The murder of Robert Wone remains the perfect crime. Whoever stabbed the general counsel to Radio Free Asia in the chest, pierced his aorta and stood by as he bled to death in August 2006 is still at large. It has to be the most bizarre unsolved murder in D.C. history. When police arrived around midnight at the row house on Swann Street, east of Dupont Circle, they found Wone in an upstairs bedroom, on his back on a pull-out couch with clean sheets; he was unblemished except for the three stab wounds, as if he had been freshly washed. Two of the three men who lived in the house were wearing white bath robes when they greeted cops. The third, a lawyer with Arent Fox at the time, was in his undies.
“Underwear guy,” one of the cops called him in her police report.
