Under the Big Top: Today and One Year from Today
The DC press corp is gearing up for the start of a trial; one that had an innocent victim and what appears to be a less than savory cast of characters. A murder that captivated many and confounded investigators, families and lives were ruined in its wake.
A young...
Read more »
Eyewitness News
We’ve been lax in keeping our media page updated, partly due to the steady stream of reporting from the Moutlrie Courthouse over the past four weeks. Although Jagger/Richards wrote, “Who wants yesterday’s papers?” for the sake of a complete record, we’ll try our best to update it.
Every day in the media section of...
Read more »
Covering Today’s Status Hearing And The Trial
Back to room 310 in the Moultrie Courthouse today for another status hearing. Judge Lynn Leibovitz gavels this one in at 3:00pm. The room usually fills up so getting there early is a good idea. Updates on the twitter and here. Look for a post title that rhymes with...
Read more »
Start The Presses
As a rule, we purposely don’t reveal much information regarding readership or statistics. Honoring the anonymity and confidentiality of users has always been a chief concern, and that’s worked pretty well. For the more outgoing readers, we owe a serious debt to those who’ve reached out to us and maintain ongoing channels and relationships. Pen...
Read more »
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...
Read more »
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...
Read more »
First Movement
Three weeks to the day after Robert’s murder, the Washington Post was leaked information about grand jury testimony that was taking place:
Katherine Wone, 35, wife of Robert Wone, testified for more than an hour about “her interaction with the three guys in the house, both immediately after the incident and the days that followed,”...
Read more »
Pink Press Ponders Price
The initial round of MSM coverage on Robert’s murder was followed by the local DC gay press, the Washington Blade and Metroweekly.
Journeyman Blade scribe Lou Chibbaro had an an August 11 piece with Kevin Naff sharing the byline. The angle was reflected in the headline, “Prominent Lawyer Killed in Home of Gay Rights Activist.” They talked...
Read more »
“A Very, Very Active Investigation”
Last Tuesday, August 11, DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier participated in her regularly scheduled Newschannel8 program “One-on-One.”
She was on hand to discuss the recent drop in crime and status of outstanding cases, and near the end of the hour, one murder case in particular came up.
This is the transcript of...
Read more »
Burying the Lede
After the first wave of media coverage hit on August 4th and 5th, the next significant piece was on the 14th by Emma Schwartz of the Legal Times. And she had the goods - the search warrants for Price’s home, his office and computers at Arent Fox, and his BMW 325.
Included is this bombshell: the crime scene, “had...
Read more »
Posts
Comments
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.
Twitter