Posted on 01/06/2011 3:26:54 PM PST by smoothsailing
January 6, 2011
WILMINGTON, Del. - January 6, 2011 (WPVI) -- There is no indication that police are close to making an arrest in the murder of National Defense Consultant John Wheeler, whose body was found in a Wilmington landfill last week. But it does seem that they're learning more information day by day.
Action News has learned that the police now have Wheeler's cell phone.
A source tells us they found it in the house under construction across the street from Wheeler's home in New Castle.
Police have been looking into the possibility that Wheeler may have set off smoke bombs in the house last Tuesday night.
Investigators have removed floor boards near the kitchen sink in Wheeler's home and have surrounded the area with evidence tape....
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New clue ping
Hope they are considering that his actions may also be part of someone “framing” him. Making him look quilty of actions that he didn’t do to cover his murderer.
i don’t know if this story can get much more bizarre
Esp. with this new “clue”. I’m not buying it.
Is this a believable clue?
I find this discovery rather convenient.
Secondly, assuming for a minute that Wheeler was stupid enough to plant incendiary devices in the home of a neighbor where he would be on a short list of suspects due to being involved in litigation with them, and assuming he’d be stupid enough to leave his cell phone there if he had done it, how does that end up with him murdered and dumped in a landfill?
Curiouser and curiouser....
Now it sounds like the muggers might have decided to invade the house....thinking he was dead.
Wow...this is so weird....
But still think it was a hit...paid for by the wife.....
I think the cops know a lot more than they are telling.
I think the cops know a lot more than they are telling.
I just read on another news site, that he traveled to NYC to be with his wife for the holidays, even called a friend on the 26th to say he was stuck in NYC because of the storm.
The whole neighbor thing is so amateur. He doesn’t sound like the type of guy who would be sloppy, like leaving his cell phone and the rodent bomb thing is just stupid.
I just read on another news site, that he traveled to NYC to be with his wife for the holidays, even called a friend on the 26th to say he was stuck in NYC because of the storm.
The whole neighbor thing is so amateur. He doesn’t sound like the type of guy who would be sloppy, like leaving his cell phone and the rodent bomb thing is just stupid.
I would hope so.
Maybe a resident of that home just found the phone in the street?
If I had found a phone, then yeah - I’d bring it home. No biggie.
Untill the FBI shows up.
(uh-ohhhh)
Too convenient placement for the cell phone. It’s a distraction.
The cell phone sounds like it was planted to distract.
sfl
The incendiary devices were rodent bombs like you get at Home Depot. Yes, they are flammable but they are problems because when you use one of those bombs, you need to seal the house, closed windows, doors, garage. Looking at this picture you can see the house doesn’t even have windows yet. Even I would know that you could not blow anything up or cause a fire by detonating then in the open...duh.
Just a thought....Had he been hit on the head in that house and the fire started to dispose of his body....Sure hope they are thinking at ALL possibilities.
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