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DNC worker Seth Conrad Rich was born on January 3, 1989, to parents Joel and Mary Rich,<ref>CBS affiliate KMTV Action 3 News, video of parents, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vLAeTN960Q</ref> but murdered 27 years later on Sunday, July 10, 2016, around 4:19 AM in the Bloomingdale neighborhood near his home, shot in the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW<ref>http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Killed-in-Northwest-DC-386316391.html</ref> at W Street in Northwest Washington DC.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/parents-dc-police-chief-appeal-for-help-in-killing-of-dnc-staffer-in-bloomingdale/2016/08/04/e65b8c94-5a69-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html</ref>  According to the police report, Rich was approached by two individuals.<ref>http://video.foxnews.com/v/5079544790001/walkthrough-of-crime-scene-where-dnc-staffer-was-murdered/?#sp=show-clips</ref>  According to Mary Rich, near the time of the murder, he had been engaged in conversation on the phone with his girlfriend when she heard some noise coming from Rich's phone. Rich told his girlfriend not to worry about it. Mary Rich concluded that "there had been a struggle" and that his hands, face, and knees were bruised <ref>http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Killed-in-Northwest-DC-386316391.html</ref>  Reportedly, detectives said that Seth had bruises on his face and knuckles.<ref>http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/d-c-police-family-of-slain-dnc-staffer-seth-rich/article_dc98d83c-c674-5136-b681-b20d930fcb0c.html</ref>  Joel Rich reported that Seth's watchband was torn.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3741754/Father-murdered-DNC-staffer-reveals-son-join-Hillary-Clinton-presidential-campaign-punching-hole-ugly-rumor-Wikileaks-source.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field</ref> The particular intersection where Rich was killed has been rated on a Crime Risk scale (ranging on a spectrum from red as less safe to green as safer) as a "yellow" area, a little to the right of center, on the safer side of the scale.<ref>http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Bloomingdale-Washington/1798/crime/</ref>  Fox News has provided a video of a "Walk Through the Crime Scene."<ref>http://video.foxnews.com/v/5079544790001/walkthrough-of-crime-scene-where-dnc-staffer-was-murdered/?#sp=show-clips</ref>

DNC worker Seth Conrad Rich was born on January 3, 1989, to parents Joel and Mary Rich,<ref>CBS affiliate KMTV Action 3 News, video of parents, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vLAeTN960Q</ref> but murdered 27 years later on Sunday, July 10, 2016, around 4:19 AM in the Bloomingdale neighborhood near his home, shot in the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW<ref>http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Killed-in-Northwest-DC-386316391.html</ref> at W Street in Northwest Washington DC.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/parents-dc-police-chief-appeal-for-help-in-killing-of-dnc-staffer-in-bloomingdale/2016/08/04/e65b8c94-5a69-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html</ref>  According to the police report, Rich was approached by two individuals.<ref>http://video.foxnews.com/v/5079544790001/walkthrough-of-crime-scene-where-dnc-staffer-was-murdered/?#sp=show-clips</ref>  According to Mary Rich, near the time of the murder, he had been engaged in conversation on the phone with his girlfriend when she heard some noise coming from Rich's phone. Rich told his girlfriend not to worry about it. Mary Rich concluded that "there had been a struggle" and that his hands, face, and knees were bruised <ref>http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Killed-in-Northwest-DC-386316391.html</ref>  Reportedly, detectives said that Seth had bruises on his face and knuckles.<ref>http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/d-c-police-family-of-slain-dnc-staffer-seth-rich/article_dc98d83c-c674-5136-b681-b20d930fcb0c.html</ref>  Joel Rich reported that Seth's watchband was torn.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3741754/Father-murdered-DNC-staffer-reveals-son-join-Hillary-Clinton-presidential-campaign-punching-hole-ugly-rumor-Wikileaks-source.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field</ref> The particular intersection where Rich was killed has been rated on a Crime Risk scale (ranging on a spectrum from red as less safe to green as safer) as a "yellow" area, a little to the right of center, on the safer side of the scale.<ref>http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Bloomingdale-Washington/1798/crime/</ref>  Fox News has provided a video of a "Walk Through the Crime Scene."<ref>http://video.foxnews.com/v/5079544790001/walkthrough-of-crime-scene-where-dnc-staffer-was-murdered/?#sp=show-clips</ref>

