Mystery Letter,Did hitman kill Federal Prosecutor T. Wales?
By Steve Miletich Seattle Times staff reporter More than four years after the fatal shooting of Seattle federal prosecutor Thomas Wales, the FBI has received an anonymous letter in which the writer claims he was hired to kill Wales. The letter was mailed Jan. 23 from Las Vegas to the Seattle office of the FBI, which is investigating the unsolved slaying. Wales, 49, was killed in his Queen Anne home on Oct. 11, 2001, by an assailant in his back yard. If Wales was killed because of his work, he would be the first federal prosecutor in U.S. history to be slain in the line of duty. The letter writer purports to be a hit man hired by a woman and possibly others to carry out the killing. No motive for the act is given in the letter released by the FBI. FBI officials said they doubt the author’s claims, noting the one-page, typewritten letter was written in the style of a detective novel, contains unrealistic information and provides no details known only to the killer and investigators. But
