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(Washington Post illustration; family photo; texts obtained by The Post; Sarah Voisin\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

It felt like a breakthrough.<\/p>\n

Pete Hegseth, then a Fox News host whose clout within Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA movement was on the ascent, had taken an interest in the case of a Navy SEAL commander whose death a decade earlier had left the man\u2019s family shattered and confounded.<\/p>

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\u201cThose pictures are damning for the Navy,\u201d Hegseth said in a text to a friend of the deceased sailor\u2019s family, who in late 2022 \u2014 weeks after Trump announced his bid to return to the White House \u2014 contacted the future defense secretary hoping his cable news platform would spotlight the case.<\/p>\n

Hegseth was referring to photographs from a military investigation of the death of Cmdr. Job Price<\/a>. The 42-year-old was found in his quarters in Afghanistan, a gunshot wound to his head and a service pistol in his hand. Military investigators ruled he had died by suicide on Dec. 22, 2012.<\/p>\n

The family friend, Matt Cubbler, an Army veteran like Hegseth, shared the investigation with Hegseth at the family\u2019s request. Irregularities in the report \u2014 and with the handling of Price\u2019s remains \u2014 appeared to contradict the military\u2019s conclusion, the family has maintained.<\/p>\n

Hegseth, in his message to Cubbler, left little doubt that he shared the family\u2019s suspicions. \u201cNobody \u2014 nobody \u2014 would be caressing their pillow while taking their own life,\u201d his text states. \u201cI agree, it does not add up at all to suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Washington Post illustration; texts obtained by The Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

An investigator assigned to Price\u2019s case ruled out foul play, acknowledging certain \u201cirregularities in the evidence\u201d but describing them as \u201cwithin the realm of possibility\u201d and \u201cnot inconsistent\u201d with his determination that the Navy officer had died by suicide, according to a military report.<\/p>\n

To question that finding, as Hegseth had done privately in his messages with Cubbler, would invoke criminal suspicion of the SEALs under Price\u2019s command \u2014 the only other people with official access to their shared living space \u2014 and imply that there had been a cover-up.<\/p>\n

For a while, it appeared that Hegseth, who had previously <\/b>voiced skepticism of military investigations<\/a>, intended to examine the case in a segment for Fox News or shop the story to another major media outlet, Cubbler recounted in an interview with The Washington Post. His commitment, as Cubbler understood it, was to making sure the story received prominent attention, however he could.<\/p>\n

But despite his validating statements about the death scene photos, the aspiring politician eventually went dark, leaving the Price family devastated and embittered.<\/p>\n

This account is based on a review of hundreds of pages of investigative materials spanning two military inquiries into Price\u2019s death; interviews with family members and others who have reviewed the case; and verified private correspondence between Price\u2019s advocates and both Hegseth and Donald Trump Jr., a family acquaintance who ahead of the 2016 election said that he would use his political leverage to help get new attention on the case if his father became president.<\/p>\n

Cubbler previously discussed Price\u2019s case, including the outreach to Hegseth and Trump Jr., in appearances on at least three podcasts \u2014 \u201cRedacted,\u201d \u201cThe After-Action Report\u201d and \u201cThe Robb Show\u201d \u2014 he said. <\/b>The specific content of the messages has not been previously reported.<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump Jr. was a Price family acquaintance going back decades. (Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Initially, Cubbler recalled, Hegseth appeared bullish about the story. But a review of their text exchanges showed that his enthusiasm seemed to wane after a few weeks, and eventually it became evident that there would be no televised report.<\/p>\n

The two discussed Cubbler writing an opinion piece for FoxNews.com, with Hegseth acting as a liaison to the website\u2019s editors, but for reasons that remain unclear, that effort also went nowhere, their texts show.<\/p>\n

In one of his final messages to Cubbler, dated April 2023, <\/i>Hegseth, though vague and noncommittal, conveyed an openness to \u201chelp another way\u201d in the future. Eventually, though, he <\/b>stopped responding. And despite his role now, leading the Pentagon in an avowedly pro-military administration, members of the Price family say they have received no indication that the case will be reopened.<\/p>\n

