text: D.C. police are seeing a "person of interest" captured on surveillance video in the slaying of a family and their housekeeper in Woodley Park neighborhood on Thursday. (Published Monday, May 18, 2015) 
   
   D.C. police are seeking a "person of interest" captured on surveillance video in the slaying of a family and their housekeeper in Woodley Park neighborhood on Thursday. 
   
   The person, dressed in dark clothing, can be seen on video released by D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department. 
   
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   Investigators are also looking for information about the 2008 blue Porsche 911. That car was seen near the house about 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Police found the car — torched and unoccupied — in the parking lot of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Lanham, Maryland, about 5:15 p.m. Thursday. 
   
   They want to know more about who was driving it earlier that day. Anyone with information should call police at 202-727-9099. 
   
   Earlier this week, police identified two of the people found dead in a burning home in the expensive Woodley Park neighborhood Thursday as Savvas Savopoulos, 46, and his wife, Amy Savopoulos, 47. 
   
   Police believe the other bodies are the couple's son, Philip, 10, and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, 57. 
   
   The events that led to their deaths may have begun Wednesday, police said. 
   
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   D.C. police will examine any surveillance video from the neighborhood around the house on Woodland Drive NW where four people were found dead in a burning house Thursday. (Published Friday, May 15, 2015) 
   
   Firefighters arrived at the large home in the 3200 block of Woodland Drive NW midday Thursday to find smoke and fire coming out of the roof. 
   
   According to investigators, one of the victims was bleeding from the head and had a heavy smell of gasoline when he or she was transported to Georgetown University Hospital. There's also evidence that points to arson. 
   
   D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said the fire is being investigated as "suspicious," and the deaths are being investigated as a homicide arson. ATF agents, evidence collectors and police investigators are working both inside and outside of the house. 
   
   Police said they will check surveillance video from cameras in the neighborhood. At least two cameras are visible outside the Savopoulos' home. 
   
   Neighbors who've been in the home said the family had an extensive and valuable art collection, which was on display a couple of years ago during the Christmas house tour put on by St. Albans school, where Phillip was a student. 
   
   There is no sign of forced entry into the home, police said. The fire took about 30 minutes to extinguish. ||||| D.C. police have released video images of a person of interest in the deaths of four people in a house in an upscale neighborhood in Northwest Washington. (YouTube/DC Metropolitan Police Department) 
   
   D.C. police have released video images of a person of interest in the deaths of four people in a house in an upscale neighborhood in Northwest Washington. (YouTube/DC Metropolitan Police Department) 
   
   D.C. police said Saturday night that they are seeking a person of interest in the deaths of four people in a house in an upscale neighborhood in Northwest Washington. 
   
   Police said the individual may have been operating a Porsche automobile linked to the house. 
   
   They also provided video footage that appeared to show a man wearing a hoodie moving rapidly behind a building. 
   
   The announcement came in the deaths of Savvas and Amy Savopoulos and two others, believed to be their son and one of their housekeepers. 
   
   The Savopoulos family had been having a busy week. The husband was trying to get a new martial arts center in Chantilly, Va., ready for a grand opening, and he enlisted the help of one of his housekeepers. His wife was ill, and their 10-year-old son was recovering from injuries suffered in a go-kart crash. 
   
   Savvas Savopoulos and Amy Savopoulos at the Starlight Children’s Foundation MidAtlantic’s Wine Dinner in 2008. (Tony Powell/Washington Life Magazine) 
   
   Before the late night police announcement, the days and hours leading up to the deaths of the husband and wife and the two others had come into sharper focus Saturday with new details from police records. They show attempts by friends and relatives to reach the victims Thursday morning, before they were found dead that afternoon in a burning home in Northwest Washington. 
   
   These records show a series of text messages and voice mails from both Savopouloses to the housekeeper who had been helping in Chantilly, telling her not to come clean at their D.C. home Thursday, as was her normal routine. Savvas Savopoulos also let her know in a Wednesday night voicemail that the housekeeper who was later found dead had planned to stay overnight at the family’s home and asked that she inform the woman’s family because her cellphone battery had died. 
   
   Nelitza Gutierrez, the housekeeper who received the messages and has worked for the family for 20 years, said in an interview Saturday that the series of messages 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 that night that Amy Savopoulos had been sick in bed all day. 
   
   “It was something very suspicious because I felt his voice was really tense,” Gutierrez said in Spanish. “And it was different than what he had said to me before.” 
   
