It has been almost a year since Democratic National
Committee staffer Seth Rich was murdered in the nation's capital. There
have been no solid answers about why he was killed until now.
Rich was shot and killed last July in Northwest
D.C and police have suggested the killing in the District's
Bloomingdale neighborhood was a botched robbery. However, online conspiracy
theories have tied the murder to Rich's work at the DNC.
Just two months shy of the
one-year anniversary of Rich's death new information has come to light. There
is new information that could prove the conspiracy theorists right.
Rod Wheeler, a private investigator
hired by the Rich family, suggests there is tangible evidence on Rich's laptop that
confirms he was communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death.
Now, questions have
been raised on why DC. police, the lead agency on this murder investigation for
the past ten months, have insisted this was a robbery gone bad when there
appears to be no evidence to suggest that.
Wheeler, a former D.C. police homicide
detective, is running a parallel investigation into Rich’s murder. He said he
believes there is a cover-up and the police department has been told to back
down from the investigation.
"The police department nor the FBI
have been forthcoming,” said Wheeler. “They haven't been cooperating at all. I
believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I
believe is either at the police department or either at the FBI. I have been
told both.”
When
we asked Wheeler if his sources have told him there is information that links
Rich to Wikileaks, he said, “Absolutely. Yeah. That's confirmed."
Wheeler said, "I have a source
inside the police department that has looked at me straight in the eye and
said, ‘Rod, we were told to stand down on this case and I can’t share any
information with you.’ Now, that is highly unusual for a murder investigation,
especially from a police department. Again, I don’t think it comes from the
chief’s office, but I do believe there is a correlation between the mayor's
office and the DNC and that is the information that will come out.
A federal investigator who reviewed an FBI forensic
report -- generated within 96 hours after DNC staffer Seth Rich's murder --
detailing the contents Rich’s computer said he made contact with WikiLeaks
through Gavin MacFadyen, a now-deceased American investigative reporter, documentary
filmmaker, and director of WikiLeaks who was living in London at the time.
“I have seen and read the emails
between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks,” the federal investigator said,
confirming the MacFadyen connection. He said the emails are in possession of
the FBI, while the stalled case is in the hands of the Washington Police
Department.
The revelation is consistent with
the findings of Rod Wheeler, a former DC homicide detective and Fox News
contributor and whose private investigation firm was hired by a third party on
behalf of Rich’s family to probe the case. Rich was shot from behind in the wee
hours, but was not robbed.
The federal investigator, who requested anonymity,
said 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments between Democratic National Committee
leaders, spanning from January 2015 through late May 2016, were transferred
from Rich to MacFadyen before May 21.
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