D.C. detectives were still investigating inside the townhouse where a D.C. lawyer was murdered two weeks ago because their case will be built around physical evidence rather than the statements of the three roommates who were home that night, the head of the violent crimes branch said Tuesday.
FBI experts and behavioral specialists were still inside the house at 1509 Swann St. NW Tuesday collecting evidence, examining blood-splatter patterns and recreating the scene in the Aug. 2 stabbing death of Robert Wone, 32, according to Capt. C.V. Morris.
Wone, general counsel for Radio Free Asia, was staying at the house of his friend Joseph Price, a partner with the law firm Arent Fox, the night Wone was stabbed three times in the chest with a butcher knife, police said.
The roommates told police they were asleep in other parts of the house when Wone was attacked, Morris said.
One of the men told police that an intruder broke in through the backdoor, according to the affidavit.
But police have found no sign of forced entry, and there was nothing out of place or stolen, police said.
Wone was stabbed with a butcher knife that belonged to a set of matching knives in the kitchen of the house, according to police affidavit. The knife was found on a table next to Wone in what appeared to be the guest bedroom, Morris said. The crime scene had been tampered with, and the area where the victim’s body was located had been cleaned, according to the affidavit.
Police searched Price’s Connecticut Avenue law office last week, according to Morris.
Price’s attorney did not return repeated phone calls Tuesday.
