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after the quadruple homicides and the arson remember the police chief said publicly that the elaborate crime
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probably required the presence and assistance of more than one person and that there were probably other suspects
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authorities arrested only Darren went we need to Circle back to someone we discussed earlier this is Jordan Wallace
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sava's 28-year-old personal assistant he is a very significant part of this story
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Jordan was the son of a police officer who was on active duty at the time of the sopis family murders Jordan was into
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race cars and by all accounts race car driving was his passion he had owned his own race car and had participated in
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several races Jordan met Sava in 2013 at the autobond go-kart race course in Jessup Maryland the two men bonded
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over their love of cars and Sava hired Jordan in March of 2015 this is just months before the murders to be his
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personal assistant after Jordan was laid off from Autobon Jordan told people close to him
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that this was his dream job he got to drive fancy cars travel and make decent money yeah Sava as we have seen trusted
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Jordan with every task including handling $40,000 in cash on that fateful day well and plus your boss he was your
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friend before he was your boss but some people including investigators began to wonder whether Jordan could have been in
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on the plan to extort the family for money well he's a personal assistant right so he would know their whereabouts
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he's been inside their home yeah and he knows the Family schedule and daily and goings and he certainly was aware of how
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much money they had right he could very easily have been The Mastermind behind the whole thing feeding this information
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to went or someone else second he had deleted the last photo from his phone the photo of the cash in the red bag
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right he told police that he had deleted the photo right away but actually he deleted it after the fire there were
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several other photos on his phone of him inside the various luxury cars owned by
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the family right but he's a car guy right mhm yeah that would be a natural thing I think that the suspicious thing
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is the photo of the cash well and you probably shouldn't be taking pictures of your boss's car or what you have or
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these I got a bunch of cash probably shouldn't take pictures of those because if that information gets out again these
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people are so wealthy that they have a on their back for crimes like this mhm well and they had some other items too
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that they were concerned about one Jordan Wallace's BMW was found on the afternoon of May 14th parked right near
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the sopis home Jordan told police it was because he had driven to the house when
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he heard of the fire because he was actually asked to check on the family right the vehicle was impounded and
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searched if it was parked there why wasn't he why didn't he move it afterwards well it's very likely he
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wasn't given the opportunity to move the vehicle the way this probably went down
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he returns to the house remind you he's been asked by his boss's company to go to the house and see what's going on
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they contacted him he goes to the house and he's like he responds back to the person that asked him to go to the home
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this was Debbie masser that we discussed earlier M he calls her and says look I'm
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here the house is on fire they're not letting me go inside I don't know what's going on and so I figure the way that
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this works is that he parks near the home and then once they're putting out the fire and the police arrive and the
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detectives are there they probably block everything off and sorry Jordan but your
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car was right in front of the house right so but my question is did somebody come pick him up do we know this
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information no I don't know that uh one thing that they also found curious was that Jordan's father lived in the same
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apartment complex where Darren W's sister and two of Wentz Brothers lived and where went occasionally crashed
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according to that's yeah that's pretty suspicious right According to some reports Jordan and went actually lived
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in the same building or at least in very close proximity and as you pointed out it it's
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quite a coincidence most people didn't think it could be just a coincidence right finally the police stated in their
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affidavit for Darren W's arrest that Jordan had lied to them repeatedly he was interviewed by
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detectives for four and a half hours immediately after the fire so he likely was taken directly from the scene to be
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questioned immediately to figure out what's going on well and these are you know some of these are little tiny lies
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as law enforcement you have to go well what do these little tiny lies equal to so some of the things that they uh were
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pretty quickly discovered to be untrue in his statements you know this is where you look at these and you go are these
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actual lies or just mistakes and of course Jordan's going to claim that these were just mistakes he made in his
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statements so the affidavit says Jordan changed his account of how things with the money went down he initially told
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police that he received the voicemail from Sava telling him to pick up the package on Thursday morning we know that
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he actually received it on Wednesday evening the message to do so right he initially told police that Ted Chase
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handed him the 4,000 $40,000 cash in a manila envelope actually Ted handed Jordan four stacks
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of bills and Jordan later placed the money in an envelope right he initially told police that the red sports car
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remember where he was supposed to deliver the money to mhm that he found it locked and he had to find the key in
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a cabinet inside the garage to open it up up when actually they were able to prove that it was
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unlocked what it seems like could have been happening with these lies or misstatements which seem somewhat
