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looking. the local police who are looking at us, we're not looking at us for security or other reasons. >> be careful, you and your crew. that does it for us. we'll see you at 11:00, a cnn special errors q. the dc mansion murders" starts now. \s the following is a catherine special record. a tight-knit family. >> these are people that loved each other. >> living a dream. >> they were the perfect example of how you live life. >> until the unthinkable. >> this is one of the worst kinds of crimes that can possibly happen. >> the family and their housekeeper held hostage, tortured, and left for dead. >> only a psychopath could do something like this.
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>> then the unexpected clue. >> that is what broke this case. >> the desperate manhunt. >> command was giving go, go, go. >> right here. >> right there. >> and the search for answers. >> these people had a plan, it's sadistic, horrific. tonight a cnn special report, the dc mansion murders. sunday, may 3rd, near phoenix, arizona, a race day for philip, the 10-year-old son of savvas and amy savopoulos. >> he wall street passionality beyond belief, no matter how he did on track, he would be smiling from ear to ear. >> jay howard was his coach, in his interview he recalls their last race. >> a typical day, we would get up in the morning and go to the track.
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>> amy and savvas followed philip all over the country complete le devoted to their son and his sport. >> i believe it was the third day when he had his accident. >> during the race, philip crashed his go-cart. >> both of and salva went onto the track to see philip. he was in typical good spirits, was not fazed by his accident in any way, shape or form. >> philip suffered a concussion, and doctors sent him home for bedrest. >> he was going to stay home, the schedule that the doctors laid out, rest for a few days, little bit of homework. it was in one of the wealthiest parts of d.c., not far from the embassy and vice president's house. >> woodland drive is known for
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one of the most expensive areas. >> but home would be no safe haven. a series of strange events happens. first on wednesday at 5:56 p.m., the security company monitoring the house gets an alert for broken glass. on the french doors on the side of the house. >> i'm lucky that i'm still here. >> shortly after, a voicemail was left for the family's second housekeeper, telling her not to come to work as planned. she played the message for abc. >> i hope you get this message. amy is in bed sick tonight, and she was sick this afternoon. and offered to stay and her her out. she's going to stay the night here. former assistant director of the fbi, it sounds suspicious. >> if you're an investigator
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listening to that, what would it tell you? >> it tells me i need to get that recording analyzed to see are there extraneous noises spiking up in the background. >> and she was sick in the afternoon. is that somebody in the background under duress screaming? >> a few hours later, gutierrez gets a text from amy savopoulos. i'm making sure that you don't come today. >> when you got that text, were you thinking that was strange or unusual to get that kind of text? >> yes. >> what did you first thing when you got it? >> i called her right away. >> did she answer? >> no. >> hi, you have reached my cell phone. >> later at 9:00 p.m., amy orders two pizzas from domino's but gives unusual instructions -- leave the bell and run the pies on the front porch. the porch lights are on, but the house is dark. >> it's just so eerie to think
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about, little did that pizza driver know -- >> right. he's walking up feet away from torture. >> right, so he is walking up feet away from torture -- from sadism, from mayhem inside the house. from the outside things seem quiet under the next morning, when her husband comes looking for her. >> i kept ringing the bell. my feeling was something was in there. >> a short time after, he gets a call from saavas savopoulos. >> he asked her to go with her to the hospital. vera's husband goes home. a few hours later, a mysterious delivery is made to the mansion, a package containing $40,000.
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>> court reports reshield he instructed the assistant to bring the money to the house. he puts it in one of the family cars and leaves. at 1:30 p.m., the dc fire department gets a call, reporting a fire on woodland drive. flames are pouring from the second floor coming from philip's bedroom. >> we do know at this point that the fire appears to be intentionally set. >> once the fire is out, firefighters discover the grisly scene, is rushed to the hospital, but doctors can't save her. a gruesome end to a nearly 20-hour nightmare. >> this is excessive, gratuitous violence, it goes well beyond
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once inside the property, firefighters doused the flames. they quickly found four bodies. >> three of the four victims killed yesterday suffered blunt force trauma before the fire began. >> there were injuries discovered, appear to be blunt force or sharp object injuries.
