The command was given, go, go, go. Right here . Right there. And the search for answers. These people had a plan. It is sadistic. It is horrific. Tonight, a cnn special report. The d. C. Mansion murders. Sunday, may 3rd, near phoenix, arizona, a race day for phillip, the 10yearold son of sava and amy. He was passionate beyond belief. He would just be smiling from ear to ear. Jay howard was phillips coach. In this exclusive cnn interview, he recalls their last race. A typical day we would get up in the morning, breakfast, go to a track. They followed him to races all over the country, completely devoted to their son and his sport. I think it was the third time on track that day when phillip had his accident. During the race, phillip crashed his gocart. I went on the track to go see phillip. He was in typical good spirits. Was not fazed in any form. Doctors sent him home for bed rest with a concussion. Going to stay home and this kind of schedule the doctors laid out. Rest for a few days. A little bit of homework. Home was the d. C. Mansion not far from several embassies and the Vice President s house. Woodland drive is known for having the biggest houses in the entire city. But home would be no safe haven. 10 days after phillips race, a series of strange events began at the mansion. First, wednesday, 5 56 p. M. The security come monitoring the house gets an alert for broken glass on the french doors on the side of the house. Im lucky that im still here. A voice mail was left for the second housekeeper telling her not to come to work as planned. She played the message for abc. I hope you get this message. Amy is in bed sick tonight, and she was sick this afternoon. And offered to stay and her her out. Shes going to stay the night here. Former assistant director of the fbi, it sounds suspicious. If youre an investigator listening to that, what would it tell you . It tells me i need to get that recording analyzed to see are there extraneous noises spiking up in the background. And she was sick in the afternoon. Is that somebody in the background under duress screaming . A few hours later, gutierrez gets a text from amy savopoulos. Im making sure that you dont come today. When you got that text, were you thinking that was strange or unusual to get that kind of text . Yes. What did you first thing when you got it . I called her right away. Did she answer . No. Hi, you have reached my cell phone. I cannot answer right now. Later at 9 00 p. M. , amy orders two pizzas from dominos but gives unusual instructions ring the bell and leave the pies on the front porch. The porch lights are on, but the house is dark. Its just so eerie to think about, little did that pizza driver know right. Hes walking up feet away from torture. Sadism, mayhem inside that house. From the outside things seem quiet under the next morning, when her husband comes looking for her. I kept ringing the bell. My feeling was somebody was inside. A short time after, he gets a call from Saavas Savopoulos. Im sorry i did not call you. She has to stay with my wife because she was feeling bad. He asked her to go with her to the hospital. Veras husband goes home. A few hours later, a mysterious delivery is made to the mansion, a package containing 40,000. Court records reveal he instructed the assistant to bring the money to the house. He stacks 100 bills in one of the family cars and leaves. At 1 30 p. M. , the Dc Fire Department gets a call, reporting a fire on woodland drive. Flames are pouring from the second floor coming from philips bedroom. We do know at this point that the fire appears to be intentionally set. Once the flames are out, firefighters discover the grisly scene, their bodies burnt. She is rushed to the hospital, but doctors cant save her. A gruesome end to a nearly 20hour nightmare. This is really excessive, gratuitous violence, it goes well beyond just doing it for money. When we come back, the savopoulos family. Why would anyone want them dead . Its really gutwrenching. And their suspected killer, how did he slip through the cracks . Theres a breakdown in the system somewhere. Whatever youre doing, plan well and enjoy life. Or, as we say at unitedhealthcare insurance company, go long. Of course, how you plan is up to you. Take healthcare. Make sure youre covered for more than what just medicare pays. Consider an aarp Medicare SupplementInsurance Plan insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. The only Medicare Supplement plans that carry the aarp name, and the ones that millions of people trust year after year. Its about having the coverage you need. Plan well. Enjoy life. Go long. While youre watching this, im hacking your company. Grabbing your data. Stealing your customers secrets. Theres an army of us. 