Fire in upper NW?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've read somewhere (WaPo?) that the street/neighborhood had a private security guard. Is that true? Can anyone comment on what that means -- a private guard walking up/down street or at street entrance? 24/7 coverage? If so, wouldn't that person see Porsche driving away with someone strange at wheel?

They do, but its security for the neighborhood. They don't sit in front of their house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is 100% safe anywhere. Period.

My family's home was robbed on Christmas Eve my junior year of college. Upscale neighborhood similar to Great Falls or Potomac (not in this region though) but closer to town than either of those communities.

All the homes sat on 5 acres of land. We left the house at 6pm for Christmas Eve dinner at my grandmother's, and returned to a house that had been ransacked, everything but the furniture was taken. They stole my dad's SUV to help carry everything away. They beat up our dog and used a gun to blast a window out in order to get in. Our window's didn't have sensors on them.

None of our neighbors heard or saw a thing.

Fast forward to living on Capitol Hill a few years later. It was August recess and most of us in the neighborhood were gone. My neighbors who lived in a brownstone and within the Capitol Hill police jurisdiction, had the entire contents of their home stolen while they were on vacation. A moving van pulled up and the thieves took everything, silverware -- everything.

This is why we always leave the dogs at our house with a housesitter when we travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I knew Amy and her husband and they were both extremely kind, thoughtful, normal (very wealthy) well adjusted people. Also, good parents and charitable. There was nothing remotely fishy or sketchy about them.

I'm so sorry you've lost a friend and her family in this terrible tragedy.

Ditto times a thousand. We knew the family only tangentially, from attending the same school: it is so easy to forget that there are four people who have left behind so many who loved them so very, very much. Healing thoughts to all touched by this senseless tragedy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Woodley adjacent to that neighborhood and walk my dog on Woodland. The private security is someone in a black "urban alarm" SUV. I dont know what they do other than drive up and down that street. I also have never seen the SUV go as far up Woodland as the Savopoulos home. I see it on the southern end of Woodland and on McGill Terrace. I assumed it was affiliated with the [b]Argentina ambassador residence since that is the area in which the van consistently is patrolling.

So Argentinian Ambassador lives down the street? Noticeable black SUV patrolling street and neighborhood? With this level of security activity, why on earth would criminals randomly pick Savopoulos home (unless criminals were completely unaware)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Woodley adjacent to that neighborhood and walk my dog on Woodland. The private security is someone in a black "urban alarm" SUV. I dont know what they do other than drive up and down that street. I also have never seen the SUV go as far up Woodland as the Savopoulos home. I see it on the southern end of Woodland and on McGill Terrace. I assumed it was affiliated with the [b]Argentina ambassador residence since that is the area in which the van consistently is patrolling.

So Argentinian Ambassador lives down the street? Noticeable black SUV patrolling street and neighborhood? With this level of security activity, why on earth would criminals randomly pick Savopoulos home (unless criminals were completely unaware)?

There are plenty of reasons they could have picked that reason. Maybe the housekeeper working there left the door unlocked or opened it for whoever knocked. Houses with cameras and dogs would be avoided. Maybe they thought the family kept a lot of cash in the house?

[Anonymous]

Picked that house*

[Anonymous]

I grew up in that neighborhood. There are always suburbans and cops around. I can't imagine anyone would randomly rob a house there when there are so many rich neighborhoods in the DC area with so much less security.

[Anonymous]

I hate to give up on martial arts theory but after watching Fox with racial profiler on...try this...
Housekeeper knows assailant(s)she lets him in.
He /they threaten her tie her up.
Family held hostage.Criminals not satisfied with limited loot. They do not believe there is no more.No cash... Limited jewels. Crime committed.
They leave in car it was easy to find keys they asked housekeeper. She is left to die in fire. They return to their hood, it's housekeepers hood also. It is coincidence that ,that is his place of business.

[Anonymous]

Just saw this posted on another forum..some audio from the voicemail left for housekeepr:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/mansion-fire-mysterious-voicemail-latest-clue-dc-blaze/story?id=31121535

In the voicemail it sounds like you can hear a child cry out at one point..

[Anonymous]

The fire is the hardest part to reconcile. Why go to great lengths to make sure the other housekeeper doesn't come there to discover the crime and then set a fire that would summon the authorities in five minutes? And if one of the victims was texting unsupervised, it seems like it would be a plea for help. Why mess around just warning her to stay away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just saw this posted on another forum..some audio from the voicemail left for housekeepr:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/mansion-fire-mysterious-voicemail-latest-clue-dc-blaze/story?id=31121535

In the voicemail it sounds like you can hear a child cry out at one point..

I really wish they didn't release that.

It seemed like the housekeeper handed over her phone to the reporters?

[Anonymous]

$$$$
Housekeeper was paid for the recording
Also, the housekeeper killed recognized the killer
The killer was stuck in the house because landscapers came. He couldn't leave
How did he get there? There must be another car involved
My guess only... I just don't get soooo much of this
& who kills a little boy? Or Anyone for that sake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just saw this posted on another forum..some audio from the voicemail left for housekeepr:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/mansion-fire-mysterious-voicemail-latest-clue-dc-blaze/story?id=31121535

In the voicemail it sounds like you can hear a child cry out at one point..

it does! I really hope they have more by now than that crappy grainy video of a person moving thru an alley. Didn't she say before the dad said the little boy was injured in his go kart. on the tape he says "we are going through some stuff with Philip." Whoever it was sure wanted to keep that housekeeper away. And the text is either misspelled or esl.

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/why-were-riveted-when-bad-things-happen-to-rich-people/2015/05/18/53157fd6-fd71-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw this posted on another forum..some audio from the voicemail left for housekeepr:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/mansion-fire-mysterious-voicemail-latest-clue-dc-blaze/story?id=31121535

In the voicemail it sounds like you can hear a child cry out at one point..

it does! I really hope they have more by now than that crappy grainy video of a person moving thru an alley. Didn't she say before the dad said the little boy was injured in his go kart. on the tape he says "we are going through some stuff with Philip." Whoever it was sure wanted to keep that housekeeper away. And the text is either misspelled or esl.

Actually, the text looks like autocorrect--the person typed "fr" and it corrected to "from" instead of "Friday." Agree?