   She said she first listened to the message Thursday morning and immediately called Amy Savopoulos “to see if she was okay, but she never answered.” 
   
   The police documents also show what appears to be an unusual amount of activity last week around the victims’ Woodland Drive NW home. Neighbors reported seeing a man banging on the door of one home, an aggressive vacuum cleaner salesman at another house, reports of a prowler, and what a witness said could have been the Savopouloses’ blue Porsche speeding down the street the day before the deaths were discovered. 
   
   Police have been sorting through a great deal of potential evidence in an effort to learn what happened to Savvas Savopoulos, 46, his wife, Amy, 47, and the two others, tentatively identified as the couple’s 10-year-old son, Philip, and a 57-year-old housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, of Silver Spring, Md. 
   
   Police have said all four deaths are being investigated as homicide. They said Friday that three victims had wounds. They said the family’s Porsche 911, which was missing for several hours Thursday, was found burned in a church parking lot in Hyattsville, and that the fire at the home was intentionally set. 
   
   The deaths have shocked this enclave of Upper Northwest Washington and the District’s society circles. The couple were active donors to both social and political causes, and attended St. Sophia Greek Orthodox ­Cathedral. Savvas Savopoulos was president and chief executive of American Iron Works, a leading custom steel and iron manufacturing company that helped build Verizon Center and CityCenterDC. 
   
   Relatives of the Savopouloses have spoken briefly about the family and the incident, but they have been too overwrought for more in-depth interviews. The couple have two surviving daughters — Abigail Savopoulos is a senior at Mercersburg Academy, an elite private school in Pennsylvania, and is scheduled to graduate this week, and Katerina is a junior at Peddie School near Princeton, N.J. Their youngest child, Philip, was a student at St. Albans School in the District. 
   
   Gutierrez, who was close with Figueroa, said her friend had planned to soon return to her native El Salvador. She said Figueroa was at her wedding, and that she was there for her baby shower and, later, her daughter’s first communion. 
   
   D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said Friday that police were still working on a timeline, and looking for a motive. It remains unclear whether anything was taken from the two-story red brick house. Lanier said detectives were working to track the Porsche, and asked anyone who saw it Wednesday or Thursday to contact police. 
   
   Police records also show Savvas Savopoulos working hard last week getting the Chantilly project ready for a Friday opening. The Chantilly property was closed Saturday but a business owner who works nearby said he has seen recent activity there. 
   
   Gutierrez said in the interview that Savvas Savopoulos had asked her to help at the studio on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, instead of at the couple’s home on Thursday. 
   
   On Wednesday night, Gutierrez told police, she got the voice mail from Savvas Savopoulos saying that his wife was sick and Philip was home from school with an injury. He told her that Figueroa was going to stay the night to help, but that her phone had died and she had no charger. He asked the housekeeper to call Figueroa’s relatives to relay the message. 
   
   In an interview, she said she had never known Figueroa to stay overnight at the home and thought it was odd. “Never, never did she stay over.” 
   
   Also Thursday morning, one of Savopoulos’s 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. 
   
   Minutes before 10 a.m., 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’s earlier orders, according to the police documents. 
   
   Victoria St. Martin contributed to this report
target: – Police are no longer seeking the whereabouts of a blue Porsche after a quadruple murder in an upscale Washington, DC, neighborhood—but they've released video of a "person of interest" who may have been driving it before it was found burning behind a church. In surveillance video, a hooded figure in dark clothing can be seen moving outside the house where Savvas and Amy Savopoulos were found dead after a fire on Thursday, NBC Washington reports. Two other bodies found in the home are believed to be the couple's 10-year-old son, Philip, and Veralicia Figueroa, one of their housekeepers. Their other housekeeper, Nelitza Gutierrez, tells the Washington Post that she thought something odd was going on Wednesday when she received messages asking her not to come in the next day. Gutierrez says Savvas Savopoulos gave conflicting information in different messages and sounded unlike himself. "It was something very suspicious because I felt his voice was really tense," she tells the Post. "And it was different than what he had said to me before." She says she also found it strange that Savopoulos said Figueroa was spending the night at the home, something she had never known to happen before. Deepening the mystery, police documents seen by the Post detail some strange events in the surrounding area that week, including reports of a possible prowler, a man banging at the door of a home, and an "aggressive vacuum cleaner salesman" at another home.