Breaking news today for D.C. teachers: yesterday, the D.C. Council officially ended 2 ½ years of political jostling by approving a contract with the Washington Teachers’ Union that will significantly raise teachers’ salaries, according to WaPo’s Bill Turque. The contract is said to increase the average salaries of D.C. educators from $67,000 to an estimated $81,000, and creates a pay system based on performance in the classroom rather than seniority.  This comes as a huge victory for DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee, who has a somewhat tenuous relationship with the WTU and its parent organization, the American Federation of Teachers.

In case you missed it, the infamous Robert Wone trial has come to an uneasy close. The three housemates Joe Price, Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky, who were accused of covering up the stabbing of the D.C. attorney, have been exonerated from all charges. D.C. Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz said that the prosecution was unable to provide enough evidence beyond a reasonable doubt for a conviction. The forensic teams never found the one-armed man after all. For a comprehensive history of the trial, check out Rend Smith’s coverage for City Paper.

If you saw police carrying excessively large automatic rifles in the Metro yesterday, you probably stumbled across an anti-terrorism drill. Metro Transit Police inspected trains and stations on the Red and Green lines for about four hours while staging the drill. Around 150 officers from local, state and federal levels participated. (Maybe next, Metro will work on anti-escalator outage drills.)

In other transportation news, the D.C. Council finally approved legislation to allow overhead wires for streetcars on H Street. The bill may give streetcar advocates some hope; a 120-year-old federal law banning overhead wires in the District has hindered the city's plan to provide more public transportation.

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Presented with this theory on the stand, forsenic pathologist Dr. David Richard Fowler conceded it was not beyond the realm of possibilites. But, later, he noted, "The words never and always shouldn't exist in medicine."

Earlier in the day, Fowler testified that Wone's "uniform" stabbing wounds and lack of "defense posturing" were a mystery. The evidence suggests that Wone wasn't physically reacting, not even reflexively, to a knife being plunged into his torso three times.

Prosecutors have offered that Wone could have been drugged before the stabbing, preventing him from reacting to being brutally murdered. They have pointed to needle marks found on Wone's body during an autopsy.

Defendants Joe Price, Dylan Ward, and Victor Zaborsky are on trial for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence in connection to Wone's death. Wone was spending the night at their house the night he was killed. They have long maintained that an unknown intruder broke into their home at 1509 Swann Street NW and stabbed their friend to death.

The prosecution rested its case today. Stay tuned for the defense's case.

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Maryland chief medical examiner Dr. David Richard Fowler took the stand Wednesday in the sensational trial of three Dupont Circle men accused of conspiring to cover up the 2006 murder of D.C. attorney Robert Wone.

D.C. investigators had asked Fowler to review Wone's autopsy report, x-rays and crime scene photos. The forensic pathologist, with some 6,000 autopsies under his belt, honed his expertise in Cape Town, South Africa, where "there's about eight stabbings for every gunshot case," he said.

On the stand, Fowler commented on the unusual nature of Wone's wounds, which he described as having an oddly "uniform orientation." That is, the depth and the angle of all three incisions look fairly identical. "The wound paths are almost parallel," Fowler said. Prosecutors asked whether Fowler had ever seen cuts so uniform. "Not with this degree of precision," he said.

Fowler further commented on Wone's odd lack of defensive wounds. Normally, he said, "you withdraw yourself or, alternatively, you put a part of your body in front of your vital organs." Investigators found no marks on Wone's hands or forearms to indicate any resistance to the cuts.

Defendants Joe Price, Dylan Ward, and Victor Zaborsky–each charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence in connection to Wone's death–have long maintained that an unknown intruder broke into their home at 1509 Swann Street NW and stabbed their friend Wone to death. If that's the case, prosecutors counter, then why didn't Wone react to the stranger's striking blade?

The defense has floated the theory that perhaps Wone may have suffered a cardiac tamponade, resulting in a more instantaneous death than a typical stabbing fatality.

Prosecutors asked Fowler about that specific possibility: "Does [cardiac tamponade] override reflexive movement?" Fowler replied, "No, it does not." He went to say that Wone "would have been conscious for at least 45 seconds to a minute" after the first cut.

