A truly horrifying crime in DC

[Smash]

And why didn’t the pizza person find it suspect that payment for the food was left on the porch.

You're an 18 year old pizza delivery guy. You just received a $20 tip(assumption) and were asked to leave the pizza at the door. Do you call the cops? Do you knock on the door until someone comes out? Or do you leave the pizza like you're asked to and go to the next delivery spot?

[LittleLebowski]

It really sounds like (assumptions are being made here!) that the perp tied the little boy to a chair and tortured him while parents had use of their cellphones in order to get ransom money. It's a pretty safe bet their "multimillion dollar house" had an alarm system here. Not speaking ill of the dead here but it seems like a huge mindset failure here.

Again....dog.

[JV_]

If your assumptions are true, I don't think a dog would have made any difference in the outcome.

[JHC]

It really sounds like (assumptions are being made here!) that the perp tied the little boy to a chair and tortured him while parents had use of their cellphones in order to get ransom money. It's a pretty safe bet their "multimillion dollar house" had an alarm system here. Not speaking ill of the dead here but it seems like a huge mindset failure here.

Again....dog.

HUGE and IMO it's not too soon to do some peeling. On some level I feel anger towards dad. He had the money to live a few miles away where he could have been properly armed and prepared to fight like a demon in the face of this horror.

It's nothing like the rage towards the monster torturer killer of course. That/those beasts are responsible.

[GardoneVT]

It really sounds like (assumptions are being made here!) that the perp tied the little boy to a chair and tortured him while parents had use of their cellphones in order to get ransom money. It's a pretty safe bet their "multimillion dollar house" had an alarm system here. Not speaking ill of the dead here but it seems like a huge mindset failure here.

Again....dog.

If nothing else, this sad story defies the common trope of "my neighborhood is too safe for violent crime."

[Jeep]

He had the money to live a few miles away where he could have been properly armed and prepared to fight like a demon in the face of this horror.

Yep, but like most people who live in DC he probably came from a background in which it was literally unthinkable to own a gun, because only bad people own guns. It is hard when you are born and bred in an environment like that to even begin to understand that a gun can make you safer rather than less safe as you have been taught since an early age.

My guess is that if the details of the crime are adequately publicized in the Washington Post (rather than in the British press) more than a few of the neighbors are going to start asking how they can get guns, though.

[LittleLebowski]

If your assumptions are true, I don't think a dog would have made any difference in the outcome.

Absolutely possible but I feel that a dog would possibly either have deterred the murderer or have went for the guy when he grabbed for the kid. See the Mississippi LEO case. The K9 didn't negotiate for his master's life nor freeze up in horror. The K9 ATTACKED.

[GJM]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...2a4_story.html


They are reporting the family had an aggressive dog -- female lab.

Another housekeeper, Nelitza Gutierrez, who has been with the Savopoulos family for 20 years, said on Thursday that she had never seen Wint before. She said the house is guarded by an aggressive watch dog, a Labrador named Ginger, and thinks that an intruder may have gotten in through an open back-yard gate while the dog was taken out for a walk.

[BehindBlueI's]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...2a4_story.html


They are reporting the family had an aggressive dog -- female lab.

Another housekeeper, Nelitza Gutierrez, who has been with the Savopoulos family for 20 years, said on Thursday that she had never seen Wint before. She said the house is guarded by an aggressive watch dog, a Labrador named Ginger, and thinks that an intruder may have gotten in through an open back-yard gate while the dog was taken out for a walk.

Backup dog. Two is one, one is none...

I hate hate hate anyone who injures a child. Good hunting guys.

[ACP230]

Just now heard on Fox that the killer was arrested in DC.