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A child and three adults were found dead after a 'very suspicious' house fire on Thursday afternoon in the affluent district of Northwest D.C., police have said.


The $2 million family home, a short walk from Joe Biden's home on Embassy Row, is owned by Savvas Savopoulos, a Greek American and the president and CEO of American Iron Works, the leading manufacturer of building works in the United States.


Police refused to identify the victims as they launched an appeal to find the person who drove the family's Porsche out of the property at 10.30am. The car was found abandoned nearby hours later.


Savopoulos, 46, lives at the home with his wife Amy, 10-year-old son Philip, and two housekeepers in the exclusive neighborhood alongside numerous ambassadors. The couple also has two teenage daughters, Abigail and Katerina, but it is believed the girls were at boarding school at the time.


One of the housekeepers told FOX5 that she was at the home on Wednesday and that the Savopouloses, their son and a housekeeper slept in the home that night.


But on Thursday morning, she received a text message from the mother saying the family was sick so she should not come by. Mrs Savopoulos did not pick up when the housekeeper called and a text she sent also went unanswered, she said.


'She said, "I want to make sure you are not coming today",' the housekeeper recounted as she spoke to NBC4. '"Come Monday or any other day but not today".'


Friends of the Savopoulos family confirmed to DailyMail.com that fourth-grader Philip Savopoulos did not go to school on Thursday.


Firefighters were called to the blaze at 3pm to find smoke and fire billowing into the sky. Within minutes, after breaking into the home through the roof and windows, homicide detectives and secret service agents were called to the scene and taped off the street.


The property is now the scene of an arson investigation as detectives brand the incident 'very suspicious'.


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A neighbor, who has known the family for years, said she saw the 'lady of the house' and 'the cleaner' being placed in ambulances.


Detectives confirmed at least one child was pulled from the wreckage.


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D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier told a press conference there are no signs of forced entry but the nature of the fire seemed 'very suspicious'.


They issued a public appeal for any witnesses who saw a blue 2008 Porsche 911, license plate DK2418, leave the scene on Thursday at 10.30am.


Fox 5 reporter Emily Miller reported the car is owned by Amy Savopoulos. The vehicle was found abandoned at 6pm nearby.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...luent-suburbs-D-C-suspected-arson-attack.html
 
At least one of the four people found dead in a burning home in the affluent district of Northwest D.C. on Thursday had suffered head wounds and smelled of gasoline, according to reports.
The bodies of three adults and one child were found inside the $2 million family home, a short walk from Joe Biden's home on Embassy Row, following the blaze on Thursday afternoon.
One of the victims was bleeding from the head and smelled of gasoline when medics took them to hospital, while other evidence also points to arson, investigators told NBC4. There are no signs of forced entry at the house.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...luent-suburbs-D-C-suspected-arson-attack.html
 
The perp had to be someone close to the family...or perhaps one of the individuals found dead...someone who knew the routine and schedule of the staff and the name of the housekeeper in order to find them in the wife's phone contacts...to text the housekeeper and tell her not to come. Sad this little family and the housekeeper were killed. I wonder if somehow the teenagers had some part in this to get their inheritance early...even though they were at boarding school. Perhaps they were offended at being sent away. It wouldn't be the first time we've read about that here on DD.

I hope they solve this quickly.
 
I wonder about the daughters and more specifically the daughters' friends and boyfriends.

The girls are off at boarding school and their little brothers are at home enjoying the riches of their families, maybe some jealousy. Or, teenage daughters... Wouldn't be the first to off the family for the money or to be with the boyfriend.

But, of course, he's a CEO, he's bound to have made some enemies through the years in business.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
 
Murdered CEO, wife, son, and maid were 'bound and threatened' overnight in DC mansion by attackers who 'knew the family and wanted something from the father'
  • Savvas and Amy Savopoulos found dead at their DC home on Thursday
  • 10-year-old son Philip and housekeeper Veralicia Figurera, 57, also killed
  • Fire was set at home and detectives found no sign of forced entry
  • Investigators think family held overnight by multiple suspects they knew
  • Police have ruled that the fire was intentional and consider it murder
  • Released footage showed man in hoodie who may have taken family's Porsche found set ablaze Thursday in Prince George's County, Maryland

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-family-DC-known-attackers-murder-arson.html
 
WASHINGTON (AP) — Savvas Savopoulos was energized. He spent the day sprucing up his northern Virginia martial arts studio for its grand opening with his family's longtime housekeeper. Around 5:30 p.m., his wife called, telling him to come home to watch their 10-year-old son because she had plans.