Fowler was also asked his opinion about several needle marks found on the victim's body. Some of the marks can be explained by paramedics attempting to treat and revive Wone at the scene. But others appeared to have bruising around them, implying that Wone was alive and conscious when the needle went in. Bruises surrounding marks on Wone's ankle were indicative of such "antemortem" punctures, Fowler said. Prosecutors have suggested Wone may have been drugged prior to his stabbing, hence his non-responsiveness to the cuts.

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Police Det. Gail Russell-Brown testified on Monday about a bizarre conversation she had at the funeral of murdered D.C. attorney Robert Wone.

In short, Michael Price, a recovering boozer and brother of one of three Dupont Circle housemates now accused of conspiring to cover up Wone's murder, approached the detective after the ceremony and, basically, flipped out.

"He began hollering and cussing at me," Brown testified Monday.  When asked what Price said exactly, Brown recalled him saying, "You motherfuckers need to be out looking for the real killer, not bothering my brother!"

At the time, the detective said, she had no idea who Michael Price was. So she asked him his name. "Bitch, you don't need to know," she recalled him saying.

Prosecutors have portrayed Michael Price as the family black sheep, compared to his brother Joe Price, a successful D.C. lawyer. They have suggested, none too subtly, that Michael Price may have stabbed Wone, prompting his brother and his brother's Swann Street housemates, Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky, to cover for him. The trio stands accused of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence in connection to Wone's death. Murder charges have never been filed.

The defense insists Wone was killed by a mysterious intruder, who alighted a backyard fence, entered the house, stabbed Wone three times in his sleep, and then escaped, all without being seen by any witnesses.

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Interior designer Scott Hixson testified Monday about the night in August 2006 when he went to pick  up his Swann Street neighbors from the police station.

"Scott, I've just had the worst night of my life," Hixson recalled his former neighbor and occasional lover Joe Price saying over the phone that night. "Could you come pick us up at the police station?"

As they sat in Hixson's Mercedes, Hixson recalled Price telling him how he had tried to help his friend, Robert Wone, after finding him stabbed on a pull-out sofa in the guest room of Price's home at 1509 Swann Street NW earlier that night.

Did he say specifically how he helped? prosecutors asked Hixson.

"That he pulled the knife out of his friend," Hixson replied.

Price and his Swann Street housemates Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky are charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence in connection to Wone's mysterious murder. The three defendants have maintained than an unknown intruder broke into the home and stabbed their friend. Prosecutors accuse the housemates of cleaning up the crime scene and perhaps even substituting a second knife in place of the actual murder weapon in an attempt to confuse investigators.

Prosecutors say the men were motivated to obstruct the investigation in order to protect their unconventional family unit. On the witness stand Monday, Hixson described the housemates as having a "three-way relationship."

Prosecutors introduced Hixson as "more than a friend" to the three men. Hixson, who lived just down the street from the housemates at 1518 Swann Street NW, testified to having sexual relations with both Price and Ward on multiple occassions–albeit apparently without either knowing of his intimate relations with the other.(Neither defendant showed much visible reaction to that disclosure on Monday.)

Hixson testified to hearing a commotion between 11 p.m. and midnight on the night of Wone's murder. He looked out his window and saw one of   the housemates exit in skimpy attire. Hixson wasn't sure which housemate."They were in white bikini underwear when they opened the door," Hixson testified. He later saw Wone's body being carried out of the house, he said.

Eric Forbes

"My foray into electrical stimulation started in my early teens, where I built crude but effective electro toys using bits of copper wire, salvaged power supplies, and aluminum foil. By the time I reached 16, I had quite a few pieces of gear to experiment with, all of which had to be hidden away from family eyes."

Forbes' stimulating foray ultimately paid off. He now gets to peddle $400 machines like the ErosTek ET-302R (pictured) to like minded fetishists across the globe. He also gets to field some weird phone calls, like the one he tells City Desk that he received from the U.S. Attorney's office after authorities began investigating the circumstances behind the stabbing death of a 32-year-old D.C. lawyer named Robert Wone.

