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Family, housekeeper held hostage, murdered in mansion — TIMELINE

The Washington Post and a local NBC station reported Wednesday that one of Savopoulos’ employees came to the mansion while the incident was ongoing and dropped off a package with $40,000 inside. (Screengrab, WUSA)
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By GREG BOTELHO, MARY KAY MALLONEE and ED PAYNE CNN
May 22, 2015 - 2:08 pm
 

The assailant — or assailants — who set the mansion on fire and killed residents Savvas Savopolous, his wife Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip and the family’s housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, got away with $40,000.

Here’s how it happened:

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