Posted on 01/05/2011 8:12:45 PM PST by smoothsailing
The body of a decorated US Army officer was found dumped in a Delaware landfill on New Years Eve day, a few days after he expressed concern that the nation wasn't adequately prepared for cyber warfare, according to news reports following the bizarre whodunit.
Events surrounding the murder of John P. Wheeler III, who most recently worked part-time for defense contractor Mitre Corporation on cyber defense topics, read like a Tom Clancy novel. The 66-year-old worked for three Republican administrations, was special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, served in the office of the Secretary of Defense, and penned a manual on the effectiveness of biological and chemical weapons, which urged US forces to show restraint.
The day after Christmas – five days before his body was found as it was being dumped from a trash truck into the Cherry Island Landfill in Wilmington – Wheeler sent longtime friend Richard Radez an email expressing concern that the US wasn't sufficiently prepared for “cyber warfare,” according to The Associated Press.
“This was something that had preoccupied him over the last couple of years,” Radez told the news organization.
Wheeler's focus on computer warfare, and his ties to Mitre, have already attracted conspiracy theories involving the military industrial complex, but there are plenty of other intriguing details that don't immediately fit into such a plot.
Among them are revelations that Wheeler was seen on December 29 and 30 in a “confused and disoriented” state in downtown Wilmington. During that last appearance, which occurred some 14 hours before his body was discovered, he was wandering inside an office building a few blocks from an attorney who was handling a contentious lawsuit Wheeler filed to stop neighbors from building a home near his. He refused help from several people who approached him.
A day earlier, he approached a parking garage attendant “wearing a black suit with no tie and only one shoe,” according to the AP report. He carried the missing shoe in his hand and wore no overcoat, despite the frigid temperature. He told the attendant he had been robbed of his briefcase and said repeatedly he wasn't drunk.
To further the intrigue, Delaware police have reportedly found evidence that Wheeler may have been involved in an attempted arson on the same neighbors he was suing. The attempted arson on December 28 came after someone tossed several smoke bombs used for rodent control into the neighbors' house, scorching the floors.
What's more, the AP has reported that yellow police evidence tape was seen surrounding two wooden chairs in Wheeler's kitchen, where several wooden floorboards were missing, even though Delaware police have said the victim's home is not considered a crime scene. A neighbor, according to Examiner.com, said Wheeler's television blared continuously in the days preceding his death.
Those details, combined with the fact that someone went to considerable effort to hide Wheeler's body in a trash dumpster in nearby Newark, Delaware, would suggest the homicide wasn't a random mugging.
The FBI has offered “technical assistance” to the Delaware police, and judging from the facts as they are so far know, they're going to need it. ®
Question about the dates — Jan 2010, or Jan 2011?
I still think it was a random mugging/murder at night while he was wandering the streets.
My money is on the neighbor. Nothing is so infuriating as having someone mess with your attempt to build. Nothing.
I'm thinking the same thing. Plus there's the mob hit scenario involving the neighbor. It's like something out of the Sopranos.
LOL!
You were joking, weren't you?
It would take at least two people to get his body into a dumpster.
And he just happened to be outside the office of the Department of Justice.
Nothing to see here move along...../S
But why the state of confusion?
Perhaps the autopsy report will reveal something about that.
But what about his walking around in a “confused and disoriented” state and the day before wearing only one shoe and no top coat?
I agree. The neighbor did it. I had a rotten neighbor at my previous home. We were at war. He messed with what I built, getting the building inspector on my case. I got my revenge, the building inspector made him remove changes to his house while mine remained. Plus I did more to him, but I didn't kill him! He ended up apologizing but too late.
It would take at least two people to get his body into a dumpster.
The conspiracy folks have spoken a lot about the mysterious deaths in recent years of biological and chemical weapons experts.
I cannot vouch for this source but it does report on some of the deaths and reports on the conspiracy in general.
I remember the reports (2001?) of Dr. Don Wiley disappearance while crossing a bridge spanning the Mississippi River. He had just left a banquet for fellow researchers in Memphis.
LOL - Nah, it would take at least 5 people and a fork lift or crane.
Either that, or someone who knew how to do a fireman's carry. /s
>>>But why the state of confusion?<<<<
Beats me, here’s a link to the Mafia hit version...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2652076/posts
Crazy stuff.
Poison would do that.
Or a heavy dose of radioactivity.
Don’t think this guy drank a gallon of Everclear,
More likely he had the Jersey hit occur.
Friends of Zero maybe?
Wonder if there was evidence someone was tied to them ...like a hostage?
But then the missing floorboards- weird.
Maybe it was a random Arkanci....I’ll have to update the term..
I always wondered if some ex-spooks faked their own “mystery deaths” to achieve a bit of immortal flare.
How many died in various canoeing or sailing accidents on the Chesapeake Bay? Accidents, murder or suicide? No big deal, I just wonder. Why just blow your brains out or hang yourself? Set up a mystery.
Remember the census worker who hanged himself to make it appear to be a “militia lynching?” It was an insurance job, to benefit an heir. So similar things do happen.
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