Rich was survived by an older brother named Aaron.<ref>http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/year-old-creighton-grad-dnc-staffer-shot-dead-in-d/article_023644eb-87b4-5c36-be7b-3edf96d02ebe.html</ref>  Rich had been raised in Omaha, Nebraska, belonging to a family said to be "a pillar of the Jewish community in Omaha."  His father had been sometime president of the Beth El Synagogue, of which his grandfather had been a founding member. <ref>http://forward.com/news/344698/promising-jewish-democratic-national-committee-staffer-shot-dead-on-own-was/</ref> He had been a student at the Friedel Jewish Academy and Central High School.  Later while a student at Creighton University, he had worked with the US Census Bureau as well as the Nebraska Democratic Party, interning for Senator Ben Nelson.  After graduating from Ceighton in 2011,<ref>http://www.omaha.com/obits/rich-seth-c/article_957ece9b-67c3-53d6-b88b-0c78d813b299.html</ref> Rich had obtained employment by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (a polling company) and relocated to Washington, DC.  In Washington DC, Rich found employment with the Democratic National Committee (DNC), where he developed a computer program that let people find their polling places by entering their names.

Rich was survived by an older brother named Aaron.<ref>http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/year-old-creighton-grad-dnc-staffer-shot-dead-in-d/article_023644eb-87b4-5c36-be7b-3edf96d02ebe.html</ref>  Rich had been raised in Omaha, Nebraska, belonging to a family said to be "a pillar of the Jewish community in Omaha."  His father had been sometime president of the Beth El Synagogue, of which his grandfather had been a founding member.<ref>http://forward.com/news/344698/promising-jewish-democratic-national-committee-staffer-shot-dead-on-own-was/</ref> He had been a student at the Friedel Jewish Academy and Central High School.  Later while a student at Creighton University, he had worked with the US Census Bureau as well as the Nebraska Democratic Party, interning for Senator Ben Nelson.  After graduating from Ceighton in 2011,<ref>http://www.omaha.com/obits/rich-seth-c/article_957ece9b-67c3-53d6-b88b-0c78d813b299.html</ref> Rich had obtained employment by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (a polling company) and relocated to Washington, DC.  In Washington DC, Rich found employment with the Democratic National Committee (DNC), where he developed a computer program that let people find their polling places by entering their names.

