And a lot of boot prints with something that looks like smears on the floor.
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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sounds like disinformation to me
I understand LE trying to protect the integrity of an investigation. I don't understand why no one seems to be demanding answers.
This Wheeler story has just about died down..I just watch FOX and get the rest on here at Free republic..I do hope someone finds out what happened to Mr Wheeler..It could be anything..His family has the right to know..and that was so sad that he was found in a dump..
And a lot of boot prints with something that looks like smears on the floor.
Thank you for those!
Great pics,maybe someone was working on the pipes.It’s an older kitchen.
I’m way behind on reading things. Maybe this has been addressed, but note that the DNREC one in April is out of order, too. I wouldn’t read too much into it.
No. Fortunately, they are keeping things mum. It's encouraging that they seem to be more interested in catching a perp than indulging the media. Sheriff Dupnik could take a lesson in discretion from these agencies!
It was 11th and Orange. The entrance to Hotel Du Pont is halfway down the block southeast from there, and the entrance has the valet canopy (there's a lot of traffic congestion there), so getting out at 11th and Orange makes perfect sense.
I posted photos and maps of the entrance a while back, if you want to go through my old posts. Sorry I don't have it handy.
We can check if he might have been going somewhere else.
This intersection is between the Nemours building and where he was last reported to be seen on cameras...as he walked past the Hotel Du Pont entrance heading to the northeast.
Where is his attorney Marin’s office?
Here's my map from January 4, showing the attorney's office, the 10th & Orange intersection and the Hotel Du Pont entrance:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2651333/posts?page=62#62
Oh, I just realized that I put links to the StreetViews of the three locations in that post.
Thank you.
The video where he is holding his shoe is at the courthouse parking garage at 5th and King. That's why he interacted with courthouse employees (the Court address is 500 King St) I've been there several times. The way it works, you get a ticket on the way in. When you are leaving, you put your parking ticket into the machine and it tells you the amount, which you pay (I have always used credit card), and then you have 10 minutes to get to your car and exit.
And yes, Colonial has parking areas all over the region.
You were asking about the DoubleTree report. Philly.com (Philly Inquirer/Daily News) and other news outlets were reporting on Jan 5 that his car was found at the DoubleTree. For example, here's Will Bunch's report, which states: "Authorities said that Wheeler's car turned up later at a different parking lot, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Wilmington."
Hope this info helps!
And recall that he’d been at the courthouse earlier in the month, so perhaps that’s why his labored thinking had him go there.
Was the hoodie over his other clothes? Or had he changed. That is one of the key pieces of information, obviously.
Lots of great info - thanks.
Also, he asked the attendant how to get to Front St which is where Amtrak is.
So, he was definitely having trouble assimilating his thoughts. Definite head injury of some kind or drugs given to him etc.
You are evidently not acquainted with the Delaware News-Journal. Such thought is beyond them.
Besides, this wasn't a story to garner pity for drug addicts and pushers...it's low-priority.
Your information is so helpful. Just out of curiosity how far is the SBA? We know he visited that office on the 30th. Does the Y have rooms to rent?
Oddly enough I got turned around on Market St on the Google street view and wound up at Happy Harrys - of course it’s not the one he went to, but was kind of chilling.
I think that's what's going on.
Note that each of the people he encountered reported relatively clear statements, even if labored. Even if he were already in an altered state in the cab, it might not have come across.
People may have psychiatric/neurological conditions--from a CVA, trauma, drugs, whatever--and make statements that seem perfectly valid, while being totally off-base in reality. Note that a statement about getting a ride with his brother would have seemed fine to the person to whom it was said. It's only out of whack when we realize his brother is dead.
So he might very well have had some problem earlier than some people are estimating. I suspect he was already in a different state when he had his conversation with the pharmacist. I suspect that the sandwich shop personnel didn't see anything different but bloodshot eyes; even if he was telling them that he'd just come home from a trip to Harrisburg and was about to visit the Art Museum, it could have been perfectly "normal-sounding" to them.
In fact, he might have been envisioning a mugging just like he envisioned his brother's driving. Perhaps it was his mind trying to make sense of things.
I don't know what happened...I just want to throw out that caution.
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