Family acted strangely before they were murdered, housekeeper says
After video was released showing a suspect in the slaying of a Washington, D.C. family and their housekeeper in their multimillion-dollar mansion, another housekeeper said the couple had been acting strangely the day before.
According to AP, two of the victims have been identified as Savvas Savopoulos, 46, and his wife, Amy Savopoulos, 47. It is believed the other two victims are the couple’s 10-year-old son, Philip, and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, 57, of Maryland.
The other housekeeper, Nelitza Gutierrez, received texts from both Savopoulus saying her services weren’t needed before they were found dead, according to police reports obtained by the Washington Post.
She was told by Savvas Savopoulos that his wife would be going out, but in a voicemail later, he said she was in bed, sick.
“It was something very suspicious because I felt his voice was really tense,” Gutierrez said in Spanish to AP. “And it was different than what he had said to me before.”
Figueroa was asked to stay the night for help, which Gutierrez said was odd. “Never, never did she stay over.”
At least three of the victims suffered stab wounds or blunt-force trauma, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. They were injured before the fire was set on Thursday.
Police had been aware of unusual activity in the neighborhood, including reports of a prowler, an aggressive vacuum cleaner salesman and a man banging on the door of a home.
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