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260: The Unsolved Murder of Robert Wone | USA

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 7 June 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On August 2, 2006, Washington D.C. attorney Robert Eric Wone was stabbed to death inside the Dupont Circle townhouse of his college friend Joseph Price. Three housemates – Price, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward – were home at the time. Evidence suggested the crime scene had been staged, and that Wone had been drugged and sexually assaulted before his death. All three men were acquitted of obstruction of justice charges in 2010. A civil wrongful death suit was settled in 2011. No one has ever been charged with Wone's murder. The case remains unsolved.

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Resources
Web
WhoMurderedRobertWone.com
Robert Wone Murder Mystery 
Robert Wone
Wikipedia
Articles
Robert Wone: Life, Death, and Love
A Murder Mystery on Swann Street
Tribe Family Remembers Robert Wone '96

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
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0:00.0

The last words Robert Wohn ever said to his wife were, I love you.

0:06.6

It was 9.30 on the evening of Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006.

0:10.9

Robert had called Kathy from his cell phone to let her know he was heading back to his new office on M. Street and downtown Washington, D.C.

0:18.3

He was only a month into his exciting new role as General Counsel for Radio Free

0:22.2

Asia, and he wanted to introduce himself to the night shift staff, the radio journalist who

0:27.1

broadcast into China, North Korea, and beyond. It was the kind of thoughtful gesture that defined

0:33.5

him. Rather than make the long trip home to Oakton, Virginia, late at night on the

0:38.4

metro, Robert had arranged days earlier to stay over with an old friend, who lived just one

0:43.3

mile from the office. It made practical sense. It was logical. It was safe. But, by 1224 in the

0:52.3

morning, 32-year-old Robert Eric Wohn was dead.

0:57.2

He had been stabbed three times in the chest, and the questions that immediately surrounded

1:02.0

his death have never been answered.

1:04.3

Not fully.

1:05.8

Not honestly.

1:07.5

What happened inside the townhouse at 15 O'Night Swan Street Northwest in Washington's DuPont Circle neighborhood on that warmogous night remains one of the most confounding, unsolved murders in the history of the American capital.

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