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Buckle up. There’s a lot. Daron Wint testimony continued: On May 13 am, brother Darrell drops him at friends house. Daron forgets his phone in his van & Darrell drives off. At 5p when Darrell hasn’t returned with van, Daron & friend start drinking. He passes out on friends couch
12:55 PM - Oct 10, 2018 ·
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Wint testimony: He wakes up at 1am 5/14 No van & hungover so goes back to sleep. Wakes at 10am. Darrell pulls up shortly after in blue Porsche & says he has a half hour work left on drywall job and needs Darons help. Daron still sick reclines seat, destination is
#Savopoulos home
12:59 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: Darrell has keys to the house. They go in front door & Daron waits in living room. Darrell returns from upstairs wearing construction gloves, holding pizza box. He eats slice of pepperoni - not crust bc ‘it was cold and hard’ (DNA lifted off this crust)
1:01 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: He asked Darrell if house had WiFi. Realizes he forgot his phone in Porsche. Darrell says to meet him in garage. Embassy employees spot Wint going into garage of
#Savopoulos home around noon. Says yes, it was him. Darrell hands him construction vest & hard hat.
1:04 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: Darrell says hat & vest bc they are going to ‘be unloading the house’ aka stealing & he didn’t want Daron to stick out. Daron testifies he says no. Throws the hat down. Leaves to find a bus stop. Darrell pulls up in Porsche, promising to take Daron to his van.
1:06 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: He didn’t know there were people upstairs. He never touched the knife where his DNA hit. He never propped up a basement window. He was only in living room and garage of
#Savopoulos house.
1:08 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: Darrell takes Daron to MD to La Fontaine Bleu parking lot. Their brother & sister live nearby. Told him where his van was parked at 24th & K, drives off w/o giving him the keys. Daron approaches tow truck, tows van back to same lot bc Darrell said he’d return
1:11 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: Before he left, Darrell gave Daron $300 for use of the van that day & two iPhones. Daron didn’t know where they came from. Still wearing construction vest, he threw it at Darrelll & into Porsche when he said he couldn’t take Daron to his van.
1:12 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: When he went back to dads house, Daron says parents were upset he didn’t call to say he’d be out the night before. At dinner watching news, he sees the house he was at earlier was burning, people inside. Realizes his van was likely tied to what happened.
1:16 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: He looked up ‘how to pass a lie detector test’ bc he said if police asked him about the van, he’d be sending his brother to jail. Ironic since now he’s charged with 4 murders and defense says his brothers did it. He met up with Darrell that night May 14
1:18 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: He told Darrell he had to take the van since it’s linked to the crime and pay him for it. Darrell gave him $6k. When Darrell hadn’t picked up van by Friday, Daron asked a friend to help him burn it. Says next am it was gone from driveway. Says he didn’t burn it.
1:20 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: On Friday he went to an immigration lawyer to sort out his ongoing green card complication. Says he got fingerprinted, which he knew would be sent to FBI. Paid lawyer using $6k. Still had 2 iPhones but they were locked. Darrell told Daron he got them from a park.
1:22 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Wint testimony: From there he went to NY to see his girlfriend. Spent $$ on her. Saw his face on news, called dad & talked to detectives who said he should turn himself in. He and gf got a hotel. Next day he got taxi to DC. Met Darrell to get lawyer & arrested by US Marshalls.
1:24 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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Defense: ‘Did you kill Amy Savopoulos?’ Daron Wint: No ma’am. Did you kill Savvas, Philip or Vera Figueroa? Absolutely not. Says he didn’t light house, Porsche or van on fire. Didn’t break into house.
(Recess for the day.)
1:27 PM - 10 Oct 2018 from
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