Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story

Cohen’s (Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams) latest book tells the story of a woman’s disappearance from a wealthy Connecticut suburb in 2019. While she was a grad student at NYU, Jennifer Farber Dulos wrote and produced a play called The Red Doors, which personified her fear of marrying the wrong person. Growing up, she believed the fairy tale love story of her parents meant she was destined to find her own Prince Charming—but despite a life of fabulous wealth and privilege, in her 30s she settled for precisely the wrong man, Fotis Dulos, who gave her the children she desperately wanted. Still, despite its charmed appearance, their marriage was never a fairy tale, as Cohen shows, and Jennifer’s sheltered upbringing did nothing to prepare her for the horrors of divorce and custody battles. During her drawn-out divorce proceedings and child custody battle, the 40-year-old Jennifer went missing. on May 24, 2019. Cohen tells how investigators zeroed in on Fotis and his new girlfriend as suspects in Jennifer’s disappearance. The book’s chilling prose takes readers on a heartrending journey and portrays Fotis as a manipulative villain.