959 hagerstown and 93 philadelphia. the heat index wel over 100. had the heat advisory that's been cancelled as have allhe showers that came through and the thunderstorms, too. pbig-time downpours ints of the area and that's all gone for the most part.in still wat a couple of showers back in fauquier county and very hard to pick o here. >> one right here and one right to the west of warrenton and most of the area remaining o the dry side. and something else i'm watching. very close to hurricane strength and very cloo making its way onshore. the latest on this storm out in the atlantic. all that have and when we'll see much cooler air and we'll see much cooler air move in. i'll see you back here in 15 minutes. >> now to the most contemptious and chaotic supreme court confirmation heang inecent members as senators consider the prnation o brett cough

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>> this is more pages than t last five supreme court nominees combined. >> reporter: it's not about democrats. what it is about is politics. >> reporter: judge kavanaugh vowing to decide cases based on law, not his personal views. >> if confirmed to the court i would be part of a team of nine committed to deciding cases according to the constitution and laws of the united states. >> reporter: his appointment could cement a right-leaning court which could shift decisions on major issues. >> from civil rights to women's rights to access to health care. >> it's pretty clear that your views go well beyond simply being pron. >> reporter: today just opening statements, tomorrow the first round of questioning. blayne alexander, nbc news. washington. >> bond for a womann charged i a iolent case of apparent road rage in d.c., that incidt was captured and bond was denied rather. that incident was capturedce on ll phone video. today the defense argued thatma

riana silver has mental heisth es and had an episode when the video showed her smashing in a greyhound bus window on friday. later we also see her drive off after the bus driver jumped ono her car try to stop her. >> she was not able to use her proper judgment because she didn't have medicine iner system. mental health disorder, senetics, not her fault. schizophrenia i what she's dealing with. >> the busriver is expected to be okay and silver is due back in court later this month. >> nearly a year after a found dead cher was in a shallow grave her boyfriend is now on trial for murder. >> tyler tessier faces life in prison for allegedly killing howard county high schoolteacher uren whalen. jury selection gan in the case. she was pregnant with tessier's child when she died. she disappeared last september and was found buriedn a field in montgomery county. >> the d.c. school district is

admitting to a potential mistakes that exposedts studen' perm information online. the school district sent a letter home to parents that say th spreadsheet was mistakenly posted on the d.c. couil website. it has students' names, birth dates, i.d. numbers and school and grade levels. al i of thatormation was exposed between february and last month. the school chancellor says that spreadsheet and link have since been destroyed. no word yet on how many students were impact,. wellt was a sweaty start to the school year for a lot of students in college park. four dorms at the oniversity maryland are without air conditioning. school officials have placed fans in spots and students say they provide little relief. the university leaders blame the age of the dorms saying their old wearing can'tth handle e. a c. students are now sleeping on mattresses and lungs trying to keep cool. >> it's awful honestly.

we sleep on towels on the floor at night i becauses so hot, and we sweat in our sheets so we don't want that, so we lay towels out and we sleep on the floor. >> 16% of maryland's studentse ar housed in dorms without air conditioning. the university officials say they hope to add ac in the old dorms ifanhey during renovations. >> couldn't happen soon enough. >> hundreds of thousands of unudents return to school today on the ficial end of summer, and with all the students returning you can call this the september slowdown. you see it every year. traffic patterns are sure to change now with school back in session and many of us get back to work as well after vacation. >> transportation repter adam tuss is tracking your commute tonight from the seven corners area and he joins us now live.

