Dylan Ward
Dylan Ward was born May 24, 1970 to Needham Ward, MD and Diane Ward. He is the oldest of five children. His parents and siblings live in Tacoma, Washington. Ward’s father is a well-known cardiologist.
In 1992, Ward graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University with a BS in Foreign Service. In 1995, he graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, with an Associate of Culinary Arts degree. In 2003, Ward earned a Masters in Children’s Literature from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. Ward has also co-founded a small educational publishing business, “The House of the Tiger Aunt” based in Taiwan. He has written and edited numerous children’s books, several of which have received awards.
After graduation from Simmons College, Ward relocated to Washington, DC, renting a basement apartment in the Capitol Hill home of Joseph Price and Victor Zaborsky. When Price and Zaborsky sold that property, Ward relocated with them to their new home at 1509 Swann St NW, this time renting a room in the house.
Ward began work for Equality Virginia (EV), a gay rights advocacy organization (where Price was a Director), after moving to Washington, DC. As EV’s Development Director, Ward broke all organization records for fund raising. Ward left EV and joined a direct mail funding raising company providing development support to non-profit organizations. He continues to do contract work for the fund raising company, writing fund raising letters for clients.
In 2006, Ward graduated from the Potomac Institute for Massage Therapy and obtained his license to practice as a massage therapist in the District of Columbia. In 2007, Ward traveled to Thailand, completed a six-week training course in Thai Massage, and obtained his certification to practice Thai Massage in the United States. After completion of the course, Ward returned to the United States and continued practicing in Washington, DC.
Ward moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in October 2007. He continued performing contract work for the direct mail fund raising company while living there. In June 2008, after Joseph Price and Victor Zaborsky purchased a home in Miami Shores, Florida, Ward moved into that home and managed the property for Price and Zaborsky. Ward returned to Washington, DC, after his indictment in the Wone case, and resumed living with Price and Zaborsky in an apartment they rented following the sale of the 1509 Swann Street NW property in June 2008.
According to court documents, Dylan Ward was involved in a three-way intimate relationship with Price and Zaborsky. Price and Zaborsky shared the master bedroom, were in a committed, intimate relationship, and were registered domestic partners. Ward occupied a second bedroom in the Swann Street house, and was involved in a personal, intimate relationship with Price. The nature of the relationship with Price included a dominant-submissive sexual relationship, with Ward playing the dominant role and Price the submissive role. Zaborsky has stated that he, Price, and Ward were all in a relationship as a “family”, but that Ward did not share and equal part of that relationship, however, they were attempting to make it that way.
Dylan used to get drugs from a dealer in the east market area. Not sure if this helps, but I think his dealer used to be involved with some gang related stuff in the camp springs area.
Hey Johnny, welcome – if you have specifics, contact the Eds. They’re great. Did Dylan have a drug of choice? How long ago was this and did he use regularly or sporadically? Inquiring minds want to know!
Thanks!
Get a life.
One might be interested to know that Ward was quite the sexual deviant and even was noted to have “an electrocution unit…that can produce electric ejaculation of a person who is under anesthetic or otherwise incapacitated.” If he was involved in the relationship, why would he need such device? The device would be used for “non-consential” intercourse, would it not? I am curious about the legal stance on this device…
I, too, am dying to know what drugs he was into and maybe we shouldn’t look so much into Price’s brother’s involvement, but instead Ward’s aquitances. There is a good chance that maybe Ward had some “sketchy” friends that very likely could have supplied him with whatever incapacitated Wone and aided with the murder.
Also, the work of this case was clearly done by someone with knowledge of the law… Someone who did not know much about legal proceedings would never be getting away with a crime for 3+ years.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/01/AR2009060103472_5.html?sid=ST2009053102566
Interesting that, supposedly, they all had a glass of water shortly before retiring close to 11pm. Why not a beer or glass of wine, that would be more likely to be offered when a friend arrives to spend the night. But let’s say it was just water – would that be better for drugs to be dissolved in?
And would that be the reason Robert Wone went to bed so quickly instead of taking a shower – because he passed out? And why, as it was stated by the dependents, would Wone even plan to take a shower at night instead of in the morning? Seems very odd.
