--- description: A weeklong manhunt for the killer of a wealthy Washington, D.C., family and their housekeeper has ended with the arrest of a welder title: How Police Tracked Down the Man Accused of Murdering a D.C. Family image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd74c039555c412af/6988511f3c16390d0045800a/daron-dylon-wint-composite.jpg?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How Police Tracked Down the Man Accused of Murdering a D.C. Family by [John Schuppe and Erin McClam/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## John Schuppe and Erin McClam/NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 23, 2015 4:18 PM CUT  Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department by [John Schuppe and Erin McClam/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## John Schuppe and Erin McClam/NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 23, 2015 4:18 PM CUT A weeklong manhunt for the killer of a wealthy Washington, D.C., family and their housekeeper has ended with the arrest of a welder who once worked for the family’s patriarch. The arrest doesn’t answer all the unanswered questions, but here’s a timeline of what’s known so far. May 13 Savvas Savopoulos, the 46-year-old CEO of American Iron Works, is cleaning a martial-arts study he owns in Northern Virginia. Nelitza Gutierrez, a housekeeper for Savopoulos and his family, is there helping. Savopoulos gets a 5:30 p.m. call from his wife, Amy, 47, telling him to come home to watch their 10-year-old… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mansion-murders-how-daron-dylon-wint-accused-killing-savopoulos-family-n363331?cid=par-time-article%5F20150523 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3895122/murder-suspect-timeline/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3895122/murder-suspect-timeline/"},"headline":"How Police Tracked Down the Man Accused of Murdering a D.C. Family","datePublished":"2015-05-23T16:18:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:35:20.737Z","description":"See a timeline of events","url":"https://time.com/3895122/murder-suspect-timeline/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd74c039555c412af/6988511f3c16390d0045800a/daron-dylon-wint-composite.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"John Schuppe and Erin McClam/NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd74c039555c412af/6988511f3c16390d0045800a/daron-dylon-wint-composite.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"daron-dylon-wint-composite","caption":"daron-dylon-wint-composite","creditText":"Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3895122/murder-suspect-timeline/","name":"How Police Tracked Down the Man Accused of Murdering a D.C. Family"}}]}] ```