
By Scott Stewart Just before 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, the Washington, D.C., Fire Department responded to a report of a house fire in the city's upscale Woodley Park neighborhood. As firefighters battled to extinguish the flames, they encountered a grisly crime scene inside the home — three adults and a child had been brutally murdered before the building was set on fire in an attempt to destroy evidence of the crime. The multimillion dollar home belonged to Savvas Savopoulos, the CEO of American Iron Works, a construction company that specializes in large buildings for commercial and government use, including the new Food and Drug Administration headquarters building. Police identified the victims as Savopoulos, his wife Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip and their housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa. According to police, the victims died from either sharp or blunt force trauma wounds — they were stabbed or beaten to death.