Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host

Ryan Kraus coming at you once again from the depths of a very

mysterious and fascinating rabbit hole which is the brutal stabbing murder of

32-year-old Washington DC area attorney Robert Eric, on the night of August 2, 2006.

So let's get rolling on this one right away with some facts about the case at hand.

And right from the start, this one gets a little controversial and

misleading. A lot of assumptions have been made in this case and speculation runs wild.

Now to place it in context, the issue is that Robert lives in suburban

Oakton, Virginia but works in downtown DC. So in this particular night he's

decided to stay close to the office and is contacted a college buddy who resides

about one mile from there. Of course, it's not entirely clear why Robert isn't staying at home

with his wife that night, but this isn't a spontaneous thing.

He makes a plan to sleep at the upscale town home, or Rohem of Joe Price,

another successful attorney in the area.

Joe is a gay man who lives with his longtime partner of 10 years,

Victor Ziborski, in addition to a third man named Dylan Ward,

someone who was later brought into the relationship to form a variation

on a thruple, or truffle, which would be a romantic triad in which all three are sexual partners.

Now, the difference with these guys is that Joe and Victor are in a committed relationship,

while Dylan operates exclusively within a sexual relationship with Joe. So basically Joe is the dominant partner in his relationship

with Victor who is the most effeminate of the three and then Joe and Dylan are involved in the

aforementioned sexual relationship in which

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