By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
The FBI has found strong evidence that a Seattle federal prosecutor was killed in 2001 by a hired gunman, indicating a possible break in a case that has long frustrated law enforcement.
The FBI and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein plan to hold a news conference to discuss the unsolved murder of Thomas Wales, who worked as a white-collar criminal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle.
For more than a decade, agents suspected the involvement of a former Bellevue area airline pilot, the Seattle Times reports.
Now the FBI is investigating a possible connection between the pilot and a “very small group” of people who may have been involved.
The 57-year-old pilot has maintained his innocence.
The news conference will be the first time the FBI has disclosed that multiple people may have involved in the murder.
Wales, 49, was shot several times in the basement of his Queen Anne Home late on the night of Oct. 11, 2001.
