A missing Connecticut mother of five whose late estranged husband was charged with killing her in May 2019 has been declared legally dead. News of the decision broke days ahead of the trial of her exs girlfriend, who is facing charges she conspired with him and helped cover up the alleged crime.

Jennifer Dulos was last seen on the morning of May 24, 2019, in New Canaan, after driving her five children to school. Her body was never found, but based on evidence of her blood in her garage and elsewhere, the state medical examiner determined that she suffered injuries that would have been non-survivable without medical treatment and declared the case a homicide of violence.