Month: January 2011

Tool Box

Judge Brook Hedge’s Lasting Legacy? Our jobs just got a little bit easier.  In fact, anyone in DC or beyond who wants to track the paper chase of either Superior Court criminal or civil cases, has a better tool to…

To Tell the Truth

Is long term memory really just a figment of the imagination? Diane Ward was the only family member of the defendants to take the stand during the criminal trial last summer.  Dylan’s mother testified on the provenance of the “missing…

Where’s Ward-o?

Could A Black-Out Spell Out Dylan Ward’s Where Abouts? During the 2004 Presidential Campaign, CBS News ran a story critical of President George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard. Right-leaning political bloggers immediately raised questions about the authenticity…

HomicideWatch

Life and Death on the DC Streets  UPDATED:  Annys Shin’s WaPo piece on HomicideWatch can be found here. There’s a new murder site on the Interwebs:  A DC specific destination that goes on beyond the simple charge that wmrw has. Whereas…

La Davina

Was there a Cult of Callas on Swann Street? With the weather dipping into arctic freezing terrority this winter, it also seems that information about the Robert Wone case is moving at a glacial pace.  While we wait for movement, we thought…

The Philadelphia Story

When Is A Cold Case “Cold”? It’s been more than four years since Robert Wone was found stabbed at 1509 Swann Street on August 2nd, 2006.   Nobody has ever been charged with his murder.   The evidentiary trail has run dry,…

Ranking Rankin

Reporting Last Week’s News Today  It’s official. Judge Michael Rankin is to inherit the caseload of retiring Judge Brook Hedge.  And along with that comes the Wone case and October 2011 trial.  As it appears on the DC Superior Court website:…

Gray Days

Rhee’s out, Lanier’s in…and Still Working on the Wone Case.   Ask her for help this week. Newly installed mayor Vincent Gray got a somewhat incongruous inaugural gift this week from the man he’s replacing.  Namely: Washington’s homicide rate for 2010…

In The Beginning

First Night(s) Over the past three years we’ve heard from a number of people who lived on Swann Street at the time of Robert’s murder.  Many of them still do. Almost all vividly remember the night of August 2, 2006 and…