09-11-2018, 05:42 PM
(09-11-2018, 01:31 PM)Duchess Wrote: I remember this case and how horrified I felt about the way they died and the little boy being there too. Ugh. Dreadful.
It was definitely a shocking case at a time when it's hard to be shocked.
Today in court the prosecutors said that all of the victims were beaten with baseball bats, stabbed and strangled before Wint poured gasoline on them and set them and the house on fire. Authorities said little Philip was also stabbed with a samurai sword that Savvas Savopoulos kept as a souvenir. :(
Wint's defense attorney, Public Defender Jeffrey Stein, is going with the common SODDI (some other dudes did it) defense.
Stein told the court that Daron Wint's brother Darrell and stepbrother Steffon set him up. The brothers, he claims, “deceived Daron, abandoned him and left him to take the fall” in a robbery that turned deadly.
Stein claims that Daron ate pizza downstairs (the crust from which contained the DNA that led police to Daron Wint) and Daron had no idea that there was a family bound upstairs at the time. Sure thing.
Daron's DNA was also found on a knife at the scene and on a vest inside the stolen Savopoulos Porsche which, along with the family home, was set on fire after the ransom was received.
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