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>> it's a nightmare end to a fairy tale life. >> he tortured them, he killed them, even setting their home on fire. shocking to all who knew this family like mike, who met saavas savopoulos decades earlier as a church altar boy. >> this kind of thing only happens in the movies, not to somebody you know in real life. and particularly to a couple and family so well liked and well respected in the community. >> and that is what is so shocking about this. they aren't shady people. these are really family-oriented good people. lori diamond with with saavas to his formal. he had eyes for somebody else. >> he said there was somebody that he always had a crush on. and that all she had to do was say yes. >> that someone was amy martin, the daughter of an army colonel. they first met in high school,
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both wen to the university of maryland where savvas pursued her for years. >> i think he did ask he out a lot. >> what was he like after that? >> the happiest person you had ever seen. >> from then on, they were inseparable. >> after graduation, savvas went to law school, amy went to work. they married in 1994. >> she was his whole world. and off they went on their journey. >> a journey that quickly led to children. abigail was the first, katerina next, then philip. the son of a wealthy greek arrest crat, savvas soon joined his father's business. american iron works. >> he was excited about it. >> a partnership that brought wealth and abiding friendship. >> we went to dinner one night, and him and his dad were like
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the two kids that needed to be separated in class. and they were so close. and so funny. and i think he really looked up to his dad. >> and followed in his philanthropic footsteps. savvas and amy were active in washington activities. they were were active in philip's school. >> they were like a washington couple who lived under the radar. if anything, they deliberately kept a low profile. >> this guy didn't care about wealth. he would have given money away. he was all about the experience. >> a tight-knit family, whether it was amy leading them on hikes or savvas taking them on a year-long getaway to the caribbean. >> family was the most important thing. he was the kind of person who wanted to be in love and have a family and grow old with them. >> and as summer 2015 approached, the savopoulos family was certain growing up.
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abigail was graduating from high school. katerina searching for colleges, with her mother. savvas was opening up a martial arts school, something he dreamed of as a teenager. >> re used to joke with me. i would put up a hand and he would touch a nerve and i would say uncle, uncle. he knew how to defend himself. he really did. and philip was living his dream. as a go-cart racer. >> very fast learner, definitely no fear, he was not scared of it at all. >> philip's coach jay howard spoke to cnn exclusively about his young student with an old soul. >> he was -- the best way to describe it, ten years old going on 35. i mean, he was so mature. so well spoken, very clear he had a great education.
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great parenting and savvas was great with him. >> howard remembers one of the last dinners they had together. >> the waiter comes over and says would you like a bread basket. and he goes, i think i'm going to have to pass on the bread. i'm trying to watch my carbs this week, and i'm like -- you're ten. >> philip was inseparable from his dad. especially since sisters were away at boarding school. >> he was with them, 24/7, wherever we went, savvas was with him. >> savvas was always in control of situation. he would have done anything. his only son, his beloved wife. he would have done anything for them. he was a proctor. for him to not be able to protect? it must have been awful. >> an awful end. when we come back, the terror
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♪ as the smoke clears and the days pass, we learn much more about the brazen killings that took place in this wealthy washington, d.c. neighborhood in broad daylight. we're looking at this about 6:00 in the evening. this is probably an active street. >> right next door, the ambassador of australia, right next door to this.
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>> right. that's taking a fair amount of risk. >> a huge risk. they were held hosage for almost 20 hours and tortured. >> imagine how sadistic you have to be to slowly wring the life occupy something or beat it out of somebody or cut them over and over again so that they are slowly bleeding to death. >> these individuals, you have a leader, a primary person. this person is getting off on hearing the screams and the cries, and is enjoying the power, enjoying the thrill, and i think being able to come in, control this family, inflict these injuries was something he actually enjoyed doing.