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The housekeeper, Nelitza Gutierrez, was one of the last people to see Savopoulos alive.

The next day, May 14, firefighters were called to the wealthy executive's Washington mansion, where they found the bodies of 46-year-old Savopoulos, his wife, Amy, 47; their son, Philip; and another housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa. All were slain before the fire was set, police said, and three had been stabbed or bludgeoned.

Now a week later, investigators have provided few details. Late Wednesday, they announced they had identified a suspect in the killings, 34-year-old Daron Dylon Wint, but released no information about what his motive might have been, or whether he knew the family.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Wint on charges of first-degree murder, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release.

Text messages and voicemails from the Savopouloses to their confused and frightened household staff suggest something was amiss in the house many hours before the bodies were found. Their blue Porsche turned up in suburban Maryland. It too had been set on fire.

The Savopouloses lived in Woodley Park, where multimillion-dollar homes are protected by fences and elaborate security systems and local and federal law enforcement officers are a constant presence, in part because Vice President Joe Biden's official residence is nearby.

On Tuesday, half of their block was cordoned off by police tape, and a half-dozen police vehicles were parked near the $4.5 million house. Garbage bags blocked the burned-out second-story windows.

In the absence of solid information from law enforcement, speculation has run rampant about who might have killed them and why. No one broke into the house, police have said, suggesting the family may have known the killer or killers.

Then again, Gutierrez said in an interview Wednesday that the Savopouloses were not hyper-vigilant about security and sometimes left doors to the house or garage open. The family had expensive jewelry and a valuable art collection inside the home, she said.

Gutierrez said she believes someone was inside the house with the family before 3 p.m. last Wednesday, when Figueroa normally would have left for the day.

There was a stark contrast, Gutierrez said, between Savvas Savopoulos' mood when he left the martial arts studio and the flustered-sounding voicemail he left for her at 9:30 that night. While he had said earlier that his wife was going out that night, he said in the voicemail that she was sick in bed. He said Figueroa was staying overnight. He also said Figueroa's cellphone was dead and the family didn't have a charger for it.

"It doesn't make any sense. How come you don't have another phone — iPhones are all over," Gutierrez said. "He was kind of building stories."

On the day of the fire, Gutierrez received a text message from Amy that read, in part, "I am making sure you do not come today."

Gutierrez called Amy immediately, but it went to voicemail. She texted Amy but didn't get a response.

Also that morning, Figueroa's husband, Bernardo Alfaro, went to the house and knocked on the door, but no one answered. While he was there, Alfaro told WJLA-TV that Savvas Savopoulos called his cellphone and told him that Amy had gone to the hospital and Figueroa had accompanied her.

"My feeling was that somebody was inside," Alfaro said. He continued trying to call his wife and got no answer.

The Savopouloses' blue Porsche was parked on the street outside the home at the time, Alfaro said. After the slayings, police found the Porsche in a parking lot in New Carrollton, Maryland, about 13 miles from the house.

Police have released grainy surveillance videos of a person they said they want to interview about the killings, but they have not identified the person or said where the footage was taken. It was not clear whether the person in the video was Wint, or a second individual.

The Savopouloses' relatives have made few public statements and have not returned phone calls.

The couple has two surviving teenage daughters who attend boarding schools in other states. Gutierrez said she has seen the daughters since the killings and that they were too distraught to speak.

Savvas Savopoulos was the CEO of American Iron Works, a construction-materials supplier based in Hyattsville, Maryland, that has been involved in major projects in downtown Washington. Company representatives have repeatedly declined to comment. Savopoulos moonlighted as a martial-arts instructor.

Gutierrez, who worked for the family for 20 years, said she feels guilty that she didn't check on the Savopouloses.

"This is a nightmare for me. I can't believe they are gone," she said. "I loved this family very deeply and the little boy and my friend Vera."

