Fire in upper NW?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with PPs who say this is random. Unless they come up with a motive more personal to this family than just that this guy worked at some point for one of the father's businesses (like he was hired by someone with a grudge against them), I would still put this in the category of terrifying shit that could happen to anyone.

Do you understand that random means no connection?

Don't be a simpleton. this guy was likely so far down the ladder at the victim's company that they had zero interaction. He just knew the father was the big boss and ergo likely rich. As connection's go, that's pretty effing thin. There is very little difference between that and any random perp targeting a house or person that they surmise is "rich".

Agree wholeheartedly. No need for the Nancy Drews up in here to continue to splice and dice dictionary definitions et al.

It's not being nancy drew, it's using logic and common sense.

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Anonymous wrote:WTOP just reported that suspect worked for one of SS's companies.

Why on earth wouls SS hire a person with a rap sheet? Maybe the perp used a different name?

He was known for really making an effort to create jobs for those who were out of work/ had trouble finding jobs

No good deed goes unpunished. My God. How horrifying.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the suspect has a young daughter.

He has 3 kids and 3 baby mothers.

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the motivation for the crime points to socioeconomic disparity as the root cause. NOT race.

just wait til all the 20-somethings in this country realize they have no future (thanks to the baby boomers).

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Anonymous wrote:WTOP just reported that suspect worked for one of SS's companies.

smh

what does smh mean?

Disregard. I googled smh.

So, WTOP says suspect worked for one of father's companies. Police are not characterizing this crime as random because perp(s?) were employed by SS in some way.

I'm sorry to everyone who was all excited they were "right" about it being random but this seemed obvious from the get-go. They had to have knowledge of what assets the family had, what they thought they could reasonably get out of the family, etc. etc. There's no way someone's going to randomly pick a family to hold hostage on the vague hope and prayer that they can come up with an obscene amount of cash in a short amount of time.

Yes, it IS random. This sociopath picked this family, this man, out of all the prove he came across in His daily life.

Do you people not realize you don't need to be a business owner to be randomly targeted by a criminal? We ALL cross paths daily with people who could decide we are their next victim. The teenager who lives down the street and wants money for drugs, the guy who pumped your gas, the friend of your nephew who saw a picture of you on his Instagram account, the Son of the guy who cuts your lawn, the stranger sitting two table over from you at the Palm, the handsome Guy your friedm introduced you to at a fraternity party, the check out woman at the grocery store.

That this sociopath, this criminal, this Wint guy picked the S Family is random. He may have worked for the father's company at one point but that is not WHY he picked them to target. He wasn't looking for revenge. It wasn't because the Dad "did him wrong" or had shady business dealings. THAT is what I mean.

All those theories that made it a retaliatory strike against this family were all wrong. They were looking for some REASON it happened to this family. It is a way to make you feel like it couldn't be you. Well, that is wrong. It could be you. It could be me. It was RANDOM that the S family was chosen. They are innocent of causing this in any way, shape or form.

That is what I meant by RANDOM.

I don't think you understand the definition of random.

I actually kind of agree with the poster saying this was random. some posters say that the perp knew the house, the family's routine and their finances, and I do not think this is true. if he worked for SS at one time, he may simplye knew that the guy existed and was wealthy and decided to rob him. so if there was a connection was really flimsy. at the same time, it does not take a genius to know that if you break into a $5Million dollar home and take hostages you can get a good amount of cash in a short period of time (heck, I am a nobody living in NWDC in a $700's fixer upper with Ikea furniture and a HHI in the low $200k$, and if my family was taken hostage overnight I would be able to go to the bank in the morning and withdraw $20-25K from our savings). the fact that they had the money delivered to the house (with all the risks and difficulties) instead of having one of the hostages go to the bank and withdraw the cash makes me think he may have acted alone or maybe with just one other person. it would not be difficult for a guy with a knife to overpower the maid and then the mother threatening the child. then, when the husband comes home he cannot react becuase the child is threatened. years ago a couple of murdered in CC in a similar way, a group of poeple knocked at the door and the husband opened, people barged in and tied the couple up. they stole a few objects of little value and then killed them, came back the day after, realized the crime had no been discovered and they stole their car. like in this case, low level criminals with zero consideration for life, including their own, and profoundly dumb. apparently they were driving around the area looking for a house to commit a burglary when one of the people remembered that an acquantance (who was not there and had nothing to do with the crime) years before had lived as a foster child for a while at the home of the couple, who helped teenagers in difficult situations. so they went there and did the crime. even in this case there was a connection, but very, very thin.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the suspect has a young daughter.

He has 3 kids and 3 baby mothers.

He has a lot of love to spread around.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the suspect has a young daughter.

He has 3 kids and 3 baby mothers.

How sad that this psychopath will leave more offspring behind than his victims..... Hopefully these children never know their father.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the suspect has a young daughter.

He has 3 kids and 3 baby mothers.

How are you all finding this stuff out?

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Forgive me if this has been posted, but this article states that he may turn himself in..

http://nypost.com/2015/05/21/suspect-in-dc-family-murder-may-be-in-nyc-area/

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Anonymous wrote:ON Facebook, if you link to the sister's (Seanna Wint) page, it appears that she has some sort of scar on her neck -- can anyone tell if that looks like a gunshot wound or knife wound?

I can't believe you people are for real. I might have to quit DCUM.

Yeah folks, c'mon. Are you all going to google the entire family and try to tie them to this horrendous act. That needs to stop.

Nonsense. The brother is a violent criminal too.

So, it's okay to write thousands of posts, many of them attacking an innocent housekeeper, but it's not okay to google the killer and his family?

That's ridiculous. In the year 2015, everyone googles everyone else: employees, dates, neighbors. I think the least of anyone's problems here is looking up the killer on Facebook. Especially given that he was seen sitting on a relative's porch after the murder.

I was really referring to the inquiry into the scar on the sister's neck. And since you mentioned it, I didn't agree with the prosecution of the housekeeper either. All of it is wrong.

Seanna is not his sister. Get your facts straight. Unless something emerges that his family members were involved. whether immediate or extended, then please leave their names out of it.

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Anonymous wrote:the motivation for the crime points to socioeconomic disparity as the root cause. NOT race.

just wait til all the 20-somethings in this country realize they have no future (thanks to the baby boomers).

this is really gross. the motivation for the crime was that a monster did not think anything of turturing a child to get some money out of his parents, and of killing them all once he got $40,000 cash. and please do not offend 20-something people by implying that they are going to commit crimes like this

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As long as we are on the subject of being wrong, I think it is wrong to call wint a felon. Although he appears to have been on the wrong side of the law several times it doesn't appear that he has actually ever served time in prison.

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Anonymous wrote:the woman interviewed on ABC, mentioned previously, is named on their site. "close friend?" Hard to believe.

This is such an awful comment. And, the pp mentioning that the "truly special" Cathedral community should "use discretion." Blech! People grieve in different ways and some people think it's important to make a public tribute to a friend. Is it invading their privacy to know that she called her girls "pearls?" Some would argue that it adds to their legacy, it memorializes them. You might disagree, but that's pretty crass to attempt to publicly humiliate someone who feels differently by questioning their friendship.

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To the poster who commented about wishing Cathedral school families would stop giving interviews, I'm not sure what you are referring to? I've only see one friend interviewed.

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Random -- Thief says "I think I will rob someone's home in NW."

Not Random -- I think I will rob my previous' boss home, who lives in NW. He always drove a really fancy car.

Are people on DCUM saying that Wint just randomly picked a home in NW and realized while he was there-- "hey, I used to work for you!"

This was NOT random.