Thomas Wales was a 49-year-old Assistant U.S. Attorney living in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood when he was shot through a basement window while working at his computer on the evening of October 11, 2001. He was struck in the neck and torso, taken to a hospital, and died the next day on October 12, 2001. The shooter fired a Makarov pistol fitted with an aftermarket barrel and fled the scene; spent shell casings were recovered and a neighbor reported seeing a lone male fleeing.

Wales had spent 18 years prosecuting white-collar crime and was a public advocate for gun control, which investigators viewed as possible motive. The FBI conducted one of its most extensive investigations; no arrests have been made and a substantial DOJ reward—now over $2 million—remains outstanding. Investigators have treated the killing as a targeted assassination and explored theories including a contract killing. A Bellevue airline pilot whom Wales had prosecuted was treated as a person of interest and had his home searched but was never charged and denied involvement. A woman named Shawna Reid was later indicted for obstruction of justice for lying to a grand jury about what a suspect told her; she pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.

Who in the Seattle area at the time might have information about Wales’s movements or about anyone seen near his home that October evening?