Neighbors, meanwhile, are anxious.

Michael Lerman, 83, an inventor and retired pilot who lives nearby, said he and his wife started turning on their security system when they go to bed at night. Previously, they had only activated it when they left the house.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/suspect-named-killing-wealthy-dc-family-housekeeper-085148594.html
 
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/suspect-murders-fire-found-pizza-box-dna-article-1.2230243

First suspect for D.C. murders and house fire identified by matching DNA to pizza crust: report
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D.C. police announced they have identifed the first suspect for the quadruple murders, after matching him to DNA found on the crust of a Domino’s Pizza that was delivered to the house at night while the victims were captive inside.

The suspect is Daron Dylon Wint, 34, from Maryland, and he is wanted for first-degree murder while armed, according to the Washington Post. Police reportedly do not know his whereabouts and any possible connection he had to the victims has not been revealed. Police have offered a $25,000 award for more infomation on him.

The Domino's delivery man told MyFoxDC he brought two pizzas to the home, where he found an envelope with money left outside for him.
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Authorities have not yet said if Wint is considered the only suspect. They also have not said if he is the "person of interest" seen in brief, blurry surveillance video released by cops earlier this week.

Hours before the bodies were found, Savvas’ personal assistant dropped a package with $40,000 in cash at the home, the Washington Post reported. It’s unclear what the money was for or if the assistant had talked to anyone at the home. A housekeeper who worked at the Savopoulos home for 20 years told the paper she had never seen anyone drop off money there before.
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Following the release of Wint's name, police searched an address for him in Lanham, Maryland. Online court records show that he was convicted of second-degree assault in Maryland in 2009 and sentenced to 30 days in jail. He also pleaded guilty in 2010 to malicious destruction of property, and a burglary charge in that case was dropped, court records show.

Text messages and voicemails from the Savopouloses to their confused and frightened household staff suggest something was amiss in the house many hours before the bodies were found. Their blue Porsche turned up in suburban Maryland. It too had been set on fire.

The Savopouloses lived in Woodley Park, where multimillion-dollar homes are protected by fences and elaborate security systems and local and federal law enforcement officers are a constant presence, in part because Vice President Joe Biden's official residence is nearby.

On Tuesday, half of their block was cordoned off by police tape, and half a dozen police vehicles were parked near the $4.5 million house. Garbage bags blocked the burned-out second-story windows.

In the absence of solid information from law enforcement, speculation has run rampant about who might have killed them and why. No one broke into the house, police have said, suggesting the family may have known the killer or killers.

Gutierrez said in an interview Wednesday that the Savopouloses were not hyper-vigilant about security and sometimes left house or garage doors open. The family had jewelry and an art collection inside the home, she said.

Gutierrez said she believes someone was in the house with the family before 3 p.m. May 13, when Figueroa normally would have left for the day.

There was a stark contrast, Gutierrez said, between Savvas Savopoulos' mood when he left the martial arts studio and the flustered-sounding voicemail he left for her at 9:30 that night. While he had said earlier that his wife was going out that night, he said in the voicemail that she was sick in bed. He said Figueroa was staying overnight. He also said Figueroa's cellphone was dead and the family didn't have a charger for it.

"It doesn't make any sense. How come you don't have another phone — iPhones are all over," Gutierrez said. "He was kind of building stories."

On the day of the fire, Gutierrez received a text message from Amy that read, in part, "I am making sure you do not come today."

Gutierrez called Amy immediately, but it went to voicemail. She texted Amy but didn't get a response.

Also that morning, Figueroa's husband, Bernardo Alfaro, went to the house and knocked on the door, but no one answered. While he was there, Alfaro told WJLA-TV that Savvas Savopoulos called his cellphone and told him that Amy had gone to the hospital and Figueroa had accompanied her.

"My feeling was that somebody was inside," Alfaro said. He continued trying to call his wife and got no answer.

The Savopouloses' blue Porsche was parked on the street outside the home at the time, Alfaro said. After the slayings, police found it in a parking lot in New Carrollton, Maryland, about 13 miles from the house. The car was found about 2 miles from the listed address for Wint.

Police have released grainy surveillance videos of a person they said they want to interview about the killings, but they haven't identified the person or said where the footage was taken. It was not clear whether the person in the video was Wint.