>> how is it looking this evening. >> hey, leon, this is the most wonderful time o,the year isn't it, when we all get back in our rhythm and routines and take a look at route 50 in this area. tonight loaded up, and as you can see everyone is getting bac into their routine and this guy is going to be the new normal for a while. >> here is comes. >> and i think everybody is morn frzied and less patient and it's justhe t whole thing. >> reporter: and we might not even be at the whole thing just yet. as school gets back in sessi and weome back from summer break, traffic and congestion will gradually pick up thish. mo we've been calling it the september shock or september slowdown. >> it is part of being her in d.c. >> reporter: phil tries to play calm music but that doesn't help. >> it doesn't lessen the frustrations, you know, when

you'reitting for that turn of ligh ttwo or three times traffic is backed up so much. >> reporter: this doesn't all hit at once but anecdotally you'll be wondering w itot so board and they know it's about to pick up. >> today after laby. da >> reporter: meantime, a little extra attention and, of course, paence as we all get back in a rhythm. >> reporter: us a commute now, it's not just cars, we'll see more pple back on metro and more people on bicycles and even and pedestrians out the just use some extra caution over the next couple of,eeks. guack to you. >> thanks, adam. >> we'll try. >> exactly. >> reporter: lots of metro rides have been waiting month and a half for this. the summer shutdown on the red line is over. many of you haven't been able to take the red line past the gallaudet station since jul and e repairs are finished now and

trains are running all the way to fort totten. >> next and o on news 4 we're taking you inside the investigation of the d.c. mansion murders case. what we're just learning about a key witness and his connection to the suspect that has never been reported until now. >> a local man says the day of fun at six flags left him with these br hses, ande's got the pictures to the heat and argument that's now the focus of a lawsuit. >> and the h dangerot continues across our region. continues across our region. doug is back to your school supplies today... continues across our region. doug is back to school. grade. done. done. hit the snooze button and get low prices

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sons. >> reporter: mims and his attorney claimed guards too far when they kicked him out of the park for being . disorder >> what we understand the training requires for these private officers is they use everye attempt possi to de-escalate the situation. >> reporter: mims said he had been at the waterre park w he says it was okay to be shirtless, but he didn't realize head to put on his shirt in other areas, that is, until he was stopped by security. mims admitted he ud profanity out of frustration and when he did he says he was told to leave. >> reporter: it was like, sir, you can't cuss. what do you mean i c't cuss? i just spent 500 something in he y and now've got to go. >> mims was being escorted oute guards say he resisted. forced him to the ground and slammed his head into the pavement causing a concussion and scrapes on his a back other injuries. >> reporter: a spokeswoman fors six flags s that this lawsuit has no merit and an attorney representing the amusement park also said that six flags will be vindicated tough this leg

process. in prince george's county, darcy spencer, news 4. >> updating this for you now. members has returned to worknd his attorneys say that he may have suffered a brain injury. >> to our weather forecast now and we're in weather alert mode today bec of all the heat. how long is this going to last for all the kids in the hot dorms and the kids in the schools. >> i guarantee schoollassrooms were on the side and that's the case for tomorrow and in the case on thursday w asl and then we get relief and we're talking a major change later this weekend. first off though outside right hot.not nearly as had the heat advisory until 7 and that was actually cancelled at 5:00 because we saw the showers come through and the clouds come through and now 85. hey, we can dea with 85. that's right around the average high for this time of year and 59 earlier. heat index so 5. still 91 leesburg and 939 in culpepper. and these are areas where we're

seeing more sunshine and look at huntingtown, only 80 degrees ere and 93 in annapolis and look at the heat index, still 1 over. 10 is frederick and 103 manassas and 103 down towards the edericksburg are a little cooler and still on the hot side and expect s to go right back up. we had seen some pretty good storms right around the d.c. metro area and right around 301. waldor down towards the white plains area. a couple of trees and a roof blowing off a building down around that region. now most of the activity is gone. haven't been watching a couple of showers back into parts of northern virginia. look at it. very tiny shower right there. prince william on thend border just west of warrenton and these are very few a far between. >> the wider picture showing where the storms were. look at this.ty plf sunshine northern d.c. here's the storms, look, the cloud cover. that's given us thiselief today so so much much-needed relief from the heat and back to

