from the article:
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The police asked if I received a call from an old man, at a certain number, from the intersection of routes 273 and 9, and I think it was the 29th,” Azudze said.
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The call appears to have been made on the same day and from the same shopping center in New Castle — about 10 miles from Newark — where police say Wheeler walked into a pharmacy and asked for a ride to Wilmington, about five miles away. The pharmacist told CNN when he offered to call Wheeler a cab, he left. That was about 6 p.m.
I have to go back...They had a third place that he “resided” in one of the early stories....probably in DC.