I so have to disagree with this. Robert was incapacitated. Perhaps even paralyzed. If you’ve ever read any kind of forensic studies on stabbing, you will know that 1) it doesn’t take “might” to inflict a stab wound. Breaking the skin is the “hardest” part (which isn’t difficult). Lying under the skin is soft tissue and organ tissue.

Any kind of jagged wound would be result of physical resistance from the victim. There was no resistance from Robert.

Pushing a knife into a body that is completely still wouldn’t take expertise. Of any kind.

Like I said before, this isn’t the Black Dahlia.

Can you direct me to the post or at least the article under which it was posted? I’ve not read it and I’m very interested in seeing what it has to say.

Since this thread, we did have someone post who knew Dylan, which was helpful (and interesting). I’m not sure of the context in which you decided to “bump” this thread, or your reason for captioning each of the people who posted, but I agree with your assessment outlined under my name.

While I read others in a summary fashion (sorry, it’s late and I’m suffering a bout of insomnia – west coast) I have to disagree with your comments relating to “Perplexed” – being a lawyer, too, and having had a variety of legal positions, I don’t find it odd that Robert chose to “stay over” with friends in the city one night for the stated reasons indicated by his wife. I’ve done it, and I’ve had others stay with me for similar reasons (as a gay person, the sexual orientation of friends never crossed my mind).

JOHN GRISHAM
As has been pointed out in your herein post as well as posts elsewhere — including my own — Victor is PR man which is probably why he called.

ANONYMOUS
I am bipolar which means that by definition I am mentally ill as would be Ward if he is bipolar as his medication regime would suggest. But to say that one is mentally ill is not the same as saying he or she is predisposed to murder another.

As has been pointed in other posts herein as well as my own elsewhere, the one sexually dominant in an relationship — including an S&M one — is not necessarily the one “calling the shots” so to speak. Frequently, it is the submissive who has informed the dom as to what the sub likes and wishes to be “done to him.” Given the emotional relationship between Ward and Price, it is most likely that Dylan had been instructed by Joseph.

PERPLEXED
Though my initial reaction was that genuine is Victor’s hysteria in that fateful emergency call, further reflection leads me to agree with the majority of other posts that the PR man was not one of the “many who are called,” but rather the “one who was chosen.”

Actually, given Ward’s houseboy, boy-toy dependence on Daddy Price, Dylan — like Victor for different reasons — probably cared more for narcisstic Price than the other way round.

As I have stated elsewhere in other posts, Wone was not stabbed violently as is most often the case in “crimes of passion” in which knives may be employed (knives are not commonly the weapon of choice in premeditated murder).

Robert was stabbed with precision by somebody who knew how to wield a knife in a methodical way such as might be the case with one who had the benefit of an education in culinary arts.

I am a lawyer from a family of lawyers with many friends who are lawyers — both in the private as well as public sectors. Robert was employed by a major law firm where attorneys are frequently called upon to work overnight. He took a job with a political nonprofit which would have required him to work long hours — even had he not had the passion which he did and the organization not had a night staff which it did. A happily married man would not have relied on the kindness of friends to provide him with an “in” at the room.

CDINDC
As has been opined by posts herein and my own elsewhere, Ward’s being a loner may well explain why there seems to be less public information about him when compared to his roommates. However, it may also be that many involved with him are S&Mers or druggies who would rather that their own proclivities remain unknown.

BEA
Ward depended on Price for employment. In that sense, he is the classic houseboy or boy-toy who does as he is told — even as he plays dominant.

JESSICA
I am a human rights activist well acquainted with Radio Free Asia as well as other similar and different groups.

The most likely entity to assassinate Wone would be the People’s Republic of China through their equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

I am not aware of their having targeted other RFA
officials — not to mention that it was too early for the PRC to have determined the threat which Wone may have or have not posed to them.

As I have pointed out elsewhere, intelligence agcs
do not normally rely on the luck of the day when a gate alarm is off, a front door open, a weapon is in a kitchen drawer, no one will hear them cross a room or climb stairs, pass an occupied room, etc.

Furthermore an agent would not take the chance of approaching a victim from the far side of a bed.
And it would be in their interest to steal Robert’s
computer, blackberry, wallet and watch to make it appear as if an intruder had committed the crime.

Moreover, Asian intelligence agents — unlike some Occidentals — are aware that Orientals scream when stabbed. Agents are intelligent enough to know not to stick around hoping that nobody will see them cleaning up blood from a crime scene. They also know that no amount of cleaning will eliminate detection through forensic DNA tests.

“Hits” are meant eliminate a perceived threat and instill fear in others. Had PRC wished to execute Robert: with a gun and silencer, they would have shot him in the head as he was driving his auto on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House or parked in the driveway of the Wone home.

It is for this reason that I have contended the only way the PRC would have killed Wone in fashion it appears he was murdered is if it were their idea to eliminate him in such a sloppy way that nobody in his Right or Left mind could possibly imagine that this was the work of a foreign intelligence agency.

As has been pointed out in other posts herein, S&Mers do engage in “scenes” which simulate violent acts such as asphyxiation and rape.

THEMIS
The cited court decision confirms my suspicion as to why prosecutors in Wone case may have been holding out in hopes of indicting the defendants on murder rather than risk a double jeopardy which might forever preclude such a charge.

RS
What I find curious is the concerned Victor going voluntarily to another floor for the purpose of making an emergency call out of sight.

Would not have Zaborsky wanted to remain in view of his friend Wone so he could more accurately describe the scene?

Furthermore, how much assistance could Victor have been to the emergency response team if he did not know what was going on at the time of call?