Forbes says the prosecutor who called him was "very nice" and first wanted to know if it was odd for the three suspects accused of covering up Wone's 2006 murder– Joe Price, Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward–to have owned so many sex toys. According to court records, the trio had quite a cache, one that included floggers, assorted dildos, and the ErosTek ET-302R.  (Read more: "The Secret Sex Toys of the Robert Wone Trial.")

Forbes told them that, in his experience, it was normal for fetishists to have large collections of toys, he says.

The lawyer also asked about the ErosTek. 

Prosecutors once contended that Wone was sexually assaulted the night he was murdered, and offered as proof the fact that some of Wone's own sperm was found on his body. Investigators believed that Wone had been bound and then electrocuted into ejaculating.

Forbes told him his machine couldn't do that. Though electro-ejaculation, which is sometimes used on horses, is possible, he told the attorney it would take a machine with a much higher voltage than the ErosTek.

Dylan Ward

It's one of the nagging questions I have about the otherwise uniform version of events offered up by the former Swann Street housemates in the sensational trial stemming from Wone's 2006 death, which resumes next week.

The three defendants, on trial for conspiracy, tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice, say they had no involvement in Wone's death or any subsequent cover-up. They've suggested that an intruder snuck into their house at 1509 Swann Street NW and knifed Wone in his sleep. Prosecutors accuse the trio of cleaning up the crime scene in an attempt to confuse investigators and protect their domestic partnership.

Price has said that he and Zaborsky were in bed when they heard some disturbing noises. "It was like yelling but it wasn't like...it was grunts or something," Price told police.

The sounds startled the two awake and they rushed from their third-floor bedroom toward the second-floor guest room in which Wone was sleeping. Entering the room, they were aghast to find their friend bleeding from three stab wounds to the torso.

Zaborsky went "hysterical." But Price snapped him out of it and sent him upstairs to call police. Moments later, Zaborsky returned with 911 on the line. The 911 operator suggested Zaborsky go downstairs in order to let in emergency workers, but he claims he was too scared.  Wone's attacker could still be in the house. "I'm afraid to go downstairs. Help us,"  Zaborsky told the operator.

Sometime around that time, Ward–whose bedroom was on the second floor–finally woke up. Ward told cops he wasn't awakened by earlier moans, but by the "commotion" Price and Zaborsky made when they found the victim.

When he opened his door and exited his second-floor bedroom, he spotted Zaborsky on the phone and Price trying to help Wone. Perhaps suffering from some kind of shock, Ward says he went into a nearby TV room and sat down.

Were the other two simply too freaked out to check on the third member of their domestic threesome? Perhaps upcoming proceedings will address that bit of mystery. Stay tuned to City Desk to find out.

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Waid enlisted the help of cops on the burglary beat and also asked narcotics officers to see if their sources knew anything. "I checked everybody, everybody I could think of," Waid said.

Waid further testified that he had compared fingerprints of possible burglary suspects to those found on the nightstand in the guestroom, but there were no matches.

Defendants Joe Price, Dylan Ward, and Victor Zaborsky insist that the murder was committed by an unknown intruder. The three former residents of 1509 Swann Street NW stand accused of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence in connection with Wone's killing.

When cross-examined by Ward's lawyer, David Shertler, however, the limited extent of the Waid's fingerprint analysis came out. Besides Price, Ward and Zaborsky, Waid only ordered five fingerprint comparisons.

Furthermore, Shertler's cross-examination revealed that of the five people whose fingerprints were compared to those found in the guestroom, one was Joe Price's brother, possible suspect Michael Price, and another was Michael's partner, Louis Hinton. Waid was not asked and did not specify who the remaining three sets of analyzed prints belonged to.

Pushing the fingerprint examination was just one of the many ways in which the defense teams tried to raise questions about the thoroughness of the investigation during yesterday's testimony.

In addition to using video evidence to undermine Waid's claims about the difficulty of scaling the back fence, the defense also focused on investigative shortcomings, such as not retrieving the data from Wone's BlackBerry (Waid asked the Secret Service to scan it, but they never did) and not interviewing contractors who Price said had keys to the house.

