Funeral Planned for Savopoulos Family Members

A funeral will be held June 1 for members of the Savopoulos family, whose deaths last week at their northwest DC home are being investigated as homicides by police.

The funeral is scheduled to be held June 1 at St. Sophia Cathedral, 2815 36th St. NW in DC., where the family reportedly worshiped, according to a report by The Washington Post.

The church is about a five-minute drive from the family home on Woodland Drive, where the bodies of Savvas Savopoulos, 46, wife, Amy Savopoulos, 47, son, Philip, 10 and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, 57 were found dead Thursday.

Police say they were killed before an “intentional” fire was set at the home.

Savopoulos was CEO of American Iron Works, according to the company Web site. Savopoulos’ Facebook page also notes that he was chief executive officer of Sigma Investment Strategies.

Another housekeeper Nelitza Gutierrez has told several media outlets, including the Post, that she felt something was amiss at the Savopoulos home after she listened to a voice mail left on her phone Wednesday night by Savvas Savopoulos.

“It was something very suspicious because I felt his voice was really tense,” Gutierrez said in Spanish, to the newspaper. “And it was different than what he had said to me before.”

Fox News reports that Amy Savopoulos reportedly texted Gutierrez Thursday morning and told her not to come to work that day.

Police released a surveillance video over the weekend of a “person of interest” in the murder investigation. The video was taken from a camera at a banquet hall near where the family’s blue Porsche was found burned; the parking lot where it was found is 35 miles away from the family’s home, according to reports.

Former FBI investigator Bill Daly told Fox News that the suspect could be someone who knew the family in some way. “To me it suggests they may have known this person...police say that there were no signs of forced entry.”

He also wondered if the text sent on Thursday from Amy Savopoulos’ phone was actually sent by the killer.

There is a reward of $100,000 in the case. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the police at (202) 727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by text messaging 50411.

PHOTO of church from Facebook page