There in Washington DC, while speaking on his cell phone with his girl friend, Kelsey Mulka,<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3741754/Father-murdered-DNC-staffer-reveals-son-join-Hillary-Clinton-presidential-campaign-punching-hole-ugly-rumor-Wikileaks-source.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field</ref> he was gunned down from behind,<ref>http://nypost.com/2016/08/10/julian-assange-suggests-dnc-staffer-was-shot-dead-for-being-a-source/</ref> reportedly shot twice in the head,<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/10/wikileaks-offers-20000-reward-over-murder-of-democrat-staffer-se/</ref> but neither his wallet nor his watch were taken, causing doubt that the motive was robbery.<ref> http://www.jewishomaha.org/jewish-press/2016/seth-conrad-rich/; https://www.facebook.com/kmulka1/friends?pnref=lhc; https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelseymulka; http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3458886/posts?q=1&;page=1; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3458886/posts?page=97; https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks/comments/4w55x8/was_seth_conrad_rich_murdered_for_exposing/; https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/84988403.</ref>  However, the (tabloid style) ''Daily Mail Online'' says that the coroner's office confirmed the cause of death as gunshots to the torso. The Daily Mail also claims that prior to his death Rich had been at  Lou's City Bar until around 1:45 AM where he was inebriated, but refused the offer of a ride home.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3743880/Alone-bar-guzzling-beer-depressed-trouble-girlfriend-newly-hired-Clinton-campaign-staffer-Seth-Rich-refused-ride-home-staggered-shocking-death.html</ref>  It is a walk of about 1.7 miles from Lou's City Bar to the corner where Rich was shot at about 4:19 AM with Rich's activities between 1:45 and 4:19 still under investigation as of August 18, 2016.<ref>https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lou's+City+Bar,+1400+Irving+St+NW,+Washington,+DC+20010/W+Street+Northwest+%26+Flagler+Place+Northwest,+Washington,+DC+20001/@38.9228817,-77.0297126,15z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7c820291dea95:0xbe9e62cf68f85237!2m2!1d-77.0337839!2d38.9284711!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b7fed4b66c0d:0x78ae7cf6246fbdcc!2m2!1d-77.013541!2d38.919177</ref>  In contrast with the inebriation claims of the Daily Mail, witnesses at Lou's City Bar said that Rich had a couple drinks, which would likely have lost much of their effect in two hours.  The general manager of Lou's bar stated that Rich was a "couple-of beers kind of guy," and that "despondent and drunk" was "just not Seth.  I never saw him drunk or even tipsy."<ref>http://www.newsweek.com/seth-rich-murder-dnc-hack-julian-assange-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-492084</ref>  The walk home time has been estimated at 30 minutes, but whether or not Rich went to a second bar before heading towards home, remains to be shown.<ref>http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/193631067-story</ref>  Fox News has presented a video of Lou's bar and the neighborhood of that bar, also of the nearby Wonderland Ballroom bar, and what the possibly walk-for-home route looks like.<ref>http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/193631067-story</ref> (Sales and service of liquor Saturday-Sunday is limited to no later than 3AM in Washington DC, by law.<ref>http://abra.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/abra/publication/attachments/DCOfficialCodeTitle%2025DCMRTitle23_0.pdf</ref> The Wonderland Ballroom bar closes at 3AM early Sunday morning per schedule posted on internet on August 21, 2016.)<ref>http://www.thewonderlandballroom.com/hours-and-location/</ref>

There in Washington DC, while speaking on his cell phone with his girl friend, Kelsey Mulka,<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3741754/Father-murdered-DNC-staffer-reveals-son-join-Hillary-Clinton-presidential-campaign-punching-hole-ugly-rumor-Wikileaks-source.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field</ref> he was gunned down from behind,<ref>http://nypost.com/2016/08/10/julian-assange-suggests-dnc-staffer-was-shot-dead-for-being-a-source/</ref> reportedly shot twice in the head,<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/10/wikileaks-offers-20000-reward-over-murder-of-democrat-staffer-se/</ref> but neither his wallet nor his watch were taken, causing doubt that the motive was robbery.<ref>http://www.jewishomaha.org/jewish-press/2016/seth-conrad-rich/; https://www.facebook.com/kmulka1/friends?pnref=lhc; https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelseymulka; http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3458886/posts?q=1&;page=1; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3458886/posts?page=97; https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks/comments/4w55x8/was_seth_conrad_rich_murdered_for_exposing/; https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/84988403.</ref>  However, the (tabloid style) ''Daily Mail Online'' says that the coroner's office confirmed the cause of death as gunshots to the torso. The Daily Mail also claims that prior to his death Rich had been at  Lou's City Bar until around 1:45 AM where he was inebriated, but refused the offer of a ride home.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3743880/Alone-bar-guzzling-beer-depressed-trouble-girlfriend-newly-hired-Clinton-campaign-staffer-Seth-Rich-refused-ride-home-staggered-shocking-death.html</ref>  It is a walk of about 1.7 miles from Lou's City Bar to the corner where Rich was shot at about 4:19 AM with Rich's activities between 1:45 and 4:19 still under investigation as of August 18, 2016.<ref>https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lou's+City+Bar,+1400+Irving+St+NW,+Washington,+DC+20010/W+Street+Northwest+%26+Flagler+Place+Northwest,+Washington,+DC+20001/@38.9228817,-77.0297126,15z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7c820291dea95:0xbe9e62cf68f85237!2m2!1d-77.0337839!2d38.9284711!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7b7fed4b66c0d:0x78ae7cf6246fbdcc!2m2!1d-77.013541!2d38.919177</ref>  In contrast with the inebriation claims of the Daily Mail, witnesses at Lou's City Bar said that Rich had a couple drinks, which would likely have lost much of their effect in two hours.  The general manager of Lou's bar stated that Rich was a "couple-of beers kind of guy," and that "despondent and drunk" was "just not Seth.  I never saw him drunk or even tipsy."<ref>http://www.newsweek.com/seth-rich-murder-dnc-hack-julian-assange-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-492084</ref>  The walk home time has been estimated at 30 minutes, but whether or not Rich went to a second bar before heading towards home, remains to be shown.<ref>http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/193631067-story</ref>  Fox News has presented a video of Lou's bar and the neighborhood of that bar, also of the nearby Wonderland Ballroom bar, and what the possibly walk-for-home route looks like.<ref>http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/193631067-story</ref> (Sales and service of liquor Saturday-Sunday is limited to no later than 3AM in Washington DC, by law.<ref>http://abra.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/abra/publication/attachments/DCOfficialCodeTitle%2025DCMRTitle23_0.pdf</ref> The Wonderland Ballroom bar closes at 3AM early Sunday morning per schedule posted on internet on August 21, 2016.)<ref>http://www.thewonderlandballroom.com/hours-and-location/</ref>

