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special report. a tight-knit family. >> these are people who really 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 could possibly happen. >> the family and their housekeeper held hostage, tortured and left for dead. >> only a psychopath could do something like this. >> then the unexpected clue. >> that is what broke this case. >> the desperate manhunt.
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>> the command was given, go, go, go. >> right here? >> right there. >> and the search for answers. >> these people had a plan. it is sadistic. it is horrific. >> tonight, a cnn special report. the d.c. mansion murders. sunday, may 3rd, near phoenix, arizona, a race day for phillip, the 10-year-old son of sava and amy. >> he was passionate beyond belief. he would just be smiling from ear to ear. >> jay howard was phillip's coach. in this exclusive cnn interview, he recalls their last race. >> a typical day we would get up in the morning, breakfast, go to a track. >> they followed him to races all over the country, completely devoted to their son and his
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sport. >> i think it was the third time on track that day when phillip had his accident. >> during the race, phillip crashed his go-cart. >> i went on the track to go see phillip. he was in typical good spirits. was not fazed in any form. >> doctors sent him home for bed rest with a concussion. >> going to stay home and this kind of schedule the doctors laid out. rest for a few days. a little bit of homework. >> home was the d.c. mansion not far from several embassies and the vice president's house. >> woodland drive is known for having the biggest houses in the entire city. >> but home would be no safe haven. 10 days after phillip's race, a
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series of strange events began at the mansion. first, wednesday, 5:56 p.m. the security come 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. >> a voice mail was left for the 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 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.
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>> 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. i cannot answer right now. >> later at 9:00 p.m., amy orders two pizzas from domino's but gives unusual instructions -- ring the bell and leave the pies on the front porch. the porch lights are on, but the house is dark. >> it's just so eerie to think about, little did that pizza driver know -- >> right. he's walking up feet away from
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torture. sadism, mayhem inside that 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 somebody was inside. >> a short time after, he gets a call from saavas savopoulos. >> i'm sorry i did not call you. she has to stay with my wife because she was feeling bad. 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 records reveal he instructed the assistant to bring the money to the house. he stacks $100 bills 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 flames are out, firefighters discover the grisly scene, their bodies burnt. she is rushed to the hospital, but doctors can't save her. a gruesome end to a nearly 20-hour nightmare. >> this is really excessive, gratuitous violence, it goes well beyond just doing it for money. when we come back, the savopoulos family. why would anyone want them dead?
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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. >> 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
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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 went with saavas to his fraternity 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, both went to the university of maryland where savvas pursued amy for years. >> i think he did ask her 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.
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>> 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 aristocrat, savvas soon joined his father's business. american iron works. >> he was excited about it. he wanted to be successful right along with him. >> a partnership that brought wealth and abiding friendship. >> we went to dinner one night, and him and his dad were like 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 charities. amy was a regular volunteer at the kids's school.
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>> they were a nice, quiet 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 certainly growing up. 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. >> he used to joke with me. i would put up a hand and he would touch a nerve and i would say uncle, uncle. stop. he knew how to defend himself.
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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. 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
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away at boarding school. >> he was with them, 24/7, wherever we went, savvas was with him. >> savvas was always in control of situations. he would have done anything. his only son, his beloved wife. he would have done anything for them. he was a protector. for him to not be able to protect? it must have been awful. >> an awful end. when we come back, the terror inside the mansion. >> the body was so charred, they couldn't even determine gender. ♪ i don't want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. or wonder... ...whether i should seek treatment. i am ready. because today there's harvoni. a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. harvoni is proven to cure
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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. >> right. that's taking a fair amount of risk. >> a huge risk. a aim and amy and savvas, philip, and their housekeeper were held hostage 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
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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. >> 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 want your best forensic people in this house. >> some of the first clues they find, a shattered lock. and some shoe print on the side of the house. suggesting whoever held the family and the housekeeper hostage forced their way in.
