When a successful young Washington, D.C. attorney stays the night at an old friend's house

after a long day at work, he's killed shortly after arrival under extremely strange circumstances.

His friends tell a shockingly unlikely story to investigators who attempts to determine the truth

in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive.

I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.

And I'm your co-host Scott.

A quick heads up about the content of this episode.

We're going to be discussing a murder in which the possibility of sexual assault is integral to and deeply entwined with the act of murder itself. So, we're going to be

discussing some sexual topics, including sexual assault as a matter of course. We'll discuss these

matters as practically and respectfully as

possible, but this case requires us to go into somewhat more detail than we usually do when it

comes to sexual assault. Robert Woon was last seen alive on August 2, 2006. He was 32 years old

at the time of his death, a young attorney who worked in the

nonprofit sector, where he excelled at the work he was passionate about. His success was no

surprise to those who knew him. From a young age, it had been obvious that he was bound to succeed

at whatever career field he put his mind to.

He'd graduated from a private high school as valedictorian of his class, and from there had gone on to the College of William and Mary,

a Virginia university where he was part of the prestigious Monroe Scholar Program.

Robert was active not only in that honor program, but also in student government, and it was through these shared activities that he made friends, such as Joe Price, another student with whom he developed a friendship that would last a lifetime.

The way you say that makes it sound like it was a friendship that would last a lifetime for one of them.

Yes, unfortunately, that did prove to be the case.

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