was arraigned at Stamford Superior Court after being arrested Tuesday.

Dulos previously had been charged with evidence tampering and hindering an investigation since his estranged wife Jennifer Farber Dulos disappeared in May of last year. Her body has never been found.

Dulos’s attorney, Norm Pattis, said he thought police were grasping at straws with the charges.

“If the state can’t figure out what it’s trying to do after however many months it’s had to investigate this case, I don’t know how a jury will make a decision in the four to six weeks it’ll take to try this case,” he told reporters.

Pattis also complained about the amount of the bond set by Judge John Blawie. “In Connecticut ... you'll almost never see a bond of this magnitude for a person without an extensive criminal record,” said Pattis.

Dulos’ former girlfriend and his former divorce attorney were both charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

Police say the two helped Dulos cover up the killing and drew up a bogus alibi for him.

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He fell in love with sound-rich radio storytelling while working as an assistant reporter at KBIA public radio in Columbia, Missouri. Before coming back to radio, he worked in digital journalism as the editor of Newtown Patch. As a freelance reporter, his work for WSHU aired nationally on NPR. Davis is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism; he started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.

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