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...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Could Levene have taken it upon himself to try to burn down the Marini house, as a favor to his friend Jack Wheeler, resulting in a fight when Wheeler objected?
It sure was obvious why he was incensed about the house being built across the street. If the street is ever widened (doubt it will be) the extra footage would have to be from Wheeler's side of the street. His riverview is now light yellow siding.
His street is one-way south/east? from the center of town except the block where his house is is two-way (to allow you back to the cross street after you drive to the dead-end at the river and have to turn around). I can imagine it being very desolate at night. I would also think very quiet.
Would Wheeler have been involved with Mt. Weather???
Levene v. Davidsen et al :: Justia Dockets & Filings
This matter comes before the Court on the Stipulation by All Parties for Entry of Money Judgment in Favor of Joel P. Davidsen Against Andrew Levene and for Dismissal with Prejudice of All Other Claims Herein (Doc. # 23). The Court, being duly advised, hereby ORDERS that a money judgment is entered in favor of Joel Davidsen against Andrew Levene in the amount of $500,000 with interest to accrue thereon from the date of entry at the rate of 8 percent per annum.
I do not have a PACER account, so I cannot get the details, but I did see this. Notes the dates:
Filing 9: ORDER Setting Scheduling Conference for 11/17/2010 11:00 AM in Courtroom C204 before Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix. by Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix on 9/8/2010.
Fast forward to events leading up to Dec 2011. Arrest Warrant. He was an evil man who did not just snap. He planned.
This is where I am conflicted.
One one hand it makes sense. Given what little I know, I could write several scenarios which ended in Jack’s murder. They would all make sense. Was it planned? Was it a crime of opportunity? Did he try to borrow money from Jack? Did Jack refuse and did Levene snap? Was it staged to make it look like Jack snapped (smoke bomb & phone at the Marini house)? That would make sense if Levene knew about the issues between the Marinis the Wheelers.
On the other hand……it makes too much sense. The story about Levene, the murders and his death were already out there. But suddenly an article appears which tries to connect Jack and Levene without offering any evidence other than a common county of residence.
There is not much to be found about Levene on the web. The only background info I have found is what he posted regarding his Army Career. Who knows how embellished it is?
I am not sure what to think.
Thanks for the ping!
thanks for the ping Albion.
a lot of circumstantial evidence coming to the forefront - arson, plane tickets, not-infrequent luncheons, wife in spain, hmmm...hired gun hangs himself?
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/The-mysterious-life-of-Andrew-Levene-3341731.php
The mysterious life of Andrew Levene
Updated 09:13 p.m., Saturday, February 18, 2012
Long article (4 pages), good read,
Unknowns: The Foul, Strange Case of Andrew Levene
February 23, 2012 By Andrew Flaherty
In the last few weeks I had heard the same rumblings around town the News Journal picked up about a connection between accused murderer/potentially spooky commando/recent suicide, Andrew Levene, and John Wheeler, the New Castle-based military defense expert whose mysterious 2010 murder made national headlines.
This curious coincidence reminded me of the poem “The Unknown” by the distinguished poet Donald Rumsfeld:
As we know,
There are known knowns. There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns…
In the weeks following Wheeler’s murder, his bizarre final days were captured on security cameras, showing someone clearly acting in a very odd way. Which raises all manner of questions.
Was he disoriented near the Wilmington train station because of mind control from cell towers? Hmmmm….
He was definitely out of it if after wandering around with one shoe he picked up a hoodie and walked into East Wilmington, known more for violent crime than defense policy.
Were those mysterious bird deaths (over 10,000!) in Arkansas around the time he died part of a Mitre secret military project that Wheeler was going to blow the whistle on? Maybe….
The conspiracy theorists in the blogosphere have it all figured out though… check out all the top-secret facts this Swedish blogger “knows:”
“I suggest that the sanctions (against Iran) have greatly been tightened up by what John Wheeler et al. learned of what Iran was seeking regarding WMD from the laptop that the ICE agents in Operation Shakespeare captured from Amir Aldabili, the faulty information that CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling fed Tehran on how to trigger a nuclear weapon; and the 6.5 earthquake that the NRO caused near Hosseinnab, Iran on December 20, 2010, collapsing the 400-meter deep shaft that the Iranians had to build in order to test any such weapon.”
Whoa.
But back on planet Earth in Delaware….
Why did Wheeler have anything to do with this mysterious Levene — maybe just two former ex-military types talking about classified secret military projects? Can you imagine Wheeler’s luck if Levene got involved in selling his house as he allegedly wanted to?
And what of Levene’s military service? Police in Crested Butte, Colorado, where Levene is suspected of burning down a house in an insurance scam, report he only served four months in the army, and doubted that Levene could become an Army Ranger so quickly.
This contradicts Levene’s numerous social networking profiles, like this one from Tumblr:
“Andrew Levene is a veteran United States Army Ranger who enlisted in 1992. A year after completing basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, Andrew Levene was promoted to the rank of Specialist. Following relocation to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Andrew Levene was promoted again, to Sergeant, and appointed leader of a reconnaissance team for two years…”
So did Levene made all this stuff up? He sounds like the kind of guy the army would distance themselves from whether it was true or not considering his recent meltdown and subsequent suicide (supposedly while he had a cellmate?). Could it be possible that the same guy who was apparently friends with convicted swindler Tony Young (the Chester County man who defrauded many horse country swells) would make up such a shady story?