The Savopouloses' relatives have made few public statements and have not returned phone calls.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/suspect-named-killing-wealthy-dc-family-housekeeper-085148594.html
 
The suspect for a quadruple murder at a posh Washington D.C. family home was arrested without incident in D.C. Thursday night after a manhunt that had stretched into Brooklyn, police said.

Daron Dylon Wint, 34, was nabbed on Rhode Island Avenue in northeast D.C. at 11 p.m., according to police, who confirmed his capture to the Daily News. He has been charged with first degree felony murder while armed.

Wint was wanted for killings of Savvas Savopoulos, the 46-year-old CEO of American Iron Works, along with his wife, 10-year-old son and housekeeper.
 
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After launching a massive manhunt that led authorities to Brooklyn, they finally caught up with Wint back in Northeast DC on Thursday night as he left a hotel in a car.

He was arrested with five others who were traveling in the car with him or in a box truck driving nearby. The truck was carrying $10,000 in cash.

Members of the U.S. Marshals Task Force saw a stack of $100 bills in plain view.

'The denomination of this money is consistent with the denomination of money that was delivered to the decedent's resident prior to the homicide,' court documents said.

Fox5 reported that the other people arrested with him have not yet been charged.

The Savopouloses also had two teenage daughters who were both away at boarding school at the time of the killings. Chief Cathy Lanier told CNN on Friday that they were 'heartbroken and terrified'.

On Thursday's brief court hearing, Wint's public defender, Joan Lawson, said that the case against him was built on 'speculation and guesswork' and that he was an 'innocent person'.
 
D.C. police announced they have identifed the first suspect for the quadruple murders, after matching him to DNA found on the crust of a Domino’s Pizza that was delivered to the house at night while the victims were captive inside.

And the moral of this story is: Always eat the crusts!
 
WAIT, WAIT GUYS!
It's all a big misunderstanding. According to the suspect's lawyer:

The lawyer visiting the man accused in the Washington, D.C., murders of a wealthy couple, their son and the family’s housekeeper said Saturday that the suspect could not be the killer because he hates pizza, ABC News reported.

Robin Flicker told the station that Daron Wint, who was arrested this month in the quadruple homicide when his DNA was found on pizza at the crime scene, could not be guilty because, “He doesn’t eat pizza. If he were hungry, he wouldn’t order pizza.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/3...der-because-doesnt-eat-pizza/?intcmp=trending
 
Cops are taking a close look at an assistant who delivered a $40,000 cash ransom to a Washington, D.C., mansion during a hostage situation that ended in four gruesome murders and a fire to cover it up.

Jordan Wallace, 28, an amateur race car driver, worked for a few months driving and doing odd-jobs for Savvas Savopoulos, the CEO of American Iron Works in Maryland. But last month, he was pressed into a life or death scenario: get cash and deliver it to his bosses’ swanky $4.5 million dollar home, just a half mile from the U.S. Naval Observatory grounds, where Vice President Joe Biden lives.

Wallace gave two different accounts of how he came involved in the high-stakes handoff, according to court documents obtained by the Washington Post. In one, he heard from the 46-year-old Savopoulos May 13 and was told to get the cash from CEO’s accountant and put it inside a red car sitting in a garage at the mansion.

But Wallace originally told cops his boss called him May 14 and that Wallace accompanied the accountant to to a Maryland bank and saw the accountant withdraw the cash before putting the cash in the red car.

Text records give a different story altogether. Wallace texted Savopoulos around 8:30 p.m. on May 13, saying, “Got your message, I’ll call you once I get the package.”

The next morning, Wallace made several phone calls and sent several text messages, including one to a woman around 9 a.m. that included a picture of the red bag and cash.

“Daaaamn,” the woman wrote back, according to the Washington Post. “I wonder how much it is?”

“40,” Wallace responded, which wowed the woman, who wrote back, “Jesus.” The woman was his girlfriend, WTTG-TV reported.

By about 10:30 a.m., Wallace texted his boss, “Package delivered.”

Sometime between then and about 1:15 p.m. that day, Savopoulos, his 47-year-old wife Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip and the family housekeeper, 57-year-old Veralicia Figueroa, were murdered and a fire was set, allegedly by 34-year-old Daron Dylon Wint, who fled the scene and wasn’t arrested until nearly a week later.

