The official theory is that the 27-year-old was shot near his D.C. home during a botched robbery. His family has rejected all claims that he was somehow connected to WikiLeaks or murdered because of his work at the DNC, and they've asked people not to politicize their son's death.

But the questions never went away, mostly because so many details surrounding the case are sketchy and make no sense.

Seth was killed less than two weeks before WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of internal DNC emails that literally rocked the 2016 election and exposed the Dems' bitter and ugly internal battle over Hillary and Bernie. As a result, a theory emerged that the emails WikiLeaks released hadn't come from Russia but came from someone inside the DNC. Instantly, Seth's name was tied to that theory. Many believe, to this day, that he was the insider who leaked the emails after his guy, Bernie, was ousted by Hillary. Now, there's never been public proof of that claim, and some people who knew Seth claim he wasn't some disgruntled Bernie Bro.

But then Julian Assange entered the chat, and things got a lot more curious…

Assange did something he never does. He spoke out about a source. He publicly denied that the Russian government or another state actor was his source. Then, during a 2016 interview about the dangers faced by WikiLeaks sources, Assange unexpectedly brought up Seth's murder. When the interviewer asked whether Rich had been a source, Assange fell back on WikiLeaks' policy of refusing to identify its sources. WikiLeaks later offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in Rich's murder, which only ignited the theories ten-fold.

Now, nearly a decade later, a new claim has surfaced, and if it's confirmed, the FBI will have some very serious explaining to do.

Attorney and former journalist Ty Clevenger has spent much of the past decade fighting the federal government for records related to Seth Rich.

Clevenger took to X with a bombshell post. He says a government attorney has told him that several hundred pages connected to Rich might've been discovered inside a hidden room at FBI headquarters. This story is pretty explosive, especially because last year Fox News reported that Kash Patel and his team had located a secret secure room inside the Hoover Building. They found computer drives and thousands of pages stored in "burn bags," which are used for classified material that's supposed to be destroyed. Some of the records were reportedly connected to the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

Maybe Seth was part of that mission.