What We Have Here, is a Failure to Communicate
Wasn’t it just the other day that we remarked how slow the paper chase in the Wone case was going?
There had been no new filings since early December, and little or no activity according to the Court database.
Late yesterday afternoon, a four page filing trickled in. ...
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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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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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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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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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The Long, Strange Trip Continues
There may be no better time than the holiday slows and the two-year anniversary of the site to take stock of what’s happened and what lays ahead. A year from now the civil trial will be over. We joked that by the time this project was completed, we could’ve almost been lawyers. That assumes of...
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For Sale, No Sale or Sold?
According to a large real estate display add in the local community paper, The DuPont Current, 1509 Swann Street is still up for sale and it remains listed at $1,599,000. Quite a stocking stuffer.
Yet there is some confusion over whether the house is still on the market or not. ...
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Judge Brook Hedge’s Lasting Impact
The dust has settled from last Wednesday’s jam packed status hearing. Judge Hedge ruled officially on five pending motions.
Oral rulings in court parlance; there was no paper released on any of her decisions, so the only public record we have of that day is by way of the DC Superior Court database.
And...
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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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