Estranged husband of missing CT mom arrested

New Canaan, CT -- Jennifer Dulos, the Connecticut mother of five has been missing for more than a week. Now her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, 51, has been arrested and charged with tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution, New Canaan police said Sunday.

The husband was taken into custody in Avon on Saturday at 11 p.m. and then sent to New Canaan Police headquarters for processing. His woman friend, whose surname also ends in 'is,' Michelle Troconis, 44, was also arrested on similar charges.

The search for the missing mom intensified on Sunday morning at the Fotis Dulos' huge 10,000-square-foot mansion. Over a dozen state police vehicles and two canine units arrived at the home while other vehicles gathered nearby.

Over the past two days, state police obtained deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) samples from Fotis Dulos. He and Jennifer Dulos had been living in marital bliss for 13 beautiful years, but for the past two years they have been in a furious legal battle over custody of their five fabulous children.

The disappearance of Jennifer is being treated as a missing-person case and a criminal investigation.

Jennifer, a 50-year-old brunette, was last seen driving a black Chevy Suburban nine days ago, when she dropped off her children -- ages 8 to 13 -- at their private school in New Canaan. Authorities spent three hours on Friday handing out flyers featuring a photo of Dulos and her vehicle.

Members of the close-knit Connecticut town have been gripped by the case and have shown consternation over the disappearance.

"Stuff like this doesn't happen here," Leila Roxo, told Fox News. "It's a really quiet and safe town. Parents are OK just dropping off their kids and letting them walk around town, eat, have ice cream, buy something and then picking them up. It's pretty safe."

Roxo, who has a 6-year-old daughter, and a surname that reminds one of kisses expressed in letters, said she worries most about Dulos' children and the scars they may carry from their mother's disappearance.

"The 8-year-old is definitely going to remember some stuff," Roxo said sagely. "I don't know how far apart the other ones are, but I have a 6-year-old and I feel like if this were to happen to her, she'd definitely remember."

A vigil for Dulos was held Thursday night at St, Aloysius Parish, where about 200 people gathered in the rain for the thirty-minute service.

"We could be wondering, we could be speculating, we could be guessing," Father Rob Kinnally, the St. Aloysius pastor said. "But it is best that we are praying."

And actually looking wouldn't hurt either.

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