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>> but who did these things? solving the crime depends heavily on unearthing physical evidence at the scene. >> when you have a quadruple homicide, this is in effect an all hands on deck. you have your best forensic people in this house. >> some of the first clues they find, a shattered lock. and this shouldpretty on the doors. >> that picture we have seen of the shoeprint how telling could it be? >> very telling if a police can locate the shoes of the same dimension, particularly if they can identify brand. it may put a person into that shoe. and a samurai sword?
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forensic scientist lawrence kobilins kobilinsky. >> how wide it? >> and a bloody baseball bad, similar to this, found in the upstairs bedroom where the three adult bludgeoned bodies are discover. >> with blood at that thick surface, at the thick end of the bat tells me that that was what was used to inflict that blunt trauma, striking these pour people on the back of the head. a knife is discovered in the trash behind the house. police find finger pripts and hair fibers. >> that would establish a direct linkage between a suspect or an individual and the cream sane. >> police find duct tape believed to have been used to restrain the victims, and matches thought to have been used to start of fire.
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and then the family's porsche missing from the garage, found 13 miles from the mansion, engulfed in flames. inside the burning car, a green construction vest, similar to vests worn by workers at savvas' company, aiw. >> was it some part of ruse, that i'm a representative of a utility company, trying to get access to the house? >> later that vest will provide another critical clue. the mystery deepens as police find thousands of dollars much cash left behind in the house. why would the killers level money behind? >> it was not just about the money, it was not just about all the jewelry that probably was there. that really goes to the motivation of the offender, that these murders themselves were very important. >> and the autopsies show the murders were horrific. >> they had to be restrained, or
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else they couldn't have been tortured and treated the way they had. they would have fought back. mr. savvas savopoulos was a healthy young man, 46 years old. he certainly would have fought back if he had not been restrained. >> even after the ransom money was dropped off, the horror continues for several more hours, until the house is set ablaze in the early afternoon. >> the subjects probably administer additional pain for the victim, that gap of time is i want more, you can get more. >> they were beaten, stabbed and strangled. >> that's a very close-in injury. it's not like a gunshot where you can shoot a gun from a distance. this strangulation, you have to be right in and at crier victim.
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there's a psychological overlay here to what's going on in that home. >> amy died from sharp force trauma, and 10-year-old philip stabbed and burned beyond recognition. >> i think it became pretty clear to the first responders that the child had been tortured multiple stab wounds. the son was engulfed in flame, to the point where the body was so charred that these couldn't even determine gender. >> first responders find the three adults in a bedroom upstairs, vera and amy bound in chairs, and savvas on the floor. >> the 10-year-old was handled separately. >> philip is discovered in his bedroom, alone. >> he was the bargaining chip, the threat was made against him while getting the adults to do
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whatever the perpetrator wanted. >> the unknown of where is my son? i want to see my son or whatever pain and suffering he was going through, it's all in the mind of a killer. >> clearly this is where the fire started. philip's bedroom where his body was found. why do you think they started the fire there, which could easily be seen on the street. >> i think this is a mistake of a killer who is not particularly organized, a killer who thought that the use of an accelerant, gasoline presumably would burn faster, hotter and more completely. >> but the killer's assumptions were wrong. >> this resulted in the potential discovery of much physical evidence that could be preserved, tested, people eliminated, people included in the suspect hunt. coming up, an unexpected clue breaks the case wide open.
