Not Safe For Wone
Last week’s filing of the Government’s Notice of Uncharged Conduct I generated a fair amount of light and heat in the Robert Wone case. The ‘light’ column features highlights of the government’s position – that the murder investigation “…continues”, that the “…killer is someone know to and being protected by...
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The Toxicology Report
For the past three years, case watchers have held many unanswered questions regarding several aspects of drugs, testing and blood samples. Both prosecution and defense teams have shared some of those questions.
In the original affidavit, the government theorizes that prior to his stabbing Robert Wone was injected with paralytics. They base this on two...
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Pink Paper Ponders Paralytics
Two weeks after the September 11 status hearing in the Robert Wone case, DC’s flagship gay paper, The Washington Blade offers a summary on the day.
The piece by longtime Blade scribe Lou Chibbaro was filed on September 25, but didn’t hit the print edition until this week, the paper’s Local Briefs section...
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What Robert Wone Still May Be Able To Tell Us
If forensics teaches anything it’s that human bodies have stories to tell, sometimes long after life has left. We just have to know what questions to ask and be listening.
In this case, barring exhumation, only three cc’s of blood is all that physically remains of...
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More than Mother’s little helper…
Tomorrow marks one month until the status hearing with Judge Weisberg to review the status of evidence testing of the 3-4 cc’s of Robert Wone’s blood specimen remaining from the autopsy. The status of other forensic testing is also anticipated.
At the May 22, 2009 status hearing the prosecution and defense...
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Where K & Swann Intersect – and the Role Ketamine May Have Played
The strange circumstances of Robert Wone’s murder – no defensive wounds, signs of possible suffocation, evidence of possible sexual assault and multiple mysterious puncture wounds on his neck, chest, foot and hand – have led many to wonder whether Robert was chemically incapacitated...
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Perspective from a Forensic Post-Mortem Toxicologist
Among the puzzles at the center of the Robert Wone murder mystery are medical questions of what chemical agents might have been used with or without Mr. Wone’s consent to render him in a condition the coroner termed, “…alive but incapacitated.”
In response to a recent post, a reader offered...
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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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