I’ve been following this story since it happened – the whole story is so bizarre and outrageous. Hard to believe no one has been charged yet.
I was wondering how Wone came to have his own semen all over himself.
You’ll have to continue to wonder about any semen, where it was, and how it may have gotten there. I doubt that semen is involved in a conspiracy and cover-up trial. Wait for another day when there’s a murder or sexual assault trial, if ever.
Nathan- I shower mostly at night. It helps me sleep better. And don’t forget it was a hot, humid August day.
I hear you on that – ok, makes sense. Have been doing more reading of the investigative reports, and apparently Wone had a lot of needle pin pricks all over him, and according to his wife he hadn’t been to the doctor recently. Also, the crime scene was almost totally clean when the EMS and police arrived – why would they clean up the crime scene unless hiding evidence. Forensics applied a special chemical and found there to be, not visible to the eye, traces of blood all over the wall and pull out sofa, etc, but, get this, they had to toss the evidence because the chemical wasn’t applied properly according to guidelines. It all seems like another OJ Simpson type of case – you know at least one, maybe two must be guilty; and the intruder story is so preposterous and implausible.
From the Washington Post article referenced in an above post…”She said she counted six premortem needle marks on his chest, right foot and left hand and several more on the left side of his neck.”
I wonder if the reason no drugs have been found in Wones blood is because Ward was trying to use Acupuncture as the paralytic mechanism? He then subsequently studied massage therapy – and Acupuncture, while very different, is still a close kin to massage and to those who study it.
I once had a paralyzed shoulder from a nerve problem and after just one Acupuncture treatment was able to move it again – this being after 2 weeks in a hospital trying various Western medicines and treatments. So this was the reverse of what possibly happened. I believe that the needles, when inserted appropriately and into the precise areas into the nerves can do both – act as a paralytic and also, as I experienced first hand, bring nerves out of a paralytic state.
Acupuncture has been looked into as a possible reason for the puncture wounds, however, acunpuncture needles are far smaller than hypodermic needles, and do not leave a mark the way a 33 gage hypodermic needle, which is the smallest.
The autopsy did not say no drugs had been found. It said that no drugs that were screened for were found. The screen did not include testing for drugs known to induce paralysis or incapacitation. My theory: drug administered in “glass of water,” then additional drugs administered via hypo needle to incapacitate. Several needle injections needed to prolong or “perfect” incapacitation. Shock contraption mentioned in affidavit for arrest warrant used to…ahem…torture and induce ejaculation in unconscious victim. Stab wounds inflicted to create appearance of death by intruder, when actual death was caused by either accidental or intentional drug OD or accidental or intentional fatal shock. Not sure why more blood was not retained for a more comprehensive drug screen, or why these drugs would not have been screened for when the manner of death was what it was. Should’ve been obvious stabs were not cause of death due to minimal blood at scene. However….I do find it extremely suspicious that a heterosexual, married man who has never overnighted at the home of these three roommates would have arranged to stay overnight. My radar says there was something else going on. I don’t believe that no straight man could or would ever say over at gay friends’ home just because they are gay, but it just doesn’t sit right with me in this case. Closet gay? ….
When Wone knew he would be working late that night, he e-mailed two friends, Joe Price and a female friend, to see if one or the other could let him use a spare bed. Joe replied first so that’s why he decided to stay there. Stop with your silly suppositions.
Oh please I know plenty of straight men who have gay friends and wouldn’t blink an eye over staying at their house overnight.
“… actual death was caused by either accidental or intentional drug OD or accidental or intentional fatal shock.”
The autopsy says he had blood that passed from his stomach into his intestines – suggesting he was still alive when he was stabbed.
Otherwise, I would agree that he probably died accidently and the stabbing was a cover-up.
Of course, there may be some weird CSI-type explanation for the anomalous results.
Maybe they thought he was dead already at the time of the stabbing.
How (or even more puzzling “why”) his own semen got in his rectum is certainly another interesting question.
Interesting these fellows were held up in a national publication as a model of a new untraditional family structure. Maybe there’s something to be said for tradition after all…
Please these guys aremlying and it seems like this Dylan guy is a freak by all standards….
