Investigators were immediately suspicious of Price, Ward and Zaborsky, the affidavit says. The men allegedly appeared calm and barely spoke to paramedics when they first arrived, according to the police report. Their behavior, one paramedic told police, made the hair on the back of his neck stand up.
Wone's body was lying in bed in a room "remarkably neat and free of disorder" and it appeared his body had been "stabbed, showered, redressed, and placed in the bed," one paramedic observed.
According to the police affidavit, the medical examiner found that Wone had recent needle marks on his neck, chest, foot and hand. He had no defensive wounds and the stab wounds were clean and "perfect," with no defects, implying that Wone was unconscious and unable to resist when he was killed, according to the police report.
The affidavit says that toxicology tests on Wone's body were negative, but that investigators did not test for various incapacitating and paralytic drugs.
A bloody knife, found on the nightstand next to Wone, which Price allegedly told police he had moved from Wone's body, was inconsistent with Wone's wounds, police say. They believe the murder weapon was more likely a knife that was allegedly missing from the kitchen.
Paramedics found little blood near Wone's body and said it appeared that someone had cleaned the area around his stab wounds and wiped down his body with a towel. The medical examiner also found evidence that Wone may have been suffocated. A police dog that detects blood later searched the house and "alerted" at the dryer and at a drain in the house's backyard, according to the affidavit.
The report says it is more likely that Wone's blood was smeared onto the knife found next to his body with a towel.
Shertler said the affidavit was "filled with a lot of speculation and innuendo."
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