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US Capital Police Identify Victims in Burned House Near Biden's Residence

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Police in the US capital of Washington, DC have identified two out of four bodies found earlier in a burned house four blocks away from Vice President Joe Biden's official residence, according to local media.

Woodland is blocked with police tape for investigation of four dead inside Savopoulos house - Sputnik International
Family of Four Slain in Washington Not Far From Vice President's Home
MOSCOW (Sputnik) Savvas Savopoulos, 46, and his wife Amy, 47, were found dead on Thursday, victims of what DC police suspect was arson in northwest DC's affluent neighborhood of Woodley Park. Authorities believe their son Philip, 10, and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, 57, were the other two victims of the crime, the Washington Post reported late Friday.

A vehicle belonging to the family has been found 13 miles east of the District of Columbia in the state of Maryland, the outlet cites DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier as saying.

"Evidence collection will go on for several days. There's still a lot more we don't know," the Post quoted Lanier as saying at Friday's press conference.

The family's neighbor told the outlet he witnessed smoke coming out of the Savopoulos' $4.5-million mansion on Thursday afternoon. When firefighters gained access to the house and pulled out the victims, three of them had blunt-force injuries.

Lanier did not elaborate on the possible motives behind the crime.

Savopoulos was the chief executive of American Iron Works, the country's leading manufacturer of building works.

The Savopoulos family is survived by two of the couple's daughters, Abigail and Katerina Savopoulos, whose friends told the Post they were at their boarding schools at the time of the incident.

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