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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.

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.