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>> 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 inside the estate, possible murder weapons. a samurai sword like this one taken from savvas collection. forensic scientist lawrence kobilinsky. >> they would have to look at the blade. is it honed on one side, both side. how wide is it? how long is it? >> and a bloody baseball bat, similar to this, found in the upstairs bedroom where the three adult bludgeoned bodies are discovered. >> 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
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trauma, striking these poor people on the back of the head. a knife is discovered in the trash behind the house. police find fingerprints and hair fibers. >> that would establish a direct linkage between a suspect or an individual and the crime scene. >> police find duct tape believed to have been used to restrain the victims, and matches thought to have been used to start of fire. 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 the offend onners came in as a representative of a utility company, trying to get access to the house? >> later that vest will provide another critical clue.
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the mystery deepens as police find thousands of dollars of 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 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
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the victim, that gap of time is i want more, you can get more. >> savvas and vera 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 your victim. 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.
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>> 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 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
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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. >> that looks like the pivotal piece of evidence. (cole) alright, now that we have merged with cableworld, we are so excited to hear your big ideas on how we're going to take on directv. so over to you. (newhart) thank you. full disclosure. we forgot to come up with ideas. (cw exec) yeah, we got messed up last night. you're lucky we're even here. (newhart) but, we did bring breakfast. (jmh) bagels? (newhart) nope. (woman) oh my goodness. (newhart) peel and eat shrimp. (cole) not how i would have gone but it's good, it's innovative. and that's what we want here.
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♪ a city in shock. a neighborhood in fear. >> i have never seen anything like this. 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
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in a church parking lot. >> i saw fire coming from the front side of the car. >> anybody who may have information about the blue 2008 porsche, please call us with what information you may have. then a mysterious figure 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
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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 darrell wint. >> police have their suspect. a 44-year-old maryland man who worked for savopoulos at american iron works 10 years before. almost a week after the 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 basic training. wint has a violent criminal past, including arrests for domestic violence, assault and burglary.
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mary ellen o'toole is a former fbi profiler. >> when you have an offender whose family is afraid of him, beats up his girlfriend. that is the kind of violence people look at and they're afraid of him. that type of violence is not going to go away. >> in 2010, he was arrested behind a dumpster near american iron works, carrying a 2-foot-long 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
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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 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 employee, 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.
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>> 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 wint is not alone. >> it was really intense. we made everybody come crawling out one at a time. the citi double cash® card comes in very handy with cash back twice. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn on purchases, it makes a lot of other cards seem one sided. if you have moderate to severe ...isn't it time to let the... ...real you shine... ...through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently.
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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. a suspect has been identified in a brutal quadruple homicides. >> authorities identifying a suspect through 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
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eaten, and it is a crucial piece of evidence. >> 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 girlfriend'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 bob fernandez leads the team of federal agents tasked with capturing 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. >> as fernandez and his team scramble to find wint, they
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worry he has nothing to lose. >> he's incredibly dangerous person on the streets, especially for a patrol officer who might try to pull him over. or try and stop him. >> 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. >> you 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. >> wint, 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 on the tactical gear, getting prepared to make
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the arrest. >> 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 helicopter 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, blocked it off. >> fernandez and his team pull quickly to pull everyone from both vehicles, inside the car,
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wint and four others, two of them women. >> 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 at the mansion. one of the women in the car with
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wint admitted she purchased more than $10,000 in money orders after the murders. so far, investigators have recovered 30,000 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.
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next, more damning evidence against wint, but this case may 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. the possibility of a flare swas almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go... and how to deal with my uc. to me, that was normal. until i talked to my doctor. she told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it under control when certain medications haven't worked well enough. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where
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no, mr. wint is now incarcerated, held without bond, our work is not done. >> may 22nd, darren wint, the lone suspect in the grisly washington, d.c. murders is captured and behind bars. >> he's been isolated for some time. he's kept on the administrative wing. for a time he was in suicide watch wing. these are highly segregated locations, which are cement floor, paper gown, nothing else. >> wint's former attorney in this case, sean handover. >> he helped us with being open with us. we believe he was 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
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only heats up. prosecutors reveal damning new evidence at a pretrial hearing. >> we at the u.s. attorneys office will use the full force of the law to make sure justice is served. >> savopoulos daughter abigail who was away at boarding school when the family was murdered braves the courthouse to stare down their accused killer. in court wint won't look her way. his arms and legs shackled. he sets silently as prosecutors reveal for the first time they found wint's dna on a second piece of evidence, a green construction vest found inside the family's blue porsche. >> we've got some crucial linkage, not only with the pizza crust that was found in the mansion, but now we have an item
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in the porsche that was apparently torched by whoever committed the crime. now a juror is looking at two critical pieces of evidence that says darren wint was involved in these killings. savopoulos's dna is found on the vest too, as long as dna from a third unidentified person. could this be an accomplice. >> yes, it could mean that. one way to get aaround this is elimination specimens. who might have had contact with the vest. fining a match on the database would be really a major finding. >> so far, though, no match. but there's more on the prime suspect. at wint's father's home, investigators find an $1100 receipt for an immigration attorney for wint dated four days before he was ever named a suspect. did wint know police were coming for him?
