Doc Director Talks Story (EXCLUSIVE)
A new Peacock sequence appears on the murder of DC lawyer Robert Wone. Where are Price, Zaborsky, and Ward now? They were once indicted for this crime.
The still-unsolved 2006 homicide of DC attorney Robert Wone is the topic of a brand new Peacock two-part documentary. Who Killed Robert Wone? asks the obvious query whilst taking viewers down a trail that has more twists and turns than it has solutions.
On Aug. 2, 2006, Wone used to be spending the night time at the townhouse of three friends to be able to steer clear of the long pressure again to Virginia where he lived along with his spouse Katherine.
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The space used to be owned through Wone's school good friend Joseph Price and his partner Victor Zaborsky. They also lived with Dylan Ward, who was once friends with Wone as smartly. Soon, police were responding to a frantic 911 name made via Zaborsky. Wone was once dead from obvious stab wounds and nobody knew what came about.
Distractify spoke with Jared P. Scott, director and executive producer of Who Killed Robert Wone?, about what it was like revisiting this story.
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Were Price, Zaborsky, and Ward arrested for the murder of Robert Wone?
According to the Washington Blade, which ran two pieces a decade after Wone's unsolved homicide passed off, "police and prosecutors obtained an indictment against the three men on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice and evidence tampering in connection with the Wone murder," two years into an investigation of his loss of life.
Due to a loss of sufficient evidence, formal charges have been by no means introduced in opposition to them for the homicide of Robert Wone.
On June 29, 2010 the three males have been officially cleared of the one charges attaching them to the killing of Wone. While being puzzled about the evening of the homicide, Price, Zaborsky, and Ward at all times claimed it should have been an intruder. "D.C. Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz said prosecutors proved that the murder could not have been committed by an intruder but failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the men engaged in evidence tampering or obstruction of justice," in line with the Washington Blade.
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Their last felony issue in conjunction with this story came in the form of Wone's widow Kathy Wone who "filed a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit against them the previous year, charging them with being responsible for her husband’s death." This would later be settled out of court for an undisclosed monetary quantity.
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Members of the staff in the back of the documentary reached out to Kathy but she chose now not to participate.
"I came to learn pretty quickly that Kathy just thought it wasn't right for her," Jared informed us. "I don't want to put any words into her mouth but ... Kathy was a very private person, just very reserved. She's not one to put herself out there.
Jared was also careful not to revictimize any of Wone's family via the documentary itself.
"We need to be careful about that as storytellers too. You don't need the widow or the friends and family to need to relive that trauma," he said.
What the series hoped to accomplish, and did, was telegraphing the warmth and caring person Wone was via interviews with his closest friends.
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The Robert Wone documentary also touches on bigotry exhibited by police.
Video interrogations of Zaborsky, Price, and Ward by police are openly homophobic. The three men describe their relationship as being part of a "circle of relatives" which through a 2023 lens could be considered polyamorous, though the working theory is Price was in a relationship with Zaborksy and Ward but those two were not intimate with each other. Multiple times authorities incredulously asked why Wone, a straight married man, would crash in the home of three gay men with whom he was friends.
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It was also later discovered that Price, Zaborsky, and Ward were heavily involved in BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism) once authorities confiscated several toys in their residence. Police used this as fuel to add to their hateful fire.
Jared was particularly sensitive to the BDSM community in the documentary and was committed to not shaming them.
"I am hoping that we have been in a position to navigate that with grace because that was once that used to be a concern for me," he stated.
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Where are Price, Zaborsky, and Ward now?
The Washington Blade reported that as of August 2016, "property data with the Miami-Dade County, Fla., Property Appraiser show that a Joseph R. Price and Victor J. Zaborsky own a space in Miami Shores, a Miami suburb." In 2006, not long after Wone's death, the website WhoMurderedRobertWone.com appeared and has closely followed this case ever since, sporadically adding updates as they arise.
"Price, Zaborsky, and Ward have lived in or hung out within the Miami Shores space at various instances since 2008," via WhoMurderedRobertWone.com. Various site postings and public information point out that Price and Ward are now going by means of pseudonyms, regardless that neither seem to have made those changes legally.
The documentary ends with a name card confirming that Price and Zaborsky are in Florida while Ward has since gotten married. They have never publicly spoken about that evening once more. In lieu of their cooperation, the aforementioned movies in their interrogations were used in the series.
Who Killed Robert Wone? is lately streaming on Peacock.
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