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inconsequential is that Jordan told these things to police before they looked through his phone right once they
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did they saw the discrepancies it's possible that he was tired and stressed out and upset because
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his boss and friend had just been murdered yeah and he was you know afraid of how things would look or how he would
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look or as some thought it's possible this guy was hiding something very serious but if you have the money and
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you're the Mastermind and you know that they're going to be murdered why drop off the money anyways that's a good
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question right CU he's the only one that we have left to tell us that the money got there so police obviously were quite
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interest Ed in Jordan Wallace law enforcement obtained multiple search warrants for Jordan's car and they took
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possession of his phone laptop two backpacks and various receipts and documents yeah this dirt bag in went and
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he has connections to the personal assistant of a major corporation that's fishy yeah and I think the other giant
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red flag that that we should point out here is this is what would stand out to me as an
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investigator this personal assistant that might know the routine and the comings and goings of this family better
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than anyone other than maybe the housekeepers that have worked there for a long period of time yeah is this
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personal assistant because he he has intimate knowledge of what's going on but the red flag is you're like this
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dude was only hired a few months before the murders right it's not like this is a longtime personal
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assistant now we should point out here geord completely cooperated with the investigation even submitting a DNA
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sample he cooperated uh after he told him a bunch of lies right but again it's I mean we're
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talking he's the first guy they're talking to After he finds out this family's been murdered right so he he
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cooperates and this is per the investigators not perr Jordan Willl Wallace he submitted DNA sample
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willingly there was gasoline that was detected in the interior of his car which obviously does not look good but
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Jordan pointed out that he worked on race cars all of the time and transported parts and gasoline in his
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car the title to one of sava's sports cars was actually found in Jordan's car but Jordan told police part of his job
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was updating the registration at the DMV right and you know your days of property
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management and working for similar situations that this is common practice one of my job duties which
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didn't occur very often okay so one of my job duties was to renew somebody's license driver's
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license and which sounds like well how do you actually do that without being the person there are ways if you know
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their personal information and also one of the things that I did was to um renew
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the registration the tags on the vehicles yeah so let's talk about let's go back to evidence because this is a
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unique case where there's actually much more physical evidence than circumstantial given that we have went
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dead to wrs thanks to the pizza DNA but we don't have much circumstantial evidence we do have some though so let's
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go through that at this point because right now they're trying to build a case against witin we're also trying to
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determine who these other suspects could be went was identified positively by a woman who on May 14th saw him loitering
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in the parking lot of the church around 5:00 p.m. where minutes later someone torched the
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Porsche she described the physical appearance of a man she saw to police before before they had even identified
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went through the DNA she described this person as a muscular shorter African-American male
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with dreadlocks and a ponytail wearing a white shirt dark jeans and a necklace two yard workers at the
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Australian ambassador's home think about that Australian ambassador's home that's
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how important of a neighborhood this is yeah located across 32nd street from the
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garage side of the sopa home said that on Thursday May 14th they both saw an African-American male with dreadlocks
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wearing a white T-shirt and dark jeans with a string backpack on his back walk with purpose down the sidewalk and Duck
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Down Under The Still opening garage door of the sopis home or seemed to open for
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him and closed immediately behind him right but that seems kind of suspicious too that this guy walks up the door
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opens almost as if he has the power to open it and then he goes inside and the door closes right what would a personal
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assistant have the garage door opener right this this seems like a situation where either one of two things are
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happening here either went is walking up to the home and an accomplice inside opens up the garage door allows him in
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and then closes it behind him or he's walking with the garage door opener on his person right or he's timing a family
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member entering the garage so this was spotted by eyewitnesses and this was around noon on the
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14th now as we discussed W's phone went dark not communicating with anyone on May 13th until the evening of the
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14th the two days that are in question right and in the days after the murders when made several incriminating searches
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on his phone he searched for 10 Hideout cities for fugitives five countries with no us
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extradition treaty how to beat a lie detector test and several searches for how to reset an iPhone he also texted
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his girlfriend a photo of two white iPhones on the night of May 14th exactly like those owned by SAA and Amy and
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asked her whether iPhones could be tracked right he also deleted a number of photos taken on his phone that were
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taken on the 13th and the 14th and then of course we have in the days after the murders when is seen with
