LOL, I don't know if I would have wasted perfectly good eggs on a bunch of smelly, dirty, maggot-infested hippies, but I certainly thank you for messing up their day!!!
Posted on 01/09/2011 8:55:15 PM PST by Albion Wilde
Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) -- Police have found homicide victim John Wheeler's cell phone, according to a taxi driver who was interviewed by investigators this week.
Athel Scott told CNN National Correspondent Susan Candiotti that police told him they found the cab driver's number in the phone of Wheeler, the former Pentagon official who was found dead in a Delaware landfill. He said investigators wanted to know how his number got there. Scott... says he told the police he didn't have any idea.
"I never got a call from the man. I don't know him... He's never been in my cab. I don't know how my number got in his cellphone," Scott says he told police...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I do think that Jack was possibly looking for him and wound up in the wrong office. Because he was a Bush appointee, Jack trusted him. Perhaps Jack knew someone was out to get him and he didn't know who or why.
I just happened to catch a site where he had acted as a divorce attorney and got kudos from the client. These attorneys step out of their specialty occasionally. I had a BIG corporate attorney for my divorce.
Women who marry professional men who travel often must get used to things like this. An acquaintance of mine who was married to a doctor once got left sitting in the car for 4 hours (before the cell phone days) in a strange city. He went to a meeting and then had lunch with a colleague and forgot he had brought her along. Sound abusive? Maybe, but they had many other good things together.
Makes no sense at all that she wouldn't stop everything until she was satisfied that he was okay.
LOL, I don't know if I would have wasted perfectly good eggs on a bunch of smelly, dirty, maggot-infested hippies, but I certainly thank you for messing up their day!!!
I think he went to Wilmington in order to get back to his New Castle home. From everything I've read, Jack loved it there. I think he had an attachment to the home not shared by Klyce, and that appears to have created some tension between them.
You are clinically incorrect in thinking that his medical conditions would necessarily impair his intellect. Some very intelligent, capable and/or responsible people have depression and/or a touch of autism (Asperger's is on the autism spectrum).
Depression in highly intellligent people may also be linked to a high degree of compassion, wisdom and sorrow for the fallen fate of the human race, and is not uncommon in people who have been in the intense situations of military officer training and/or combat, or who have seen dozens of friends (or persons for whom one is responsible) wounded or slaughtered. It may include a high degree of foresight to the point of clairvoyance; friends may think the person is paranoid, but forget to correct their assumptions when the fears come true. Abraham Lincoln is a prime example of this phenomenon, who grieved in advance for his nation, having foreseen that civil war was inevitable. He grieved for the deaths of so many soldiers (he wrote letters to the families of many), and he foresaw his own death.
Wheeler's actions to me have looked like someone who was being pursued and who knew his pursuer. He was trying to elude them and possibly because he believed a "hit" was coming from the sphere of his classified work, was trying to handle the situation on his own, trusting no one -- not the pharmacist, not his neighbors, etc. As a highly placed conservative, he may have understood that a cover-up would be underway shortly, and that no help would be forthcoming. And indeed, authorities have sealed information, stonewalled the family and presented it to the public as a mysterious, unsolved murder about which they are helpless, underfunded and in no particular hurry to resolve.
Asperger's syndrome gives friends and relatives a great deal of frustration and confusion because the Asberger person's actions may seem widely disparate from their intentions -- thus often causes feelings of rejection in the people they love the most; but it also gives a hypervigilance and ability to zone in on details obsessively in order to get things done, or to understand highly complex situations. Jack regularly took on highly complex situations and got things done.
Given these conditions, it is not at all surprising to me that his wife was speaking out of her frustration about his confusing behavior. A woman I knew whose husband had Asperger's said it was like living with an alien. He had several advanced degrees, but acted as if he could not understand simple concepts around the house. He appeared to need to study new concepts in writing before being able to integrate them into his professional activities or personal responses, and would gaze into the distance on hearing new information and make writing motions with his hands as he "processed" it, instead of simply asking another human being, "How so?" or "What do you mean by that?" Yet he has worked for more than 30 years in life-and-death decision-making capacities.
Asperger's is a form of social paralysis that tends to isolate individuals; however, many sufferers of Asperger's and/or autism are great systems thinkers and find that communicating by computer is precise, unemotional and much easier for them than the expectations of spontaneity in relationships and face-to-face communications.
In other words, a nerd. One who communicated mainly by computer, and whose early West Point training imposed the discipline of trying to fit in on the surfaces of socially acceptable appearances. But much more likely to inspire his wife to pity him and learn to put up with him (just go to the damn wedding, with him or without him, since he is frequently out of touch for a couple of days) than to divorce him or to kill him.
You must have missed the paragraphs at the end, in which Mrs. Dill quotes Klyce as saying how much she misses Jack, waits for him to be there, then wakes up to the reality that he will not be there; how she has cried over his death, and so on. Also, in one of my earlier links, she was shown in a video literally bursting into tears when stopped on the pavement by a newsman's question about John's death.
