05-17-2015, 12:04 PM
The Phone Records & House Visits Before the Fire
The Savopoulos home was set on fire at about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, 14 May.
Housekeeper Nelitza Gutierrez told police that she got a voice mail from Savvas Savopoulos on Wednesday night saying that his wife was sick and Philip was home from school with an injury. He told her that her friend and fellow Savopoulos' housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa was going to stay the night to help, but that Figueroa's phone had died and she had no charger. He asked Gutierrez to call Figueroa’s relatives to relay the message.
Nelitza Gutierrez had worked for the family for 20 years. She had been helping Mr. Savopoulos prepare for the upcoming grand opening of his new martial arts studio/business in Chantilly as well. She said that message left her with the impression that something was amiss with her employers. She said Savvas Savopoulos told her in person Wednesday that his wife had plans to go out, but said in the voice mail left later that night that Amy Savopoulos had been sick in bed all day.
Gutierrez said she didn't listen to the message until Thursday morning and immediately called Amy Savopoulos “to see if she was okay, but she never answered.”
“It was something very suspicious because I felt his voice (on the message from Wed night) was really tense,” Gutierrez said in Spanish. “And it was different than what he had said to me before.” She also said that she had never known Figueroa to stay overnight at the home and thought it was odd. “Never, never did she stay over.”
Minutes before 10 a.m. Thursday morning, Gutierrez got a text message from Amy Savopoulos: “I am making sure you do not come today.” Gutierrez, who was then cleaning another home in McLean, replied that she would not be coming, per Savvas Savopoulos’ earlier orders, according to the police documents.
Phone records also show attempts by friends and relatives to reach the victims Thursday morning before the house was set ablaze.
Also Thursday morning, one of Savopoulos’ assistants apparently left a package outside the Woodland Drive house, according to the police records. That person then drove to Chantilly and was there through the day. And at roughly the same time, Figueroa’s husband went to the house to check on his wife. There apparently was no answer. (HOTD: No info on whether Mr. Figueroa tried to contact his wife when she didn't come home on Wed. night, or whether Gutierrez called him when she reportedly got Mr. Savopoulos' message on Thursday morning, or what Mr. Figueroa did after going to the Savopoulos house on Thursday morning).
Ref: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crim...story.html
The Savopoulos home was set on fire at about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, 14 May.
Housekeeper Nelitza Gutierrez told police that she got a voice mail from Savvas Savopoulos on Wednesday night saying that his wife was sick and Philip was home from school with an injury. He told her that her friend and fellow Savopoulos' housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa was going to stay the night to help, but that Figueroa's phone had died and she had no charger. He asked Gutierrez to call Figueroa’s relatives to relay the message.
Nelitza Gutierrez had worked for the family for 20 years. She had been helping Mr. Savopoulos prepare for the upcoming grand opening of his new martial arts studio/business in Chantilly as well. She said that message left her with the impression that something was amiss with her employers. She said Savvas Savopoulos told her in person Wednesday that his wife had plans to go out, but said in the voice mail left later that night that Amy Savopoulos had been sick in bed all day.
Gutierrez said she didn't listen to the message until Thursday morning and immediately called Amy Savopoulos “to see if she was okay, but she never answered.”
“It was something very suspicious because I felt his voice (on the message from Wed night) was really tense,” Gutierrez said in Spanish. “And it was different than what he had said to me before.” She also said that she had never known Figueroa to stay overnight at the home and thought it was odd. “Never, never did she stay over.”
Minutes before 10 a.m. Thursday morning, Gutierrez got a text message from Amy Savopoulos: “I am making sure you do not come today.” Gutierrez, who was then cleaning another home in McLean, replied that she would not be coming, per Savvas Savopoulos’ earlier orders, according to the police documents.
Phone records also show attempts by friends and relatives to reach the victims Thursday morning before the house was set ablaze.
Also Thursday morning, one of Savopoulos’ assistants apparently left a package outside the Woodland Drive house, according to the police records. That person then drove to Chantilly and was there through the day. And at roughly the same time, Figueroa’s husband went to the house to check on his wife. There apparently was no answer. (HOTD: No info on whether Mr. Figueroa tried to contact his wife when she didn't come home on Wed. night, or whether Gutierrez called him when she reportedly got Mr. Savopoulos' message on Thursday morning, or what Mr. Figueroa did after going to the Savopoulos house on Thursday morning).
Ref: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crim...story.html