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Defense attorney Thomas Connolly turned the tables on prosecutors Thursday in the sensational trial of three Dupont Circle men accused of covering up their friend Robert Wone's mysterious 2006 murder. 

After sitting through hours of video footage of police interrogations of his client, Victor Zaborsky, and fellow defendants Joe Price and Dylan Ward, Connolly whipped out a video all his own–this one illustrating just how easy it is to scale the fence behind 1509 Swann Street NW, a feat one of the government's lead investigators had previously described as "almost impossible."

In the video, Connolly himself grabs hold of a small ledge in between the lower fence and upper level cross-hatching, pulls himself up and ultimately climbs over the tall fence. The video also shows two other men accomplish the same feat. The entire segment takes less than a minute.

Prosecutors immediately objected to Connolly's videotaped submission. Judge Lynn Leibovitz indicated she would allow it but not before jokingly asking Connolly, "Did you climb it with pork loin?" (Inside joke.) To which, the courtroom erupted in laughter.

The actual scalability of the seemingly insurmountable fence at 1509 Swann Street could aid the defense in establishing reasonable doubt. Price, Ward and Zaborsky have long maintained that an unknown intruder broke into their house via the fenced-in backyard one August night in 2006 and fatally stabbed Wone.

Prosecutors have dismissed the intruder theory as unlikely and accuse the trio of tampering with evidence and otherwise conspiring to cover up the true nature of Wone's killing.

In yet another video presented by the defense team Thursday, a couple of other guys take a different approach to scale the same fence, this time hoisting themselves over by way of a nearby shed.

The defense team additionally pointed to two reports of other alleged fence-scaling burglary attempts in the immediate neighborhood, including an incident at the very same house on Swann Street (albeit a different owner) some two years after the murder in which a thief purportedly scaled the fence, snatched a bicycle from the backyard and hopped back over the fence again.

On the witness stand, police Det. Bryan Wade confirmed the other fence-scaling reports. Upon re-examination by the prosecution, however, Wade noted that investigators had inspected the fence after the crime and found no signs of disturbed dirt or pollen that would suggest the tall wooden structure had been climbed.

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"I didn't give a shit what I touched," Joe Price told investigators as he tried to explain his state of mind upon discovering the bloodied body of longtime friend Robert Wone in a guest bedroom of his Dupont Circle home one August night back in 2006.

Price admitted to touching Wone's t-shirt and also a knife that appeared to be the murder weapon. But he denied moving the body at all beyond grabbing Wone's arm to check for a pulse. The touchy admissions came during a videotaped police interrogation the morning after Wone's murder.

Prosecutors aired the video Thursday as they continue to make their case against Price and housemates Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky, who stand accused of conspiracy, tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice in connection to Wone's killing. (Murder charges have never been filed in the case.)

The defendants have long maintained that an unknown intruder broke into their house at 1509 Swann Street NW and stabbed their friend to death. On the video, Price was adamant about making that point. "I don't have any doubts that the guy left something," he said. Price also voiced criticism about the police's handling of the investigation. "I've seen FBI agents interrogating terrorists who were more professional," he said.

Price further emphasized his belief in his housemates' innocence. "I don't have one itty bitty doubt," he said. "They couldn't spank a child."

An interrogating detective estimated that "it would be almost impossible" for an intruder to scale a fence enclosing the home's backyard, as the suspects had suggested. Price, however, pointed to a car parked nearby, which he theorized that the perpetrator could have used to boost himself over the tall enclosure.

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Tara Adams Ragone

Price and his Dupont Circle housemates Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky, stand accused of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence in connection to Wone's killing.

"I hate that I'm having the questions that I'm having–but I have questions," Ragone recalled saying to Price during an Aug. 18, 2006, chat. "If the scene was tampered with," she later added, "I'd have a big problem with that."

To which, Ragone recalled Price saying, "There's a difference between tampering with a crime scene and wiping away blood because you're freaking out."

