The widow of slain D.C. attorney Robert Wone has reached a settlement with the three housemates who lived in the Dupont Circle home where Wone was fatally stabbed in 2006. Katherine Wone filed a $20 million wrongful-death suit against Joseph Price, Dylan Ward and Joseph Zaborsky in November 2008. The trio was acquitted last summer of conspiring to mislead police and covering up Robert Wone’s death.

The civil case had been scheduled to go to trial this fall. The settlement ends the years-long litigation involving Wone’s Aug. 2, 2006, death and lets both sides avoid a lengthy trial and appeals process.