Wikileaks-Linked DNC Staffer Seth Rich: What Happened Before His Death?

Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered back in July, has been the subject of conspiracy theories after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange suggested that Rich was the source of the DNC email leaks, implying that his murder was tied to the Clintons. Such conspiracy theories seemed far-fetched from the get-go given that the details surrounding to Rich’s death pointed to a robbery gone bad. Now, the UK Daily Mail‘s Alana Goodman has conducted an extensively thorough investigation into the series of events that occurred before Rich’s death; they certainly don’t lend to credence to the conspiracy theories.

That night, Rich had been sitting at his usual stool at the sports bar Lou’s City Bar in the Columbia Heights area of Washington, D.C., and was reportedly by himself and depressed because he was “having problems with his girlfriend” Kelsey Mulka. Part-time manager Bernard Warren noticed that Rich was noticeably drunk, which Warren said “was very, very unusual for him.”