Fact Check: What's the Real Story on Seth Rich?
By Alice B. Lloyd
May 24, 2017
Online conspiracy theories hit the mainstream media last week and metastasized.
Ten months after his death, reports continue to circulate concerning the murder of Seth Rich, a 27-year-old data analyst for the Democratic National Committee. Seth Conrad Rich died hours after what police investigators (who are still working on the case) have long said was likely an attempted robbery. Online conspiracy theorists and cable news commentators, on the other hand, claim that Rich was a WikiLeaks informant and insinuate that he was killed for political reasons.
These theories began with insinuations from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who offered a $20,000 reward for information about Rich's murder last August and suggested that Rich may have been a martyr to WikiLeaks' mission and the source of leaked DNC emails. But the theories were fueled by other parties, too. Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman—who's worked with the Rich family, canvassing their Northwest D.C. neighborhood for leads, and is offering a $105,000 reward—has said that he believes the Russian government may be to blame.
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