Comments on: 2010: A Case Odyssey

By: AnnaZed

AnnaZed — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:46:02 +0000

Sorry, make that “willingly engaged” and “his jaw.” I need an editor to post on a site with so many erudite posters.

By: AnnaZed

AnnaZed — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:43:34 +0000

Still reading, reading everything ~ posts and comments and I am still struck by Colin (who seems to have disappeared) and the construct of his speculation about Robert. For me the presence of Robert’s mouth guard pretty much negates the possibility that he willing engaged in anything sexual before he was attacked and murdered.

I am not a prude or some deluded heterosexual woman who can’t conceive of a married man dabbling in or having curiosity about homosexual sex or even sadomasochistic sex (if you knew me you would know that that is ridiculous), but this man, on this night, who was so callously attacked and who had his life taken from him had prepared himself for sleep and placed his mouth guard in his mouth to protect his teeth and is jaw from tooth grinding. That is not the act of a person embarking on any sexual adventure and I find open speculation about whether he was at the house to have a sexual encounter unconvincing and when expressed by someone who professes to be from the defendant’s “camp,” unseemly.

By: Basil of Silver Spring

Basil of Silver Spring — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:53:46 +0000

Annaze…I agree with your questions/suspicions. And to NOT have any ideas about what went on…that’s preposterous! Wone was a good guy who accepted his friend. He was drugged, sexually assaulted, and murdered in his ‘friend’s’ home. Evidence was tampered with. Maligning the victim is a distraction from what happened there. There was no forced entry…one or more of the three guys there know EXACTLY what happened.

By: annazed

annazed — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:21:28 +0000

I have been aware of this crime for a long time, but only was lead to this site recently (maybe from Gawker, I simply don’t remember). I have been reading the site and comments for a couple of days, and I’m not even through. However, Colin’s comments struck me and I feel that even though I am speaking “out of turn” (not to mention from out of the blue) I want to point something out about what he has said:

>Colin S. May 27, 2009 at 10:25 AM ~ Was there any physical activity? Not sure – was Robert a willing participant and then freaked out?? Not sure. Why did he go there instead of going home? It’s not like it was that far that he could not go home…

Is it the position of the defendants and their friends; that Mr. Wone somehow “got himself murdered?”

Is “Physical activity” a passive (passive aggressive more like it, actually) euphemism for sadomasochistic sex? I am astounded that this speculation (all that Colin offered when asked his theories of what actually happened) went unanswered by the posters on this site. They are peculiar and smack more than a little of maligning the victim.

By: Basil of Silver Spring

Basil of Silver Spring — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:38:51 +0000

I agree with you, Saddened. It’s impossible for me to believe they were not involved…there was no forced entry! And they cleaned up the crime scene! Wone was a very bright and cute guy, and one or more of them wanted him…even it it meant taking him forcibly and using drugs. I can’t imagine how his widow feels.

By: Basil of Silver Spring

Basil of Silver Spring — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:46:59 +0000

No forced entry. Victim drugged. Sexual assault. Victim murdered w/kitchen knife. Time lapse between body being ‘found’ and call to 911. Crime scene cleaned up. Three men w/educations not sure what happened. Victim murdered within 90 min. of entering the house. Suspicious from the very start. Scheduling the trial for a year from now gives them much more time to be not sure what happened. A real injustice to Robert Wone, his widow, and the DC/MD/VA gay community. A murderer is on the loose and 3 men who were feet away from the crime scene can’t offer any information.

By: David

David — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:08:49 +0000

Colin,

Seriously, I want to thank you for bringing this perspective to the site. Good folks can tend to characterize people in terms of white and black, and what we find are shades of grey. You bring a sense of humanity of and from the defandants, and we are all the better for it.

thanks so much

David, editor

By: Bea

Bea — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:33:41 +0000

Thanks, Colin. Had you known about Joe’s relationship with Dylan, and how “okay” Victor was with that? Seems like a hard one to swallow (no pun intended) for any partner. My sense of Joe is that he may have been ‘changing’ over the years, from ambitious and committed to Victor, kind of a ‘good boy does well’ (especially compared to Michael), and maybe got a taste for the more ‘out there’ things (sexual proclivities in particular, since it doesn’t seem that Victor shared in this, only Dylan). Early mid-life crisis gone bad, maybe? I appreciate that you don’t want to speculate – and it does seem like at the time of death that Victor was either asleep or not home yet, but Joe says he went to bed at 11:00, around the time of death from the coroner’s estimation. Completely on a ‘what if’ basis, if Dylan had gotten himself into deep trouble, do you think Joe’s someone who would’ve stuck his OWN neck out and lose everything (job, status, possibly FREEDOM) for Dylan?

By: She did it

She did it — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:40:14 +0000

i appreciate your honest response.

i do hope you will stick around, and offer more insight. peace.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:37:31 +0000

Colin – Thanks again for participating and sharing.

I concur with the gentlelady from California, Bea, that we can use more of that perspective here. It helps complete the picture.