MPD investigation

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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Why an Obscure Club May Hold the Key to Solving This Crime You could be forgiven some skepticism when first hearing about the Vidocq Society.  “Cuisine and crime-solving,” reads their home page, going on to explain how the world’s greatest forensic detectives gather monthly at the elegant walnut-lined Down Town Club in Philadelphia – all...
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Ward’s Transcript: Good Cop, Bad Cop…and Homophobe Cop Q: I don’t believe we’re getting the truth here. A: Everyone keeps telling me that. We’ve read transcripts of Joe Price and Victor Zaborsky’s ‘voluntary’ statements to the MPD the night of Robert Wone’s murder.  Now we add 69 more pages to the record with Dylan Ward’s interview with, variously, Sgt....
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Victor Zaborsky’s MPD Interview Transcript In contrast to the sometimes meandering interview of his domestic partner, Joe Price, Victor Zaborsky seemed to choose his words far more carefully as he spoke to DC MPD detectives on the night of Robert’s murder.  Evidently. Last summer in Paul Duggan’s Washington Post series we got to listen to Zaborsky’s...
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Joe Price’s MPD Interview Transcript “It ain’t going to get fine.  It’s going to get ugly,” Price is told midway through his long night with good cop/bad cop at the Anacostia Violent Crimes Branch. There’s a lot in these 120 pages and still a lot we don’t know.  Were these transcripts from the videotaped part...
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Government Quotes the Defendants’ Words Back At Them The Government responded earlier this week, not surprisingly, in opposition to the separate defense filings to suppress the defendants’ statements they gave the night of the murder from being entered at trial.  In doing so, AUSA Glenn Kirschner revealed new details about what Joe did immediately after finding Robert’s...
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The Molecule of Life on Center Stage Much of the November 6th status hearing dealt with evidence issues, with the Defense requesting that the Government be required to turn over the lab notes of the technicians, in addition to DNA test results and the methodologies used. DNA evidence has been used to both convict and...
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Truth is Stranger than Fiction On Monday we looked at what effect a newsroom retirement could have on the media coverage of the Wone case.  WUSA-TV’s Gary Reals was certainly working his sources hard early in the investigation. What other retirements may have impacted this case? A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to chat with...
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Document Dump Now as promised, the rest of the motions filed over the past couple months.   So far these have yielded MPD Officer Diane Durham’s statement that refutes Joe Price’s known explanation of where he found Robert’s body; Detective Brian Waid’s handwritten notes and Detective Jeffrey Folts’  riff , channeling Kerouac*, his notes on his late night, crosstown  journey with...
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Walking High Wire, Here She Comes. UPDATE: Bruce DePuyt announces at the top of the show that Chief Lanier has cancelled her appearance. Once again, Washington’s dauntless Chief of Police Cathy Lanier will be taking to the air for a live Q&A with viewers. Thursday from 4 to 5pm, Chief Lanier will be a guest on...
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