Posted on 01/09/2011 8:55:15 PM PST by Albion Wilde
Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) -- Police have found homicide victim John Wheeler's cell phone, according to a taxi driver who was interviewed by investigators this week.
Athel Scott told CNN National Correspondent Susan Candiotti that police told him they found the cab driver's number in the phone of Wheeler, the former Pentagon official who was found dead in a Delaware landfill. He said investigators wanted to know how his number got there. Scott... says he told the police he didn't have any idea.
"I never got a call from the man. I don't know him... He's never been in my cab. I don't know how my number got in his cellphone," Scott says he told police...
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I think I read too much into “after an assault” earlier. I thought it described 2 events. It differentiates blunt force trauma caused by an assault from blunt force trauma caused by being hit by a car, a fall, landing in a compactor, etc.
IOW, a homicide. We were focused on a head injury trying to explain his behavior.It is possible the injuries from the assault were not to the head, but to the abdomen. I have heard it is possible to beat someone without leaving visible injuries. I would imagine it is a earned ‘skill’ which takes us back to was this some sort of hit?
It’s possible he had a work phone and a personal phone.
I do that because I hate them calling me all the time so I turn the work phone off at times. :)
Very odd that when searching this Azuzde’s name will not come up with Jack Wheeler anymore or I’m just not awake yet. (except a link back to this thread from Google)
The 5th and King parking garage WAS where his car should have been parked according to reports OR it was parked at the Doubletree Hotel parking garage which doesn’t make sense to me. Do hotels have long term parking for residents?
I should add I have never seen such terrible reporting as what I’ve seen in this case. There are so many erroneous contradictions out there.
Suggestion: The phone...John provided the workman he hired with one of his phones and a house key and said to call him when he's done. The workman also works on the Marini house.
Was the music playing on the evening of the 28th?? I don't think so....
Here again...If you hear/see something unusual like the music, you don't check??...Especially when you know someone is alone????
But this Azuzde dude didn't come forward until much later...and he gives the impression that he called the cops first...but I don't believe that's true.
Remember, they don't need Jack's phone to track his calls.
Azuzde was the one who responded to pharmacy call. Oddly I find nothing on him except a link back here to post 995
Scott was the one whose phone # was on Jacks phone who said he didn’t know Jack but had seen him at the train station and Hotel du Pont. Police questioned him for 3 hours.
Spence is the driver who said he called the cops first and was the one who said he gave Jack a ride on the morning of the 29th. Giving the media two interviews of his route and drop off at 11th and Orange. Cops didn’t seem interested in him IMO since they told him to come in to station to give report.
The cabbie said he was also the manager...so I kinda think he had to call someone in because he wanted that pickup...and the tip.
That kinda jives with the $120 Jack said he had in his pocket...So did someone give Jack a ride MOST OF THE WAY to Wilmington and he paid them a few bucks? Then he started walking and got robbed....verrrrrrry close to the garage...
That makes some sense.
I’m going back and look at my postings. I’m pretty sure I was the one who originally posted info on the cabbie near the Pharmacy.
earned = learned
(need to clean the keyboard)
I tried googling Azuzde using all kinds of search combos...I can’t find anything...I know it was latr in the game...maybe as much as 2 weeks...
AND THE POLICE TRACED THIS AZUDZE DUDE...
Can someone post this on FR
CNN Justice is the site January 7, 2011
The title is "Exclusive: Wheeler apparently called for a cab to Philadelphia"
Komi Azudze told CNN that Newark, Delaware, police had asked him about a potential fare. Azudze, the taxi company manager, also drives a cab.
“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.
Azudze said he keeps a record of most of the service calls he receives.
“I asked them why they wanted all this information. They told me he was dead, or somebody killed him,” Azudze recalled.
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Newark police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall repeatedly has declined to answer questions about witnesses police are interviewing.
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.
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Azudze said the man called him from a dollar store at about 4 p.m. or 5 p.m. The man did not identify himself which, he said, is not required. He said the customer wanted to be picked up at the store and driven to a Philadelphia train station about 45 miles away.
