Murder in the Dollhouse by Rich Cohen

From New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen, an enthralling and deeply investigated book about Jennifer Dulos, a suburban mother who disappeared one morning after dropping her kids at school.

The daughter of Hilliard and Gloria Farber, Jennifer was born in New York in 1968 into a world of privilege and vast wealth. She attended Saint Ann's, an elite private school in Brooklyn, and went on to graduate from Brown, one of the top Ivy League colleges. One of Jennifer’s greatest aspirations in life was finding the perfect husband and becoming a mother. 

Although she was courted by many men, it wasn’t until Jennifer was thirty-five and traveling through Aspen airport when she reconnected with Fotis Dulos, a Greek-American she’d crossed paths with years earlier at Brown. Their relationship started on sour note when Jennifer found out Fotis had a wife, however they stayed together and when his divorce was finalized, they married and had five kids.

While Jennifer focused on motherhood, her husband was building a business financed by her parents. Jennifer’s friends expressed concerns about her husband’s violent outbursts and their fears that he only married her for the money. After years of mental anguish, Jennifer filed for divorce and fought for custody of the kids. A nasty court battle ensued, costing the couple a fortune, money Jennifer had but Fotis did not. He risked losing his business and the pleasures to which he’d grown accustomed.

On the morning of May 24, 2019, Jennifer left her New Canaan home to take her kids to school. She has been missing, presumed dead, ever since. In Murder in the Dollhouse, Cohen pieces together facts from Jennifer’s early life, marriage and divorce, and draws a devastating narrative of her murder at the hands of her husband.

Once I started this, I could not put it down. As Cohen writes, “This is a story of love and hate, money, debt, and status but it’s also about the lives of people you only think you know.”

Courtesy Rich Cohen

Rich Cohen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse, and Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent, among others. He is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, the co-creator of the HBO series Vinyl, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. He lives in Connecticut.

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