A wife's grief

Joseph Price called Katherine Wone around midnight on August 2, 2006, to tell her that her husband had been stabbed and was on his way to George Washington University Hospital. Robert Wone was pronounced dead before his wife and his parents reached the hospital. William and Aimee Won (they use a different spelling of their surname) had just moved from Brooklyn (where his grandparents had immigrated from China) to be closer to their son and his new wife.

Katherine Wone's parents and brother immigrated from Korea in 1971, a few years before she was born. Her father worked in a dental lab; her mother was a nurse. She attended the University of Illinois, then studied law at St. Louis University. She met her future husband when she called to invite him to be part of an American Bar Association panel in Chicago. Just a few weeks after that conference, she flew to Washington to spend Valentine's Day with him.

They called each other every evening during the early stages of their long-distance relationship, and they visited each other a few times each month. Once they flew to China with his parents. He proposed when they landed back in Chicagohe'd even arranged to have flowers and the ring waiting for her at her apartment. After they got married she joined him back east, working first for the Bureau of National Affairs, then as a health care consultant. She had lupus, so they were looking into adoption when Robert Wone was murdered.

Katherine Wone was crushed. She couldn't face dealing with bills, and she could barely get out of bed. She saw a grief counselor and was eventually able to get back to work, returning part-time to the American Health Lawyers Association. She had the support of Wone's family, friends and colleagues while she tried to cope with her loss.

Some of them suspected that Price, Ward and Zaborsky were hiding something.