Your recent posts are giving the appearance that you have a serious axe to grind with a) wives or b) Klyce. If she had ordered his murder, don't you think that the Delaware authorities and both levels of the Biden team would have gladly outed her by now, and made headlines by smearing a conservative like Wheeler for managing to die in a seamy vendetta murder?
My last ping was at post 1426. By all means, read all of the thread that you can or have time for. But here are a few of the highlights, from an editorial point of view:
Protect the Bill of Rights offered several links to other sources at post 1,460. What interested me was that politics does indeed make for strange bedfellows. Who knew that the Daily Kos would run an article incensed over the killing, and deeply suspicious of the Wheeler family's lawyer, Colm Connolly? It's the third link in PTBOR's post, titled Corrupt former DE US Attorney is ?assiting? John Wheeler investigation.
Angcat and toldyou both provided a link to the Wheeler case as reported by one of the more conservative news orgs in the UK, The Daily Mail. You can catch the link at post 1469.
Smoothsailing analyzes one of the photos at Wheeler's house here at post 1,472.
Blueplum analyzes a tabloid report here, at 1,477, plus Wikipedia's Wheeler bio at 1,479 and a CNN report that Wheeler took lithium at 1,480.
Smoothsailing provides links at post 1,493 to West Point eulogy pages for Jack Wheeler.
ExTexasRedhead, Smoothsailing, justiceseeker93 and Lancey Howard have all pointed to an excellent case summary from USAToday, with photos and a map, that we cannot post on FR due to copyright issues. I urge everyone to read it. Link to USAToday article at post 1,496.
Toldyou posts a link at post 1,499 to Examiner Criminal Profiles columnist Radell Smith, who takes issue with Katherine Klyce's comments on the case; smoothsailing follows up with Radell's latest article here, at post 1,503.
Brityank posts a compendium of links to Radell Smith analysis at 1,511.
Sacajaweau provided a link to new clues reported by DelawareOnline at post 1,541.
Finally, yours truly casts doubt on the increasing certitude by some posters here that Mrs. Wheeler is the culprit. I'm not ruling anything out but arguments based on false or questionable assumptions. Read Albion Wilde's analysis of Wheeler's depression, Asperger's Syndrome and what it must have been like for Klyce to be married to a person with these conditions at post 1,548 and 1,549.
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I’m trying to make sense of her behavior AND his behavior in the days before he died.
Thanks for the ping. I’ll be back later tonight to catch up and follow your links.
Except now we find out that Dill's kids were staying at Wheeler's house...I'm not sure what to think...And Dill didn't report it right away...and Dill was rummaging...he went upstairs to close the window...didn't see anything stolen...etc etc etc...How would he know in fact??...These old houses sometimes have interesting hiding places etc etc...
And when someone at the wedding said "Where's Jack?"...what did his wife say?? and that's a REAL BIG question that demands an honest answer...especially after she wasn't too concerned about his return call...but the Dill call....
Dill took Jack to the Post Office and picked up a big box..
Someone came forward or something happened to make LE go back to the house in New Castle.
Excellent description of what Jack probably lived and dealt with in his daily life.
He could never have held the positions he did without having a great deal of intelligence and dependability among other requirements.
Thanks so much for recapping the latest all in one post -excellent!!
You have a very respectable ally in none other than Lt. General Tom McInerney...
..."What is disturbing is, this has to be a professional hit job. I got my last email from Jack on the 21st, other people had gotten them on Christmas Day, and he had a very large electronic footprint - he put out hundreds of emails a day, perhaps. He had lots of connections. Most of the well-known correspondents in the DC area knew him, had worked with him. Former Secretary of the Air Force Mike Wynne, he was his civilian assistant and extremely close to him. They were classmates at West Point, along with General Petraeus and others."
"The fact was that his latest expertise was really in cyber-warfare. It was early in his days in the military that he wrote a paper on chemical weapons, but his real and latest expertise was cyber-warfare, in which he helped Mike Wynne and General Buzz Moseley lead the Air Force, of all the services, into that area. And I participated in a number of meetings with, when he went with MITRE, that he had convened, a group of experts. And we discussed cyber-warfare. So that's the area that really he concerns me - he was very, very knowledgeable in that, plus the very high security clearances that he had. That's why I think that the FBI has go to get involved with this and find out who did this."
http://www.foxnewsinsider.com/2011/01/04/lt-gen-tom-mcinerney-on-john-wheelers-death/
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From the beginning, I've thought that the most obvious is probably the most likely, so I havn't subscribed to the McInerney scenario, but rather the mess between Wheeler and the construction project screwing up his beloved view of the Delaware River.
I'm inclined to think Dill is not quite with it...I'm going to guess that Dill picked up the chairs, straightened the pot and maybe tried to clean up the spot from the plant.
I remember from the house pictures...an empty...what I thought was a plant pot on top of the cabinet near the stove...far left in the picture...
I think Dill's story has a contradiction...as to when his kids were at Jacks house...and did "some" come back and trash the place??
I think Dill may be senile.
I was watching what LE carried out this time...couldn’t quite figure it out...but now, maybe the bottom layer was a box which folds...
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