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There were injuries discovered, appear to be blunt force or sharp object injuries. Its a nightmare end to a fairy tale life. He tortured them, he killed them, even setting their home on fire. Shocking to all who knew this family like mike, who met Saavas Savopoulos decades earlier as a church altar boy. This kind of thing only happens in the movies, not to somebody you know in real life. And particularly to a couple and family so well liked and well respected in the community. And that is what is so shocking about this. They arent shady people. These are really familyoriented good people. Lori diamond went with saavas to his fraternity formal. He had eyes for somebody else. He said there was somebody that he always had a crush on. And that all she had to do was say yes. That someone was amy martin, the daughter of an army colonel. They first met in high school, both went to the university of maryland where savvas pursued amy for years. I think he did ask her out a lot. What was he like after that . The happiest person you had ever seen. From then on, they were inseparable. After graduation, savvas went to law school, amy went to work. They married in 1994. She was his whole world. And off they went on their journey. A journey that quickly led to children. Abigail was the first, katerina next, then philip. The son of a wealthy greek aristocrat, savvas soon joined his fathers business. American iron works. He was excited about it. He wanted to be successful right along with him. A partnership that brought wealth and abiding friendship. We went to dinner one night, and him and his dad were like the two kids that needed to be separated in class. And they were so close. And so funny. And i think he really looked up to his dad. And followed in his philanthropic footsteps. Savvas and amy were active in washington charities. Amy was a regular volunteer at the kidss school. They were a nice, quiet washington couple who lived under the radar. If anything, they deliberately kept a low profile. This guy didnt care about wealth. He would have given money away. He was all about the experience. A tightknit family, whether it was amy leading them on hikes or savvas taking them on a yearlong getaway to the caribbean. Family was the most important thing. He was the kind of person who wanted to be in love and have a family and grow old with them. And as summer 2015 approached, the savopoulos family was certainly growing up. Abigail was graduating from high school. Katerina searching for colleges, with her mother. Savvas was opening up a martial arts school, something he dreamed of as a teenager. He used to joke with me. I would put up a hand and he would touch a nerve and i would say uncle, uncle. Stop. He knew how to defend himself. He really did. And philip was living his dream. As a gocart racer. Very fast learner, definitely no fear, he was not scared of it at all. Philips coach jay howard spoke to cnn exclusively about his young student with an old soul. He was the best way to describe it, ten years old going on 35. I mean, he was so mature. So well spoken, very clear he had a great education. Great parenting and savvas was great with him. Howard remembers one of the last dinners they had together. The waiter comes over and says would you like a bread basket. And he goes, i think im going to have to pass on the bread. Im trying to watch my carbs this week, and im like youre ten. Philip was inseparable from his dad. Especially since sisters were away at boarding school. He was with them, 24 7, wherever we went, savvas was with him. Savvas was always in control of situations. He would have done anything. His only son, his beloved wife. He would have done anything for them. He was a protector. For him to not be able to protect . It must have been awful. An awful end. When we come back, the terror inside the mansion. 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With humira, control is possible. As the smoke clears and the days pass, we learn much more about the brazen killings that took place in this wealthy washington, d. C. Neighborhood in broad daylight. Were looking at this about 6 00 in the evening. This is probably an active street. Right next door, the ambassador of australia, right next door to this. Right. Thats taking a fair amount of risk. A huge risk. A aim and amy and savvas, philip, and their housekeeper were held hostage for almost 20 hours and tortured. Imagine how sadistic you have to be to slowly wring the life occupy something or beat it out of somebody or cut them over and over again so that they are slowly bleeding to death. These individuals, you have a leader, a primary person. This person is getting off on hearing the screams and the cries, and is enjoying the power, enjoying the thrill, and i think being able to come in, control this family, inflict these injuries was something he actually enjoyed doing. But who did these things . Solving the crime depends heavily on unearthing physical evidence at the scene. When you have a quadruple homicide, this is in effect an all hands on deck. You want your best forensic people in this house. Some of the first clues they find, a shattered lock. And some shoe print on the side of the house. Suggesting whoever held the family and the housekeeper hostage forced their way in. That picture we have seen of the shoeprint how telling could it be . Very telling if a police