The family’s actions suggest they are not confident in the police investigation. They hired a private investigator, and now they are requesting the police department to release more information regarding the investigation.
The following aspects of this case seem suspicious to me:
- The police claim it was a robbery, but nothing was taken from Mr. Rich.
- Julian Assange has all but said that Seth Rich was the Wikileaks source.
- Kim Dotcom said he has evidence that Seth Rich was the source (which I don’t necessarily think is credible), but instead of asking to speak with Mr. Dotcom, or asking him to provide evidence, the police quickly put out a statement that Seth Rich’s death has nothing to do with Wikileaks.
- How can they be sure what his death was or was not related to when they have not solved the case and supposedly have no leads?
- There seems to be a concerted PR effort on behalf of liberal syndicated papers linked to the DNC. You can tell because in every single one of the articles in the NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, etc. the writers and editors painstakingly smear Julian Assange and Kim Dotcom, Sean Hannity, the private investigators, etc. But they never mention that the family spokesman, Brad Bauman, is a long time DNC PR operative. That doesn’t mean the family can’t hire him of course, but if a news organization is going to disclose the background of everyone else in the article, it’s probably a little suspicious when the only person they don’t offer full disclosure on is someone who works for the DNC.
This is my opinion, but I think the family’s anger is directed at the right-wing types like Hannity, who undoubtedly have very little interest in Seth Rich’s death, and would use it to advance their own political agenda. I think they have every right to feel that way, naturally. Nothing is worse than watching right-wing nutjobs clamor about Seth Rich in one internet post, and then talk about shooting Muslims and hanging liberal traitors in the next one.