By the time the fire was set, Wallace was in Chantilly, Va., where he was helping Savopoulos start a martial arts studio.

An employee of the iron works business told Wallace the home was engulfed in flames and he sped off to check on his employers.

“Hey ms Amy are you ok, if so you need to get home I got a call that your house is on fire,” he wrote in one of several texts messages to Amy and Savvos.

All four were already dead, according to cops.

Cops say cell phones were stolen from the crime scene and that more arrests, aside from Wint, are expected.
http://m.nydailynews.com/news/crime...estigation-zeroes-assistant-article-1.2246339
 
what a dumb fuck who the hell does not like pizza, maybe he just likes the crust. to bad N.Y. does not have the death penalty. that dude looks like the predator can you imagine him in your house terrorizing you
 
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An ex-convict who was arrested last May in a case involving the deaths of three family members and their housekeeper inside a northwest Washington mansion was indicted Wednesday on 20 felony charges including murder, kidnapping, extortion and arson.
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Prosecutors said Wint faces a total of 12 counts of first degree murder while armed, all with aggravating circumstances. They include four counts each of first degree murder while armed in the course of a kidnapping, first degree murder while armed in the course of a burglary and first degree premeditated murder while armed.

The other charges include kidnapping, burglary, extortion, arson and theft. Prosecutors said the grand jury charged Wint with "aggravating circumstances," including a finding that the murders were especially heinous, atrocious or cruel. He faces possible life imprisonment as a result of the charges.

Wint, a resident of Lanham, Maryland, was arrested a week after a May 14 fire at a $3 million mansion that led authorities to the crime scene.

Authorities who were called to the home for a report of fire found business executive Savvas Savopoulos, his wife Amy and their 10-year-old son Philip dead inside the house. Their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa was also found unconscious and with injuries, and she was taken to a hospital where she died.

The four were held captive inside the home for at least 18 hours while they arranged for $40,000 in cash to be dropped off at the home for their captors, authorities say. After the money was delivered, all four were killed, court documents said.

Wint, a welder who once worked for Savvas Savopoulos' company, American Iron Works, was linked to the crime scene by DNA, according documents previous filed in the case. His DNA was found on the crust of a partially-eaten slice of pepperoni pizza in a pizza box in the home near where the three adults were found, the documents said. The pizza was one of two ordered by Amy Savopoulos the night of May 13 while the group was "being held against their will," the documents said.

Authorities said in a previous court document that they believed the killings "required the presence and assistance of more than one person" but no one else has been charged. Prosecutors said in their statement Wednesday that the investigation into the murders is continuing.

Wint was initially charged in only the death of Savvas Savopoulos.
 
Suspect in D.C. quadruple killing testifies he was lured to crime scene, never saw victims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9c7aab18e94a


Daron Wint, the sole person charged with the 2015 slayings of three members of a D.C. family and their housekeeper, testified Wednesday that his half brother lured him to the family’s home for a paint and drywall job, then said he needed help “unloading the house” of valuables.


In a crowded courtroom, Wint, 37, in a soft-spoken voice with a hint of his Guyanese accent, told the jury that it was only because of his half brother Darrell Wint that he went to the Savopoulos home in Upper Northwest Washington in May 2015.
 
Update -

GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS

Maryland man found guilty of brutal quadruple killings dubbed ‘Mansion Murders’

A Maryland man was found guilty of murdering a wealthy Washington couple, their son, and housekeeper in a 2015 crime dubbed the “Mansion Murders.”

Daron Wint was charged in the killings of Savvas Savopoulos, 46, his wife Amy Savopoulos, 47, their son, Philp, 10, and their housekeeper, 57-year-old Veralicia “Vera” Figueroa.

The jury’s verdict Thursday capped a graphic six week trial that included hundreds of pieces of evidence and dozens of witnesses, The Washington Post reported.

He was convicted of all 20 counts against him, including murder, kidnapping, burglary and arson.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-maryland-man-guilty-20181025-story.html
 
So did the authorities determine he did in fact act alone or were they just not able to nail anybody else
 
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