Hey Lancey! This case is a real head scratcher.
I’ve thought from the beginning that Jack Wheeler’s ongoing dispute with the Marinis and the monstrosity of a house they were building may have been Jack’s undoing.
And Wheeler’s wife, what a piece of work she is!
It’s very sad, from all I can gather, Jack Wheeler was an honorable man of high character. He didn’t deserve to die the way he did.
This is one of the strangest cases I ever heard of. The oddest aspect of it, IMO, is Wheeler’s behavior during the days before his death. If Hollywood could turn the Amanda “Foxy Knoxy” Knox case into a TV movie, I will be very interested to see what they do with this.
That said, yes, this was a horrible and undignified end for an honorable man.
I don’t know if you remember all the controversy about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial when a Yale architecture student’s “wall” design was selected by a panel of professional judges, but that design turned out to be, in my opinion, an outstanding, near-perfect war memorial. It has basically become a shrine.
“The Wall” coming to fruition was largely the result of a lot of hard work by a relentless and gutsy Jack Wheeler, who supported the original design by Maya Lin against a whole lot of veterans and various political big shots who absolutely HATED it. Reagan’s Interior Secretary even refused to issue a building permit for the memorial because of the public outrage. But Wheeler persisted and made it work, and this nation owes him a debt of gratitutde for that, as well as for his other decades of service.
FRegards,
LH