Well, the company he currently worked for is into a lot of biotech stuff - he could have had any number of valuable documents in the briefcase. Some chatter in the blogosphere is really ‘out there’ with various theories on that subject.
If they targeted him for something like what was in the briefcase, they could have taken his wallet just to make it look like the usual mugging. He seemed to have been pushed to the ground hence the dirty pant knees and cuffs on his shirt and the damaged shoe. I wonder where that wound up?
I agree that it’s too far fetched to be a coincidence that all of this just happened to him in the matter of 3 days accidentally. The smoke bombs and whoever fingered him on those is just a smoke screen, I think.
Did he have “something” on the family across the street or information on the authorities in the community in that brief case? He didn't feel comfortable in calling the police. Why didn't he trust them?
Just out of curiosity, is the Federal court system for Delaware in Philadelphia? It may be the reason he wanted to go there. Material on the city authorities where he lived...who allowed the destruction of a historic home, trees etc without hearing...Money under the table? Bribery etc.
Am re-reading some of the earlier news releases ANthing stick out in this one?
Dated Jan 4th....ALso check out the comments.