A former lawyer for Fotis Dulos, who was arrested Tuesday in the murder of his estranged wife Jennifer Dulos, is accused of digging her makeshift grave, according to his arrest warrant.
Fotis is pictured above during an interview with NBC News. His estranged wife Jennifer Dulos is pictured right.
Lawyer Kent Mawhinney, who once represented Dulos in a civil case, was arrested Tuesday and charged in the murder of Jennifer Dulos, who was last seen alive in May 2019. Her body has never been found.
Mawhinney, 54, is accused of digging Jennifer’s makeshift grave. He is charged with conspiracy to commit murder. He is described as “close friends” with Fotis. Mawhinney is seen smirking in his mugshot.
Fotis and Jennifer Dulos, who shared 5 children, were in the midst of a bitter divorce when she went missing.
Fotis, a millionaire custom home builder, was arrested alongside his girlfriend Michelle Troconis, who worked for Fotis’s home building company.
Before she vanished, Jennifer accused Fotis of domestic abuse and of having an extramarital affair with Truconis. Jennifer also accused Fotis of forcing their 5 children to share in his passion for water skiing.
Jennifer was last seen on May 24, about a week before two members of the Windsor Rod & Gun Club in East Granby stumbled upon a large hole in the ground, a large blue tarp and two bags of lime in a restricted area of the gun club grounds, according to the arrest warrant.
Mawhinney founded the gun club but he is no longer a member. State police searched the grounds with K9 officers in August, but found nothing suspicious.
The arrest warrant states Mawhinney’s cell phone records place him near the site of the hole on March 29 and again on May 31. Mawhinney was also in contact with Fotis on the day Jennifer disappeared.
Mawhinney was previously arrested on Jan. 21, 2019 for allegedly sexually assaulting his own wife, according to NBC Connecticut.
New Canaan Police searched Fotis’s Farmington mansion, where Troconis lived with Fotis, and another property owned by Fotis in a Hartford neighborhood.
According to police, surveillance video shows two people who look like Fotis and Troconis placing bags in trash cans. Police recovered the bags, one of which contained items that had Jennifer’s blood on it.
Blood was also found on a faucet at Jennifer’s New Canaan home. Fotis’s lawyer, Norm Pattis, says his client has an alibi and police have the wrong guy.
