Liars and Saints

Some updates on the Robert Wone case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Robert_Eric_Wone)........ - The question of consent. Many people online--on the Who Murdered Wone? site--argue that consent vs. no-consent doesn't matter here. The argument is this: Look, Wone surely did not consent to be murdered. Whether or not he was a willing participant in the sex stuff? That's useless hair-splitting. I have to disagree. Of course Wone didn't ask to be murdered, and his killers should be held accountable for having committed murder. But who could seriously believe that details do not matter? Details are everything. Details are what make life fascinating. I can see a few scenarios for Wone: (1) Wone arrives for a kinky night, the drugs go wrong, Wone is dying, Price panics, Price stages a murder (by "intruder") to cover up the drug-intake issue. This is pretty awful--but it's not *the most awful scenario imaginable* ... (2) Wone arrives with no plan for a...

My husband and I are hooked on Robert Wone. Do you know this story? A powerful, successful, married man goes to spend the night at the home of a friend. The friend is gay, and part of a thrupple. Within a couple of hours, Wone--the guest, the married man--is murdered. He is dead, stabbed. It seems clear that at least a fraction of the thrupple is responsible for the murder. There's no evidence of an intruder. At least one-third of the thrupple--Joseph Price, a well-known lawyer--makes statements that seem (possibly) self-incriminating. Also, each part of the thrupple appears freshly-showered; the murder scene seems "staged," or finessed; there's evidence to suggest that Wone has (had) been drugged, and this suggests a fairly elaborate set-up, and not a set-up that a knife-wielding intruder, operating in haste, could have been a part of. Some people feel that the Wone story is as bizarre and mysterious as the disappearance of Madeleine McCann or the death of Jo...