Victims in Quadruple Homicide Likely Held Overnight by Captor: Report

NBC-4 reports chilling details of what sources tell the TV station is a likely scenario in the quadruple murders of a prominent family in northwest DC.

The Savopoulos family and their housekeeper were likely held from Wednesday into Thursday by a person or persons who knew the pattern of their daily lives before they were killed, according to the report.

Husband Savvas Savopoulos, 46, wife, Amy Savopoulos, 47, son, Philip, 10 and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, 57 were found dead Thursday at the Savopoulos mansion, according to DC Police.

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 told the Washington 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.

The Metropolitan Police Department currently offers a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone that provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons wanted for any homicide committed in the District of Columbia. 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.

Google map photo of home in the 3200 block of Woodland Drive NW in Washington, D.C.