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In a case straight out of CSI, CNN reports that police are searching for the man suspected in the gruesome slayings of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper, after his DNA was purportedly found on a pizza crust at the scene of the quadruple murders:
They discovered his DNA on the crust of a Domino's pizza -- one of two delivered to the Savopoulos home May 14 as the family was held hostage inside -- a source familiar with the investigation said.
The pizza apparently was paid for with cash left in an envelope on the porch: "The next morning, Savvas Savopoulos's personal assistant dropped off a package containing $40,000 in cash at the home, according to the officials and police documents."
The bodies of Savopoulos, along with his wife, Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip and the family's housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, were discovered the afternoon of May 14 after firefighters responded to reports of a fire.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says the killings are likely not a random crime and police have issued an arrest warrant for the 34-year-old Daron Dylon Wint, who is described as 5'7 and 155 lbs and might also go by the name "Steffon." He apparently used to work at American Iron Works, where Savvas Savopoulos was CEO and president. The neighborhood is home to numerous embassies and diplomatic mansions as well as the official residence of Vice President Joe Biden and his wife. "Right now you have just about every law enforcement officer across the country aware of his open warrant and are looking for him," says Lanier. "I think even his family has made pleas for him to turn himself in."
(Score: 3, Funny) by tynin on Friday May 22 2015, @01:46PM
If you go to the first link, it says he was already arrested in DC.
One thing that this crime has taught me is to always eat your pizza crust. Leave no evidence uneaten. Or something like that.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Papas Fritas on Friday May 22 2015, @02:56PM
At the time the story was submitted (7:20 pm CST) the suspect had not yet been apprehended.
This is something I have seen news operations do before that I really don't agree with. They keep the same URL but they change the content of the story.
If a news organization changes the content of the story I think they should put an "UPDATE" at the end of the original story to reflect the changes. The NY Times does this when make a correction or an update.
Another alternative is to issue an entirely new story with a new headline and a new URL and keep the original story and URL archived for historical purposes.
One thing that I do like about Wikipedia is that you can go back and look at the history of an article to see when changes are made and find out how the article looked at any specific date. I wish news organizations would use a similar methodology to track changes they make to stories.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @04:34PM
One thing that I do like about Wikipedia is that you can go back and look at the history of an article to see when changes are made and find out how the article looked at any specific date. I wish news organizations would use a similar methodology to track changes they make to stories.
+5 for that. There is no technical reason they couldn't.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday May 22 2015, @08:53PM
Submission time can lag publication time here on SN more than used to happen on that other site. Probably due to our overworked editors, and no official policy on favoring timeliness.
Knowing this, and knowing that most of us are sitting in front of a computer with access to news, I've personally tend to shy away from submitting breaking new stories unless they are so utterly geeky they simply can't be passed up. We aren't really equipped to be a first exposure news site.
Still, I have no problem with our editors tacking on an Update: with a new link at the end of submitted stories.
The present story? This would be worthy of discussion even in a month. Finding viable and matchable DNA on something chocked full of DNA, like a pizza crust is pretty amazing.
Wint has a previous criminal history. According to court records, he has faced multiple charges over the years, including theft, assault and a sexual offense.
Had that not been the case, they probably would have had nothing to match the pizza crust with. - Unless the guy who boxed up the pizza also had a record.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday May 22 2015, @06:12PM
When did Dominoes start selling pizza?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday May 22 2015, @08:19PM
They never. However their pizza crust business seems to be strong, for reasons that defy even a modicum of intelligence.
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