2020 Declassified Update:

Original article:

Unless he's in witness protection or hidden away, he's dead.

That dead 27-year-old Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich had contact with Wikileaks, according to a private investigator.

The P.I. Rod Wheeler says his FBI source found evidence of Rich's communication with Wikileaks.

Update:
FBI was probably intercepting Wikileaks communications since 2012. So Seth Rich may have been a fake-out to forward intercepted (now laundered) leaks to avoid arousing whistleblower suspicion.

Ed Butowsky: "Seth Rich’s Father Confirmed His Son Was the Wikileaks Leaker"

Rich's family member (or a DNC representative) complains now that Wheeler's contract bars him from speaking to the press without their authorization. Nonetheless, Rod Wheeler divulged that he was not allowed to see the autopsy report. How often does that happen in a murder investigation? "It doesn't happen. I mean.... you're gonna learn so much about the victim." Wheeler said, "The autopsy report, to a detective, is the Bible."

Rod Wheeler, PI, with Crowdsource the Truth

Wheeler tried to explore possible links to the DNC's "Awan Brothers" spy ring but was shut down.

[Rod Wheeler Explains Fox Lawsuit; Claims Seth Rich's Brother Blocked WikiLeaks Inquiries]

[Seth Rich named in new DNC Fraud Lawsuit]

Why keep secrets? Why wouldn't family want help finding the killers, especially a year later? Why was his brother giggling right after his murder?

NOVEMBER UPDATE: Wikileaks & Trump Jr's Epic Trolling:

Officials are corrupt; there's no public PROOF of death!

[July 2017 Update: Still No Real Investigation]

[Did DNC Head's Brother Bury the Case?]

[Who had actual administrative access to DNC/DCCC material that was leaked?

Yarid Tameen, and Rajeev Chopra.
Podesta emails were possibly leaked by Kucinich & Flynn]

[Russians warned that Alpha Jalloh might assassinate a DNC employee]

“I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and Wikileaks,” an anonymous federal investigator told Fox News. How? Hillary Clinton may have had her friends in the FBI search Rich's laptop; also, it's not unusual for police to employ FBI for forensics of electronic devices. Fox now retracts their story.

Also on Fox, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich: "This young man who worked for the DNC, who apparently was assassinated.... having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments"...

Wikileaks published correspondence from the hacker Guccifer2 (Konstantin Kilimnik?
Warren Flood? Dmitri Alperovich?) who named “Seth” as his source for #DNCleak. [DNC files were not hacked, but copied by someone with access to DNC only 5 DAYS before Seth Rich was killed: the "hack" may be a Crowdstrike set-up to distract from Eric Braverman and Justin Cooper, the leakers who are still alive: see footnote*]

[Assange Tweets Video That Says Seth Rich Was Wikileaks Source]

Seems as if Guccifer 2.0 main objective to put Russian footprints into the DNC leaks!

"Ohio lawyer Bob Fitrakis confirms personal conversation with 2nd DNC leaker. If you haven't seen the #sethrichfiles you may still believe in conspiracy theories from the main stream news." - Jason Goodman [Fitrakis said the second leaker (Robyn Gritz or Mike Flynn via NSA) contacted him as soon as Seth Rich was killed. Rich was slated as a witness in the lawsuit claiming Edison Exit Polls were adjusted to disguise DNC fraud.]

Kim Dotcom says Seth Rich was a source of the Democrats' leaks. Dotcom invented a way to share huge files like those Rich may have leaked. Or is the Kim.Com angle just the latest CIA "school play"? He became an FBI informant two years ago, apparently, and seems posed to plant a version of what Seth Rich leaked that is less incriminating to Clinton and the DNC.

[Democrats' ISI Spies "Awan Brothers" had access to DNC emails]

Kim Dotcom will conditionally testify to US authorities

Wikileaks "Podesta Emails" and "DNC Leak" proved Bernie Sanders voters were cheated of fair primaries and defrauded of about $228M in donations. Hours after Seth Rich's murder, many news outlets (including CNN) reported that there were "rumors" that Bernie would endorse Hillary at a joint rally in two days. Like clockwork, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton in a bizarre betrayal of his donors and his decades-long political stances.

Understandable Hearsay

Many Bernie supporters found their voter registration hacked, often preventing their voting in the 2016 Primary.

