9 years ago, Seth Rich was murdered; Research group blames DOJ for ‘cold case’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 11, 2025 Real World News

Seth Rich, a staffer at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was murdered on July 10, 2016 while making his way home from a night out in Washington, DC.

The murder of Seth Rich remains unsolved.

The 27-year-old was speaking to his girlfriend on the phone when shots were heard. The killer or killers have not been found. Police have long insisted Rich was the victim of a botched robbery.

Private investigators have claimed there is evidence that Rich was the source WikiLeaks used to obtain DNC emails, which were copied on July 5, 2016.

Related: Report: DNC files were copied, not hacked, 5 days before murder of Seth Rich, July 11, 2017

The leaked DNC emails detailed efforts by the committee to rig the 2016 Democrat primary in favor of Hillary Clinton.

Garrett Ziegler, founder of the Marco Polo research group, blames the Department of Justice, specifically the DC U.S. Attorney’s office for allowing the Rich case to go “cold.”

Speaking on video at the site of the murder, Ziegler said that testimony by a senior CrowdStrike official (Shawn Henry) revealed that “CrowdStrike had no data, no evidence of exfiltration — he said this under oath — of Russian hackers. There is zero evidence that the DNC was hacked by Russians.”

[Update: A CrowdStrike representative told WorldTribune.com  that Henry had “testified there was evidence that the tactics and techniques of the attack were consistent with the Russian Government and that there had been indicators of data exfiltration.”]

Henry’s testimony from Dec. 15, 2017 to the House Intelligence Committee can be viewed in full here.

“The truth about Seth Rich has never come to light because there has been no proper investigation,” he added.

Ziegler said he holds out hope that the new U.S. Attorney in DC, Jeanine Pirro, will revive the case.

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