Just like this year, May 24 was the Friday before Memorial Day weekend in 2019.

It was a sunny spring day with a long weekend in sight and summer break just around the corner for the five children of Jennifer Farber Dulos and Fotis Dulos.

It was also the day that the children’s lives changed forever, never returning to the steady routine they relied on.

The last sliver of their routine ended that morning when Farber Dulos made her usual drop-off at New Canaan Country Day School in New Canaan, Conn., expecting to meet the children at their grandmother’s apartment in Manhattan just a few hours later.

That morning, security cameras captured Farber Dulos’ black SUV pulling away from the elite private school. A neighbor’s camera caught another glimpse of her vehicle, headed toward the home the family of six rented on a cul-de-sac on Welles Lane in New Canaan.

After that, Farber Dulos was never seen again.

In March, Michelle Troconis, the former girlfriend of Farber Dulos’ estranged husband, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder after being charged with plotting with Dulos to kill his estranged wife as their custody battle and divorce dragged on. Dulos, who was charged with murdering his wife, died after attempting suicide in 2020.

Though evidence of Faber Dulos’ likely demise was found by investigators — a bloodied shirt and bra pulled from a Hartford trash can and blood spatter in a pickup truck and on the garage floor of her home — Farber Dulos’ remains were never found.

Farber Dulos was declared legally dead by a judge just last October. Though some of the questions that haunt Farber Dulos’ family have been answered, and some semblance of accountability has been found through the legal system, the family has never been able to lay her to rest beside her beloved father, Hilliard Farber, who died in 2017.

All hope is not lost

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