Azudze drove to the store, but his caller wasn’t there.
“It took me about 20 minutes to get there,” says Azudze. “He didn’t call back or nothing, so I think something happened to him. Usually, people call back to complain if you don’t get there fast enough.”
Azudze, who said the fare would have been about $130 to $140 not including a tip, said he was a bit angry because he drove a long way for a fare that didn’t show up.
SEPTA runs commuter trains from Newark/Philadelphia and beyond and they are under $10. Weekdays TO Phila leave Wilmington 4:44, 5:06; 5:50; 6:02. There are 5 more after that. At that time of day, a cab wouldn't have been much faster than the train either.
And he asked the pharmacist for a ride to Wilmington.
FWIW, from the television coverage on the Philadelphia stations, none have mentioned any anticipated trip to Philadelphia (and they usually throw in the "local" angle if they can).
More questions and suppositions:
Did Jack borrow the phone at the Dollar Store or did he tell the cabbie that’s where he was? Otherwise how would he know where the call came from? Important as to whether he still had his briefcase and phone.
I wonder if he was interrogated by someone in his kitchen? Uncovered the stuff below the kitchen floor boards and removed. Not what they wanted so he was sent to get it or escaped from house. (Bank - safety deposit box?) He is still dazed from harsh and/or physical questioning. He decides to escape wanting to go to Philly. Then changes mind, can’t trust cabbies, can’t use cellphone, somewhere here his briefcase is taken - maybe even before he was allowed to leave home with just #120.00.
Friends or family had been threatened etc. Why go to the law firm specializing in patents on the 10th floor which was one of the last places he was seen before leaving the building? (I doubt he would go to the 10th floor to this specific firm to borrow cab fare) He kept returning to that same area 10th/Orange 11th/Orange duPont, Nemours.
He had really decided he wanted his car! Why?
I think if the Philly story is true, he wanted to get to a train that he wouldn’t be expected to be on. Escape?
Somewhere in this time frame, he changed his mind going to Wilmington. May be thinking cabs couldn’t be trusted either as a way of disappearing??
I can only say if only he had gone to Philly we might not be trying to find out who killed him :(
My Dollar Store doesn't have a phone...and very few outside public phones exist. So how did the Cabbie know he called from the Dollar Store?
Let's specualate: The Cabbie said...Where are you now?? John said the Dollar Store?? Have said right along that John had business in the Plaza. So what did he buy in the Dollar Store? Batteries? Gum?? Not many men in a Dollar Store. I'd say 1 in 10.
I'm sure the Plaza has security cameras.
I'm thinking the Dollar Store statement is a lie...and the 20 minutes is a lie...
Any sign of the name of his Cab Company??"He didn't call back or nothing so I think something happened to him". Strange words...And he even qualifies it further...Usually, people call back if you don;t get there fast enough...etc..Makes no sense at all for this guy to say I was there in 20 minutes...and then do all this qualification stuff..
This guy knows something....There's a Deli and a Restaurant in that Plaza, too. Maybe went in for coffee.
Went to 10th floor and the offices of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz on the 30th (big patent attorneys—biotech, medical, plastics) wanted to talk to the “managing partner. Why?
A mafia joystick.
Syracuse Law school always played a game: "Suppose, suppose....." It's bascially the same game that the police play...Let's play..
Suppose, suppose that they asked this cabbie if he received a call from and older man on December 29th. He says "yes". How did the cabbie know it was an older man?
Why did the police have to track the cabbie down instead of him coming forward?
That is one of the best videos on the Marini and Wilmington locations.
Wherever Jack was supposed to be is absolutely known to police. Jack lives by appointments.
I bet the police know Jack's patterns from his friends including how much sugar in his coffee.
It's these cabbies not coming forward. Scott had seen Jack...not once but twice...but the police had to chase Scott down.
These cabbies must have a brotherhood....I didn't see anything....
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