In 2016: the DNC staffer whose murder became a conspiracy magnet
DNC staffer Seth Rich, 27, was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 2016; the still-unsolved case, investigated as a botched robbery, was later engulfed by debunked conspiracy theories.
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