I haven't been in here in a while but still like to talk about this case. It's just stuck in my brain. Amy and Savvas would be doting grandparents right now. ..I have thought about this case many times over the years. I had it so incredibly wrong, I was absolutely CONVINCED that the driver had something to do with it, which I recognize was totally, totally incorrect. I've gotten some things right over the years, but it's always good for me to remind myself that I sometimes get things very wrong.
Most of the people that I know, including myself, thought the exact same thing you did. Wallace had something to do w/it. Were the people Wint was driving w/ before he was arrested have anything to do w/ it? The three years before trial news on the case was at a standstill. Nothing leaked out about how the investigation was going. But as time wore on and Wallace nor anyone else was never arrested, I began to have my doubts. If he or anyone else was guilty, or if they had anything on anyone then why were they allowed to walk the streets? There was no link or communication between Wint and Wallace. None. Once the trial started and all the evidence came out, it was obvious that he had nothing to do w/it. He wasn't the kind of guy that would hurt anyone, especially little Phillip.
The details of what happened, Wint will take to his grave. Why did he leave the house and go to Dupont assuming after he killed everyone? Or did he leave the house and kill everyone when he got back? I doubt it. He would not leave 4 people alive and leave the house. Who knows? Where'd he get all the gas to burn down the house?
In one of the last episodes of 22 hours, it was mentioned that Wint was talking to inmates about what happened while waiting for trial in the DC jail. That "Phillip cried for his mother when Darren was about to kill him" That he felt Savvas "raised a weak son." And that Savvas " was weak himself" just horrible things that were really tough to listen to.
I don't think much will come of Wint's appeal. He's just grasping. Sitting and rotting in jail where he belongs.