Murder of the Savopoulos Family and Veralicia Figueroa

On May 13–14, 2015, three members of the Savopoulos family—Savvas, Amy, and their 10-year-old son Philip—along with their housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, were held hostage for approximately 19 hours inside the family's Woodley Park home in Northwest Washington, D.C. During the ordeal, Philip was tortured in an effort to coerce the family into producing $40,000 in cash. An assistant, Jordan Wallace, delivered the money to the house at the perpetrators' direction. The victims were restrained with duct tape before being killed; all four sustained blunt-force trauma, and Philip was also stabbed. The perpetrators then set the house on fire and fled in the family's blue Porsche, which was later found burned in a church parking lot in Maryland.

On May 14, 2015, firefighters responding to the blaze at the Savopoulos residence discovered the four bodies. Police determined the fire had been intentionally set and, given the wounds found on the victims, classified the deaths as homicides.

The Savopouloses were a prominent family in the Woodley Park neighborhood. Savvas Savopoulos was CEO and president of American Iron Works, a construction company involved in building the Verizon Center, and he helped fund the National Child Research Center. The family were active members of Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Two teenage daughters, Abigail and Katerina Savopoulos, were away at boarding school at the time and were not present during the killings.

Investigators identified Daron Dylon Wint, a certified welder previously employed by American Iron Works, as the prime suspect after matching his DNA to genetic material found on the crust of a Domino's pizza delivered to the house while the family was held captive. Because Wint had formerly worked for Savopoulos's company, police believed the crime was not random. A warrant was issued charging him with first-degree murder, and he was arrested on May 21, 2015, in Northeast Washington, D.C., about a week after the killings. Prosecutors stated they believed Wint had assistance in carrying out the killings, but he was the only person charged in the case.

Wint's trial began with opening statements on September 11, 2018. On October 25, 2018, he was found guilty of 20 counts including kidnapping, extortion, and murder. On February 1, 2019, he was sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of parole. Wint appealed in December 2020, arguing the trial judge improperly barred his lawyers from calling an additional witness. On December 15, 2022, the D.C. Court of Appeals largely affirmed the conviction, acknowledging Wint had been improperly denied the chance to introduce some exculpatory evidence but declining to reverse the verdict given "the overwhelming weight of other evidence" against him.