Little Dyland was the killer! Especially, the proofs are so clear that when the report indicated that accupuncture needle marks were found over various places on Robert Wone’s body. It is amazing that the police that night did not pick up and question more on the accupuncture marks goes to say that the police team better be knowledgable on alternative medicines when dealing with those devils in DC these days. One will find that by researching and reading upon more about accupuncture and accupressor points, the murderer will be pointed to little Dyland as he had some type of massage training. If the court or the prosecutor wake up and smell the coffee fast, the prosecution team should seek up on Dyland and play reversal psychology on him and have him talking without him knowing that he is spilling the beans on his use of accupunture needles on Robert. Since Dyland did have some training on being a massouse, it is not a suprised that Dyland could have learned it on his own on doing accupuncture, though, practicing providing accupuncture to others is unlawful since one needs to be licensed to provide that kind of service. All that is required of being a reliable, lawful, experienced, licensed accupuncturist, this little Dylan thought he was being smart that if he somehow could put Robert “under” by way of accupuncture or by way of finding the accupressure points without using any type of recreational drugs as all commentors on this site who believe that drug was the only way to make one sedated or incapacitated, he is safe and no one would ever finds out that how come no trace of drug was found in his blood. Accupuncture is potent when the administrator knows how to find the exact accupressor points to achieve the “result” and as reported by the autopsy that miniscule needle marks and very little trace of dry blood from those needle marks were found on the finger, foot, hand, neck,all over Robert’s body–jeezwiz — are consistent with use of accupuncture and consistent to the killer being Dyland red handed, no one else. All 3 of them keep saying to the police until they believe it themselves that they are innocent really makes me want to vomit. I only wish for the family of Robert Wone, that the prosecution team and the judge be more smart than the devil who is sitting in her court starring at her and who is so slick that hoping that no one will ever prove that Dyland was the one who got Robert to die and the others (2 or 3) helped out after the “done it” session and blame it on the black guy (as said by J.Price which I thought his remark about the black guy is so lame) to untangle is balled up murder mystery in a quickie. Call in a trusting Chinese accupuncturist to testify or explain or even provide a free session right there in the court to demonstrate with an unrelated, unknown volunteer to stage to everyone what that night was like when one is “under the state” of accupunture. Wherever the accupuncture needles are placeon the body have their own specific job to do to the person’s needs. If one to talk to a TRUSTING chinese accupunturist, one will find out that accupunture can achieve something without using medications that are chemically made drugs, as ones in the Western society only familiar with. One could draw a cartoon with little Dyland looking horrified or looking proud at himself that he just did something while holding the accupuncture pins with various sex toy paraphernalias use by homos and Robert lying there by him motionless with specs of little pin holes. When I went to do accupuncture to relieve stress because my reading tells me that the accupressor points are the answer to stress relief by way of opening up or freeze up my senses to do its job, I thought this is so much better than taking those prescribed drugs from my physician. Man, the more I touch on this subject of accupuncture, the more I think that the members of the court have not thought much of alternative medicine to relate to this murder mystery. Alternative medicine was the use to get Robert to where he was and this type of practice is unknown to the members of the court. I had accupunture sessions for stress related issues. Accupuncture works. My sessions were with a certified medical trained physician approved by my health insurance not just by some quack or shady practitioner like Dyland- a massouse, the medical physician placed many accupuncture needles on various accupressor points throughout my body. To share with commentors here, the feeling of “freezing” my senses were felt but as I lied there on the table I could hear some movement or even voice made by the secretary or the doctor moving around outside of my room but I was very much in a hazy state. I could hear but I could not lift my hands to do anything because I felt my body was “heavy” or by body was not in a “wake up” state. It did not take long after the needles were placed over the accupressor points to put me “under”. It took only about two or three minutes that my body went “under” so it really depends how good the administrator is. And as soon as a needle is removed, I was a wake. When the physician came in to the room, I could hear his foot steps came into the room but still could not move but could not have the strength to say but