After addressing concerns that Michelle Troconis was allegedly reading court-sealed documents during her criminal trial in Stamford, the 23rd day of her trial continued Friday with testimony from a state police detective who interviewed Troconis three times in 2019.

In that final interview in 2019 — which the jury saw a recording of Friday — detectives point out inconsistencies in Troconis’ earlier statements to police and urge her to be honest.

Retired Connecticut Police Department Det. John Kimball returned to the stand Friday and first walked the jury through surveillance footage that showed a Jeep Cherokee and Chevrolet Suburban, which Troconis and her then-boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, were allegedly driving, going back and forth between their home at 4 Jefferson Crossing in Farmington and a property Dulos’ company owned at 80 Mountain Spring Road in Farmington on May 24. 2019, the day Jennifer Farber Dulos disappeared.

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In questioning Kimball about that footage, state prosecutor Sean McGuinness zeroed in on smoke that could be seen coming from a chimney at the home where Troconis was living with Dulos when his estranged wife went missing.

The jury had seen some of this video before, but this was the first time the chimney and smoke had been pointed out.

McGuinness asked Kimball if, in the three interviews Troconis did with investigators, she ever mentioned starting a fire that day — the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.

He said no.

According to weather reports, temperatures were in the high 60s to low 70s at about 7 p.m. that day.

“I don’t know too many people having a fire on a day like this,” McGuinness said.

Outside the courthouse Friday afternoon, Troconis’ defense attorney, Jon Schoenhorn, said that if the defense argues after the state rests its case, there “will be testimony that having fires is something she did regularly.”

Schoenhorn mentioned that Pawel Gumienny, an employee of Dulos’, testified earlier in the trial that he was helping Troconis bring up firewood to the house after Farber Dulos went missing and went on to say that the video of the fire was speculative.

Investigators did not search the home at 4 Jefferson Crossing until May 31.

“Whatever it is, whatever they are trying to claim from a couple of puffs of white smoke at various times on a very windy day again it is pure speculation just like a darkened figure riding a bicycle on Memorial Day weekend in the town of New Canaan,” Schoenhorn said, referencing surveillance video of a person in dark clothing riding a bike the morning of May 24.

Investigators allege that Dulos rode a bike to Farber Dulos’ home at 69 Welles Ave. in New Canaan, where he attacked her.

Kimball testified that smoke was seen coming out of the chimney on the east end of the house between 6:44 p.m. and 7:02 p.m., just before city surveillance cameras captured the couple driving along Albany Avenue in Hartford, where investigators allege Dulos was dumping evidence related to Farber Dulos’ disappearance.

Investigators tracked Dulos’ cell phone data to Albany Avenue, where surveillance video from Hartford’s city cameras shows Dulos driving his Ford F-150 Raptor and making stops to dump items into trash bins and a storm drain while Troconis drove in the passenger seat between 7:30 p.m. and 7:50 p.m.

Investigators combed through those trash bins and suctioned out the contents of the storm drain, finding altered license plates and blood-soaked clothes they believe Farber Dulos was wearing when she died. They also found zip ties, a box cutter, garbage bags, and other items, all with stains from a blood-like substance.

Troconis is charged with conspiring with Dulos to kill Farber Dulos, the mother of his five children with whom he was in the midst of a divorce and custody battle, and helping to cover up the crimes.

On June 2 and June 6, 2019, investigators interviewed Troconis about Farber Dulos’ disappearance. First at the New Canaan Police Department, then in her attorney’s office.

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The jury has seen video recordings of those two interviews, and on Friday saw part of her third interview, in which she admitted she hadn’t been entirely truthful during the first two.

“This is our third conversation and that’s two more conversations than most people have,” Kimball said at the start of the third and final interview on Aug. 13.

“We need you to be 100 percent honest,” said Connecticut State Police Det. Corey Clabby.

The detectives said that they wanted to give Troconis the chance to tell the truth and clarify some things.

“This really is an opportunity,” Kimball said.

He then asked Troconis: “Are you ready to admit that you weren’t 100% honest in the first two interviews?”