The lack of follow-through, they say, feels like \u201cbeing ghosted\u201d by someone who styled himself as an advocate for troops and their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever we think something is going to have a positive outcome, it just gets shut down,\u201d Bronwyn De Maso, Price\u2019s older sister, said in an interview. \u201cWe\u2019ve run into a lot of brick walls, and Pete Hegseth was someone who could have helped us and chose not to, for whatever reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Maso characterized her feelings toward Trump Jr. as ones of disappointment, saying that her late father\u2019s relationship with the president\u2019s eldest son went back decades and that he had held on to hope for years that Trump Jr. would take action on the family\u2019s behalf. <\/b><\/p>\n

In response to several questions that The Post submitted to Hegseth\u2019s office at the Pentagon, his chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, issued a statement noting the recent formation of a \u201cSpecial Review Panel\u201d to examine how the Defense Department conducts investigations and handles other legal matters.<\/p>\n

The statement did not address questions from The Post about whether Hegseth has pursued a fresh look at the Price case since becoming secretary and how he reached a decision on whether to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur servicemembers deserve to have incidents investigated promptly and thoroughly to find the truth,\u201d Parnell said, speaking more broadly.<\/p>\n

A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the issue\u2019s sensitivity, said that at one point last year Hegseth voiced caution about weighing in on sensitive cases like Price\u2019s and a desire to do so with care. It was not clear who was advising Hegseth on the issue.<\/p>\n

Parnell\u2019s statement also downplayed Hegseth\u2019s influence at Fox, saying \u201cSecretary Hegseth was a host on Fox News, not an executive producer, and was not responsible for determining programming.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a brief statement, Fox News confirmed that it never produced an on-air segment or digital article examining Price\u2019s death. The network would not comment further about whether Hegseth discussed the matter at all with his superiors there.<\/p>\n

Trump Jr. did not respond to requests for comment. A person familiar with his thinking, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that the president\u2019s son provided information about the Price case to the Trump transition team after his father\u2019s victory in 2016.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear what, if anything, officials in the first Trump administration did with the case at that time.<\/p>\n

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Cmdr. Job Price and Bronwyn De Maso, his sister. (Family photo)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

De Maso and Cubbler say they remain committed to securing a new investigation that would \u2014 at a minimum \u2014 replace the finding of suicide with an inconclusive determination instead. But they acknowledge feeling disillusioned by the lack of action.<\/p>\n

Both said they have concluded that Hegseth\u2019s public advocacy for other troops<\/a> does not extend to more complex cases like Price\u2019s because, they contend, there is less political upside for him.<\/p>\n

At the time of his death in 2012, Price was commander of SEAL Team 4. He had spent the past four months in and around Afghanistan\u2019s mountainous Uruzgan province. The region was a well-known Taliban hideout that had become a focus for U.S. training with Afghan security forces and relationship-building with local leaders, what the Pentagon called \u201cvillage stability operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Price had completed more than a dozen deployments, including multiple combat tours, but this one was especially tough, sometimes requiring 22-hour workdays, De Maso said. <\/b>Four men assigned to his task force had been killed, one of them SEAL Kevin Ebbert. Ebbert\u2019s death devastated morale and prompted complaints about the team\u2019s leadership, one witness told Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigators who examined Price\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

The investigation also noted that among Price\u2019s personal effects was <\/b>a report about an Afghan girl who had died in an explosion near a U.S. base weeks earlier, although the report on Price\u2019s death does not draw any conclusions about this evidence.<\/p>\n

NCIS ruled the case a suicide. But as Price\u2019s family received more details about his death, they would discover reasons to doubt that determination, Cubbler said.<\/p>\n