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♪ a city in shock. a neighborhood in fear. a family devastated. at washington, d.c. mourns for the family and their housekeeper, investigators begin their search for who could be behind a horrific crime. >> there was almost prolonged suffering and torture for the sake of suffering and torture. >> hours after the bodies are discovered, the family's porsche is discovered miles away on fire in a church parking lot. >> i saw fire coming from the front ciphered car. >> anybody who may have information about the blue 2008 porsche, please call us with what information you may have. then a mysterious figure
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emerges. police release grainy surveillance video that shows someone running from the burning porsche. could this be the killer? but the most important break comes from an unlikely source -- a piece of pizza. >> it just so happens that the fire never really hit that slice of pizza. that is what broke this case. >> for dna experts like lawrence kobilinsky, it's a pot of gold. >> you have a lot of cheek cells that tend to slough off into your saliva. there's a lot of dna in saliva. every time you bite into something, you are leaving small amounts of saliva behind. >> the pizza is taken to a forensic lab and immediately tested for dna. >> they compared that developed dna to a database, and out pops
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darrell wint. >> he worked for savopoulos ten years before. almost a week after the homicid homicides, his face is everywhere. >> you need to stop what you're doing and look closely. >> the manhunt is on. >> the suspect is 34 darren dillon wint. >> he's a very violent man and the violence probably started when he was very young. >> he was born in guyana, for a short time was a u.s. marine recruit before dropping out of the basic training. wint has a violent criminal past, including arrests for domestic violence, assault and burglary. mary ellen o'toole is a former fbi profiler. >> when you have an offender whose family is afraid of him, whose girlfriend is afraid of him. that type of violence is not going to go away.
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>> in 2010, he was arrested behind a dumpster near american iron works, carrying a 2-foot-lo machete. >> i think that's significant. that occurred in 2010, five years after he left american iron works, so he's back at the same company with a machete, behaving in a very threatening manner. >> wint was only convicted of a misdemeanor in that case, but now thanks to the dna evidence on that piece of pizza, he's the main suspect in a horrific quadruple murder. >> it's a giant olympic-sized broad jump from a piece of pizza to four homicides. >> wint's former attorney robin ficker, who represented him in past run-ins with the law, says police have the wrong guy. >> i know him to be a kind, gentle, nonaggressive person, someone you wouldn't mind your grandmother going to lunch with. >> right now it does not appear
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this was just a random crime, but there is a connection through the business of the suspect and the savopoulos family business. >> wint was a welder at aiw from 2003 to 2005, and sources say he had a reputation as a problem employees, but is wint capable of torturing and murdering four people by himself? >> how do you restrain multiple people? i mean, these things can happen, but the simplest explanation is there's somebody else there committing the crime, you know, actually holding these other people down while a knife is held to the throat of the son. >> for now police only tie wint to the crime. a team of federal agents begin a massive manhunt. they track wint to his girlfriend's home in brooklyn, new york. next the highstakes manhunt comes to a boiling point, and
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♪ one week after the brutal murders of a washington, d.c. family and their housekeeper, a major break in the case form. a suspect has identified in a brutal quadruple homicides. >> authorities identifying a suspect there an unusual clue. >> dna on a pizza crust. >> atf forensic specialists recover dna at the mansion that pins a suspect. >> you find the pizza that was ordered the night before the murders, you find the pizza was eaten, and it is a crucial piece of evidence.
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>> darren wint is the prime suspect, and a wanted fugitive. he flees the d.c. area. please track him to new york. he's hiding out at his gere friend's apartment in brooklyn. just before they move in to arrest him, wint disappears again. >> how much did they miss him by? >> not long, probably minutes. wint happened to see himself on the news named as the suspect. he fled before our people were able to get to the location. i was the first car. >> marshal bon fernandez leads the team of federal agents tasked with captures wint. >> my concern is since he wasn't an american citizen that he was trying to get himself some sort of i.d. or passport to get out of the country. >> an fernandez an his team scramble to find wint, they worry he has nothing to lose.
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>> he's incredibly dangerous person on the streets, especially for a patrol officer who might try to pull him over. >> with the clock ticking, they get a tip he is on his way back to d.c. >> he had gone up on a bus. we assumed he was on the chinatown bus. >> i boarded the buses to find him? >> we probably boarded four our five buses that arrived from brooklyn, but he wasn't on any of them. >> wibt they later learned pays a cabdriver to team him to this hotel in a washington, d.c. suburb. >> two of our experienced investigators were parked side by side. they came up with information that led us here. we sent an advance team to figure out what room he was in. we were putting in the tactical gear, getting prepared to make the arrest.