Prosecuting attorney Glenn Kirschner asked Ragone to describe another conversation, which occured four days after Wone's murder on Aug. 2, 2006. Ragone said Price was complaining about how police officers weren't processing the crime scene correctly, touching door knobs and such. Price had noted, in particular, that a glass on the kitchen counter had been overlooked entirely, she said.

Ragone also recalled Price venting about how police had so casually stopped at 7-11 en route to question him at the station that night while his friend's killer was still at large. Price and his fellow defendants have maintained that an unknown intruder broke into the house at 1509 Swann Street NW and killed their friend.

Several times during Ragone's testimony, Judge Lynn Leibovitz advised the gushing witness to slow down so the court reporter could keep up.

On cross-examination, defense attorney Bernie Grimm asked whether Ragone had been keeping up with "the blog" and other news articles on the case. Ragone said yes.

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"Don't wait up," Sarah Morgan jokingly told her housemates at 1509 Swann Street NW as she left home the night of Aug. 2, 2006, to hang out with some of her other gay friends, Tom and John.

At 5:50 a.m. the next morning, she received an urgent phone call from housemate Joe Price. He warned her not to come back to the house on Swann Street.

On the witness stand Wednesday, Morgan, who lived in the home's basement apartment, testified that she was constantly hounding the gay trouple upstairs, Price and his domestic partners Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward, to remember to lock the door.

One day that same summer, in fact, she recalled finding the home's front door slightly ajar, with a set of keys dangling from the lock. "Did you later find out it was Mr. Price who left his keys in the door?" defense attorney Bernie Grimm asked. "Yes, I did," Morgan replied.

She never moved back into the house on Swann Street. Her former housemates now stand accused of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of D.C. attorney Robert Wone.

The same night Morgan took off to hang out with Tom and John, police found Wone's body, streaked with stab wounds and puncture marks, on a pull-out sofa in an upstairs guest room. The bed covers were pulled down underneath him at a precise 45-degree angle, not unlike the meticulous way the housemates might have done it themselves–except theirs would look "tighter and crisper," Morgan testified, examining photos of the crime scene.

Her former housemates insist that an unknown intruder broke into the home and killed their friend that night. Prosecutors accuse the trio of wiping down Wone's body and perhaps substituting a second knife for the actual murder weapon in attempt to confuse investigators and cover up the true nature of the killing. Murder charges have never been filed.Morgan testified Wednesday that building contractors, as well as a local maid service, also had keys to the place. So did Price's brother, Michael Price.

When she moved into the house on Swann Street the prior summer, Morgan said Michael Price was there to help. "I had asked [Joe Price] whether Michael would have a key to the home," she testified. The other housemates, Ward and Zaborsky, had told her of Michael Price's alleged cocaine and alcohol problems, she said. Zaborsky had also mentioned that Michael Price previously had been fired from a shoe store after allegedly shoplifting on the job, she said. Joe Price assured that his brother didn't have a key.

Prosecutors have hinted none too subtly that the housemates could be covering up for Michael Price. But Michael Price has not been charged in the case.

Morgan said she later found out from Joe Price that his brother did indeed have a key. She said she wasn't pleased.

Two months after the murder, prosecutors point out that Michael Price used his key to get into the house on Swann Street and swipe electronics. Morgan said she found out about the burglary after reading all about it in the Washington Post.

The morning after the murder, Morgan testified that she received a phone call from Michael Price at around 7:30 a.m. She said he asked her for the phone number of John Nassikas, an attorney at his brother Joe Price's firm. On cross-examination by the defense, Morgan noted, however, that the lawerly colleagues were also friends and might have reason to meet socially.

Defense attorney Grimm showed her crime-scene photos from outside the house on Swann Street, specifically of a trash can, turned over, abutting a shed in the backyard, which he suggested could have been utilized to circumvent a seven-foot fence enclosing the property. Morgan agreed the haphazard manner in which the can was found seemed uncharacteristic of the usually tidy housemates.  Grimm then showed her photographs of a pair of sunglasses recovered from the roof of that shed. Morgan said the shades didn't look like the kind belonging to any of the defendants.

Morgan further testified that a Swann Street neighbor also reported a burglary that same summer by someone who entered through the alley. Morgan said she and the neighbor, Chuck Wolf, had "a very brief discussion" about the break-in.

