“Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.” Tara Adams Ragone, a close friend of both Robert and Joe Price from William and Mary days, testified last Wednesday. Her testimony was loaded and her credibility seemed solid. Herself a lawyer,…
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Henry Lee Is Back In The Swann Street Saddle
Henry Lee wants to get his eyes on the white towel When we last heard about Dr. Henry Lee, famed forensic expert for notorious defendants, now convicts, such as Scott Peterson and Phil Specter, he would be unable to test physical…
Has The Swann Street Three-Way Always Been A Two-Way Street?
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…
Craig's List
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…
Dismissive
Government Beats Back Motion to Dismiss In the latest motion filed in the Wone case, the government responded in opposition to the defense’s joint motion to dismiss counts one (conspiracy to obstruct justice) and two (obstruction of justice) of the…
Leatherheads
Why introducing the BDSM aspect is probative One of the thresholds the judge must determine is whether the value of evidence is more probative than prejudicial when deciding what evidence makes it to trial. If it is deemed probative, then it…
Waving the Bloody Shirt
What did Joe Price see that no one else did? Both the Government and defense have retained expert witnesses. At the September 11 status hearing, the defense talked about the difficulties of coordinating tests with one of theirs in California. …
The Kitchen Debate
The Smallest Part of the Defendant’s Story May Have Big Problems. Gazing into the confined black box that is 1509 Swann on August 2nd, 2006, there’s no detail too mundane that doesn’t deserve a second look. We don’t presume guilt…
Blood Sport
Durham’s statement sheds new light on blood found in Robert’s duodenum Diane Durham’s statement that the defendants found Robert on the first floor, and Gary Reals’ reporting that the body may have been moved twice, together make a compelling reason…
Judgment at Nurenberg
Nine News Now, Nine News Then… Last Thursday afternoon we got a call from Gary Nurenberg, ace reporter from DC’s CBS affiliate, WUSA-TV, channel 9. Gary was working on a piece about the Wone case and wanted to update his audience…