Ward’s Transcript: Good Cop, Bad Cop…and Homophobe Cop
Q: I don’t believe we’re getting the truth here.
A: Everyone keeps telling me that.
We’ve read transcripts of Joe Price and Victor Zaborsky’s ‘voluntary’ statements to the MPD the night of Robert Wone’s murder. Now we add 69 more pages to the record with Dylan Ward’s interview with, variously, Sgt....
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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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Kirschner Pulls A Couple Rabbits Out Of His Hat
With the May trial looming just weeks away, we’re trying to stay current with the latest motions and filings. Not always easy given the challenges posed by DC’s stone age system of court document storage and distribution.
Hitting the clerk’s office last week was the government’s slim...
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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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