I agree with this. Not that it's the norm to leave a pizza on the porch, but if the pizza had been paid for and there was an envelope at the door with a tip in it, I would likely shrug it off and think nothing of it. There are plenty of seemingly valid reasons I can come up with for "please just leave the pizza on the porch" and leaving the tip in an envelope at the door... I want to hop in the shower before changing into PJs and watching a movie, I have a sick child or am sick myself and need to run out to the pharmacy before the pizza arrives, etc...
I think people overestimate their likelihood of calling the police when in the presence of suspicious circumstances or witnessing something out of the ordinary. Hindsight is 20/20, so of course now it is easy to identify all of the red flags suggesting that one should have called the police. But, I doubt the surviving housekeeper NG, the husband of the VF, the pizza delivery guy, or any other rational person would have felt the need to call the police within the fairly short window of time during which the events took place. Had communication been nonexistent for 24+ hours, THEN it may occur to me to do a welfare check or call the police. Surely hostage situations and murder are not amongst the realm of possibilities one may consider upon receipt of an unusual voicemail or text message from someone, in which case there are very few situations in which one would be likely to call the police without actually having witnessed or having confirmation of a crime or emergency situation.
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The 20/20 piece last night was very informative, if not a little over the top, in my opinion (I fast forwarded through Nancy Grace's parts because, for me, she was adding nothing to the narrative except being inflammatory). I found the information on Wint's priors, including stabbing a guy named Babcock in Oswego, NY twice, during two different encounters, very informative. Wint also stabbed someone else right after, just days after his release for the stabbing of Babcock. They also interviewed someone off camera who knew/knows Wint and said he has a hair trigger and an explosive temper.
In regards to the pizza delivery, based on what was conveyed via the 20/20 piece, Amy Savopoulos called the nearby Domino's and placed an order for two pizzas. She paid by credit card, over the phone, and requested that the pizzas be left at the front door because she was taking care of a sick child. The order and the delivery of the pizzas was around 9pm. When the delivery person got there, he/she found a tip waiting for him/her, the porch light on but the house looking otherwise relatively dark. The delivery person rang the doorbell, collected the tip and then departed.
Nothing there feels weird or strange, to me. "I have a sick child, please leave at the door", seems entirely plausible, to me, and nothing that would trigger a call to the police.
I do think, though, that Savvas and Amy were trying to get out a message(s) through their calls and texts, but could only do it in the most vague of ways so as not to the rouse suspicion of their captor(s). I especially feel that there was one moment when things could have gone a different way, and that was when Vera's husband came to the house on Thursday morning. I think he knew it was completely outside of the norm that his wife would have stayed over at the Savopouloses' house on Wednesday night. She was a cleaner, though a housekeeping service, not a live-in housekeeper. Even if her husband was told that her phone wasn't charged, etc., he was probably still wondering what was going on, so much so that he came to the house to try to find her the next morning. I believe something did not feel right to him and he was, naturally, concerned for her welfare. Some part of him, probably, still felt like something did not feel right even when he spoke with Savvas, who told him that Vera was with Amy at the hospital but, and this is me just being speculative, I think it's hard to question what is being told to you by someone who is, ultimately, your wife's employer. What if his concern was misplaced, and she really was helping out the family and with Amy, and he called the police? Would the Savopouloses be angry with him for that, think he over-reacted, and his wife would lose her job? Perhaps he put all that concern and worry out of his mind, told himself that his wife was a nice person, trying to help out this family when they needed her, and that he was being silly and was sure she would call him when everything settled down. As said above, hindsight is 20/20 and I imagine the poor husband is just wracked with guilt for not having followed his gut and called the police.