Fotis Dulos' ex-girlfriend who is said to have turned on him and admitted to police that she made up his alibi in the case of his missing estranged wife went before a judge in Connecticut on Friday.

Michelle Troconis was dating Dulos when his estranged wife Jennifer vanished in May.

Both she and Dulos have been charged with evidence tampering in Jennifer's disappearance, after allegedly dropping trash bags off at various locations on the night Jennifer vanished which were later tested for her DNA.

Troconis at first told police that she was with Dulos on the morning Jennifer disappeared but in a later interview, she allegedly confessed that she had lied.

Now the pair are awaiting separate trials and they are no longer together.

Michelle Troconis appeared in court in Connecticut on Friday. Her case was continued until January

Fotis Dulos leaving civil court earlier this week. Jennifer Dulos has been missing since May 24

Jennifer's body has not been found.

On Friday, Troconis appeared in court to ask a judge if she would be able to pick up her daughter from the airport in New York later this month when she arrived in the US from Argentina, where her father lives.

As part of her bail conditions, she was told to stay in Connecticut, but a judge granted the request and set the next court date for January 31.

She was joined by members of her family who smiled as they left court.

Dulos was in court earlier this week, but not for his criminal case.

Michelle is shown leaving court with her father. She was told she would be allowed to leave the state of Connecticut to collect her 13-year-old daughter from the airport next week

Troconis was supported by her mother and her sister alongside her father. They are pictured after the quick hearing on Friday

In addition to being charged with evidence tampering in Jennifer's disappearance, he is being sued by his estranged wife's mother-in-law for a $2.5million loan she says he must repay her.

Dulos was given the money by his late father-in-law over a period of several years beginning in 2004.

It was to be used to advance his property business, the Fore Group, but it was suggested in court that he had used some of the money on flights for him and Troconis and fancy dinners.

Hilliard Farber, his former father-in-law, died in January 2017.

Jennifer filed for divorce in June that year, and her mother, Gloria, sued Fotis in February 2018 to try to reclaim the money.

Jennifer vanished in May 2019.

In court this week, Fotis claimed he should not only have to repay the money but that he was still entitled to getting cash from the Farbers even after Jennifer divorced him and vanished.

As he left the courthouse, he told reporters: 'All I have to say is I wish Jennifer and her family a happy holiday.'

He and Jennifer were in the middle of a contentious divorce when she disappeared after dropping their five kids off at school on May 24.

Fotis Dulos was shown shoveling snow outside the home where he is staying on Thursday

Police claimed in charging documents that Dulos 'lay in wait' for her at the home she was renting.

However her body has never been found.

Fotis denies the charges. He says he has no idea what happened to his wife.

In police affidavits released earlier this year, detectives described how Dulos used an employee's car on the day Jennifer disappeared and said that when she returned it, the back seats had been replaced.

The employee said he kept the old backseats and when tested, police claim they found traces of Jennifer's blood.

However, Dulos' attorney - who has suggested Jennifer killed herself in a Gone Girl style plot - says they would have charged him if they had solid proof that she'd been harmed and that he harmed her.