Troconis paused briefly, then said “Yes.”

In her earlier interviews, Troconis told investigators that on the morning Farber Dulos disappeared, she showered with Dulos. McGuinness asked Kimball about this while he was on the stand Friday. Kimball said that during the interview on June 2, 2019, Troconis indicated that “Fotis Dulos was there with her when she woke up, he entered the shower with her,” he said. And that she later saw him in his office.

But in August, she told investigators she did not see him until that afternoon.

“When you turned your alarm off in your bedroom, was Fotis there?” Clabby asked.

“No,” she replied.

“He was not there?” he clarified.

“No,” she said

“You didn’t take a shower with him?”

“No,” Troconis answered.

In the video, Troconis went on to say she did not see him at all that morning.

“I didn’t see him in the room, in the shower, or the room, I didn’t,” she said. “I did not see him in the morning in the house.”

She said during the interview that maybe she had just assumed he was home.

“Back then I always thought he was in the house but thinking I never saw him, I never heard his voice. So obviously he wasn’t … probably he wasn’t in the house.”

Kimball on Friday also testified that on June 6, 2019, Troconis said she had not seen Dulos’ phone that morning. She thought Dulos had it with him, she’d said. But in the third interview, that changed.

“The defendant just indicated that she saw Mr. Dulos’ phone in the Fore Group office, correct?” Kimball asked after pausing the video of the interview.

“That’s correct,” Kimball said.

Later in the interview, Clabby pressed Troconis about the phone being left at home.

He asked her if she thought it was odd that Dulos left his phone at home “the day his wife goes missing” and urged her to tell the truth.

“There’s no way you just didn’t know,” he said.

Detectives then told Troconis that she was facing multiple years in prison.

“Help yourself and tell us what you know, because we all believe you know a lot more.”

During the part of the video the jury saw Friday, detectives also pointed out other inconsistencies in Troconis’ account of May 24.

In her June 2019 interviews, Kimball said Troconis never mentioned answering a call to Dulos’ phone that morning. But in the August 2019 interview, she described answering a call from Dulos’ friend in Greece — a call that investigators learned was prearranged at the urging of Kent Mawhinney, Dulos’ lawyer who is also charged as a co-conspirator in Farber Dulos’ death.

They also asked Troconis at length about whether she briefly had the keys to Gumienny’s Toyota Tacoma that afternoon. That truck has dominated a good portion of testimony in her trial, as investigators allege Dulos drove that truck to New Canaan and back on the day Farber Dulos went missing.

When Gumienny took the stand, he testified that he saw the keys to his Tacoma handing from the passenger door of his truck at 80 Mountain Spring Road that afternoon. He left for a few minutes, and when he came back with Dulos, the keys were gone. He said Dulos called Troconis and she brought the keys back. In the video shown Friday, Troconis admitted to having the keys but said they were in the Jeep she was driving.

Detectives told her they knew that was not true.

She stumbled over an answer but ultimately said she didn’t know how she had ended up with the Tacoma keys.

They also highlighted other details that Troconis did not tell detectives about in the first interviews, like how she picked Dulos up from a car wash in the days after Farber Dulos went missing.

Outside the presence of the jury Friday afternoon, attorneys went back and forth in a heated exchange regarding witnesses the defense is expected to call to the stand next week to testify about memory.

McGuinness raised concerns that the defense had not provided reports about the witnesses’ expected testimony.

The defense countered that the court would be denying Troconis her constitutional right to present a defense if they were prevented from calling those witnesses, as memory is “the sole basis of the defense.”

McGuinness said that because the defense had provided them with the witnesses’ lengthy resumes but not reports regarding their testimony, the state would not have enough time to prepare to cross-examine those witnesses.

“We’re going to get a report dumped on our lap on Monday night and we’re going to be expected to cross next week and it’s not fair,” McGuiness said.

Judge Kevin A. Randolph ruled that the defense will be required to send the court reports from the witnesses by midnight Friday.

Troconis’ trial is set to resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday after Monday’s Presidents’ Day holiday.