Rich grew up in a Jewish family in Omaha, Nebraska. Fox News reached a seven-figure settlement with the Rich family in October 2020. In response, the Rich family sued Fox News in March 2018 for having engaged in 'extreme and outrageous conduct' by fabricating the story defaming their son and thereby intentionally inflicting emotional distress on them. Fox News issued a retraction, but did not apologize or publicly explain what went wrong. The investigator stated that he had no evidence to back up the claims which Fox News attributed to him. They requested a retraction and apology from Fox News after the network promoted the conspiracy theory, and sent a cease and desist letter to the investigator Fox News used. Rich's family denounced the conspiracy theorists and said that those individuals were exploiting their son's death for political gain, and their spokesperson called the conspiracy theorists 'disgusting sociopaths'. The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post wrote that the promotion of these conspiracy theories was an example of fake news. Fact-checking websites like PolitiFact, Snopes, and stated that the theories were false and unfounded.

intelligence community's conclusion the leaked DNC emails were part of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It was also contradicted by the July 2018 indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence agents for hacking the e-mail accounts and networks of Democratic Party officials and by the U.S. The 27-year-old Rich was an employee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and his murder spawned several right-wing conspiracy theories, including the false claim, contradicted by the law enforcement branches that investigated the murder, that Rich had been involved with the leaked DNC emails in 2016. The perpetrators were never apprehended police suspected he had been the victim of an attempted robbery.

Rich died about an hour and a half after being shot twice in the back. in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The murder of Seth Rich occurred on July 10, 2016, at 4:20 a.m. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia

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