I could make a faint sound when I heard he asked me something. When he began to remove the needle one by one, I started to come out of it. I am not saying that Robert was so “deep under the state” though he was still conscious, it just depends on how the accupressor points were placed and what for –only an trusting experienced accupuncturist can say whether or not one can still be vocally responsive, so it could be damaging to the prosecution if the team get a lousy accupuncturist to tell tale as in one can be “deep under state” but cannot make a sound but there the neighbor heard a scream. It takes alot for one to be able to scream. But then I did not experience a knife stabbing into my abdomen when I did the accupuncture session to say that the stab could bring one out from the state and held out a scream. I am just sharing with the members of the audience here on this site should they are not familiar with what accupuncture could do to a person depend on the the purpose of the accupuncture session being applied. So the prosecution team must zero in and question more on Dyland from his practice to what he knows and why there are accupuncture marks on Robert’s body. Robert cannot place the accupuncture needles on himself because for the purpose to work, he has to lie there straight inorder for the adminstrator to find the accupressor points. Nothing more to it. Remember the scene when Dr. Spock in the 1960 TV series on space pinches an intruder at the base of the intruder’s neck then the intruder just melted to his knees and colapsed and remained unconscious. What got the intruder to melt and remained unconscious was Dr. Spock located the accupressor point of the body and supposedly temporarily disengaged to body without drugging the intruder. I truly hope the prosecution team take up on alternative medicince practice and call in an accupuncturist to demonstrate in the court what can happen with a use of accupuncture or accupression points. thanks.
“…and as reported by the autopsy that miniscule [sic] needle marks and very little trace of dry blood from those needle marks were found…”
The autopsy found no such think. In fact the autopsy determined that the needle marks were made by larger bore than acupuncture needles, hollow needles.
sorry, “no such thing”
me and my friends used to participate on a fund raising event for the protection of panda bears;~’
I don’t have the time to read all of the material on this site, but has anyone speculated that Ward had a longtime sexual interest in Chinese men? I’m just speculating but it seems like Ward was drawn to work in Asia, and just possibly he had a sexual interest in doing so. A lot of gay man have specific types that they are attracted to.
I know we’re all just guessing here, but guessing based on what’s known and by our own experiences.
If Ward is the sexually dominant person here, and if he has a sexual interest in Chinese men, then could he have been the main person responsible for the death of Mr. Wone? Perhaps he was the one who (being sadistic and being interested in Chinese men) did all this. Just a thought.
I had the same thought in regards to Ward being into Asian men.
[...] After graduating from Georgetown summa cum laude, Ward picked up degrees in culinary arts from the Culinary Institute of America, children’s literature from Simmons College and masseuse license from the Potomac Institute of Massage Therapy, according to WhoMurderedRobertWone.com. [...]
What is it with gay masseurs? Why would someone whose father is a “prominent cardiologist” become a masseur? My brother’s “boyfriend” is a masseur and he lives rent-free off of my brother thanks to my father’s (and deceased mother’s) cash. Just because he has a “state license,” being a “massage guy” for a job is kind of skanky. Don’t you think?
I get it that you don’t like the way your brother is spending your parents’ money, and his taste in boyfriends. In response to your first question, I can only say that the children of ostensibly “successful” parents do not always wind up choosing their parents’ lifestyles, and one can’t begin to know the particular reasons for that without knowing about that family and the person’s experiences since leaving it. However, if you have spent any time reading through this website, you’d know that the purpose of this website is not to pass judgment on anyone’s lifestyles and activities, as long as they do not break the law. This website is about the crime of murder and its coverup, and discussions about the lifestyle of the defendants is only relevant insofar as understanding how they lived might contribute to an understanding of the crimes that were committed against Robert. If, say, a crime was committed among a group of zealous boxing fans, their interests and activities around boxing would only be relevant insofar as they might cast light upon the motives and acts of the criminal(s) in the group.
Did I read that the knife set, minus one LARGE knife was found in the BEDROOM of the sexually sadistic Ward? Is that true?
Isn’t it creepy that he keeps a knife set in his bedroom? Like they are some sort of sexual tool? A tantalizing clue again, like so many things here, but if it’s true, it’s hard to be sure with legal certainty what it means.
