New information.
Check out # 292 , then # 287 , # 288 , # 289.
Thanks, WestCoastGal.
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 ...
I just logged out and logged back in (which I have done before) and now I am getting my pings, but still not able to see MAIL or go to PREFERENCES.
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.
Thanks, LucyT. What a sad situation. Informative updates.
I don't think I would have been able to post if I wasn't logged in. And yes I did go to the main page and logged back in with my password several times and it did nothing.
I think JimRob has tweaked something because he asked me try now and then reload.
I am now able to see my PINGS, but still not the MAIL or MY PREFERENCES.
:)
New development in mysterious death of John Wheeler
Updated at 10:34 PM today
NEW CASTLE, Del. - January 14, 2011 (WPVI) — New details continue to emerge about the mysterious death of a former White House advisor from Delaware.
Investigators have been trying to figure out John Wheeler’s strange behavior in the days before he died. An email he sent out just a few weeks ago about this house under construction, may offer some insight.
“He was very vigorous in his opposition and was very critical of the parties involved including myself,” said Mayor John Klingmeyer.
Mayor John Klingmeyer is among those who’ve felt the wrath of John Wheeler. He has sued the town and the owners of this property, claiming the construction was illegally approved after a 13 year long battle.
Wheeler sent an email to friends and neighbors just before Christmas. He vents his growing anger over the new house across the street. It blocks his view of the river and Battery Park.
Wheeler says, “The core of Battery Park is dying, because as can now be seen, the huge mansion will dominate the site.”
The deeply patriotic former White House aide goes on to say, “In the very large picture, over history and generations, our country counts on each locality to guard American heritage. Here, in this beloved place, we are failing in that duty.”
“I think it became a major distraction for him, really. It became for him something very compulsive,” said Mayor Klingmeyer.
At one point the mayor had to publically deny a claim by Wheeler that he had a personal relationship with Regina Marini, the property owner.
In his email Wheeler says, “This started when Ms. Marini had her husband illegally knock down the existing historic house. Then Ms. Marini had all the big trees torn down illegally. Ms. Marini just knocked down whatever was in her way.”
Wheeler blames the mayor and the town for not stopping her.
Sources confirm that police are looking into the possibility that Wheeler tried to burn down the house on December 28th.
That was the day before he showed up lost and confused in Wilmington looking for his car, and three days before his body was found in the landfill.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7899464
“Wheeler sent an email to friends and neighbors just before Christmas. He vents his growing anger over the new house across the street. It blocks his view of the river and Battery Park.
Wheeler says, ‘The core of Battery Park is dying, because as can now be seen, the huge mansion will dominate the site.’
The deeply patriotic former White House aide goes on to say, ‘In the very large picture, over history and generations, our country counts on each locality to guard American heritage. Here, in this beloved place, we are failing in that duty.’
‘I think it became a major distraction for him, really. It became for him something very compulsive,’ said Mayor Klingmeyer.
At one point the mayor had to publically deny a claim by Wheeler that he had a personal relationship with Regina Marini, the property owner.
In his email Wheeler says, ‘This started when Ms. Marini had her husband illegally knock down the existing historic house. Then Ms. Marini had all the big trees torn down illegally. Ms. Marini just knocked down whatever was in her way.”
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7899464
Maybe we should e-mail Greta to get back on this story.
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VAN SUSTEREN: When was the last time you had any — when was the last time you had any communication with him?
SCALES: I talked to him about a month ago. We had a — we were talking about some issues related to doctrine. And we communicated occasionally by e-mail. He was my roommate when we were sophomores at West Point. Jack was a star man all four years. That means he was in the top 5 percent of the class. And as his roommate, I was in the top 5 percent of the bottom fifth of the class. And so Jack was responsible for getting me through physics and chemistry. And had it not been for him, I probably would have been a civilian at the end of my sophomore year, Greta.
VAN SUSTEREN: What — well, you’re lucky to have known him then. You — because you — you wouldn’t have had your military career. What was his military career?
