Judge Brook Hedge’s Lasting Legacy?
Our jobs just got a little bit easier.
In fact, anyone in DC or beyond who wants to track the paper chase of either Superior Court criminal or civil cases, has a better tool to do so. Unveiled recently is a new and improved, lickety-split improvement to the online database of DC...
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Is long term memory really just a figment of the imagination?
Diane Ward was the only family member of the defendants to take the stand during the criminal trial last summer.
Dylan’s mother testified on the provenance of the “missing knife”, i.e., the knife that would have occupied the empty slot in the cutlery set box...
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Could A Black-Out Spell Out Dylan Ward’s Where Abouts?
During the 2004 Presidential Campaign, CBS News ran a story critical of President George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard. Right-leaning political bloggers immediately raised questions about the authenticity of the documents.
They argued that the documents were more than likely forgeries because the typography...
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Life and Death on the DC Streets
UPDATED: Annys Shin’s WaPo piece on HomicideWatch can be found here.
There’s a new murder site on the Interwebs: A DC specific destination that goes on beyond the simple charge that wmrw has.
Whereas we obsessively track the comings and goings, ins and outs of the Robert Wone murder investigation and...
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Was there a Cult of Callas on Swann Street?
With the weather dipping into arctic freezing terrority this winter, it also seems that information about the Robert Wone case is moving at a glacial pace. While we wait for movement, we thought we would turn to an issue that probably doesn’t have much bearing on the case, but...
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When Is A Cold Case “Cold”?
It’s been more than four years since Robert Wone was found stabbed at 1509 Swann Street on August 2nd, 2006. Nobody has ever been charged with his murder. The evidentiary trail has run dry, and despite efforts to the contrary, the greater DC community seems to have grudgingly accepted...
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Reporting Last Week’s News Today
It’s official. Judge Michael Rankin is to inherit the caseload of retiring Judge Brook Hedge.
And along with that comes the Wone case and October 2011 trial.
As it appears on the DC Superior Court website:
12/30/2010 Event Scheduled Event: Pretrial Conference Date: 09/07/2011 Time: 4:00 pm Judge: RANKIN, MICHAEL L Location: Courtroom 517
12/30/2010 Judge Caseload...
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Rhee’s out, Lanier’s in…and Still Working on the Wone Case. Ask her for help this week.
Newly installed mayor Vincent Gray got a somewhat incongruous inaugural gift this week from the man he’s replacing. Namely: Washington’s homicide rate for 2010 hit its lowest point in four decades.
Here’s the numbers reported by the Washington Times: 131...
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First Night(s)
Over the past three years we’ve heard from a number of people who lived on Swann Street at the time of Robert’s murder. Many of them still do.
Almost all vividly remember the night of August 2, 2006 and the initial rounds that investigators made around the immediate neighborhood.
It was this first round of investigation...
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On August 2nd, 2006, Washington attorney Robert E. Wone was murdered at 1509 Swann Street. Over two years passed before any criminal charges were filed - and then only conspiracy, obstruction of justice and crime scene tampering charges were brought against the Swann Street housemates, all present in the home on the night of the murder: Joe Price, Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky.
On May 17, 2010, a DC Superior Court trial got underway and all three defendants were all acquitted in that bench trial on those pending charges.
Nearly four years later, very little seems clear about what happened that night and who murdered Robert Wone. A cloud of suspicion remains over the Swann Street defendants who have denied any involvement in the murder of their friend or in the alleged cover up.
Judge Lynn Leibovitz found a moral certainty in their collective guilt, but not evidentiary certainty. Civil proceedings in a wrongful death suit filed by Robert's family is the next chapter in this tragic story.
We continue to work together seeking answers to the mystery of Robert Wone's murder and in finding justice for his memory and legacy.
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