10. Murder of Robert Eric Wone
Wone was murdered while visiting a wealthy polyamorous family. He’d been planning the trip for weeks and was murdered within an hour and a half of getting there. The housemates claim an unknown intruder killed him, but he was killed with a knife from the house, and detectives thought it may have been a dom-sub interaction gone wrong. There was no evidence of anyone else having been in the house.
From Wikipedia:
Late on August 2, 2006, Robert Eric Wone was fatally stabbed while staying overnight at a Swann Street, NW rowhouse in Washington, D.C., owned by Joseph Price (a/k/a Joseph Anderson) and his domestic partner Victor Zaborsky, where they lived with Dylan Ward (a/k/a Dylan Thomas) in a polyamourous relationship as a family. Wone had gone to Price’s residence at approximately 10:30 PM after working late, as had been arranged days before.[6] Neighbors reported hearing a scream, later identified as Zaborsky’s, during the 11:00 PM newscast (i.e. before 11:35 PM). Zaborsky made a 9-1-1 call at 11:49 PM, and paramedics arrived five minutes later, followed by the police. Price phoned Wone’s wife, and Wone was pronounced dead at George Washington University Hospital at 12:24 AM on August 3.
Price, Zaborsky and Ward all initially spoke with the police without attorneys, and video recordings of those interviews were shown at the subsequent conspiracy trial. They denied any involvement in the death and speculated that an intruder had killed Wone. The three also denied any sexual relationship with Wone, and Wone’s family have described him as both “straight and happily married”. All three men attended Wone’s funeral, where Price served as a pallbearer. Eric Holder, who worked at that time at Covington & Burling, called Wone “a kind and gentle man” who was “killed in the most horrible of ways”.
