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If this was a kidnapping/extortion attempt, then I assume the perpetrator(s) wanted cash, not items that would have to be sold. If they had planned to steal objects, then why do it when people are in the house? Ideally, they would wait until no one was in the house if they wanted to steal jewelry and other valuables. Also, you have to have buyers for those kind of items which increases the likelihood of being caught. |
You must be white and rich! |
I'm guessing there was a gun involved, but it obviously wasn't used. The threat of being shot and having your loved ones shot is enough. |
People watch too much television. It is not easy to traffic stolen art. |
Not envy, just an explanation. We live nearby. Clearly our circles don't interact. |
This doesn't seem random.
It wasn't the mob or other professional pay back killing. They would do the deed and leave. What is left? Could it be a crazy psycho ex employee who thought he could actually get away with some cash? Could it be a boyfriend the father did not approve of? Who really liked the other maid-cuz that whole part is off to me? What is going on here? It is so sad and disturbing! |
I wondered about that as well. When I read about the martial arts studio in Chantilly it made me think of Breaking Bad and how they used car washes as a legitimate front for funneling drug money. Of course that is not what he was doing, but I wondered if the martial arts studio was a way to funnel revenue from shadier dealings. This story keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. |
I was putting my 5 year old down and he fell off to sleep while I was reading. I was so l gentle as I put his head on the pillow and covered him with the blanket. I missed his head before I walked out of the room and I immediately thought of this mother. I bet she did the same for her child and how horrific it must have been to see him go through this. I am heartbroken. |
And that would be even more obvious if they were trying to take out framed paintings out of an expensive house in downtown Washington in broad daylight. Can anyone picture the scene? |
Agree. Please. The bastards that did this didn't care about the fucking art. That's silly. Why would they have held the family for hostage for so long? Every hour they are there means they are more likely to get caught. The evil piece of shit running away in that video the police reported who just killed a family - he doesn't know jack about art. May he roast in hell. |
Workplace violence. Definitely leaning towards a fired employee. When you run an operation as large has he did you run into a lot of people who probably think you owe them something. This would also explain why they probably let him into the house and there wasn't a forced entry.
This is separate, but everyone should read The Gift of Fear. Not inferring this was preventable w something like a book, but you know those jokes people make about so and so shooting up an office? Always take that seriously. People deal w their discomfort and sense of people through joking. |
There has been relative silence from the police today. I suspect they may have a strong lead, or idea, who committed the murders, and are now trying to track down every bit of evidence to make an airtight case.
Also, for the poster(s) who say that the perpetrator(s) did not want Mrs. Figueroa to contact her husband on Wednesday evening, because they could not control her message, or understand her Spanish -- I have this question: Why, then, not have Savvas contact Figueroa's husband directly himself? I suspect that it is because neither Savvas nor the perpetrator(s) could access her husband's phone number at that point (cellphone password). That suggests to me that Mrs. Figueroa was somehow incapacitated by the time Mr. Savopoulos placed the alleged phonecall to Mrs. Gutierrez. He knew that Mrs. Gutierrez would have Mr. Figueroa's phone number because the women were friends (though, admittedly, I do not have my friends' husbands' phone numbers). There are certainly clues to be read in the alleged phone calls and text messages, I just do not what those might be. |
We were robbed about two years ago, and I will never again feel entirely safe in my own home. I don't even want to try to imagine what these poor innocent souls were put through. |
Was the father actually the owner/going to operate the martial arts studio? I just thought his company was building it for someone else. |