A beautiful family's future goes up in flames. Originally broadcast October 25, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened in the burning mansion?
A mother, father, 10-year-old son, and the family housekeeper all held hostage for almost 20 terrifying hours. Finally, a ransom in cash. But it doesn't save the helpless captives. Only the smoke escaping out a window. This in a wealthy Washington enclave, the vice president's neighborhood.
This could happen there? What about the rest of us ordinary Joes? What chance do we have?
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My guess is they used the 10-year-old to get whatever they wanted out of the adults. I can't stop thinking about that day.
We'll hear from the surviving housekeeper about life at the mansion. Was there anything in the Savopolis' life that suggested they had enemies? Room by room, clue by clue, the burning Porsche, the shadowy figure caught on surveillance cameras, the bizarre late-night pizza delivery.
Tries to burn the house down, but guess what doesn't burn? The pizza with his saliva on it.
Boom, they get a hit. We've got a name. We've got a face.
Police have their target.
Thus begins an intense 48-hour nationwide manhunt.
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Chapter 2: How did the Savopolis family become victims?
Hey, Jordan, it's Saba. Slight change of plans tomorrow. I've got a package that I'm going to need you to bring down to me.
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Oh, my God, is this your house?
This is the humble abode.
Oh, my God, it's so humble.
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What is the worst that happens?
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Chapter 3: What were the horrific details of the crime?
Breathe out.
This is safe. We take you back to a core trauma. Breathe in. Breathe out.
She is manipulating us. Breathe in. Breathe out.
Why are you resisting? Is it too late to get a refund?
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Police are on the scene of a deadly house fire. Four people were found dead inside. It is the case that is shaking a neighborhood to its core tonight.
If the fire at 3201 Woodland Drive in Washington, D.C. had burned faster, if the Washington, D.C. firefighters had responded a little slower, the key evidence in the case might have been destroyed. But the location of the crime, the nation's capital, gives authorities a special advantage.
This is Washington, D.C. We're unique in that sense. Our Metropolitan Police Department and our D.C. Fire Department is backed up by federal agencies.
The arson task force at the mansion includes the ATF, which boasts perhaps the one lab in the country best equipped to extract DNA from fire-damaged evidence. Greg Zarnopis is the deputy assistant director who runs the lab.
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Chapter 4: How did the police investigate the fire?
Wind was arrested and ordered to stay away from Babcock. But while waiting for trial, he suddenly ambushed Babcock a second time on this bridge. Babcock was rushed to the emergency room where he was told he was lucky to be alive.
When Darren stabbed me in the neck, if it would have been Lord, the doctors told me that I would have died before I made it to the first hospital.
He was convicted and jailed briefly, only to assault again. Another man in Oswego and a girlfriend back in Maryland.
He has a rap sheet as long as my arm. And that gives a perfect example to the claim of revolving door justice.
Wint dates another woman, but the script is the same. He's arrested after threatening to kill her, her daughter, and her friends, telling her he's good with a knife and could kill them easily. But despite that graphic threat, Wint is convicted only for smashing the windows of his girlfriend's car. And as the years pass, Wint apparently had not forgotten his former employer.
In 2010, he made a bizarre and menacing return to American Iron Works, the company he had left five years earlier.
He's found outside the American Iron Works with a machete, a BB gun, and a can of beer. So there's this weird incident that occurred outside of the very place where Savas Savopoulos was president and CEO.
Although charged with concealing a deadly weapon, Wendt was allowed to simply plead guilty to having an open container of alcohol and fined $919.
I wonder what those prosecutors are thinking now. I let that guy go on a lesser offense.
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