Jennifer Dulos is ALIVE and in hiding after late ex-husband Fotis ‘murdered’ her, his girlfriend Michelle Troconis who’s also accused in killing claims in newly-unearthed police interview

Michelle Troconis claimed missing mother of five Jennifer Dulos was alive and in hiding when detectives confronted her about discrepancies in her story.

Troconis, 49, is on trial over claims she helped her late boyfriend Fotis Dulos cover up the murder of Dulos, who disappeared in May 2019 and whose remains have never been found.

On Friday, the jury was shown footage of the Venezuelan resident’s second interview with Connecticut police, which took place in June 2019.

In the interview, Troconis explained her theory about Dulos’ whereabouts after police asked her what she thinks happened to Fotis’ ex-wife.

“I think she’s still hiding somewhere,” Troconis replied.

Troconis at one point became irritated as the interrogation continued and said, “I didn’t do anything!” before laying her head in her arms

“What Fotis told me is that in the past, before they got married, she had a fight with her parents, disappeared and moved to Aspen.”

Troconis continued, “And she got an inheritance from an aunt of $3 million and she lived in Aspen for three years and changed her name.”

Detectives then ask her if she would ever leave her own daughter behind and not tell her where she is, before Michelle admits she wouldn’t – and “it doesn’t even cross her mind.”

However, she adds, “From what I understand, she has borderline personality disorder.”

Troconis then becomes even more irritated as the interrogation continues, at one point saying, “I didn’t do anything!” before placing her head between her forearms on the table.

She repeats throughout the interview that she doesn’t know what happened to Dulos, but realizes she’s in trouble and at one point says she’s “going to jail because of him.”

The ‘Gone Girl’ theory, in which a woman fakes her murder to get back at her husband, was previously suggested by Fotis’ lawyer before the alleged killer committed suicide while awaiting his murder trial.

Prosecutors allege Fotis brutally attacked Jennifer at her rented property in New Canaan as she returned from the school run for their five children.

The ‘Gone Girl’ theory was previously put forward by Fotis’ lawyer before the alleged killer committed suicide while awaiting his murder trial

Fotis’ attorney Norm Pattis alleged that years ago Jennifer wrote a 500-page “Gone Girl”-style script, a book in which a woman fakes her disappearance to entrap her cheating husband.

Pattis also said Dulos had previously disappeared from New York and “lived under an assumed name for years” after an “intra-family dispute over money.”

However, nothing has ever emerged to support the claim that Jennifer is alive, and her family has repeatedly denied this.

‘Jennifer’s novel is not a mystery. It is a character-driven story that follows a young woman through relationships and self-discovery over a period of years,” her friend Carrie Luft said in the statement on behalf of the family.

‘Like all of Jennifer’s work, it expresses a deep desire for human connection and the need to be accepted as your true self.’

On Thursday, former Connecticut State Police Detective John Kimball told the court that he interviewed Troconis three times: on June 2, June 6 and August 13, 2019.

Jurors were shown footage of the first interview, in which Troconis told police she woke up on May 24, 2019, went to the bathroom and then “Fotis jumped in the shower with me.”

Prosecutors paused the footage to ask Kimball if Troconis “always maintained that she showered with Fotis Dulos that morning.”

“She didn’t,” Kimball said.

Troconis’ attorney Jon Schoenhorn, speaking to reporters outside court Thursday, said the police interrogations effectively exonerate his client and will show she did not deliberately change her story.

“You have to watch the entire videos and judge for yourself whether the things that were said would have been changed, whether things would have been clarified, whether she would have closure,” the lawyer said.

Prosecutors allege Fotis brutally attacked Jennifer at her rented property in New Canaan as she returned from the school run for their five children, who were between the ages of eight and 13 at the time, on the morning of May 24, 2019.

The state claims he cleaned up the evidence at her home before putting her body in her Chevy and driving about three miles away, where the SUV was found abandoned. Jennifer’s body was never found.

Fotis and Troconis are accused of dumping garbage bags containing bloody evidence, including the bra, T-shirt and razor, into several trash bins around Hartford in his Ford Raptor.

Jurors were shown some of the blood-stained items in the courtroom, as the Chevy Suburban was shown on the screen, along with surveillance footage of Fotis and Troconis disposing of the items on Albany Avenue in Hartford.