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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A man with his money asking for money...Why didn't he just use his debit card or go to his bank....?
IMO his Cards/ID was taken with his briefcase.
His Mission may have been trying to get away from someone instead of going to something. Need to check in the river for his brief case!
Remember, a man and his briefcase is not the same thing as a woman and her purse.
—Dec 24th he is driven to the Wilmington Amtrak train station by his friend and neighbor. He is going to NY to see his wife, and carrying an antique dish as a gift for her in his briefcase.—
Wonder how much the dish was worth, where he bought it, who knew etc. The cabby seemed to know a lot about the comings and going of people - maybe people with money/connections. What else was in that missing briefcase? I have read in one time line that his wallet was said to be stolen along with the briefcase according to Wheeler. He must have carried the cash separately.
Why was he wanting to go to Philadelphia, what is the connection there? He reportedly had $120.00 in cash but left before the cab came. The fare has been reported to be $130.00 to Philly, so did he figure out he didn’t have enough money for the cab?
There are some far out reports about when he was Sec. of AF during the 2007 MinotAFBmissile offline disappearance and more including the stuxnetworm. It could be as complicated as that or as simple as a robbery x2. The big question here is how a man of his intelligence and high level clearances etc. could be so vulnerable to a simple robbery, why would he put himself in jeopardy? The medical issues still linger.
Any new info always appreciated.
First time I've heard about the antique dish and him carrying it in his briefcase. I'd wonder about that... Where did this info come from??
Anyone who moves around like he does learns to carry their wallet, an extra car key, cash in more than one place on his person etc, etc...
We can speculate till we're blue in the face. The only way this is going to get solved is if they let all the info out...and that's not going to happen...because there are three street people...the two cabbies, the dumpster driver...and they'll all cover each others butts. A good example is "I don't know how my name got on his cell phone".
My car got stolen. They popped the lock on my briefcase..saw the business papers...and realized "0" value. Not one pice of paper was out of order. All the cash in my glove compartment and every other item was taken.
What I don't understand...John didn't call his wife. He didn't call a friend. He didn't call Mitre. He didn't go back home.
>>John didn’t call his wife. He didn’t call a friend. He didn’t call Mitre. He didn’t go back home.
I would wager someone spiked him - what kind of drug, who knows, but that walk in the garage, shoe in hand, “I have money”, no fone call made.......
Reminded me of some kids in college way back when.....
Just chalk this up under mysteries - like Porter Goss’s ChiefofStaff in 01, Colby’s canoe accident in the 90’s.....
Deep games, IMO.
The antiques dish info came from the Examiner timeline link I posted earlier this morning.
Also, it was noted that the police identified him soon after finding his body, so he had to have something else on him for identification. I think even fingerprints would take a while.
When you see that time line above, keep in mind some things like they “found” his cell phone at his neighbors home with smoke bombs on Dec 28. If you think that’s far-fetched, then we’re also expected to believe he didn’t notice his cell phone was missing Dec 28, Dec 29, Dec 30, & Dec 31 (he was found dead Dec 31).
We’re expected to believe he dropped his cell phone at his neighbor’s home where he was “planting smoke bombs” and for FOUR DAYS it didn’t occur to him that he dropped it there and it could incriminate him in the “smoke bomb plan”. Oh, and he just walked around for FOUR DAYS afterwards without his cell phone. Yeah, right. And let’s talk about the “smoke bombs” for a second: I never heard of someone EVER planting “smoke bombs” under someone’s house and what would that accomplish anyway?
The “news” is saying that like we all have “planted smoke bombs” under neighbors houses...you know what they mean. I never heard of that in my life! And they’re saying it “in passing”. Did the smoke bombs go off? I guess if smoke bombs went off under a home being built, that’s enough for the builders not to build that house! wtf?
Also, keep in mind the video the police/AP released to the public is obviously NOT from the security camera, but is someone FILMING the security camera. Wait, there’s more: if you look at the time line above, Wheeler was robbed, let go, then killed, and now they’re saying police found work boot footprints in his home. So we’re also expected to believe (I’m just writing what they’re telling us) that some robbers robbed him, let him go, the same or different robbers killed him, then the same or different robbers broke into his home and were walking around. Now this makes sense if the robbers were the same guys in all 3 instances. If they were different, it’s too hard to believe 1 group robbed him, and unconnected 2nd group killed him, and a 3rd yet again unconnected group broke into his home. Is there anything else “nuts” we’re expected to believe? All you have to do is wait for the “real media” reports to come out.
Written at the Examiner link as well from this morning.
Hmmmm..blood on the chairs or other foreign materials like fragments from a rope? Just because the police say his home isn't a crime scene doesn't make it so. I hope they're working hard to find out the truth and are not as confused as we are.
What if he knew his phone was tapped.Maybe he was calling people but just not on that phone.
Yeah - not a crime scene but Biden has the warrants sealed. Hmmm?
Maybe John was on another track in regard to the Wikileak hackings.
My father’s brief case has a place for cards, keys, etc. It also has room for a change of clothes. My son’s has room for a laptop. We don’t know what style briefcase he was carrying....Possibly a small suitcase, since he was going to NYC, DC in his round trip.
BUT I seriously doubt if he would carry his medicine in his pocket. Both dad and son keep meds in “original bottles” as required for crossing state lines in their brief cases if traveling.
Know individuals medicating for both Bi-Polar and similar problems as Jack....The medication are either horse-pill size or they must take multiple doses during the day...Large containers....Nothing easy to keep in a pocket.
I think fingerprints are super quick in this day and age.
We have to remember that he is well known in that neck of the woods...I'll bet he was recognized right away by a cop or maybe even the coroner.
AG Biden on this case, that really scares the crap out of me like Holder and the Black Panthers!!!
Didn’t he try to muzzle Larry Sinclair, hmmm???
It is possible he returned to the house on the 29th—change of clothes—and was returning again on the 30th when he was spotted by the original perp(s). They may have thought he was dead if they knocked him unconscious on the evening of the 28th. Knowing that he recognized them, they killed him on the 30th.
My question is who pointed the finger at him re the “bombs” on the evening of the 28th. 11:00 at night he didn't/couldn't respond. From my understanding they were rodent bombs. Here you must take a class and be certified to buy. Doubt that Jack had done that, but farmers and contractors do. So who pointed the finger at Jack? Who set him up?
Driver’s license attached to a money clip? Fairly common. Take little room in a pocket. We know he had money. Perps were not interested in his money....But took his brief case. Why?
Well, the company he currently worked for is into a lot of biotech stuff - he could have had any number of valuable documents in the briefcase. Some chatter in the blogosphere is really ‘out there’ with various theories on that subject.
If they targeted him for something like what was in the briefcase, they could have taken his wallet just to make it look like the usual mugging. He seemed to have been pushed to the ground hence the dirty pant knees and cuffs on his shirt and the damaged shoe. I wonder where that wound up?
I agree that it’s too far fetched to be a coincidence that all of this just happened to him in the matter of 3 days accidentally. The smoke bombs and whoever fingered him on those is just a smoke screen, I think.
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