4:45pm Update:
Court adjourned at 4:40pm. The afternoon session heard Zaborsky’s 911 call and the testimony of attending EMT, Jeff Baker, first on the scene at Swann Street.
Recap post goes up around 6:30pm
3:25pm Update:
After the lunch break, testifying was the next door neighbor who heard “the scream.” William Thomas and his wife Claudia, of 1507...
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The Post Delivers
Two months after Robert’s murder, key pieces of the story were emerging.
Three years ago last Friday, in an October 9, 2006 Washington Post article , we see a rudimentary version of the August 2nd timeline, many familiar elements and some new ones.
Included are details of Robert’s last day, background information from investigators and...
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Roby Chavez of WTTG-TV Fox 5 shares this statement he received from Ben Razi, Kathy Wone’s Attorney tonight.
“My husband, Robert, was a beautiful, loving person who was murdered in the prime of his life three years ago today.
From the beginning, those who victimized Robert — and his family — have sought to cover-up and...
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Two Weeks Before Robert Wone’s Murder…
Three years ago this week, on or about July 19, 2006, Robert began making plans to stay the night at a friend’s house in Washington, DC.
Last month Paul Duggan wrote in the Washington Post:
Earnest and meticulously efficient, Wone had planned about two weeks in advance to stay in...
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Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Hundreds packed Columbia Baptist Church on August 8, 2006 to say goodbye to a colleague, friend, brother, son and husband.
For those who did not know Robert, those many tributes delivered that sad day help us better understand who he was and what he accomplished in his 32 years.
In the first (embeded...
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You Can Do It Kid…
The outpouring at Robert’s memorial service was a testament to his rich but all too short life. For those of us not fortunate to have known him, we draw from what was said by his closest friends and family.
Sixteen heartfelt eulogies eulogies were delivered that August day; the magnitude of the loss becomes...
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Erik Prince Trumps Kathy Wone
>> Updated throughout; Additional Video
The good news: Judge Frederick Weisberg finally got around to setting a trial date in the matter of U.S. v. Price, Ward and Zaborsky. The not so good news: it’s a year away on May 10, 2010. Does anyone’s Outlook calender even go that far into the...
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From The WMRW.COM Breaking News Desk (Updated)
Thanks to our stringer CDinDC for alerting us to this Legal Times story filed earlier this afternoon by Mike “Mad Dog” Scarcella who obtained the 26 page government response to the defendants’ joint motion to compel discovery. Scarcella writes:
“The government has provided the lawyers more than 1,250 pages of...
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As our night time copy editor alluded in last night’s post, yesterday, Judge Brook Hedge signed an order granting a stay in the civil proceeding against Joseph Price, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Katherine Wone on behalf of the Estate of Robert E. Wone (see the Defendants’...
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Currently, only one case seeks to answer the question of who murdered Robert Wone, and that is the wrongful death civil suit filed on behalf of Robert’s widow, Kathy Wone. For the plaintiffs, what’s at stake at Friday’s hearing is whether Kathy Wone’s plea about what happened on August 2, 2006 is answered sooner,...
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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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