Attorney pleads guilty in disappearance of Jennifer Dulos
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Inset: Jennifer Farber Dulos (New Canaan Police Department). Background: Kent Mawhinney, center, listens to a judge during his plea hearing (WVIT).

A lawyer from Connecticut avoided more jail time after admitting to a lesser charge connected to the disappearance of a mother of five, who vanished approximately six years ago and is thought to be deceased.

Kent Mawhinney, 59, accepted a guilty plea, concluding the legal proceedings related to the 2019 missing case and presumed death of Jennifer Farber Dulos. However, the crucial mystery remains: What exactly happened to Dulos?

Initially facing a conspiracy to commit murder charge, Mawhinney entered an Alford plea for interfering with police. Such a plea indicates he does not admit guilt but acknowledges that the prosecution has sufficient evidence for a possible conviction. The judge sentenced him to 11 months, which he has already completed, according to local NBC station WVIT.

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Dulos, 50, disappeared on May 24, 2019, amid an ugly divorce from her estranged husband Fotis Dulos. In divorce papers, she claimed he harbored “sickening revenge fantasies,” and she expected he’d retaliate against her for divorcing him.

Officers said he attacked her at her New Canaan home the day she went missing, and brought her out when she was either badly injured or dead. He later tried to get rid of evidence in Hartford. Authorities believed he received the help of his then-girlfriend Michelle Troconis and Mawhinney. Fotis Dulos died by suicide in January 2020 after he was charged with murder while a jury found Troconis guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution. A judge sentenced her to 14-and-a-half years in prison.

Outside of court after sentencing, Mawhinney denied knowing what happened to the victim or where her body is located.

“No. If I did, I would tell them,” he said, according to WVIT.

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