the west the heat is still building from little rock to chicago. almost clear skies and high pressure aredi senng storms way up and over so we're going to stay right here in the heat and humidity right on through tomorrow and into the day on thursday. something els we're watching. this is tropical storm gordon. this is getting its act together before making will make landfall very close to a category 1 hur right now still a tropical storm at 71 miles per hour. whether it's a hurricane or strong tomorrow it's not going to matter as it'sery closeo shore. winds out of the northwest and the biggest problem could be a storm surge undays.ow up tonightds jackson, mississippi, a 65-mile-per-hour tropical storm and back towards portions of the inland areas. hurricanes 85-mile-per-hour moving west northwest at 12.re the u.s. this is way out. looking at the next five days this takes it to the northwest and real east of bermuda. most of the computer models have

this cg out to sea. we'll be watching that very closely over the next few days but right now my mom is on that recurvature at this time. tomorrow 949 heat is back. heat index well over 100 again under mostly sunny skies. next couple of days, 95 degrees on thursday and 858 on friday and 78 on saturday and showers likely on saturday, and look at this. here comes the really cool air. 74, breezy with showers likely on sunday a o kinda fall day for sure. you've been asking for fall days. hey, we'veorot a coupleyou, saturday, sunday and monday. >> all right. >> something to look forward to. thank you, doug. >> still ea conclusive new details in the d.c. mansion murders. his connection to the scene days and hours after the crime and the i-team digs deeper into possible ties to a key witness tonight ahead at 6:30. >> plus, book bombshell.

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politics rather thanva ugh's judicial recor >> here's doug now with a time check on the weather. >> yeah, the heat a big issue for the kids and heading out to school again torrow. let's take a look at the school bus forecast. extremelyotgain. record-setting low temperatures tonight. we're going to be near that re 80-d mark us a wake up and step out the front door tomorrow morning. 79 is what i've gott the bus top and a recess around 91 degrees a heat index at recess. many schools opting not to have recess and tomorrow feeling liki 104. ing up the kids and close to 95 degrees again during the d tomorrow. all of this because of anre a of high pressure that sits in place tomorrow and right on in through the day tomorrow. something else that we're watching. tropical storm gordon very close to hurricane strgth and very close to making it onsure. that will happen tonight. jay gray alonghe golf course with more on what to exct.

>> with gordon racing towards the gulf coast. >> tens of thousands in the potential sike zone are rushing to get redy? we want folks to be aware and we want them to take all the necessary precautions at theirr ownperties to protect the property as well as themselves. >> mov ig sandbagso place and filling gas tanks and making sure there's plenty of food and wate what could be a rough ride for the next couple of days. >> we don't know how bad it owould be and what do before it gets here. >> the time to prepare is quickly running out. >> throughout the day and into tonight conditions are expected to deteriorate. strong winds and a growing surf and rain. to possibly 8 inches and even up to a foot along the coast and even inland. ul reporter: as gordon moves in. >> hop everybody gets through that storm over the next day or so without harm. for us it's a about the heat tomorrow and wednesday and then this weekend much cooler weather. look at a this.

saturd sunday and monday only in the 70s sunday and breeze, a little bit on the cool side. a little september weather for you. >> murder and mystery in one of d.c.'s most exclusive neighborhoods, a wealthy businessman, his wife and son and housekeeper tied up and tortured for hours held hostage over demands for a ransom. >> why go to all this trouble for $40,000. >> to some people $40,000 is like hitting powerball. >> the cash delivered and then a deadly twist. >> i think about what happened that day. every single day. >> all four killed in cold blood. >> i think some people are born bad. >> the multi-million dollar home set on fire to give up the gruesome crime. >> you know what, folks, murder doesn't make sense. >> tonight news 4 takes you inside the investigation. >> you've put all the pieces together and you're building a nice case. >> there are no coincidences in a burning investigation.

