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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: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @02:06PM
You forgot to mention "parallel construction". That's the new, hip thing to bring into any topic that mentions police if you want to try to sound +1 Insightful. We needed something new ever since oligarchy is not as hip as it used to be here. Ad hominem is still strong (perhaps someday we'll get to see that one used correctly).
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @03:36PM
Ad hominem is still strong (perhaps someday we'll get to see that one used correctly).
Oh, yeah, well an anonymous coward would just assert that we've never seen ad hominem used correctly....
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Friday May 22 2015, @03:49PM
ever since oligarchy is not as hip as it used to be
Frankly I don't care what word is used so long as it is used correctly. There's no such thing as a "hip" word. There is a lot of "hip" misuse or misunderstanding of words though, intentional or otherwise.
/grammarnazi
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @04:08PM
No, around here "intelligent" words certainly come and go in fads. Oligarchy was real hot a while back. It is sort of like that co-worker who gets a "Word-A-Day" calendar for Christmas and goes out of his way to show off his newly found words. One or two get selected and pushed hard until he loses interest in them and he reverts back to whatever words he was using before. You see it a lot at places like this where people "argue" (unfortunately, there are very few intelligent exchanges that go on because accusations of, for instance, ad hominem or strawman are used as counterpoints to end a discussion), whereby one attaches themselves to impressive words or phrases that seem to be good weapons in an argument, probably because they were used against him at some point and he didn't have a good retort.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @11:05PM
That's because there's no reason to try to refute a fallicious argument because its already invalid. How can you invalidate an argument thats not valid in the first place, and why bother?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @11:02PM
I disagree, "defenestrate" is very hip, it just doesn't get used nearly enough. Same with "dissemble".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @03:56PM
You forgot to mention "parallel construction". That's the new, hip thing to bring into any topic that mentions police if you want to try to sound +1 Insightful.
It's not because it's new or hip; it's because we now understand far more than before the scale of the government's mass surveillance. This makes parallel construction simpler than ever, and we know the government mention it themselves, so it is a thing that exists. And since the US government is so undeniably corrupt, of course there will be people who distrust that it obtained evidence legally.