Premiering the ‘Anacostia Dialogues’
The videotapes of Victor Zaborsky’s interview with MPD investigators at the Violent Crimes Branch in Anacostia were played in court on Day Seven of the criminal trial, May 26, 2010.
The clips (redacted by the US Attorney’s Office) were digitized from the original source material, and have been compressed only slightly to maintain the highest video and...
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…And When Did he Know it? Parsing Zaborsky.
Two minutes and forty-five seconds into Victor Zaborsky’s 911 call, the dispatcher asks him if Robert is still breathing, a question he repeats to the nearby Joe Price, who is providing the first-aid to their stricken friend.
No response from Price. Fifteen seconds go by until the dispatcher repeats...
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A Judge’s Lack of Patience and a Detective’s Hardball Tactics
The after-lunch session started off fairly stormy. Judge Lynn Leibovitz scolded the government attorneys for nearly a half hour on their failure to make clear how they intend to present and use the defendants’ statements - for truth or not.
AUSA Rachel Carlson Lieber took the brunt of...
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Zaborsky Withdraws Motion to Suppress
An interesting consent motion ran across the clerk’s desk late Friday afternoon, but because the District of Columbia was celebrating Emancipation Day the Courthouse was closed. And perhaps ironically, this filing may be evidence of Victor Zaborsky trying to free himself.
It appears that Zaborsky’s counsel Thomas Connolly, or a lower...
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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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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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Were 4th, 5th & 6th Amendment Rights Violated? >Update @ end<
In a busy week of motions and filings these two stand out.
Ernesto Miranda
If, as the defense contends, Ward and Zaborsky were not properly ‘Mirandized” on the night of Robert’s murder, anything gleaned from their marathon interrogations must be ruled inadmissible.
In separate Motions to Suppress, Ward and Zaborsky claim they were...
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Joe and Victor Jumped to Dylan’s Defense; Why Didn’t Dylan Reciprocate?
Throughout the investigation into the murder of Robert Wone, the Metropolitan Police Department maintained that the Swann Street defendants told a consistent story about what happened on the evening of August 2, 2006. Diane Durham’s statement was the first to question the authenticity...
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Why Didn’t Anyone Check On The Third Housemate? And What Of That Bloodstain?
It’s been said a crime succeeds or fails within the first 6 minutes. It’s our collective hope to see this crime fail, which brings us once more to the first moments after Robert’s murder.
As previously discussed, there are many things about the...
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Twenty for Twenty-Ten
We learned quite a bit over the course of 2009. Among the highlights: MPD Officer Diane Durham’s end-of-shift statement that contradicted the Trouple’s story on where they discovered Robert; the fact that all three of the housemates either left their places of employment voluntarily or not; a change in judges for the...
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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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