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large numbers of $100 bills on surveillance footage at these stores Vanessa told police remember the
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girlfriend right that went had been wearing a hoodie that had a big red stain on
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it he told her that he had cut himself and one of the young women in the Chevy Cruise with went when he was arrested
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told investigators that she noticed that Wentz dread smelled like smoke as if he
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had been around a fire like a bonfire yeah that that smell you can't get rid of but ladies here's a little dating
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advice for you a guy comes to your place to hang out with you maybe possibly to take you out on a date because he did
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take her out to dinner right mhm took her to buy some things he comes over he has a hoodie with a big spot on it
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that's blood and says he cut himself you go I'm not going on that date I'm not I'm not going well and even if you
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believe him you see his mug shot on on TV later and then go to a hotel with him now I also wonder though given his
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violent nature that we are very aware a well aware of mhm anytime was maybe she and intimidated to go to the hotel or
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you know what I mean was she just complying with his demands for whatever reason right but when he comes in and
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you see this giant spot and you go hey sucker is that is that blood and he goes oh yeah don't worry about this
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blood on me I cut myself don't worry about it don't worry about a damn thing don't worry about that blood what she
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needs to do is say I got to go get my hair done right I got to use the restroom I got to call the police
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that's what you do good to see you at my doorstep bloodstain come on in yes um this has been uh dating with the captain
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all right so let's get to some of what I think is some of the more juicier stuff
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right so we still have this impending trial because they're building this case against went right so Darren went
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finally went to trial in September of 2018 this is on 20 counts of murder kidnapping burglary extortion felony
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murder theft and arson aggravating circumstances which would mean that he would get life without parole were
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alleged because the crimes were especially heinous atrocious and cruel right went plad not guilty told you not
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to worry about that blood in pre-trial hearings and motions his lawyers with the district Public's Defender service
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gave a glimpse into their planed defense they said they uncovered evidence implicating someone else as the
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killer over the objections of prosecutors the judge allowed the defense to wait until trial to publicly
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disclose this alternative suspect's identity his attorneys had been hinting at their strategy for some time stating
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publicly went our client Lacks the intellectual capabilities to orchestrate this complicated of an operation mhm
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when the opening day of the trial came prosecutors didn't hold back in their opening remarks they described what
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happened the family was held hostage beaten exfix stabbed tortured and killed by Darren went the motive money greed
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and revenge DNA doesn't lie said the US attorney Christopher Brookman and Wentz DNA was found on the pizza the knife
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handle the construction vest and the hard hat Prosecuting attorneys stated that Darren went was likely solely
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responsible for the four murders and that they would prove this throughout the course of the trial which was
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expected to last 8 weeks when it came time for defense attorneys to make their opening
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statements they dropped a bombshell everyone had anticipated that they were likely to allege went had
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had accompli M but instead they alleged that went was totally innocent and in fact his brother Daryl went had been the
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perpetrator oh well that makes sense so they should just let him get out of jail
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evidence was the defense going to use to show that went was innocent yeah cuz on
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the surface this does seem like a crime that was be done by more than one individual well I think what the Shocker
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is here is not so much that that we're told that other people were involved but to be told that went was innocent and he
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was actually set up by these other individuals mhm so first they pointed to a witness statement that reported a
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short-haired man driving the Porsche went had long dreadlocks stefhon went had very short hair and lived right
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across the street from where the Porsche was burned right they pointed to the video of the man in the church parking
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lot carrying the bucket a man whom the witness from the parking lot said was not the man she saw earlier Darren went
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remember she describes Darren went she's also telling police the person in your video is not the man that I saw right
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and in fact this video shows the man carrying this bucket wearing a dark hoodie which the woman who saw went in the
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parking lot said he was wearing a white shirt so who was this other man the yard workers across the street
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saw went outside of the home ducking under the garage door to enter the house clearly went had not been in the house
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he had come from somewhere outside of the home so they pointed out that someone else must have been there with
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the hostages and open the garage door for went to enter defense attorneys pointed out that
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Daryl went the brother of the suspect the brother of the one being tried he had a conviction and had served
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time for assault with a knife he didn't have much of an alibi for those two days
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and Daryl had been the one to ask Chelsea to purchase money orders for him yeah the hairs found on the hard hat and
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the bedding inside the home could not be attributed exclusively and with certainty to Darren
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went this is what the defense alleged now keep in mind mitochondrial DNA is the same and people with the same
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maternal lineage right right right right so Stefon and Darren went shared a mother and would have the same profile
