The crime scene inside the posh U Street-area town house where a lawyer was found stabbed to death had been tampered with, according to apolice affidavit.
Robert Wone, 32, general counsel for Radio Free Asia, was stabbed three times in the chest with a butcher knife at 1509 Swann St. NW at about midnight Aug. 2.
Investigators determined that the “crime scene had been tampered with, including that the area where the victim’s body was located had been cleaned,” according to an affidavit for a warrant to search.
Police searched the Connecticut Avenue law office of the owner of the three-bedroom townhouse, Joseph Price, and seized his computer.
Price owns the Swann Street house with Victor Zaborsky. They live with a third man, Dylan Ward. All three were home the night of the stabbing.
One of the men told police that Wone was killed by an intruder who entered through the backdoor.
But, according to the affidavit, “There were no signs of any forced entry to the house, either through the back door or any other location. There was nothing that appeared out of place, nothing disturbed, nothing ransacked and nothing was taken”
Police said the knife used in the attack belonged to a set of matching knives in the kitchen of the house. It was found on a table next to Wone’s body.
