Criminal Justice
Man Charged With Obstruction in D.C. Lawyer’s Unsolved 2006 Murder
Posted Oct 31, 2008, 10:56 am CST
By Martha Neil
A housemate of the friends with whom a Northern Virginia attorney was staying when he was stabbed to death in 2006 at their Dupont Circle townhome in Washington, D.C., has been arrested and charged with obstruction.
Dylan Ward, who moved to Miami after the Aug. 2, 2006 slaying, was arrested Wednesday in Florida and charged with obstruction in connection with the unsolved murder of Robert Wone, according to Fox News. A hearing is scheduled today in federal court in Dade County.
Wone, 32, who was general counsel for Radio Free Asia and lived in Northern Virginia, was spending the night with friends when he was slain, because he had been working late in the city, according to the Washington Post.
"Police have said that the crime scene was altered and cleaned and that they did not get full cooperation from the three men known to have been in the house at the time of the killing," who included an attorney and college classmate of Wone's, the newspaper reports.
However, the men reportedly have said they did cooperate, and "the prosecution's theory in this case is fantasy," Ward's attorney, Dave Schertler, told Fox 5 on Thursday. "My client is completely innocent, has not committed any crime, and we are prepared to take this to trial and prove his innocence," he says.
Additional coverage:
ABC 7 News: "Arrest Made in Cold Case Murder of Attorney in Dupont Circle"
ABAJournal.com: "Unsolved Lawyer Murder Probed"
ABAJournal.com: "Widow Seeks Info on Slain Lawyer-Husband"