[4] Fotis was later arrested for her murder but died by suicide, eight months after her disappearance, via carbon monoxide asphyxiation before a pretrial emergency bond hearing.
[5] Jennifer Magnano was fatally shot, in a murder-suicide by her estranged husband Scott, in front of their children on August 23, 2007.
[6] Similar to the Dulos case, this also occurred while the couple were in the midst of divorce and child custody disputes.
[7] The bill was originally introduced in the Covid-19-shortened 2020 session of the Connecticut General Assembly and was re-introduced in March of 2021 by state Sen. Alex Kasser (D-Greenwich).
[8] The law expanded the state's definition of domestic violence to include coercive control, which was defined as:[9] a pattern of behavior toward a person who is, or has been, an intimate partner or family or household member ... which causes fear or harm to such person or restricts such person's freedom of action.Examples of behavior that the law identifies as coercive control include not merely physical violence or the threat of physical violence but also:[9] According to Suzanne Adam, the executive director of the Domestic Violence Crisis Center of Stamford, Connecticut, the law also makes coercive control grounds for restraining orders and other protections in family relations matters brought to the Superior Courts and establishes grants for persons with low incomes applying for restraining orders.