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DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect

HughPickens.com writes: In a case straight out of CSI, CNN reports that police are searching for the man suspected in the gruesome slayings of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper, after his DNA was purportedly found on a pizza crust at the scene of the quadruple murders. They discovered his DNA on the crust of a Domino's pizza — one of two delivered to the Savopoulos home May 14 as the family was held hostage inside — a source familiar with the investigation said. The pizza apparently was paid for with cash left in an envelope on the porch. The next morning, Savvas Savopoulos's personal assistant dropped off a package containing $40,000 in cash at the home, according to the officials and police documents.

The bodies of Savopoulos, along with his wife, Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip and the family's housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, were discovered the afternoon of May 14 after firefighters responded to reports of a fire. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says the killings are likely not a random crime and police have issued an arrest warrant for the 34-year-old Daron Dylon Wint, who is described as 5'7 and 155 lbs and might also go by the name "Steffon." Wint apparently used to work at American Iron Works, where Savvas Savopoulos was CEO and president. The neighborhood is home to numerous embassies and diplomatic mansions as well as the official residence of Vice President Joe Biden and his wife. "Right now you have just about every law enforcement officer across the country aware of his open warrant and are looking for him," says Lanier. "I think even his family has made pleas for him to turn himself in."

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  1. Machine learning? by Etherwalk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A small percentage of African slaves were brought to the USA.

    From fewer than 400,000 slaves came over 37 Million.

    The USA's reward for being a minor player in the trade and allowing its slaves to greatly increase in number is everlasting pay-back.

    Are these crazy comments a product of naive machine learning algorithms?

    Or code used for illicit communications?

    Any ideas?

  2. Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ghetto? No DNA testing required...case closed.

    Even in the Ghetto, a multiple murder in cold blood would be thoroughly investigated. But it is obvious you aren't a real SJW, because these days the real SJWs are complaining that the cops spend too much time focusing on crimes in the ghetto.

  3. Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FFS -- the slaughter of an entire family of any background would cause outrage and a thorough investigation. You're a real fucked up piece of shit to look at this act of cold blooded brutality and denigrate the victims by making it all about your angst-ridden political agenda.

  4. Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nice try. Blacks commit far more crime against whites than the other way around.

    And every individual has the right to Freedom of NON-Association - the right to NOT live with people they don't want to. You seem to be saying that white people have got something 'special' that non-whites haven't got, and that it is somehow 'evil' to deprive non-whites of the ability to live around whites and take that 'special' thing that you obviously believe whites have. Idiot.

    So you're saying that every white country HAS to turn into Brazil, clearly against the wishes of the majority of white people, who move house all the time to get away from non-whites. How 'democratic' of you.

    "angst-ridden political agenda" "denigrate the victims".

    So trying to prevent more white people from being brutally murdered by blacks makes him a "fucked up piece of shit". And what does encouraging more black on white murder make you? You ignorant, brainwashed cretin, you can't even think for yourself. Absolutely sickening.

    Why don't you move to Haiti tomorrow if you think all the races are the same? Why do you think that white people, and ONLY white people, should have their countries invaded by millions of non-whites? Why aren't you calling Africans 'racist' for not having their countries invaded by millions of Indians and Chinese every year, and vice versa?

    Why aren't millions of white people moving to Africa, India and China every year, if we want to live around other races?

    That wasn't difficult, was it, to prove you wrong, yet you've never thought of any of those basic questions during your entire life. Brainwashed 'useful idiot'. Now run away because you don't have any rebuttals.

  5. Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! by tburkhol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even in the Ghetto, a multiple murder in cold blood would be thoroughly investigated.

    Say what you like, but it certainly seems clear to me that progress in criminal investigations happens much faster when moneyed or attractive people are involved. Like Atlanta police managing to capture a serial killer days after he shot a white woman, but months after he shot a bunch of homeless guys.

    In DC, where 2/3 killings goes unsolved, where DNA testing was suspend last month over 'inadequate' procedures, and where 15-20% of open cases have untested DNA evidence, they manage to test and return results from a pizza in under a week and arrest the suspect the next day.

    Seriously, if you think police apply exactly the same resources and intensity to the killing of Joe Biden's neighbor as to multiple kidnappings in Tremont, you're being naive.

  6. Re:If the rich carried their fair share... by ScentCone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you're already attributing this to mental health problems? They guy worked for the company owned by the victim. This isn't a case where families like those of the victim (who pay the vast majority of the country's income taxes - well more than "their fair share" in terms of the income they make) somehow short-changed the guy who decided to murder them. The bad guy, in this case, decided to extort $40,000 in cash from his employer by holding the family hostage and torturing a ten year old boy until the cash was delivered by the employer's personal assistant.

    Your whole "this is the fault of rich people" narrative is a bunch of SJW BS.

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  7. Re:Well... by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then I suggest finding a real Italian restaurant with a real wood-fired oven, making thin crust pizza at high heat, and with good quality toppings.

    Things like Dominos and Pizza Hut? Well, they're pretty much the most nasty form of disgusting greasy pizza known to man.

    If you're using those as your benchmark for pizza, you're doing it wrong. Just like if you're using McDonald's as a benchmark for what a good burger should be.

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  8. Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reduce minority poverty, and minority crime will probably drop too. There are lots of ways to do that, but it takes a huge effort to do so.

    So what do you propose? Use government power to force minority mothers to marry, and to force the fathers or children to stay at home, become educated, and care enough to raise children who will actually attend school? Are you saying that a kid who is born into a household with one young, under-educated parent is going to be starting out life with that disadvantage because other people aren't poor? Do you really think that places like Baltimore, which spend way above average per student on education, and have an endless parade of subsidies and programs to provide resources to people in poverty ... just need to have the government do more than is already being done?

    The problem is cultural. Persistent poverty in the worst parts of Appalachia, or in west Baltimore, don't exist because other people are prosperous. That entire meme is just SJW hand-wringing BS. Poorly disguised resentment of success that's trotted out to do anything to avoid addressing the cultural issues that are the actual problem in such places.

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