WASHINGTON — More search warrants were unsealed Friday related to the ongoing investigation into the deaths of a corporate executive, his wife, son and housekeeper, but the results yield few new details.
D.C. police were granted permission to search the white Chevrolet car that Daron Wint had been riding in when he was caught by U.S. Marshals on May 21. Investigators also searched a box truck that was traveling with Wint that night.
Police recovered cash, cellphones, money orders, two knives and fingerprints from the two vehicles.
The night of Wint’s arrest, marshals saw a stack of $100 bills and money orders in the box truck. One of those arrested that night told investigators that the money orders were worth more than $10,000.
Five people were arrested with Wint but they were released and haven’t been charged in connection with the family’s deaths or the ransom scheme.
Wint has been charged with the murder of Savvas Savopoulos. He is the only one who has been charged in connection with the deaths and kidnapping of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper or the intentionally set fire to their D.C. home, which killed the Savopoulos’ 10-year-old son Phillip.
Savvas Savopoulos, 46, his wife Amy, 47, and their housekeeper Vera Figueroa, 57, were beaten and cut or stabbed to death. They were found inside the burning house on May 14.
Savvas Savopoulos was the CEO of American Iron Works, a Hyattsville-based construction materials company.
Other unsealed search warrants indicate that police are also investigating Savopoulos’ assistant, who dropped off $40,000 in cash to the home, answering a demand from those who held the family captive for almost a day.
Police say that the family was killed once the cash was delivered. Investigators believe that Wint had help and did not act alone.
The assistant’s BMW was also searched as part of the investigation.