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for the purposes of the hair analysis never mind that Stefan had very short hair and the hairs that were found were
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long I mean they left that part out right it seems that as the trial progressed defense attorneys decided to
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move away from allegations that Jordan Wallace was involved they didn't really present anything against him where you
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see them clearly pointing out things against W's Brothers now Jordan did testify but he
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testified for the prosecution and he was considered by most to be a believable witness he spoke tearfully of his
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admiration for the sopis family he said he had never met or even heard of any of
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the wents he never had keys to the sopis home or a garage access device and did not know the alarm code or how to work
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the system he had only been to the house on occasion furthermore experts for the
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prosecution testified that cell phone tracking Tech technology put Jordan's phone at exactly the places he said he
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had been on the 13th and the 14th of May well good then he was scared into actually telling the truth finally
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Darren went took the stand and alleged that Daryl and Stefan had set him up the story he told was this you ready for a
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story Captain yeah okay okay so Darren went says his brother Daryl promised him some work that day as a drywaller so the
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two met up around 6:00 a.m. on the 13th Daryl then told went that he actually didn't have any work for him but he
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needed to use W's van for the day after they had breakfast Daryl dropped went at
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his friend's house this is man is named ed but went accidentally left his phone in the van who is now with his brother
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because of this he couldn't reach anyone all day or go anywhere went head hung out with Ed all day and they got
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drunk went passed out that evening and woke up the next day at this point he got in touch with his brother Daryl who
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came to pick him up in a Porsche Turbo they drove to the site where Daryl said he was working this was the sopis home
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when they arrived went and Daryl went into the home after Daryl gave him a neon vest and hard hat to wear went
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didn't see or hear anyone else but he did eat a piece of pizza that Daryl offered him Daryl he noted was wearing
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work gloves when he handled the pizza box went said he never went upstairs in the home he left at one point to help
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Daryl move the van and when he came back he ducked under the garage door to get in after Daryl opened it for him he
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admitted that he was the man the yard workers at the Australian ambassador's home saw entering the garage then he
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said Daryl told him that he Daryl was going to rob the place and went wanted nothing to do with that so he left and
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walked toward a bus stop but Daryl picked him up in the Porsche and they drove down New York
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Avenue Daryl was the short-haired man wearing the neon vest spotted by a witness now Daryl is was bald right went
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also admitted that he was the man that Lori Atkinson saw in the church parking lot he had been dropped off there to go
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home by Daryl after Daryl gave him two iPhones and $6,000 for the purchase of his
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van he searched for how to pass a lie detector when he saw the fire and the murders on the news and realized what
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his brothers must have done he had no explanation for how his DNA got on the knife handle yeah but he has explanation
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for almost everything else right so maybe they just gave up at that point well we we we did the best we could we
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can't figure out the knife handle though well so needless to say this is quite a
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tale um prosecutors were now they're they have an uphill battle at this point right so they need to set
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out to work thoroughly dismantling his story with their rebuttal Witnesses and evidence so first what they did was they
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showed that Daryl the the one that's been the brother that's been implicated by Darren who's on trial right they
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showed that Daryl's phone and credit card had been used to order a pizza quite a ways away in Maryland at 12:16
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p.m. on the 14th these brothers really like that pizza and Daryl and Stefan took the stand at trial both denied that
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they were ever anywhere near the sopis home right Daryl testified that went should be ashamed of himself for
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attempting to implicate him prosecutors produced cell tower evidence to prove that Stefan and Daryl were in fact in
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Maryland on the days in question yeah they produced time cards from stefon's job at a painting company to show that
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he was at work that day and all day on the 14th at least for the actual crimes that
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took place in the home Daryl and Stefon I mean it's impossible that they were present right and Stefon testified
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that went had threatened his family when he was asked to leave his mother's apartment finally prosecutors made sure
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that the jury knew that Daryl actually helped police apprehend his brother Darren went remember he was traveling in
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that Convoy but they were able to point out that Daryl was on the phone with the
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the arresting officers yeah so he cooperated in the arrest of Darren went one of the final witnesses to testify in
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the trial in the prosecution's rebuttal was the medical examiner who attested to
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the horrific injuries inflicted on the family that she viewed firsthand the prosecutors wanted the jury to go into
00:33:22
deliberations with the horrific images of the crime on their brains they showed graphic and gruesome autopsy
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photos including the blackened unrecognizable remains of little Phillip they pulled sava's bloody shirt out of a
00:33:38
sealed evidence bag and it smelled of Decay so badly that some of the jurors looked visibly
00:33:45
sickened the medical examiner testified that Sava was stabbed with a large blade
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through the back of the neck to the front Amy's neck was sliced in three Quick Cuts and she had been stabbed a
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total of eight times and Philip was stabbed three times including a stab wound in his lower abdomen that went