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>> the timing is incredibly fortunate. they spot wint leaving the hotel. but he's not alone. >> while the advance team told us, hey, they just took off, going up route 1. >> fernandez in a fleet of police cars chase two vehicles. the white chevy cruze, along with a truck of unknown associates. >> i could see the truck and the car, so we pulled in right behind. >> after the suspects's vehicle perform a bizarre u-turn, fernandez radios for hole koppetter backup. >> i decided we had to take the cars down. >> it was right here, right? >> that's right. command was given, go, go, go, and we did it just like we practiced, pinched the car in, another car came around on the side, belowic it off. >> fernandez and his team pull quickly to pull everyone from both vehicles, inside the car, wint and four others, two of them women.
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>> what was wint like? was he combative? was he compliant? >> when he came out, his body posture and look on his face was he was thinking about running, but we were right on top of him, and he never got a chance. >> finally after a painstaking 48-hour manhunt, wint is captured. >> it was such a horrible situation, he's such a monster. i felt great. >> what did you see when you opened up the car doors? >> well, i saw the passenger door of the truck was open after we pulled the occupants out, and i just glanced. i could see a big wad of $100 bills. it had to be thousands of dollars in the side compartment of the passenger door. >> officers find at least $10,000 in the vehicles. $100 bills, the same denomination as the stacks of money dropped off tess mansion. one of the women in the car with wint admitted she performed more than $10,000 in money orders after the murders. so far, investigators have
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recovered 30 of the $40,000 ransom. >> i would think the rest of that money went to wint spending it on a cab ride to new york, spending it on himself. >> for now, only wint is charged with the murders. the people traveling with him are all released from custody. we now learn more about darren wint. his green card was already in jeopardy when he was arrested in march for allegedly receiving stolen property. but immigration officials were never notified. >> if darren wint is arrested in march and i.c.e. never received those fingerprints until after he's arrested for the quadruple murders, it tells me there's a breakdown in the system somewhere. >> this time wint is going nowhere, held without bond in a washington jail. next, more damning evidence against wint, but this case may
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not be a slam dunk. >> we believe he was set up. plus new clues raise suspicions about whether someone else might be involved. >> wint may have had an accomplice. all job? no, doing the whole living room. hey you guys should come over later. the exclusive one-coat color collection from behr® marquee interior. every color covers in one coat, guaranteed. turning a two-coat job into an easy marquee® afternoon. sfx: phone chime they're still at it. ♪ behr® marquee. behr's most advanced interior paint and primer. exclusively at the home depot. who knows, one of these kids just might be the one. to clean the oceans, to start a movement, or lead a country. it may not be obvious yet, but one of these kids is going to change the world.
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we just need to make sure she has what she needs. welcome to windows 10. the future starts now for all of us. deals are made over bacon. global trade runs on eggs. we've got breakfast for everybody. paleo people. we got sausage and bacon. vegan? i don't know what that is, but we got a lot of fresh fruit. you call yourself a glutenarian? hey, we've got cereal, bagels, toast, everything you can handle. we're insane in the grain! oh, pancakes, huh? i feel you on that.
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well, mr. wint is now incarcerated, and he is held without bond. our work is not done. >> may 22nd, daron wint, the lone suspect in the grisly washington, d.c. mansion murders is capture and behind bars. >> he has been isolated for some time, and he is kept on to a administrative wing and for a time, he was on suicide watch wing and these are highly segregated locations which are cement floor, paper gown, nothing else. >> wint's former attorney many this case, sean hanover. >> he helped us by being open with us, and we believe that he is set up, and that there are more people involved with this. >> but more than two months pass and no one else is arrested. in fact, the case against wint only heats up. the prosecutors revealed damning
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new evidence at a pretrial hearing. >> we we at the u.s. attorney's office will use the full force of the law to make sure that justice is served. >> savopolus' daughter was away at college, and for the first time, they said that they found wint's dna on a second piece of evidence, a green vest found inside of the family's blue porche miles away are the mansion. forensic expert lawrence kobilinsky. >> and now we have crucial linkage and not only with the pizza crust in the mansion, but now we have an item in the
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porsche that was apparently torched by whoever committed the crime, and now a juror is looking at two critical pieces of evidence that says that daron wint was involved in these killings. >> reporter: savopolus' dna is found and the vest, too, and the dna of a third unidentified person. could this be an accomplice? >> yes, it could mean that, and one way to get around this is e elimination specimens. who might are have had contact with the vest? finding a match on the database would be really a major find in. >> reporter: so far though, no match, but there's more on the prime suspect. at wint's father's home investigators find an $1,100 rereceipt for an immigration attorney for wint four days before he was ever named f ed a suspect. did wint know they were coming for him.