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Price was deployed for multiple combat tours. (Courtesy of the family)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The tenor of Price\u2019s emails to his wife were \u201cpositive and upbeat,\u201d a SEAL who was allowed to access the correspondence told investigators, and some had conveyed his plans for the future.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Price, Job Price\u2019s widow, declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Also puzzling to the family: Price\u2019s head was found facing in the direction from which investigators concluded he had been shot \u2014 an unnatural way for his body to settle, and cited among the \u201cirregularities\u201d identified in a separate investigation performed by the SEALs\u2019 chain of command in Afghanistan. Like Hegseth, Price\u2019s family balked at the image of his left arm clutching a pillow, as if he had been asleep.<\/p>

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Perhaps most troubling for his survivors, the command <\/b>report shows that the death scene was left unattended by NCIS officials and was by default under the purview of Price\u2019s unit for nine hours after his body was found. <\/b>The documents show, too, that his body, upon arriving home in the United States, had been washed and dressed in a uniform and skullcap despite it being a critical piece of evidence in a death that remained under investigation. Cubbler and De Maso cited these details as a major concern.<\/p>\n

Members of the Price family were left with the sense that crucial details had been withheld from them, Cubbler said, and they speculated whether <\/b>any omitted information might incriminate members of the SEAL unit and point to a cover-up.<\/p>\n

Before his own death, Harry Price, Job Price\u2019s father, raised the family\u2019s suspicions with Naval Special Warfare Command, the organization within the Navy that oversees all SEAL teams. He received a cordial but noncommittal response. A spokeswoman for the command referred The Post\u2019s questions about the Price case to NCIS.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for NCIS, Jeff Houston, issued a statement defending the agency\u2019s work but declining to address specific questions about the Price case.<\/p>\n

\u201cNCIS death investigations are thoroughly conducted and are reviewed multiple times by panels of senior investigators before a case is determined to be closed,\u201d the statement said. \u201cIndividuals who have information pertaining to new and specific facts that may merit additional investigative steps can provide this information\u201d via a tip line on the agency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

Cubbler had first reached out to Hegseth through a mutual acquaintance, and their correspondence in 2022 and 2023 would eventually include texts, emails and phone conversations, Cubbler said.<\/p>\n

At the time, Hegseth\u2019s influence within the MAGA movement, and his ability to bring about the reversal of government decisions regarding military service members, was well known.<\/p>\n

During Trump\u2019s first presidency, the former Army National Guard officer used his perch at Fox News to advocate for three men at the center of highly publicized war crimes cases, securing presidential pardons<\/a> for each over the objections of some top Pentagon officials at the time and <\/b>military legal scholars who warned that doing so would damage American credibility.<\/p>\n

By April 2023, after <\/b>Hegseth acknowledged to Cubbler that Fox News was not going to run a story about Price, he said, \u201cI hope I can help another way at some point,\u201d the texts show.<\/p>\n

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(Washington Post illustration; texts obtained by The Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Although Hegseth did not elaborate, Cubbler felt the message was clear: A position in government was next should Trump return to the White House. There was widespread speculation that Hegseth \u201cwas positioning himself to get a spot in Trump\u2019s administration,\u201d Cubbler said, \u201cbecause he is loyal and because he was always very positive about Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the second time that a promising connection had offered false hope.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Harry Price had reached out to Trump Jr., who along with his brother Eric Trump had attended the Hill School, a boarding school in Pennsylvania where Price had been associate headmaster. The SEAL\u2019s father hoped that personal connection would matter.<\/p>\n

In a detailed four-page letter, Price <\/b>asked Trump Jr. for help getting his son\u2019s death investigation reopened. The response, sent via email in January 2016, was encouraging.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt certainly seems like there are some oddities here,\u201d Trump Jr. wrote, according to a copy of the message reviewed by The Post. \u201cWhile I am not sure there is much I can do at the moment, if my father ever ends up in a position where he would be able to look into it I will certainly make sure that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Price and his parents. (Family photo)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Trump was elected president less than a year later, but his first term came and went without any movement on Price\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

When Harry Price in 2019 contacted a top Navy official outlining the family\u2019s suspicions about Job\u2019s death, his letter received a cordial but noncommittal response, their correspondence shows.<\/p>\n