>> those guys think if they burn a vehicle it's lost for all time. >> the crucial clue. >> you give me dna, can you take that to the bank. >> and the high-stakes takedown as the sole suspect prepares to go on trial, but tonight one question remains, did he act alone? >> the potential for a second perpetrator, that's going to weigh on the minds of the jurors. >> in fact, they ordered two pizzas, was one guy going to order two pizzas? >> one of our region's most prominent murder cases. tonight as prosecutors and the defense prepare for their day in court there's new clues about th crime tha haven't been made public until now. court documents show the suspect's own van was set on fire in the days after the inrders. we're also lea about two key witnesses. one gave investigators a new detail and another has a shocking connection t the

suspect. but first new insight intthe 19-hour ordeal as the savopoulos family and theirousekeeper were held captive and killed three years ago. news 4's meagan fitzgerald begins our coverage with the time line of terror. >> in the days leading up to the murders, life was moving at a frantic pace for the savopoulos family as saieva was planning on opening up a martial arts studio. >> it's a crazy rgweek. >>ency was apparent in amy's voi mail to her housekeeper nelly gutierrez. >> hey, it's amy. i'm calling to see if i could get y and your crew maybe two days, monday and tuesday and tuesday, wednesday,f you could. we've built a martial arts student and we're down to the wire. >> nly agrees to hel in

virginia while the other housekeeper vera figueroa worked at the family home in d.c. so she could leave early that wednesday. it was a decision c thatt her her life. that same day saieva is at the studio and recalls a call from his wife at 5:30 luring him back home. investigators believe amy, her 10-year-old son philip and their housekeeper vera figueroa were already held hostage inside. savvas returned hom walking into the trip and a demand for a $40,000rance come go into motion fast forwa three hours, saieva calls his perm assistant jordan wallace giving him instructions on how to pick up the cash. and then this text from wallace. got yoursa mge. i'll call you when i get the package. me three adults bound with duct tape but in thest of it all investigators say the suspect daron wint forced amy to order two pizzas fromea dominoesng unusual instructions telling the

delivery driver to leave the pizza outside. as nig falls another forced phone call. >> hey,, ne it's savvas. amy is in bed sick tonight and she was sk this afternoon, and vera offered to stay at help her out because, you know,re w going through some stuff with philip so she's going to stay the night here, okay thank you. and would you send me a text when you get the message just so i can make sure. thanks, good night. >> reporter: listen closely to the noise in the background. at the ended the victim pauses and someone directing him what to say. >> hey, nelly, seas saieva. amy is in bed sick tonight and she was sick this afternoon, and vera offered to and her her out because she's going to help with philip and she's going to stay the night. could you give me aext so i know for sure.

>> no other phone calls the rest of the night but the for tour continues. by 9:00 the next morning wallace has picked up the money from a bank and then stopping to send his girlfriend a text of the cash as wallace makes his way to the d.c. mansion. meanwhile, the housekeeper's huss finishes his overnight shift and realizes he never comes hom and hea to the mansion, too. no one answers the door but he says he h an ear feeling that someone was inside. minutes later savvas contacted him to say his wife vera is okay and spent the night to help take care of their son and that she would return later. 30 minutes go by. another text from inside as amy tells the surviving housekeeper not to report to work.ju before 10:30 wallace, the personal assistant, drops off the $40,000 ransom leaving it in a red sports car parked in the text, and sends savvas a package delivered. by noon all the victims' cell

phones go silent and then agedy. three hours later the house is set on fire and smoke pouring from the second floor window and the three adults stabbed and beaten to death, a bloody baseball bat and samurai sword the evidence, the couple's son stabbed, beaten and burned alive in his bedroom. more than three years later there's still so many lingering questions that remain including why this family was targeted. >> when we come back, the crucial clue from a pizza crust that sparked an intense

>> thaate night domino's order helped crack thise c wide open thanks to dna left on a pizza crust at the scene.