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almost through his body the stabbings were on top of the brutal beatings with the baseball bat causing multiple skull
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fractures and exposing the skulls in her closing arguments the lead prosecutor Laura Bach told jurors that even if they
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did not believe went could have committed the Crimes by himself they could still find him guilty of murder if
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they conclude he participated after retiring to the deliberation room with 45 pages of jury instructions on the 20
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counts the jury deliberated for 20 hours before finding Darren went guilty on all
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counts at W's sentencing in February of 2019 the judge threw the book at him handing down a sentence of four
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consecutive life terms with no possibility of parole keep in mind DC does not have the death penalty went
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showed no emotion and had no family in the courtroom of course he had no family in the courtroom he blamed family
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members for the actual crime right right he he has no friends at this time either
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no I don't think he had friends before this time so a little Theory here a little garage theory if you will to kind
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of tie everything up and and how this very likely went down using the evidence that we know that was presented at trial
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so it's very likely that Darren went his life was it seemed to be in Rapid a rapid downward spiral he had been kicked
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out of his mom's house he had nowhere to live right he had been alienated by his
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family members he didn't have a job Bo he was violent towards everybody his green card was likely going to be
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revoked yeah and he was going to be shipped out of the country and his his van registration was expired and he
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couldn't renew it without the green card he told his brother-in-law that he wanted to ask Vanessa his girlfriend to
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marry him but he didn't have any money for a ring yeah we don't know exactly what he was planning or how long he had
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been planning it for when he made the decision to go to 3201 Woodland Drive on that
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day it seems likely that either he was out for revenge against the boss who had him fired all those years ago or the
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sopis were the only rich people he knew whom he could Rob or possibly both right
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and things seem to have gotten out of control went ended up staying in the house for almost 24 hours a very risky
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move and then killing everyone inside even though he had got gotten what he wanted the money mhm another question
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that has never been answered as we said is exactly how went access the home on that
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day but it's believed he watched Amy leave cut the phone lines as soon as she left he incapacitated Phillip and Vera
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put the dogs in the basement and then waited for Amy to come home we can only imagine what her reaction was when she
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walked in investigators believe that went used threats to Phillip to manipulate the
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parents and get them to do what he wanted he forced Amy to make the 530 phone call to Sava telling him to come
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home we have to wonder whether she considered giving him any kind of signal or code word perhaps went made her make
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the call on speaker phone so he could hear if there was any funny business yeah once SAA entered the home he almost
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certainly was ambushed in the foyer where we saw signs of a struggle and where investigators found a second
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baseball bat with blood on it nearby had Sava been able to get to his upstairs office he would have grabbed
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one of the guns in the filing cabinet drawer but that didn't happen there remains quite a bit that we do not know
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some of the $40,000 was never found neither were Amy and phones another thing that doesn't really
00:38:30
add up is who was the other man carrying the bucket in the video he has never been identified he was likely helping
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went carry gasoline to burn the Porsche or may have just been somebody that happened to be there around that time
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yeah a juror who was interviewed after the trial said that the jurors all agreed the man on the video was not went
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and was not Daryl also who was the man the witness saw driving the Porsche who had short
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hair according to the witness was the witness just mistaken and didn't see wz pulled back
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dreadlocks or was somebody else involved but the Single part of this case that both scares and saddens me the
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most it seems likely that neither parent during all of those phone calls tried to
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Signal anyone because either they were too afraid of went hurting philli or they really believe that if they paid
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him off he would leave and they would be okay and that could have been his initial plan but we're talking about a
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very violent individual that snaps over anything we will never know exactly what
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went down in the house during that 22-hour period between 3:15 p.m. on the 13th and the fire at 1:15 p.m. on the
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14th of course it's not certain that we would really want to know as prosecutor Laura boach said these are the things
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that nightmares are made of in the end Darren went was convicted on all 20 counts by a unanimous jury
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there has never been any evidence whatsoever that Jordan Wallace was in any way involved and investigators found no
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evidence that either of the went brothers or anyone else was responsible for the four
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murders the sopis house was restored after the fire and put up for sale but no buyers
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materialized since then it has been demolished leaving an abandoned lot that is a sad empty reminder of what
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happened the couple's daughters occasionally Post online tributes to the parents one post that I love is by
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Katarina when she posted a quote that she attributes to her father it reads quote who gives a [ __ ] what other people
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think let's go make some more poor decisions the sopis lived life to the fullest until Darren went took it all
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Persons of Interest her husband her boyfriend and the man who stole the car check out Love and Death In the Sunshine
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