Of course I think many can guess with some accuracy why Ward kept the knives in his bedroom.
I have two different cases with knives in them in my bedroom. I own a lot of knives. The cases are in my closet. The reason is that I am a very finicky and particular chef and do not allow others any chance to use my very best knives, and lord knows that my boyfriend endures enough from me micro-managing his use of the lesser one’s that live in the kitchen that he’s allowed to use. Dylan Ward was at one time a culinary student, it’s not actually all that odd.
By the way the missing knife was not “large”: that’s just your own Freudian fears speaking.
The NYT has an article on family drama in Apart 9B at the El Dorado. Most interesting was the comment:
“I was saying it was my apartment, but she would say it was not, it was hers and I was to do what she said,” Mrs. Cheney would later say in court. There was a tussle. Her daughter, she said, twisted her legs until she wet herself. “She blew smoke in my face,” she said.
It is not clear how many hours she was on the sofa, her right arm red and swollen, before Ms. Gordon’s key turned in the lock and she encountered the troubled Tibetan spaniels.
As she rushed around, calling 911, cleaning up Mrs. Cheney, trying to calm the dogs, Ms. Gordon caught a glimpse of Ms. Wells coming out of her bathroom.
“I said to her, ‘Diane, something is wrong with Mommy,’ ” Ms. Gordon testified. “She went into her bedroom and closed her door.”
The whole story is at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/nyregion/18nineb.html
When I read the words describing the person who most likely attacked the mother … it hit me as the same behavior of Dylan Ward exhibited toward the EMTs. Creepy similarities.
That Cheney family makes the much more famous Cheneys seem almost harmless. Their sad saga also underscores the problematic effects of arrested development and inherited wealth, both reportedly components of the Dylan Ward Show.
I do wonder how our boys treated Aunt Marcia, when they were staying at her place. Was their second stay a Brady Bunch reunion, or was it a Grey Gardens in McLean? Only Covington counsel will know for sure, I trust.
huh?
probably if you click on her name (which I wouldn’t do) you’ll be taken to a porn site or some phishing site.
No, it takes you to what appears to be a legit training site. (emphasis on “appears”)
I am in the camp that believes Dylan Ward had some sexual fetish for Asian men. Possibly young Asian men. Robert Wone had a young, boyish look. The travels to Asian countries, where maybe it’s easy to buy/rent young Asian men seems suspicious. I don’t even know what to make of the children’s literature thing and grifting lifestyle.
It seems entirely possible Ward accidentally killed Wone as part of some dominant (uninvited) sex play and thought it better to stage a murder from an intruder than face a rape/accidental death. Whether the others knew about it, I am not sure. I wondered if that shock box was used incorrectly and the current went through Wone’s heart. The presence of drugs not tested seemed entirely possible also, though. Zero percent of me believes the “stabbing” did it.
Victor seems the least involved of anyone. I haven’t read a ton about this case, but it appears Victor wasn’t involved in the S&M stuff. It seems as though that was what Joe Price was into so Victor thought it was OK and they had an open relationship. I mean, maybe they did have weird threesomes, but it seemed like it was mainly Price and Ward who were involved sexually, and then Victor and Price romantically.
Price seemed defensive, like he was protecting Ward. I think it’s possible he knew, even if he wasn’t directly involved in the rape or death. If Ward did it and made the crime scene, anyone would have to notice the lack of blood. But I think for sure most of this falls on Ward.
The thing I wonder is how long does it take for bleeding to stop after someone is stabbed to death? Does a body produce less blood when stabbed if it’s already dead? Because so little blood is really weird.
While I am not a doctor, it just makes common sense to me that if a person is dead, his heart has stopped pumping. This would mean that blood would not be pumping out.
I am not sure whether the physical trauma to the heart from the stabbing would have obliterated any evidence of a heart attack or other sudden heart stoppage.
It has been suggested by the doctors called at trial that an effect known as cardiac tamponade combined with Robert’s body position (lying on a bed) lessened the amount of blood shed. There still seems to be blood that is not accounted for, although it may have been the result of the hospital’s use of chest tubes to siphon off the blood.