Pratt Wiley (founded Voter Expansion Project with
Seth Rich) investigated 2016 Primary rigging

"Did the Sanders campaign have a plant, or was it the other way around? Did Rich lower the firewall for 4 hours to give Uretsky a chance to swipe [Hillary voter] files? Not only was Rich one of few people who had the ability to lower the firewall (maybe the only one), he was also one of the people who recommended the guy who knew EXACTLY when that firewall would be down."

Seth Rich worked as DNC's voter expansion data director using the NGP VAN program. He described his work as "voter protection": an "impassioned data analyst. I have an enormous interest in public service."

This meme means: Seth Rich saw suspicious data exchange

Did Seth "Feel The Bern"? Anyone who did was spurred to 100% dedication: Berners, you get me. Rich apparently supported Bernie Sanders... though most guys his age were entranced with Hillary Clinton. /Sarcasm/.

Reddit just censored proof that Seth Rich was a BernieBro.

Uretsky was suspected of being a Clinton plant in Bernie's IT team;
Josh Uretsky, according to Bernie Sanders, was recommended by Seth Rich.

"His motto was, ‘Go big, go bold or go home’” -- Joel Rich

Rich was shot twice in the back near his home at about 4:19 AM on July 10. The bartender Joe Capone at Lou's City Bar implied he spoke with Seth the last time at 1:40 AM. It was actually Bernard (Brendan?) Warren, a part-time manager, on duty that night.

You may recognize Joe Capone from this ad for the mayor of DC. Incidentally, Joe Capone was inside a private room at the White House four days before. Did you know that drinking establishments can be an intelligence-community collection spot or "proprietary" confidential watering hole for agents who don't want to leave traces? Spooky.

Rich attended a party with other IT workers that night but the family's investigator Rod Wheeler couldn't find out who was there. "I could never find out,” Wheeler said. “When I went back to ask other people who should have known who was at that party – these were people who were close to Seth – they told me, ‘You don’t need to know who was at that party because it had nothing to do with his death.’” Strange.

"Out of town" Joe Capone implied it
was he who offered Rich a ride
& said it was "definitely" a robbery

The bartender Capone described Rich's mood that night to media... but now says he was out of town. Odd. So Capone couldn't have offered to give Rich a ride as he'd implied on TV: Seth "was here just by himself that night, and even asked him if he wanted to stick around and get a ride home," said Capone. "He was like 'No, I'm going to go somewhere else and then I'll go home.'" Capone also claimed people talked to Rich in the ambulance.

According to the official tale, Rich is physically unaccounted for from the chat with Bernard Warren at 1:40 till an inept random mugging at 4:19 AM.

"After I heard them try to convince me that a 27 year old man during a night of bar-hopping and walking the streets calls his father at 2 in the morning to wake up Dad to slur what? I knew there was something wrong with this story."-William Petitt

Supposedly two assailants were seen on surveillance camera from the convenience store across the street but that footage was not released. DC police -- who arrived at once, wearing body cams -- contend that it was just a robbery gone wrong. Yet it appeared nothing valuable was missing; Seth Rich was conscious when found, and he spoke to his family when at the hospital.

"No bullet casings were found. The crime scene was very organized to the point of being sanitized. This would indicate careful planning on the part of the offender, control of the entry to and exit from the crime scene as well as in-depth understanding of law-enforcement investigative processes." -- Profiling Project

Nothing seemed stolen. Why did police call it a "botched robbery" instead of "successful murder"?

"A competent hit man would have taken a moment to make it look like a robbery, but this didn’t happen in this case. My guess is that the hit man had orders not to make the crime look like a robbery. I believe this was done to send a message to future would-be leakers." -- Joseph Magil

Neighbor Mark/Mike Mueller (Scott Roberts?) heard "two sharp gunshots," said he talked to cops tending to "the man in the street" (a walking Seth Rich?!) and also sells the notion that it was just a robbery scenario.

DC police proceeded essentially to refuse to cooperate with the private investigator and deny FOIA requests. Why didn't police release whatever information they had on the murder weapon? Was it a 22? 9mm? 10mm? 45? Did one bullet match an FBI gun that was reported stolen? The investigator Rod Wheeler says yes! Was it a subsonic solid-point 22 to preserve the organs for harvesting? At any rate, the "stolen weapons" story of the FBI defies logic: they use sophisticated locks and other security measures. The FBI bullet suggests an FBI hit. Did they alter the theft report to deflect guilt?