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in court, lawyers argued that the client could not have acted alone and raised questions about his as ssistant 28-year-old jorn wallace who delivered the money to the mansion as as the victims were held hostage inside. police say that wallace who had been working for savopolus for two months showed cash and six bundles inside of the red bag. but there were only four bundles. >> and where are the other two? >> reporter: and the court records show wallace' checkbook and passport and rej station for one of savopolus' receiptgistra >> i don't know about the passport? is was he going to the e free
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flee? was he goings cape? the police are very curious about mr. wallace. >> reporter: and could there be a connection between jordan wallace and daron wint? our research showed that in 1976 wint live ed d in the same apart complex as wallace' father-in-law. >> i think that is not a coincidence, but strong likelihood that they ran into each other, and that is likely the place where the first two men met. >> reporter: but what is not clear if theyleyed in the same building as wint or just visite visited, and we found no other indication that wint and wallace knew each other. >> i would say that the technology had been there in the go carts. >> reporter: wallace raised suspension su suspicions early on, because he raised questions about the money drop. >> with all of the questions of
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the stories of the quadruple homicide and him being the delivery person, does the excitement and the risk of his involvement in that case play with his memory? is it all innocent? >> have you seen this before in other cases? >> sure, sure. it happens in high pressure cases, and certainly here, the pressure is on, because four people are dead. >> reporter: despite the suspicions, the police have not found any evidence implicating wallace in the murders, and they have not charged him on this case. cnn tried to get wallace' side of the story but neither he nor his pamly would comment. c nsh also been looking at wallace' c cousin who was fired at a time when he left at the american metal works, because he threatened to burn the place out
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when he left. >> reporter: why only wint? why is he is the only one behind bars do you think? >> i don't know why he is hind bars. i really don't. i am amazed they have not brought somebody else in. >> reporter: so many questions still linger. was revenge the motive? >> it could have been that he was ainngry about losing his jo ten years ago. he resented losing his job. >> reporter: if the motive was money, why leave expensive art, jou jewelry and thousands of dollars in cash behind? >> there is an element here that seems personal, and indicators of anger in this. there are certainly indicators of torture in this all over a relatively small amount of money. >> i am sure that silo would have have given everything away to save his family. >> reporter: and could someone have saved the family?
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>> you look for opportunities for someone to alert the police that something was not right at the house, and whether it is the housekeeper's husband, the other housekeeper waved off in an unusual way, the assistant, people at work? is this a story of opportunity lost? [ bells toll ] >> reporter: as family and friends say good-bye to philip, amy, saba and vera, all are left to wonder why anyone would want to hurt this family. >> we may never know the true story. >> we may never know. we may never know. >> i just picture the three of them together. and that's the only thing this
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that makes me feel better is that makes me feel better is that at least they are together. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com playing the trump card. is donald trump rewriting the rules of the political game? i'm brooke baldwin in for don lemon. take a look at the latest instagram. >> he is the master brander. >> and he is the most interesting character out there. >> and there is a macho appeal to saying, i'm just sick of nothing happen iing, and u maket happen, vote for me. and i like him. >> yeah. now, we all know that bill clinton did not endorse donald trump, but you have to hand it to the candidate for make it look like he did, kind of. is that the kind of the take-no-are prisoners strategy that could take trum tp

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