Mr. Lieutenant Quarles Harris, Jr.
His first name was Lieutenant.
“Lieutenant” was a name given to him by his parents, not a rank he attained.
This name was a family (tribal) thing.
Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this, sort of a hypothesis as to what happened to this very successful and intelligent man.
So many things seem odd to me beginning with the TV blaring for 4 days per neighbors, people checking not getting an answer, leaving it at that. Wouldn’t most people have police come for a welfare check if your neighbors TV was blaring for 4 days and didn’t answer the door? The rodent smoke bombs in the house across the street, the lost Blackberry over there. Was that planted? Why the pulled up floorboards in his kitchen along with the boot print? This makes me think he was carrying something in his briefcase that was previously hidden there. Was he followed, was he meeting someone with this information?
Mr Wheeler showing up at the pharmacy asking for a ride, then refusing the cab ? Not sure about how he got to Wilmington in 40 minutes though, must have been a ride - then he shows at the court house parking lot carrying his shoe saying his briefcase had been stolen.
Something happened in those 40 minutes.
I have wondered about the cabbie, he said he didn’t know how his phone number got on Wheeler’s phone but remembers seeing him on two other occasions ? I wonder how many robberies are committed in this area. Are there people who watch for victims who look wealthy like Mr Wheeler with his briefcase?
The next day he has different clothing on - kind of a sweat shirt hoodie jacket (hiding?), spotted in the Nemours building videos. Where did he spend the night, where were the clothes, did someone help him?
And, finally and unfortunately last seen at 8:42 p.m. — Wheeler is picked up on surveillance video leaving the Nemours Building through doors on the 11th Street side. He then continues southeast on 11th Street, walking through the Hotel du Pont valet parking area, crossing over Market Street, and is last seen walking on the west sidewalk of 11th Street, toward the city’s East Side.
Sometime between then and 4 in the morning 12/31 he is murdered.
What are the odds that someone is robbed one day and murdered the next?
It seems to me with the strange behavior of asking for help but leaving before cabs come and refusing help from others plus the change of clothing appears to me that he was trying to hide from someone.
Police several days later ask the cabbie questions about the phone number being on Wheeler’s phone, which means the iPhone was on his person.
More questions than answers.