If Seth was unaware that he'd been shot, he might have been shot from a distance. Where is proof that anyone was near him?

"D.C. police officers never interviewed the bar’s staff or requested any evidence from the bar, including the bar’s surveillance video from that night, as part of an investigation into Rich’s murder."

Heather Podesta, Tony Podesta's ex-wife, sits on the Washington DC Police Foundation. Of the first officer at the scene:

"Officer Robinson responded to Seth Rich shooting. Robinson went to Georgetown U when Podesta taught there. Robinson's sister worked for HRC." -- /pol/newsforever

[ CIA ‘Dumbo’ Project Turns Off Security Cams, Corrupts Recordings ]

DNC created the entire "TrumpRussia" folly as a distraction from their proven fraud and disgruntled internal leakers. Former British ambassador Craig Murray told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off for Wikileaks; the source was a D.C. insider; hence blaming Russia for the DNC leaks was wrong and a red herring. Certainly no hack occurred, despite what Democrats contend.

Motive

"American deep state (which the corporate media is generally considered part of) wants you to shut up about Seth Rich is because it is devastating to the Russiagate narrative they’ve been pumping all their energy into since the November election." -- Caitlyn Johnstone

[ New Report Suggests Seth Rich “Hired Killer”]

Independent citizen journalist George Webb suspects Rich may have been drugged, interrogated, then dumped on the corner and shot: "They propofoled him.... he gave up everything under drugs, and they rolled him out of the car at 4:15 AM." From Michigan, his "two year" girlfriend Kelsey Mulka reportedly had a phone call at 2:03 that lasted 89 minutes. Perhaps she fell asleep, ignored long silences, is auditioning for Donna Brazile's job, and/or attributed Seth's condition to alcohol. Why does she not report where he was for those 89 minutes? Had he been at her home as his roommate Dov Friedman told TV? Investigator Matt Couch says he has proof they'd been broken up for several weeks.

At any rate, Seth's parents said he did not have a good cell signal in his apartment so he'd go outside. But his "girlfriend" implied he'd been walking home during the conversation and hung up just before getting shot.

Hillary Clinton & Seth's girlfriend K.Mulka

George Webb's conjecture: "He went to the hospital at 4:20 AM, and he talked with his parents and brother. He was sitting up and talking with them, but he was still a bit groggy from the propofol." The police report said Seth, confused, told them his old address at 1222 Euclid Ave -- much closer to Joe Capone's bar -- instead of his supposed current home, 2113 1st St. NW, near Flagler Place where he was found.

Why didn't we know which hospital he was taken to? (It was apparently Medstar.) Why no coroner's report? The attending physician that night (Dr. Sava/Ateljevich? Or Trankiem?) may have been foreign and "didn't know" the exploratory laparotomy procedure, according to a (trustworthy?) surgical resident to whom George Webb spoke. Seth Rich's death was certified at 6 AM, over 90 minutes after the shots. Maybe "the nurse anesthetist took him out at 5:59 AM" or an EMT finished him with an undetectable overdose of potassium: "Trainees are a favorite. They are gone in a couple of days. No footprints. Off to another hospital.... I can take an ex-con, train them in two weeks to hang a drip bag..." Or possibly Seth Rich had been drugged with something designed to interact with anesthesia.

"If there was the slightest possibility that Seth might be anywhere near close to death, the hospital would have had him on a heart monitor, a breathing ventilator, all sorts of drips, and literally everything a person needs to stay alive after being shot. What happened at the hospital makes no sense." -- rockguitarnow

[Aaron Rich may also work for Crowdstrike]

“They were very surprised he didn’t make it,” Aaron Rich said emergency responders told him. “He was very aware, very talkative. Yep, that was 100 percent my brother.”

Odd gossip, eh?

"So, an assassin(s) pushed a drugged Seth Rich out of their vehicle and shot him while they remained inside? That may explain the bruises and why no shell casings were recovered. They landed on the floor of the vehicle. The police were there in a little over a minute. Anyone on foot would have been caught. Who has possession of that convenience store video? Scary thought... Some operative was surveilling the scene and saw that Seth was still alive when the police came, and called ahead to someone at the hospital." -- Lane Change

“First thing I said when my Dad told me was he knew something and he was murdered."--Jonathan Rich

Daily Mail: “Rich was unusually drunk. The 27-year-old DNC staffer could normally throw back Bell’s beer for hours without a problem, but that night he was uncharacteristically unsteady on his feet as he made his way out the door.”
“That was just not Seth. I never saw him drunk or even tipsy.” (Newsweek) Was he drugged?