up week aer t scene, daron wint went to his girlfriend's home in brooklyn, new york, but he was already gone. they say he took a taxi back to maryland and paid for it in cash. investigators followed him as he left this hotel in prince george's county, and they arrested him in northeast d.c. the car wint was in and a box truck following him were impounded and $10,000 in ransom money was found but no one ever beennt has charged in this case. >> still, so many unanswered questions like why was this family targeted and did thet susp have help? news 4's pass collins spoke to many so of the region's most respected legal experts and creyinal minds. id not work on this case, but together they have a combined 80 years of expernce. let's listen. >> reporter: for more than 19 hours this family held captive, tied up. beaten, stabbed, their house set

on fire. could ones man do t all by himself? did daron wint have help? >> you know, pat, it seems counterintuitive when you have four victims andne perpetrator, our common sense tells us he must have hadel how does one bad guy control and immobilize and four human beings, but i think one person. one by >> if you've got control of that child you've got control of the sttuation. that could sug two or more offenders, one offender takes ae child away says to the other three you do exactly what i tell you to do or my friend will punish this child so you can control all four in that way and you look back. they ordered two pizzas, was one guy going to eat two pizzas? >> if you haveean on that child, you can control that entire situation. that's leverage, and you're going to do everything that the

person direco. you to one person could do it in my opinion. >> there's alsohahe thought they all didn't have to be controlled at one time, so everybody may not have been there at the exact same time. may have gotten control over one or two and then someone else showed>> up. we're talking about the mansion murder case, and we have the hall of fame panel of experts, glen kirchner, top prosecutor, former assistant attorney and he's p many killers behind bars. duane stanton, susan blue, husband and wife team tired from the mpd and clint van zanda onally known and has a way reading murder's minds. they say he demanded $40,000 i cash. can you hit that if you get the right atm. why go to all this trouble for

$40,000? >> well, to some people $40,000 is like hitting powerball. that's a lot of money to some people, and in ways they were brought up and raised and do we know that he's specifically asked for h0,000 or did ask for a large amount of money? >> i don't think we have an answer to that question. >> no, but what happened in tt house almost seems personal. i mean, the kid appears to have been tortured. >> yeah. the wife appears to have been tortured. it looked like someone went after savvas' things that he loved the most, his son who he named after his ownather. his wife who heghourted thr college. it seems more than personal, more than a mon >> it seems like with this kind of carnage that he inflicted on this famy and housekeeper, you wonder if there wasn't more to it than just money because $40,000, as you say, taking four lives for that amount of mone

i agree with duane, it's a lot of money to some people, but, you know, we do know that wint had worke for savvas ereviously, had alledgedly left his employment u bad terms, although that was like a decade earlier, so is he the kind of man who could hold a grudge for so long and reach his boiling point and thenreak in and do what he did? i think that's one of the questions that m we have answered during the course of the trial. >> so in thisarticular case, could the -- could the believed killer have thought he had been wronged somewhere along the line, and maybe the money was an after thought, like i want to get this family and what the heck, as long as i'm here, iay we'll get something out of it, over and above. >> we all look at the horrific nature and number of the victims and wonder if it was perm, but the reporting is wint is somebody who has obsessively on social media talking about the and s that bothered him, what i haven't seen reported is

that he was obsessing about the savopoos family or about having done wrong by mr. savopoulos. if this was driven by personal animosity that had built up ovee the s, wouldn't you expect that to creep out in his social medi >> unless he's just angry with the world and angry with the world, i'm angry w who has got money, who has a position in society. i'm going to get you because you're the type of guy that's given me grief all my life. >> all my life. >> when we come back, our i-team pores over hundreds of court documents and finds the mansion murder suspect may be tied to not one but three crime scenes in the minutes and days after the brutal killings. >> that's not a coincidence. you know. investators don't likige

>> now to some new information about the mansion murders case that has never been reporte until now. our i-team combed through hundreds of court records and found that it wasn't just the family's porsche that was set on fire after the murders. the suspect' vehicle was torched, too. tonight we're also learningt abo key witnesses, one is adding to his story and another has a shocking connection tohe suspect. investigative reporter jody fleisher has the stoly you'll see n news 4. >> a massive fire intensionally set to cover up four. murde another fire hours later a county away.

