The residents of the home – Price, Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward – contended that the murder was committed by an intruder unknown to them; the trial judge found this unbelievable.

In November 2008 his widow, Katherine Wone, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Price, Zaborsky and Ward; the suit was settled on August 3, 2011, for an undisclosed sum and agreement.

[5] After graduating from Xaverian High School as valedictorian of his class, Wone attended the College of William & Mary as a James Monroe Scholar.

[12] On August 2, 2006, Wone was fatally stabbed while staying overnight at a rowhouse on Swann Street in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood, owned by Price and his domestic partner Victor Zaborsky,[13] where they lived with Dylan Ward as a polyamorous family unit.

[15] Price, Zaborsky and Ward all initially spoke with the police without attorneys, and video recordings of those interviews were shown at the subsequent conspiracy trial.

[5] According to Ward's attorney, detectives who interrogated the three housemates on the night of the killing informed them that they were the main suspects in the case, and asked many sexually charged, accusatory questions.

[20] Investigators spent more than three weeks examining the Swann Street rowhouse in detail, "removing flooring, pieces of walls, a chunk of staircase, the washing machine, even sink traps".

[15] Allegations that the area around Wone's body had been cleaned were revealed in an affidavit in support of a search warrant for Price's offices at the D.C. law firm of Arent Fox.

[20] Three months after Wone's death, Price's brother Michael and an accomplice named Phelps Collins burgled the Swann Street rowhouse; they took more than $7,000 of electronic equipment.

[22] In October 2008, an obstruction of justice charge was filed against Ward, who had since moved to Miami-Dade County, Florida, and was living in a home owned by Price.

[3] During the same hearing, the electronic monitoring and curfew restrictions for the three defendants were ended and prosecutors announced the possibility that charges related to tampering with evidence could be filed in the future.

[3][27] The affidavit filed by authorities supporting the arrest warrant for Ward showed that investigators had concluded the men were not telling the truth about what happened.

[28] Lawyers for the three accused men have called the affidavit "speculation, innuendo, assumptions, and irrelevant inflammatory comments" and maintain their clients' innocence.

"[32] Previously, a court filing indicated that the government intended to release a personal profile that Price allegedly used on ALT.com, "a sexually oriented web site specializing in S&M practices.”[32] Formal defense in the conspiracy case began on June 17, 2010, and concluded without any of the defendants testifying.

[14] Leibovitz, in explaining her ruling for almost an hour from the bench, stated that she personally believed that the men knew who killed Wone, but was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that they committed the offenses with which they were charged.

[14] On November 25, 2008, Wone's widow filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Price, Zaborsky and Ward, largely based on the police affidavit.

[22] A story aired by local station WTTG in March 2009 highlighted a website cataloging the investigative efforts of "four amateur sleuths who live in the neighborhood".

On October 22, 2011, family and friends gathered at Barksdale Field at the College of William & Mary to dedicate two benches and two Chinese pistache trees in Wone's memory.