And if he was creative with his biography, why would someone with hardly any military experience be quoted in a 2001 Washington Post story, about Levene’s professed mentor and superior officer, General Wayne Downing:
“He is an icon in the special operations world,” says Andrew Levene, a former Ranger sergeant who served under Downing’s command. “He is the consummate warrior. He is the one to say, ‘We have to hunt these people down and kill ‘em.”
Is this just sloppy journalism?
Unlike Tony Young, whose bogus backstory was the subject of a 2009 Fortune magazine piece, Levene is a more slippery character. Anyone plotting armed diamond heists after they drop their kids off at Friends School probably trumps a polo playing sociopath like Young.
After almost all of Young’s assets (the massive homes in Pennsylvania and Maine, the big boats, the cars etc.) were in receivership, a Fortune magazine reporter caught up with Young in the driveway of his last remaining property in Palm Beach, Florida, and he seemed confident that he was going to climb out of the shadow of his Acorn Ponzi scam, and finally arise like a phoenix.
The exclusive Palm Beach property was sold about a year ago this week, and Young now has 17 years to try and save his twenty-three cents an hour prison salary to pay back the 21 million dollars owed to his victims.
Twenty-one million dollars may sound like a lot of money, but by my calculations Levene figured out how to generate 1/70 of that amount in a five minute diamond heist! All you have to do is shoot people with no remorse, something that might come easy to a shadowy black-ops vet, like Levene claimed to be, but is harder to reconcile with the four month army-version of Levene.
When a Massachusetts court judgment caught up with Levene a few months before Wheeler was murdered, the walls were closing in on the family (his common-law wife Alicia Alban seemed to be squarely in the middle of many of Levene’s questionable business ventures).
Somehow the money from his alleged two million dollar 2008 rip-off in Colorado was drying up, and they had just sold their Nantucket property for a $300,000 loss, even though they still made a million off of the sale.
Where was all this money going?
I guess it’s no surprise that a jewel thief and a Ponzi schemer aren’t great financial geniuses, but it is strange that both these guys moved to this area around the same time, and within a few years Levene was hanging out in Young’s house. I wonder what they talked about? Levene’s schemes were small potatoes compared to the house of cards Young had constructed, but it’s perversely entertaining to think that Levene was envious of Young’s fake life, and that maybe Young was dazzled by Levene’s tales of military derring-do, each of them thinking that the other someone legitimate.
Insurance companies, contractors, business partners, they all sued Levene and he sued them right back, the whole time living like an international player. “When he was in town, he’d throw his money around,” said one of the guys in Colorado that sued and was then countersued by Levene. “He’d take me and couple people out to very expensive dinners.”
The whole story with the missing $300,000 diamonds from Levene’s fatal jewelry store robbery made me think about Alicia Alban and her expensive Mercedes station wagon and how Jack Wheeler drove a 1993 Oldsmobile. People like Levene and Young really wanted that chateau country lifestyle. But enough to take the chance of robbing a jewelry store and shooting two people? (Oh, and in yet another twist, the poor fellow Levene allegedly killed was said to have training in the Israeli special forces.)
As part-time detective Jeff Lebowski in the “Big Lebowski” explained to his client about the wife’s spending spree, “she wants more, man! She’s got to feed the monkey!” All those dinners and cars must add up.
While Levene and Alban struggled to keep up appearances on Snuff Mill Road, not too far away, there was drama going on in another family: Frank and Regina Marini were being sued by the Wheeler family (John’s wife Kathleen Klyce is co-plaintiff) to stop construction on the New Castle house that ended up blocking the Wheeler’s river view. Wheeler’s cell phone was found in the Marini house after ‘incendiary devices’ there were set off (later revealed to be rodent fumigation bombs) and he was then found dead days later in a Newark landfill. Armchair investigators speculate that it must be someone who knows the Newark area and a person or persons capable of lifting the 225 pound Wheeler into a dumpster.
And is it just a coincidence that Levene up and moved his family to Spain around the same time that Wheeler’s wife revealed that her credit cards had mysterious charges for plane tickets to Spain?
“…there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know”
No kidding.
Hey all, just found this forum today for some reason. All this time I thought I was the only one that was still thinking about this case. Good to know others are still on it after a very long and quiet year. Interesting developments as of late, no?
Thank you Jack!! Watch over us.
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Isn’t Press TV an Iranian news service?
Post 1832 was removed because the site in question includes trutherism.
Good Grief....UFO’s and Aliens are all that’s missing from this article...
What’a waste of time.
Now that is some of the wackiest left-wing tripe I ever read!
Thanks for the laugh!
Wow. I read it before you deleted the post. Wow. Wish you had been faster . . .
Not only that, the link also made my anti-virus program alert me that it had blocked something.
Thank you for your insight. The author, Duff, is quite controversial and not often in a good way. But some kernels may be intact in his spew. I'm looking for any possible connection to the murder of Wheeler.
See post 1839.
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