Getting Religion at the Violent Crimes Branch
The final installment of the Anacostia Dialogues runs 25 minutes. Detective Milton Norris has Price alone in the interrogation room. They cover a lot of ground – When Zaborsky met Robert: “I think, I’m pretty sure Victor went to the (Robert and Kathy’s) wedding with me.” When Zaborsky...
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Monday Movie Matinee
This installment of the Joe Price Anacostia Dialogue is actually the last thirty minutes of his final hour-long interview during the mid-morning hours after Robert’s murder.
Reliable reader Gloria helped us out with the time stamps on this and the earlier segment.
This interview began in the 9:00am hour, well after the so called “Mercedes meeting.” ...
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Thursday Tea Time Movie Matinee
Joe Price’s recorded interview with DC police at the Ancacostia Violent Crimes Branch detectives began with a phone call.
Detective Bryan Waid escorted Price into the cramped interrogation room with Victor Zaborsky in tow.
Zaborsky was scooted out to a separate holding room while Price took a seat and answered his cel phone. ...
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Take Two
Dylan Ward’s first police interview from the night of Robert’s murder was managed by Detectives Daniel Wagner and Milton Norris. It was played in court on day six of the obstruction trial, May 25. Wagner was laconic, rocking back in his chair, eyes firmly fixed on his subject, while Norris played the street-smart cop, mostly to type.
Wagner...
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The Late Show Continues
Victor Zaborsky’s first interview with MPD detectives at Anacostia’s Violent Crimes Branch ended around 4:30am on the morning after Robert’s murder. The night was still young and he would sit for two additional sessions, each growing slightly more contentious that the last.
Again we hear of the flight back home from Denver, the...
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Backseat Striver
Ordinarily it takes about 20 minutes by car to get from Swann Street to Anacostia. Faster depending on the traffic, if not made during one of DC’s paralytic rush hours, faster still if no stops are made along the way.
In any event, it’s not a trip that very many denizens of Dupont Circle make that often.
But in...
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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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