On October 25, 2018, the defendant Daron Wint, a welder fired from a company owned by Savvas Savopoulos, was found guilty of 20 counts of kidnapping, extortion, and murder.
[5] The perpetrators stole $40,000 (equivalent to $51,000 in 2023[6]) in cash from the family after an assistant, Jordan Wallace, delivered it to the house.
[9] The police determined the fire was intentionally set, and the victims had blunt-force and stab wounds, leading them to label the deaths homicides.
Savvas Savopoulos was the CEO and president of American Iron Works, a construction company that played a role in building the Verizon Center.
[10] The slain victims were: Two teenage daughters, Abigail and Katerina Savopoulos, were not present at the scene when the four were killed, as they were away at boarding school.
[14] He then characterized Wint as "kind and gentle" and added that authorities have arrested "the wrong guy" in the Savopoulos case, claiming, "They've made a big mistake here.
[21][22][23] Wint appealed his conviction in December 2020, seeking a new trial on the grounds that the judge improperly blocked his lawyers from calling an additional witness.