The police were aided in finding the location of the shooting by an auditory system in Washington DC called ShotSpotter.  Rich was yet conscious and breathing when the police found him.  But he died later at a hospital.<ref>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/washington-dnc-staffer-seth-conrad-rich-shot-killed-article-1.2707538</ref> It has been reported that Rich's "favorite spot" was Lou's City Bar, where the bar put a plaque at his usual seat, whether temporarily or permanently.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3741754/Father-murdered-DNC-staffer-reveals-son-join-Hillary-Clinton-presidential-campaign-punching-hole-ugly-rumor-Wikileaks-source.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field; http://bloomingdaleneighborhood.blogspot.com/2016/08/at-lous-city-bar-celebrating-seth-richs.html.</ref>

The police were aided in finding the location of the shooting by an auditory system in Washington DC called ShotSpotter.  Rich was yet conscious and breathing when the police found him.  But he died later at a hospital.<ref>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/washington-dnc-staffer-seth-conrad-rich-shot-killed-article-1.2707538</ref> It has been reported that Rich's "favorite spot" was Lou's City Bar, where the bar put a plaque at his usual seat, whether temporarily or permanently.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3741754/Father-murdered-DNC-staffer-reveals-son-join-Hillary-Clinton-presidential-campaign-punching-hole-ugly-rumor-Wikileaks-source.html?login#readerCommentsCommand-message-field; http://bloomingdaleneighborhood.blogspot.com/2016/08/at-lous-city-bar-celebrating-seth-richs.html.</ref>

Soon after Rich's death, Wikileaks released a multitude of emails which indicated that members of the DNC had given favorable treatment to Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary of 2016.  After the Democratic primary, the leader of Wikileaks was interviewed by a Dutch television man; in that interview Julian Assange spoke about the dangers to their sources (whistle-blowers) who give information to Wikileaks.  At about the same time, Assange offered a reward of $20,000 for information concerning the murder of Seth Rich.  But Assange did not directly assert that Seth Rich was the source of the email leaks.  This $20,000 reward followed the reward of $25,000 offered by the Washington DC police.<ref>http://www.jewishomaha.org/jewish-press/2016/seth-conrad-rich/; https://www.facebook.com/kmulka1/friends?pnref=lhc; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3724508/Parents-slain-DNC-staffer-Seth-Rich-ask-help-three-weeks-slain-DC-street.html; http://www.people.com/article/friends-remember-dnc-staffer-seth-rich; http://abcnews.go.com/US/dnc-staffer-killed-wanted-make-difference-family/story?id=40551800; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/10/wikileaks-offers-20000-reward-over-murder-of-democrat-staffer-se/; http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/10/assange-implies-murdered-dnc-staffer-was-wikileaks-source.html. </ref>

