DC Mansion Murders Suspect's Attorney Asks for Witness Name

PHOTOS: Daron Wint photos courtesy of DC Police

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While investigators maintain the only one person charged in the grisly Washington, D.C., mansion murders could not have acted alone, the suspect’s attorney was in court Friday pressing for information that police say links their suspect to the crimes.

Savvas Savopoulos, 46, and his wife, Amy, son Philip, 10, and housekeeper Vera Figueroa, were all found murdered in their Northwest DC mansion May 14. Firefighters found their bodies while putting out a blaze at the home.

Daron Dylon Wint, 34, of Lanham, MD, was arrested in May in D.C. on charges of first-degree felony murder in the case. Authorities said that DNA left on a crust of leftover pizza at the mansion led police to Wint.

On Friday, Wint’s defense attorney asked for the name of the witness who identified the person in Amy Savopoulos’ stolen Porsche, reports WUSA. The unidentified witness described the person as having short hair, which doesn’t match Wint’s description.

The judge didn’t immediately rule on the defense attorney’s request. Wint is scheduled to appear in court next on Dec. 17.

Testimony that investigators found a second sample of Wint’s DNA on a vest inside Amy Savopoulos’ burned Porsche, which was left in New Carrollton, was enough for a judge to rule in July that Wint should face trial.

The medical examiner this summer revised the cause of death for Savvas Savopoulos and Figueroa. Both victims were strangled to death and also died of blunt force trauma.

Court records indicate Philip was burned to death and also suffered sharp force trauma, while his mother died of sharp force and blunt force wounds.

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Domino’s Pizza was delivered the night before the murders to the DC mansion while the family was reportedly being held captive, according to police.

The motive for the killings was reportedly money. Police say $40,000 was delivered to the home the day of the murders by an assistant to Savopoulos. Wint, a welder, had worked for American Iron Works at one time.

Wint moved to the United States from Guyana in 2000 and joined the U.S. Marines in 2001; Wint received a medical discharge from the Marines a few months later, the New York Times reported.

Authorities have said they believe Wint didn’t act alone, but have not charged anyone else in the murders. CNN reported in June that the Lanham man charged in the DC mansion murders has a cousin who was fired from the company run by Savvas Savopoulos.

The network reported that Wint’s cousin was fired from American Iron Works of Hyattsville, which was owned by Savopoulos, and threatened to burn the place down. Company officials obtained a restraining order barring the man from the premises, the sources told CNN.