searching have been for the savopoulos family porsche for much of the day and knew suomeone with killed the family and the housekeeper and the burned out vehicle little provided evidence. >> if you're going to burn a y vehicl need transportation to your next spot or you'll walk there. >> reporter: retired fbi profiler clint van zandt says suspects ditch vehicles in areai fa to them so when dna from a pizzarust matched to daron wint they said the location mattered even more. if you walk down through thee tree l behind the burning porsche you end up in the apartment complex where public records show wint and his family lived for years. >> investigators don't like coincidence. ere's some link there. >> retired homicide detective susan blue stanton agreed and actuallyt visited t scene and

walked the air with a. >> very close. easy getaway. easy escape path. >> reporter: and sheouldn't mask her sarcasm when the i-team showed yet anothoiidence never before made public. >> isn't that odd that his car was also burned. >> reporter: a blue 2002 ford windstar van similar t o this was also found on fire shortly after the murders. also in prince george's county, and justre minute drive from the business where daron wint once worked and savvas savopoulos was the ceo. prosecutors say police arrested daron wint in that same minivan less than two months before the murders. the second vehicle was burned just like the first vehicle, that starts to add up. >> a very hpful fact for the prosecution. >> reporter: glen kirchner recently retired from the u.s. attorney's office. he didn't oversee the case and revealed the details for news 4. the blue minivan is mtioned at least a dozen times in court records and investigators have

at least seven surveillance videos from intersections whe the van burned. in fact, wint's defense attornet thouo keep prosecutors from using evidence in the >>van. 've always been amazed at what atf is able to determine from the scene that seems to be burned beyond recognition before the evidence in the trial. >> so will testimony from a key tness who told police he saw the family's porsche driving erratically on n york avenue between the mansion murder scene and the parking lot where it was found on fire. thed witness always descr a driver who looked very different from daron wint, and records show just this summer that witns added another detail. he had seen a photograph of savopoulos's driver jordan wallace on television and, t quotught that the individual in that photograph resembled the individual he observed driving the blue porsche. public records show for years the wallace family also lived in that same apartment complex

right near wint and the burning porsche. >> definitely worth looking into rther and seeing if there's anything else that can tieyb y else to that house to those murders. >> reporter: that eyewitness also add that had mind could have been playing tricks on him but still clearly prosecutors thought this information was important enough to include it in the case file and share it with the defense hteam. the already indicated they plan to defend daron wint by pointi to another suspect. records show police looked at jordan wallace as a possible suspec and did not charge him with anything. jody fleisher, news 4 i-team. >> when we come back, inside the mind of an accused killer as our experts dig deeper into wint's crimin past onnection talin co only half the story?

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the motive in this case remains a mystery, but we do know the suspect daron wint worked as a welder at amerin iron works. that's the company savvas savopoulos owns. w wint fired back in 2005 and arrested five years later armed with a machete and bb gun outside his old charge. weapons charges were later dropped and wint pled guilty to a lesser crime. he's also been chargedith sault and has three separate protective orders against him. ot collins continues his discussion withur panel of experts to take us inside the mind of an accused killer. >> i goack. i look at his history. i look at who he was. did he have the capability ofng stri out against other individuals? i saw a young fellow interviewed on tv tking about how wint slashed and stabbed him and came back two or three days later a did the same thing all over

again to this guy. you look at that type of behavior and you say if he's capable of that can we move him forward and niv him a real reason in hisi' mind? angry at my former boss and i'm angry that i didn't get a share of the profits. a friend of mine told me that this would be an easy house to hit. can i make that leap and personality from the individual in new york who committed what could have been horrific acts cooped have been a murder veryasily and fast forward to washington, d.c.? yeah, i can make that le h. nowe to prove it. >> right. like everything that he's touched almost in his path. going into the armed forces didn't work out. he's been accused of assaults and other jurisdictions. he's encountered law enforcement on several casions, and- and he continues to do so. >> but he still got away. >> he did. he's still out and about. >> it's unfortunate because if he was taken off the streets back then, i'm not monday morning quarterbacking anybody, but if he was taken off there s that savopoulos family

