Investigators pressured Michelle Troconis, saying “Nobody in the world believes that you didn’t know what was going on” and “You’re probably the most hated woman in America right now.”…
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12/18/23
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In a days-long suppression hearing, Troconis’ defense team argued that some evidence should not be allowed to be presented by state prosecutors, including certain interviews with investigators and evidence obtained from her cell phone after it was seized by detectives.
Judge Kevin A. Randolph has yet to decide on some of the evidence but ruled that evidence from Troconis’ cell phone will not be allowed at trial. Randolph ruled that “the exigent circumstances exception to the warrant requirement does not apply to the warrantless seizure of the defendant’s cell phone.”
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Law enforcement had secured a warrant to search the defendants’ phone records as early as May 27, Randolph’s decision said, but there was no warrant for the seizure of her phone as of May 31.
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During the interviews shown in court, Troconis said that they made the timelines to make sure they documented where they had been that day. Some were written by her and some by Dulos, she said.
Troconis was reportedly in the vehicle during the Albany Avenue trip, which was captured on surveillance footage but told investigators in the interview that she was primarily on her phone and not paying much attention to what they were doing. When she asked, she said Dulos told her to “relax.” She told investigators she just went along for the ride as a companion and that she would not have gone if she knew what he was doing.
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Troconis said that she had slept in her daughter Nicole’s bed from midnight on the night before the disappearance so could not say for certain whether or not Dulos was home or in bed. She told investigators she never actually saw him that morning. She also told investigators during the interview that she had never even met Farber Dulos.
Troconis became visibly emotional multiple times during the interview, including when she was told that Dulos had allegedly been speaking with Farber Dulos about a potential reconciliation.
Detectives told her that, in their opinion, Dulos was manipulative and controlling and wouldn’t hesitate to pin the murder on her.
“I could be in prison because of him,” she said at one point in the interview. She said she was worried about going to jail and being away from her daughter
Investigators asked Troconis where she thought Farber Dulos was.
“I think that she’s still somewhere, I hope, hiding,” she said.
“I didn’t do it,” she said through sobs at one point in the interview.
In the interviews shown Thursday, investigators also questioned Troconis about pairs of shoes that were missing from the Farmington house and why Dulos decided to shave his head and entire body around the time of Farber Dulos’ disappearance. She told investigators that she shaved his head and that, before then, he had never asked her to do that.
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The suppression hearing continues this week. Troconis’ trial is expected to begin at 10 a.m. on Jan. 8, 2024.