Soon after Rich's death, Wikileaks released a multitude of emails which indicated that members of the DNC had given favorable treatment to Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary of 2016.  After the Democratic primary, the leader of Wikileaks was interviewed by a Dutch television man; in that interview Julian Assange spoke about the dangers to their sources (whistle-blowers) who give information to Wikileaks.  At about the same time, Assange offered a reward of $20,000 for information concerning the murder of Seth Rich.  But Assange did not directly assert that Seth Rich was the source of the email leaks.  This $20,000 reward followed the reward of $25,000 offered by the Washington DC police.<ref>http://www.jewishomaha.org/jewish-press/2016/seth-conrad-rich/; https://www.facebook.com/kmulka1/friends?pnref=lhc; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3724508/Parents-slain-DNC-staffer-Seth-Rich-ask-help-three-weeks-slain-DC-street.html; http://www.people.com/article/friends-remember-dnc-staffer-seth-rich; http://abcnews.go.com/US/dnc-staffer-killed-wanted-make-difference-family/story?id=40551800; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/10/wikileaks-offers-20000-reward-over-murder-of-democrat-staffer-se/; http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/10/assange-implies-murdered-dnc-staffer-was-wikileaks-source.html.</ref>

There is also a site called WeSearchR which claims to be collecting reward money.<ref>https://www.wesearchr.com/contact</ref>  As of 7 PM, August 18, 2016, WeSearchR claims to have raised $20,040 to add to the police and Wikileaks reward.<ref>https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/who-murdered-27-year-old-dnc-staffer-seth-rich</ref>  $20,000 of that sum is credited to Mike Cernovich.<ref>https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/who-murdered-27-year-old-dnc-staffer-seth-rich</ref> However, the WeSearchR site has a disclaimer which may indicate that this reward collection is a joke or a scam.

There is also a site called WeSearchR which claims to be collecting reward money.<ref>https://www.wesearchr.com/contact</ref>  As of 7 PM, August 18, 2016, WeSearchR claims to have raised $20,040 to add to the police and Wikileaks reward.<ref>https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/who-murdered-27-year-old-dnc-staffer-seth-rich</ref>  $20,000 of that sum is credited to Mike Cernovich.<ref>https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/who-murdered-27-year-old-dnc-staffer-seth-rich</ref> However, the WeSearchR site has a disclaimer which may indicate that this reward collection is a joke or a scam.

==Controversy==

==Controversy==

As of August 15, 2017, the article on En.wikipedia ("Murder of Seth Rich") had a ''motion to delete'' template on it, delete on grounds of not being notable.  It was so allegedly unnotable that a strong debate was generated there on the talk page and on the Delete Articles section, where editors essentially "voted" to Keep  vs. Delete, allegedly on the grounds of non-notability.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Murder_of_Seth_Rich</ref>  Among the arguments for deleting the article there was a repetitious reference to the talking point "conspiracy theory," though the article said nothing at all about a conspiracy theory.  Also, as of August 17, 2017, the Wiki editor who started this article, was officially blocked by an administrator.  His talk page said:  "You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TradingJihadist</ref>  As of August 21, 2016, the motion to delete was denied on grounds of no consensus, although a derogatory comment was attached attacking some of those who argued in favor of "Keep."

As of August 15, 2017, the article on the English Wikipedia ("Murder of Seth Rich") had a ''motion to delete'' template on it, delete on grounds of not being notable.  It was so allegedly unnotable that a strong debate was generated there on the talk page and on the Delete Articles section, where editors essentially "voted" to Keep  vs. Delete, allegedly on the grounds of non-notability.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Murder_of_Seth_Rich</ref>  Among the arguments for deleting the article there was a repetitious reference to the talking point "conspiracy theory," though the article said nothing at all about a conspiracy theory.  Also, as of August 17, 2017, the Wiki editor who started this article, was officially blocked by an administrator.  His talk page said:  "You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TradingJihadist</ref>  As of August 21, 2016, the motion to delete was denied on grounds of no consensus, although a derogatory comment was attached attacking some of those who argued in favor of "Keep."

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