The more you know about the mafia running our "government," the more plausible this conjecture: maybe Seth was never taken to a real hospital, and/or the interrogation may have taken place in the ambulance. (The dubious narrative that he's a Mossad agent stems from his highschool trip to Israel where he trained for a WEEK with the military.) A Clinton-campaign aide was killed the next day in a double homicide; were the killers killed? The entire cover-up could be one of CIA's "school plays" orchestrated by friends of Hillary Clinton.

Seth was panda4progress... partly due to data analysis.
One of Seth's handles was not @pandas4bernie

George Webb explains the possible set-up: "You can do the extraction off the street in a number of ways. Usually a pretty girl needing help with a tire, etc. You have the accomplice come from behind with the chloroform or whatever they use now. You usually explode something or stage a loud fight at the end of the street. Big move covers the small move. Once in the car, you go to a garage. He never leaves the back seat. He gives up [the name of Assange's now-dead lawyer] Ratner first (but I believe they already know that from [Clinton Foundation's former employee Eric] Braverman), and then he gives up Jones and MacFayden." MacFadyen is a deceased American investigative reporter and deceased director of WikiLeaks. Does he name Shawn Lucas (DNC lawsuit server, RIP) or maybe the woman who was killed at Russell Square? "The grogginess means Seth dissipates the propyfol.... When the police withhold the details, you know something is up. I think the two shots are necessary to signal the JTTF team to come pick him up."

Russian intelligence revealed a specific name for who did the actual hit: Alpha Jalloh.

"Seth's parents said his watch (which supposedly had the strap ripped during the assault) was a Fit Bit (tracks steps taken, time, distance, etc...). Would be interesting to examine the Fit bit watch for the data it holds regarding Seth's movements that night!" -- Amalia G.

"The important thing to focus on is the metadata of his phone and laptop and the police bodycams and all the hospital cams/hospital monitors." -- George Webb

Webb also surmises, "Somebody leaked the NSA trace of Seth's calls to Ratner and Jones. I don't think he is killed just for emails. Usually, there has to be a meeting. ...It is after he gives Murray the thumbdrive in the park. He is going to call somebody in London to make sure they got the stuff. Hillary doesn't care about the intermediary. She didn't know who the contact point was in London. That's what they wanted. MacFayden recruited stringers every year at his journalism camp, and their feed point was Jones. That's what CIA didn't know was the feed point."

Nethoax

Why would Seth Rich be interrogated before killed? "They need to make sure he hasn't contacted any additional people and check for a dead mans switch release."--Upside Down

"Everyone is focusing on [Seth's] emails to Wikileaks right now," Webb adds, "but it was Seth's phone call to Jones that killed him." Jones is also deceased.

...or is Seth in hiding?

Wikileaks' Assange retweeted

Wikileaks does not identify sources but offers a reward of $20,000 for information on Seth Rich's murder, ostensibly on the basis of proving their commitment "if there is any question about a source of WikiLeaks being threatened." Assange said: 'Whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks as a 27-year-old, works for the DNC who was shot in the back - murdered - just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington."

Wikileaks published an email of DNC's John Podesta: "I'm definitely for making an example of a suspected leaker whether or not we have a real basis for it."

Seth Conrad Rich

January 3, 1989 - July 10, 2016

Condolences to Seth Rich's loved ones, to all citizens nationwide, and to everyone in the world who loves democracy.

The author VC Bestor is Director of the non-profit FangedWilds.org, a project encouraging women to engage constructively with apex predators.
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Ya gotta wonder...

Seth worked for VOTER PROTECTION

Friend the day after the murder -->

'Seth's best friend, Michael Cass-Antony.... telling Crime Watch Daily he's disgusted by the reports. "All those lies that are being bandied about in the news are just that, and the reason that nobody close to him has refuted them is because there's no reason to," said Cass-Antony. "Because he spoke for himself. Because anybody who knows him knows how good of a person he was, knows how much he cared for the DNC and for where he worked and how much he believed in his cause."'