Who Killed Robert Wone? | TV Review
Peacock released a two-part documentary about the still unsolved murder of Robert Wone.
On August 2, 2006 a 911 call was made from a D.C. home to report a home intrusion and stabbing. The victim was 32-year-old lawyer, Robert Wone. He had spent the night at a friend’s house after working late; the people who lived in the home were Victor Zaborsky, Joe Price and Dylan Ward. At the time Victor, Joe and Dylan were involved in a polyamorous relationship together, which is a fact that normally wouldn’t be a topic of discussion but it does unfortunately come up throughout this case. The documentary gets straight to the point, Robert Wone had been stabbed to death and the limited amount of blood at the crime scene made the detectives handling the case immediately suspicious.
The documentary provides not only a clear timeline of the crime but also of everything that followed afterwards. It thoroughly addresses some of the issues that may have caused this case to remain unsolved. For example, there were mistakes that were made when initially trying to find any evidence of blood that had been cleaned up. They didn’t administer the solution properly in the rooms that they were testing, so unfortunately the test resulted in no new findings. Add on to that, the detectives were extremely homophobic during their initial questioning of Victor, Joe and Dylan. Sure the prosecutor excuses the questioning claiming that it was a facade, he explains that the detectives were just trying to rile up the men enough that they would eventually confess. It’s a disappointing and frustrating fact of this case that could possibly cloud any of the other very real evidence against the men.
This documentary gets a lot of things right; they present the facts in a clear way, they speak to people from the defense’s side as well as the prosecution and they make sure to center Robert Wone and his life while telling his story. One criticism I would have, which is one I have about most true crime content: we don’t need reenactment scenes. I don’t need to see a scene where an actor is laying naked on a metal table being examined to understand that Robert Wone was dead. I think when using reenactment scenes we can confuse this content with a form of entertainment. If we’re being told a story about a true crime that has occurred, it should be informative and a dramatic reenactment of any of the things that happened during this crime is definitely not needed.
As previously stated, this is still an unsolved case. There has never been enough evidence to convict any of the men. I know that there’s a lot of commentary about the importance of true crime content (a lot of commentary coming directly from this site) and I have to say, I think this content is necessary when it comes to unsolved cases. to be clear, this content is necessary when it comes in this form: a documentary that centers the victim, his family and the need for justice in their case. What if this finally pushes someone to admit to something or to bring forth new evidence? Robert Wone was a human being deserving of a life and his case needs to be solved, this documentary helps amplify this case in a way that could possibly bring forth more answers to what actually happened.
You can now watch Who Killed Robert Wone? on Peacock
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