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Bernie Grimm, an attorney for Joe Price, one of three housemates on trial for covering-up the murder of Wone, submitted the motion this morning. Michael Price is Joe Price's brother and is not on trial. Prosecutors have suggested that Michael Price may have killed Wone, prompting Joe Price and his two domestic partners, Victor Zaborsky and Dylan Ward, to get rid of evidence and concoct a story in hopes of protecting him. Wone was staying the night at the three housemates' Swann Street NW home on August 2, 2006. Sometime during the evening, he ended up dead with three stab wounds to the chest area. The housemates have stuck with the story that Wone was killed by an unknown intruder while he slept.

Prosecutors believe Michael Price could be the intruder for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that Price, who's had problems with alcohol and drug abuse, had a key to the house. The prosecution would like to call several witnesses who they believe have incriminating things to say about  Michael Price.

Grimm argued today that that the testimony being offered about Michael Price wasn't relevant and would only serve to "pollute" the courtroom. Grimm suggested that negative things said about Michael Price would reflect badly on Joe Price. "It's just simply inflammatory," he said. But Judge Lynn Leibovitz said she would allow the testimonies, since the prosecution is offering them as a means of establishing the guilt of Joe Price on conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges.

"I know the difference between Mr. Price and his brother," the judge said. Interestingly enough, attorneys for Ward and Zaborsky didn't join in on the motion. Instead, they encouraged the judge to admit the evidence and overrule Grimm's objection.

Detective Gail Russell-Brown began to testify about her encounter with Michael Price, brother of defendant Joe Price, at Wone's funeral. In court documents, the prosecution has suggested that Michael Price might be Wone's murderer, and that the three conspiracy suspects could be hiding evidence in order to protect him.

Wone's widow, Kathy Wone, earlier testified to the fact that Michael Price showed up at her husband's funeral uninvited and acting strangely. Brown might have corroborated that assertion and offered some more detail on Michael Price's suspicious behavior, but her testimony was cut short when the prosecution asked: "At some point, did you have an exchange with Michael Price?"

The defense immediately objected. Both sides approached the bench. Brown's testimony was put off so that the prosecution could address some legal points.

U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner made it known during the proceeding that incoming witnesses would testify to Michael Price offering up an unsolicited alibi during Wone's funeral in an "off-putting" way.  Stay tuned to City Desk to see if Brown makes it to the stand today.

Deedrick discovered blood spots on the knife found next to Wone's body that could have been made by a towel, he said. Prosecutors believe that Wone was stabbed with a different knife than the one recovered at the scene. They say Wone's blood was transferred to the fake murder weapon via a towel that had his blood on it.

Prosecutors have accused housemates Joe Price, Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky of conspiring to cover up Wone's murder. The three are currently on trial.

In order to establish whether the blood was dabbed or wiped on the knife with a towel, Deedrick recreated what might have happened by soaking a towel in horse blood and then wiping it on a knife. The patterns that showed up were similar to the patterns found on the recovered knife. In another experiment, he stabbed a pork loin with a t-shirt draped over it in order to examine the sort of fibers left on the blade. The t-shirted loin was meant to stand-in for Wone on the night of the murder.  The fibers recovered from the test knife were different from those left on the supposed murder weapon.

Schertler didn't like the idea of the pork loin or the equine blood. "Are you familiar with the difference between human blood and horse blood?" Shertler asked. Deedrick admitted he wasn't. Schertler didn't explain what the difference was.

Schertler also didn't like the fact that Deedrick had performed his horse blood experiment only once. That's not the way scientific experiments work, he contended. "You do it over and over and over again in order to get the same result, right?" Deedrick replied that he hadn't seen the need to perform the experiment more than "one time."

As to the pork loin experiment, Schertler wanted to know why Deedrick had picked pork loin to represent Wone's body. Deedrick pointed to various sources that backed up the practice of using pork meat as a stand-in for human flesh. Challenging whether the loin was comparable to a human body filled with blood, Schertler asked if the loin Deedrick used was juicy. "You get what you get when you go to Safeway," replied Deedrick.