can locate the shoes of the same dimension, particularly if they can identify brand. It may put a person into that shoe. And inside the estate, possible murder weapons. A Samurai Sword like this one taken from savvas collection. Forensic scientist lawrence kobilinsky. They would have to look at the blade. Is it honed on one side, both side. How wide is it . How long is it . And a bloody baseball bat, similar to this, found in the upstairs bedroom where the three adult bludgeoned bodies are discovered. With blood at that thick surface, at the thick end of the bat tells me that that was what was used to inflict that blunt trauma, striking these poor people on the back of the head. A knife is discovered in the trash behind the house. Police find fingerprints and hair fibers. That would establish a direct linkage between a suspect or an individual and the crime scene. Police find duct tape believed to have been used to restrain the victims, and matches thought to have been used to start of fire. And then the familys porsche missing from the garage, found 13 miles from the mansion, engulfed in flames. Inside the burning car, a Green Construction vest, similar to vests worn by workers at savvas company, aiw. Was it some part of ruse, that the offend onners came in as a representative of a utility company, trying to get access to the house . Later that vest will provide another critical clue. The mystery deepens as Police Find Thousands of dollars of cash left behind in the house. Why would the killers level money behind . It was not just about the money, it was not just about all the jewelry that probably was there. That really goes to the motivation of the offender, that these murders themselves were very important. And the autopsies show the murders were horrific. They had to be restrained, or else they couldnt have been tortured and treated the way they had. They would have fought back. Mr. Savvas savopoulos was a healthy young man, 46 years old. He certainly would have fought back if he had not been restrained. Even after the ransom money was dropped off, the horror continues for several more hours, until the house is set ablaze in the early afternoon. The subjects probably administer additional pain for the victim, that gap of time is i want more, you can get more. Savvas and vera were beaten, stabbed and strangled. Thats a very closein injury. Its not like a gunshot where you can shoot a gun from a distance. This strangulation, you have to be right in and at your victim. Theres a psychological overlay here to whats going on in that home. Amy died from sharp force trauma, and 10yearold philip stabbed and burned beyond recognition. I think it became pretty clear to the First Responders that the child had been tortured multiple stab wounds. The son was engulfed in flame, to the point where the body was so charred that these couldnt even determine gender. First responders find the three adults in a bedroom upstairs, vera and amy bound in chairs, and savvas on the floor. The 10yearold was handled separately. Philip is discovered in his bedroom, alone. He was the bargaining chip, the threat was made against him while getting the adults to do whatever the perpetrator wanted. The unknown of where is my son . I want to see my son or whatever pain and suffering he was going through, its all in the mind of a killer. Clearly this is where the fire started. Philips bedroom where his body was found. Why do you think they started the fire there, which could easily be seen on the street. I think this is a mistake of a killer who is not particularly organized, a killer who thought that the use of an accelerant, gasoline presumably would burn faster, hotter and more completely. But the killers assumptions were wrong. This resulted in the potential discovery of much physical evidence that could be preserved, tested, people eliminated, people included in the suspect hunt. Coming up, an unexpected clue breaks the case wide open. That looks like the pivotal piece of evidence. cole alright, now that we have merged with cableworld, we are so excited to hear your big ideas on how were going to take on directv. So over to you. newhart thank you. Full disclosure. 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Mourns for the family and their housekeeper, investigators begin their search for who could be behind a horrific crime. There was almost prolonged suffering and torture for the sake of suffering and torture. Hours after the bodies are discovered, the familys porsche is discovered miles away on fire in a Church Parking lot. I saw fire coming from the front side of the car. Anybody who may have information about the blue 2008 porsche, please call us with what information you may have. Then a mysterious figure emerges. Police release grainy Surveillance Video that shows someone running from the burning porsche. Could this be the killer . But the most important break comes from an unlikely source a piece of pizza. It just so happens that the fire never really hit that slice of pizza. That is what broke this case. For dna experts like lawrence kobilinsky,