WASHINGTON – D.C. police are looking into an assistant who dropped off $40,000 to the Northwest home where three family members and their housekeeper were found dead last month.
In a search warrant unsealed Thursday, investigators searched the car of Savvas Savopoulos’ 28-year-old assistant, Jordan Wallace, believing they would find evidence connecting Wallace to the deaths of his employer and his family.
Wallace’s green BMW was found a block from the Savopoulos’s $4.5 million house in Northwest D.C. the day the family was found inside the burning home on May 14, according to the search warrant.
Savvas Savopoulos, 46, his wife Amy, 47, and their housekeeper Vera Figueroa, 57, were cut or stabbed and beaten to death. The couple’s 10-year-old son Phillip was burned to death.
Police pulled prints and electronics from the BMW, including a computer, SD cards and a GoPro, along with Wallace’s passport and checkbook. No cash was found, according to court documents.
Court documents say Wallace delivered $40,000 in cash to the Savopoulos home while the family was being held inside. Wallace told investigators that Savvas had asked him to drop the cash off at the house.
But Wallace changed his account of how he received the money, where he left the package and when he was told to get it. Wallace also admitted to police that he lied to investigators during questioning, according to court documents.
As Savvas’ assistant, Wallace’s job consisted of daily assignments from the father of three as well as transporting Savopoulos to and from his job as CEO of American Iron Works, according to court documents.
So far, Daron Wint is the only person police have arrested in relation to the kidnapping, deaths and the fire. He is charged with first-degree murder for the death of Savvas Savopoulos. Police identified Wint from DNA left on a piece of pizza crust found at the home.
In documents explaining the charges against Wint, police write that he did not act alone and had the help of more than one person.
WTOP’s Megan Cloherty contributed to this report.
