Hadn’t seen this before:
According to ABC News, police have said that a footprint impression from a workboot was picked up by investigators during the search of John P. Wheeler’s home. The workboots, according to police, have a knobby pattern to them, leaving a distinct tread pattern that they were able to pick up when they dusted for prints
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The footprint size obviously has led investigators to assume it wasn’t John’s own workboots, indicating someone was in his home and may have been the individual watching television so loudly, which his neighbor Ron heard the week of Christmas.
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If they stole his brief case, they may have had the key and location of house. Perp could have planted cell phone in house across street and even set off the pest bombs there.
Agreed with your timeline until I saw the information about the work boots in the house. My current revision:
Now think he made it home on the twenty eighth. Was greeted by the man in workboots who played the loud music. Hit on the head, moved to the house under construction or chased perp to the house (where cell phone fell out of his pocket)and was hit on head there. The perp thinking he was dead, tried to light the house on fire with the smoke bombs destroying the evidence/body.
He supposidly called a cab to take him to PA, but didn’t show...or couldn’t show.
What or who was in PA?