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