Harry Price died in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor my father \u2014 he was the one who had the communication going \u2014 I know that it was just sort of disheartening,\u201d De Maso said. \u201cHe was ghosted. That\u2019s literally what happened, if you get down to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Maso said her family never sought special treatment \u2014 only someone who would take their concerns seriously. They never made a similar appeal to either the Obama or Biden administrations, she said.<\/p>\n

De Maso has sought to carry her father\u2019s effort forward.<\/p>\n

She linked up with Cubbler around 2019. He had been a high school classmate of Price\u2019s before the men joined the military.<\/p>\n

Cubbler, who worked in law enforcement for three decades following his Army stint, agreed to look into the case. But as he investigated, obtaining in 2024 an additional NCIS report that contained ballistics data, gunshot residue data and DNA testing never shared with the family, his curiosity became conviction and then a driving focus, he said.<\/p>\n

The separate investigation overseen by the SEALs\u2019 parent command in Afghanistan contained testimony from one colleague who said that Price appeared weighed down by the recent death of a service member, had been sleeping poorly and had shown a <\/b>\u201cbizarre\u201d detachment in the days before his death. The sailor\u2019s name is redacted in the report.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the New York Times published a lengthy analysis<\/a> of Price\u2019s case that explored concerns <\/b>he was at a \u201cbreaking point,\u201d in the words of one person who spoke to investigators. <\/b>But the physical evidence, and the possibility that the death scene and body could have been compromised, rankled family members and troubled Cubbler, too, once he began to scrutinize the military\u2019s investigative work.<\/p>\n

The ballistics report released to Cubbler showed no conclusive analysis proving that the bullet found at Price\u2019s death scene was the one he had been shot with, he said. Cubbler also homed in on the lack of witnesses who said they heard a gunshot. Only one of his SEAL teammates reported hearing a noise, described in the report as like a wooden pallet dropping.<\/p>\n

Other evidence, including a bullet casing found inexplicably under Price\u2019s body and blood patterns extending in multiple directions, <\/b>indicated to him either the casing or the body had been moved, Cubbler said.<\/p>\n

Hegseth also noted this irregularity in a message to Cubbler following an exchange of close-up autopsy photos in February 2023, suggesting that there had been \u201ca silencer pressed against his head, you can see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Washington Post illustration; texts obtained by The Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The SEAL force\u2019s legendarily difficult entry training and role in high-stakes operations \u2014 such as the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011 \u2014 has helped cement its reputation as one of the United States\u2019 most elite military organizations. Part of the SEALs\u2019 mystique is tied to their self-proclaimed identity as \u201cquiet professionals\u201d and keepers of a cultural \u201ccode of silence<\/a>\u201d that critics say has also provided cover for wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

To Cubbler, who has not publicly accused anyone of foul play, the Price case is yet another story of the secretive SEAL community closing ranks around a questionable narrative.<\/p>\n

Cubbler has spoken frequently about <\/b>John Chapman, an airman and posthumous Medal of Honor recipient whose 2002 death on a mountain in Afghanistan has raised theories about whether a SEAL team left him behind. The SEAL community has consistently denied such allegations.<\/p>\n

Military <\/b>investigations over the past decade have exposed drug use, hazing and other unsanctioned behavior that was shielded from public view by the SEALs\u2019 code of silence, Cubbler said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s a toxic topic, particularly if you\u2019re a pro-military president. You don\u2019t want this kind of s— aired out in public. But it needs to be,\u201d he told the hosts of a military podcast in 2024. \u201cWe can\u2019t fix what\u2019s broken until we do the hard work, until we talk about our skeletons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cubbler said that he is a conservative but that his belief in the Trump administration has sunk \u201cvery low.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Maso, who describes herself as politically \u201cmiddle of the road,\u201d said her \u201ceyes had been opened\u201d to the motivations of politicians through the series of letdowns her family has faced.<\/p>

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\u201cI guess there was nothing in it for them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Aaron Schaffer contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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