SCALES: Jack served honorably in Vietnam. He was — he went to graduate school, of course, after he graduated because those in the top 5 percent had that privilege. Served in Vietnam. He got out of the Army in 1971. As you may recall, Greta, he was the motive force behind the design and the building and the fund-raising for the Vietnam memorial. And it was Jack Wheeler more than anyone else who was — who was a motive force in getting that magnificent memorial built.
And many of us, frankly, in the early ‘80s were opposed to what was then called, you know, the wall. But Jack understood the iconic nature of that memorial, and he was smart enough to figure out how lasting and fitting that memorial would be for generations of veterans. And so his — I believe his great legacy to the nation is the fact that that memorial never would have happened had it not been for the drive and the determination of my good friend, Jack Wheeler.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, so now the weird details and the distressing ones. The Philadelphia Enquirer is reporting that he may have been involved in the attempted arson of a home of his neighbor that he was feuding with. And you hear the bloodshot eyes, may have been disoriented, carrying his shoe. When you read all those bits and pieces of information, what do you think?
SCALES: It’s not the Jack Wheeler I knew. No. Jack was a kind, an intelligent, a very urbane, a very polished, very articulate man, a very empathetic man, a very kind person. Those images — and I just saw some of those images on your screen — that’s just not the Jack Wheeler that I knew.
And I’m saddened by the fact that the images that our viewers will have of this great man are those sad images in that parking garage. No, no. The Jack Wheeler I knew was a much, much, much different man than the person you see in those images, Greta.
VAN SUSTEREN: Is there any sort of suggestion — have you heard from any of your classmates, anybody who’d known him in the last months or anything whether he might have had a drug or alcohol problem and you know, whether he just got himself into a fix and then sort of got a bad robbery or anything like that, or any work-related project that was unusual?
SCALES: No. Look, obviously, I’m not a detective, nor am I a doctor, I just know the man’s character, as do many of my classmates. No, Jack Wheeler, to my knowledge, never abused anything. He was the sort of person who had a very tempered personally. He was very mild-mannered. He was very kind. He had a brilliant intellect. He was extremely empathetic. He had an enormous love for veterans and also for our men and women serving in uniform, and in fact, devoted most of his adult life after he left the military in serving our men and women in uniform. No, all those images that I see, Greta, simply don’t reflect the Jack Wheeler that I knew.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, it certainly is bizarre. We keep getting more information every single day, and it even looks stranger. General Scales, thank you, and hurry back to Washington, sir.
SCALES: I will, Greta. It’s good to see you.
VAN SUSTEREN: Nice to see you.
Around here the varmint bombs they described can only be purchased by a person who had taken a day long course on handling poisons substance...It that true for DE too?
At lot of questions that answers would clear him from the accused attempted fire charges.
Is it possible that he was in that house for some time when he bug-bombed it, was poisoned therein, then became increasingly disoriented as he was seen in these various places, finally to the point where he crawled into this dumpster and died?
It does seem to fit at least the initial lines.
This is interesting but troubling - Had not heard any of this about Jack Wheeler
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-14/john-wheelers-death-his-vietnam-demons/
ping
So who are these "friends and long-time associates"? Guess they're the same "unnamed sources" that give in depth interviews to the media. Did he really suffer from PTSD? Bi-polar? Like someone said previously there are so many questions and no real answers. Very troubling.
New information.
Check out # 292 , then # 287 , # 288 , # 289.
Thanks, WestCoastGal.
BUMP for Jack Wheeler!
A couple of sentences from the article linked.
Known as a “constant emailer,” Wheeler’s Blackberry went dead a little after 5 p.m. on December 28.
Did he stop by the pharmacy on the twenty ninth to get his needed medication, because they had been stolen when his brief case was taken?
Also on the thirtieth when in the law office he asked to borrow money. Had his credit/debit card also been stolen?
I’m with you on that
” Have they proven that it was actually murder or was it death by non violent causes such as suffocation or such?
I have seen or heard nothing that said he was shot, knifed or struck in the head or anything.”
how about a russian style poisoning?
would you put me on this ping list?
thank you
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