Fire in upper NW?

[Anonymous]

The fact that most suggests this is an outside job, is the finding of one of the family vehicles - abandoned and burned out - in Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened I hope we find out eventually.
It's false security but knowing what happened will
help me feel less shaken up about the whole thing.

I know. It is probably selfish of me to want this knowledge so much -- "shaken up" is a right. The brutality and evil of the murder (including of the little boy) sickens me.

I am so, so sorry for the daughters. I know they are supported by loving family and friends but the pain of this is incomprehensible.

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Anonymous wrote:This really doesn't seem like a burglary to me. It seems very strange that four people were in the house, including what appears to be the 10-year old son in the middle of the day on a weekday (teenage girls go to boarding school). The police are looking for info about a Porsche that was there earlier in the morning. This is very strange...

PP, I agree with you. Did the father not go to work this morning? Did the son not go to school today?

I read that the father's sister lived with them. So the deceased adults are the parents and his sister?

I thought one girl went to NCS?

Arson? Murder? Big 3? Methinks this has the making of a DCUM hottest topics thread.

Both girls went to Beauvoir and NCS and then to boarding schools for high school. I hope they were spared.

Glad you are amused at this horrific tragedy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One article states the family just moved back after spending a year in the Caribbean so yard work was ongoing. If someone wanted to rob, that would have been the time.

Whomever texted is the one that did the crime. And if Mom's phone had a code to use or a fingerprint ID to access the phone, then Mom did it. Or a person that had intimate knowledge of that phone and knew the numbers plus names of the house help plus knew their schedule.

The husband's company was asked for a statement but they declined. His elite lawyer group also declined a statement.

The police haven't told the neighbors to be on alert so I gather they pretty much know what's what.

You don't live in that kind of neighborhood and leave the affluent exposed. I mean that in the nicest way. It's just they chose that place to live because it represented security to them.

So you are implying that the police know who committed the murders? There has been no public alerts other than tell us if you saw the Porsche. I would think that would go against the crime being a random burglary.

What do you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that most suggests this is an outside job, is the finding of one of the family vehicles - abandoned and burned out - in Maryland.

Yes, absolutely. Assuming that victims were mother, father, housekeeper and son (as is the strong inference based upon the facts that have been reported to date), there's not really any scenario other than outside violence (most likely robbery/home invasion) to explain the car's movement and abandonment.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that most suggests this is an outside job, is the finding of one of the family vehicles - abandoned and burned out - in Maryland.

Yes, absolutely. Assuming that victims were mother, father, housekeeper and son (as is the strong inference based upon the facts that have been reported to date), there's not really any scenario other than outside violence (most likely robbery/home invasion) to explain the car's movement and abandonment.

The question will then become: Was this truly random or were they targeted in some way?

[Anonymous]

Husband, wife, housekeeper and son are the victims.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that most suggests this is an outside job, is the finding of one of the family vehicles - abandoned and burned out - in Maryland.

Yes, absolutely. Assuming that victims were mother, father, housekeeper and son (as is the strong inference based upon the facts that have been reported to date), there's not really any scenario other than outside violence (most likely robbery/home invasion) to explain the car's movement and abandonment.

The question will then become: Was this truly random or were they targeted in some way?

This reminds me of the Sean Taylor murder or the Elizabeth Smart case, in a way. Assuming a robbery, it could be someone who worked on the home as a day laborer, or a friend/connection of such a worker. I believe there would have to be some studying of the family and its movements, for example.

[Anonymous]

Fox5 has an updated article based upon the police chief's press conference. Victims were husband, wife, son, and housekeeper. They were murdered and then the fire was set (per the article). Article says "at least three" of those killed hand blunt force trauma injuries (which I suppose means all four could have had such injuries).

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Anonymous wrote:Fox5 has an updated article based upon the police chief's press conference. Victims were husband, wife, son, and housekeeper. They were murdered and then the fire was set (per the article). Article says "at least three" of those killed hand blunt force trauma injuries (which I suppose means all four could have had such injuries).

Post also reports that "all four are considered homicide victims." So no to any murder-suicide scenario (as already seemed clear from car, blunt force injuries, and fire).

[Anonymous]

OMG. The victims (including the little boy) were stabbed.

WTOP just had a lame update. Just named the victims as the husband, wife, housekeeper and son. DC police still just asking for info on the Porsche!

It doesn't sound like they have any leads except the videotape surveillance tapes.

[Anonymous]

Those poor people, the poor daughters left behind. Makes me sick to my stomach to think people can be so evil, and probably just for money.

[Anonymous]

Has anything been reported on what, if anything was stolen? They had some well known, very expensive art. Was this part of a burglary? For some reason that would make it seem less threatening. A burglary-gone-bad seems slightly less horrifying than a pure home invasion and murder. Probably because the latter means there is a sociopath on the loose. That would be far to close to Criminal Minds for me to sleep at all until the perpetrator is caught.

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But, if it was someone targeting the house for burglary, why not wait until the middle of the day when people would be gone? Even if it was just the housekeeper there, someone seemed to intentionally target that family. Also, the murderer must have known that there would be a lot of security in the area, with dignitaries (and surveillance video) close by.

[Anonymous]

Police chief is asking public for information on activities at the home on Wednesday night, too, so maybe the could determine victims' time of death to be Wednesday night?