Posted on 01/03/2011 10:05:53 AM PST by maggief
John Parsons Wheeler 3d, a Vietnam veteran officer who served in three GOP Presidential administrations, and who chaired the committee that raised funds from businesses, agencies and prominent Americans to get the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built on the Washington Mall, was found dead in a landfill a few miles from his New Castle Delaware home this weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
sounds like a mob hit.
This is weird.
January 4, 2011????
Man whose body was found in landfill was decorated veteran
“This is just not the kind of guy who gets murdered.”
Oops, typo ... sorry.
That Cheney!... up to his old shenanigans again!.. heheheh...
He was in direct conflict with the radical left on a few issues. He was fighting to return ROTC to college campuses.
damn strange
RIP.
Wonder if his neighbors were in the carting buisness?
Whoa...this is bizarre.
Newark police have identified the body discovered on New Year’s Eve at the Cherry Island Landfill as 66-year-old John P. Wheeler of New Castle.
Wheeler, who lived part time in Old New Castle, worked as a defense consultant and had a long and decorated military career that involved working in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations.
Wheeler also served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which built the wall in Washington, D.C.
His death has been ruled a homicide.
Newark police have had a crime scene unit at Wheeler’s home at 108 West Third St. in Old New Castle all day today, with crime-scene tape roping off the prominent three-story brick home with black shutters.
Friends and neighbors were shocked to learn Wheeler had been murdered.
“This is just not the kind of guy who gets murdered,” said Bayard Marin, a Wilmington attorney who represented Wheeler. "This is not the kind of guy you find in a landfill.”
Wheeler worked in Washington, D.C. and investigators have determined he was on an Amtrak train from Washington to Wilmington on Tuesday, said Newark police Lt. Mark Farrall.
“The last place they can put him is getting off the Amtrak train in Wilmington,” Farrall said.
Neighbor Jeanne Thomas, who lives around the corner from Wheeler’s house on South Street, rented storage space from in a big old red barn behind his house.
“He was wonderful,” Thomas said. “We’re just shocked. He was very humble.”
Wheeler graduated from West Point in 1966 and served in Vietnam. He had a law degree from Yale and a business degree from Harvard, Marin said.
During the Reagan administration, he founded the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, an effort to link war veterans with employment opportunities.
In 2009, Wheeler and his wife Katherine Klyce, filed a lawsuit to stop construction of a home near the parking lot of Battery Park in Old New Castle.
Wheeler and Klyce opposed construction of a new home being built by Frank and Regina Marini. The Marinis wanted to build a two-and-a-half story home across the street from Klyce and Wheeler on the 100 block of West Third Street. It would have blocked Klyce's and Wheeler’s view.
Reckon we ought to see what Tony Soprano over at Liestoppers has been up to over the past few days?
It says his corpse was found in the landfill because he had been stuffed in a dumpster.
The article made it clear that anyone who knew him over the years new he simply was never involved in shady dealings but that a guy like him could not have accomplished what he did without making plenty of enemies.
Could someone have killed him and deliberately stuffed him in the dumpster to make it look like he was a dirty birdy who’d been dealing with gangsters?
“This is just not the kind of guy who gets murdered,” said Bayard Marin, a Wilmington attorney who represented Wheeler. "This is not the kind of guy you find in a landfill.”
Wasn’t he played by a young Eric Roberts in that eighties TV movie about the building of the Vietnam Memorial?
But that character was in a wheelchair. Who am I getting him mixed up with?
I would say look into these people.. Frank and Regina Marini.
bump
Shouldn’t this be in breaking news?
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