The podcast The Murder of Robert Wone covers a Washington, D.C. case that has never stopped being strange. In 2006, a young attorney staying overnight at the home of three friends was found stabbed to death in a guest room. The friends — a throuple living together — were the only other people in the house. The legal case that followed resulted in no murder convictions, and the question of what actually happened that night has never been answered.
Host H. Alan Scott, across eight episodes, walks through the timeline and the investigation with patience and specificity, but what makes this case particularly resonant is the way it implicates silence, loyalty, and the degree to which the queer community surrounding the defendants closed ranks in ways that complicated the pursuit of justice for Wone. It’s an eight-episode commitment that doesn’t give you a tidy ending, because there isn’t one. Available on Audible.