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in court, wint's lawyers argue their client could not possibly have acted alone and raise questions about savopoulos's assistant, 28-year-old jordan wallace who delivered the $40,000 to the mansion as the victims were being held hostage inside. police say wallace, who had only been working for savopoulos for a couple of months sent a picture to have a friend showing two bundles of cash inside a red bag but four bundles were taken from the bank. >> where are the other two? this is before the drop was ever made. isn't that interesting? >> and court records show in wallace's backpack, his passport, checkbook and the registration for one of savopoulos's sports cars valued at more than $300,000. >> what disturbs me is that his passport was present in the bag. what does that tell you? i don't carry a pass portland around with me. was he going to fly?
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leave the country? escape? i think the police are very curious about mr. wallace. >> and could there be a connection between jordan wallace and darren wint? our research shows in 2006 wint lived in the same maryland apartment complex as wallace's father. >> i don't think that's a coincidence at all. i think that's very strong evidence that the two very likely ran into each other and knew each other. that very likely was the place where these two men first met. >> what's still not clear is if jordan wallace actually nifd in the same building as wint or just visited. and we found no other indication wint and wallace knew each other. >> i'd say five years the technology has been there especially in the electric ga carts. >> callous, a race car enthusiast, raced suspicions early on because investigators say he changed his story several times about the money drop. >> are these inconsistencies
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based on his being nervous with all of the story about quadruple homicide and him as 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. and it happens in high pressure cases and certainly here the pressure is on because four people are dead. >> despite their suspicions, police have not found any hefd implicating wallace in any of the murders and they've nod charged him in this case. cnn tried to get his side of the story but neither he nor his family would comment testimony d.c. police have been looking at darren wint's cousin who happened to work here at american iron works. he was fired around the same time wint left. and sources say the company had to take out a restraining order against the cousin because he allegedly threatened to burn the place down. though hoe has not been named a
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suspect in this case and cnn has not been able to reach him for comment. why only wint? why is he the only one behind bars right now do you think? >> i don't think why he's the only one behind bars, i really don't. i'm amazed that they have not brought somebody else in. >> so many questions still linger. was revenge the motive? >> it could have been he was angry about losing his job ten years ago, he resented losing his job. >> if the motive was money, why leave expensive art, jewelry and thousands of dollars in cash behind? >> there is abelement here that seems personal. there are indicators of anger in this. there certainly are indicators of torture in this. all over a relatively small amount of money. >> i'm sure that savopoulos would have given everything away to save his family. >> and could someone have saved the family?
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>> you look at opportunities for people to have called the police, to have alerted the police that something isn't right at the house, whether that's the other -- the housekeeper's husband, the other housekeeper who was waived off in an unusual way, the assistant, people at work. is this a story of opportunity lost? as family aends fren say good-bye to fill lip, amy, salve va 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
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them together, and that's the only thing that makes me feel better, is that at least they're together. ♪ it's early spring in richmond, virginia and terrance williams is an hour away from the most meaningful day of his life. >> a tie, going to look good. >> the city of richmond is hosting a father-daughter dance for terrance and 12 other dads. >> man, i feel like money. >> but there is a catch. these men are inmates of the richmond jail, and this dance will be the first time terrance's daughter, takayla, will have seen him in eight months.

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