Career federal worker found dead in downtown high-rise

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When Warren Asher Jr. failed to show up to his downtown D.C. office in January 2005, his colleagues grew concerned. Asher, a media analyst at the Office of Property Management, wasn’t the sort of person to miss work without telling anybody. A co-worker stopped by his nearby high-rise apartment at D and 8th Street NW, but no one was home.

When Asher, 57, didn’t show up four days later after a long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, his co-workers panicked.

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