would still be alive. >> let's talk about evidence, eviden, that they have a well, evidence that they may not have. first of all, the pizza crust. the pizza crust they found the scene that had wint's dna on it. that's huge. >> that's a big-ticket im because in this day and age we have to sort of wrestle with what is called a csiec e every juror wants dna evidence. i would say in the vast majority of murder cas we don't have hoa evidence. if someone is s at some distance there's not going to be any transfer of thegu bad s dna on to the victim or on the scene. here the prosecutors have dna on the crust of the pizza that i think we cane all concl beyond a reasonable doubt wint was eating in that house at or about the time ofhe murders. >> it takes us back to your csi effect. you know, everybody, want to see dna and i want to see laser beams and pictures and videos. >> all right. >> i i don't see that it's not

like on television and how can i convict this man, br in y particular case you're saying we are doing this one building block at a time. we've good circumstantial case that you guys are putting we don't have these magic bullets or pictures or other things. >> is thi a slam dunk case? >> i don't think any case is a slam dndk case, all of it has room for error, and our asking 12 jurors to interpret something, and all 12 of them to interpret the same thing the same way. >> beyond a reasonable doubt. >> and that bond a reasonable doubt can really confuse some people. >> try to get 12 people to agree where to have lunch. >> right. >> but to decide the fate of a fellow human being charged with crimes the most serious we've ever seen here in d.c. get them to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt. that's a challenge. these prosecutors are up to the task. >> i think they have stacked up a prettyood case against daron

wint and the case that they have. >> i i'm aefense attorney i would jump on the potential second person. >> he's t. kill >> wint just came in here and ate some pizza and i gave him 5 bucks to drive this car away, but the real killer is still out there. that's something that you and your former colleagues have to get over. >> we told people a lot in homicide, you know, if you're going to commit a bank robbery with a friend and you stay outside and be the lookout man you're just as t guilty as man who went inside and pulled the trigger, so in this case the jsecond man will t as guilty as daron wint. >> why did it take three years for this to go to trial? you can answer that. >> i think there's been a enough of defense continuances. there may have been one or more government continuances as well. it's a forensics heavy case and i'll tell you forensic testing is not done overnight. it takes a long period of time. >> but delays generally work in favor of the defense, don'tey >> generally because if you have eyewitnesses their memories fe

over time. this is more of a forensically driven case. dna's memory never fails. >> a lot of talk about evidence, yet some key evidence may have been left behind at the crime scene. court documentshow a screwdriver holding a window in the basement othe savopoulos home open was not recovered. an atf investigator was also told that wateres bottl and gloves had been discarded by first responders and firefighters, and as a result she did not collect those items from the crime scene. a dwraur where aie might have been taken to bind one of the victims was also left unswabbed, and toilets weren't swabbed because atf inv told that they, too, had been used by firefighters. the news 4 i-tea also learned that at an evidence viewing just last month prosecutors found $105 in cash in the pocket of savvassavopoulos' pants, the pants that he was wearing when he was murdered.

report hiso th clothing was taken at autopsy, but somehow that money wasn't noticed. jury selecti for the trial begins tomorrow. it's expected to last two months. daron wint has pleaded n guilty to these murders. his defense team is expected to' argue th enough evidence to suggest a second suspectas involved. for prosecutors dna evidence will be crucial to this case. news 4 will be following this trial from start tofinishing, and we have much more coverage available online, including the entire conversation that pat collins had with our pan of experts all about this notorious murder case. there's much moreable online and can you check it out on our websi nbcwashington.com. we thank you for joining us for this scial in-depth report inside the investigation of the d.c. mansion murders. "nbc nightly news" with lester holt is up next.

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