I’m just going to post this link again as it is a pretty good timeline of Jack’s last few days.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/02/usat-who-killed-jack-wheeler-022111/
Residents of New Castle talk about whether Wheeler simply suffered a breakdown, losing his grip on reality and wandering into the wrong neighborhood. Maybe he antagonized the wrong person; maybe a robbery became a homicide.
Others, including some neighbors and friends, say that theory leaves too many unanswered questions. Did dumping a body 15 miles from where Wheeler was last seen indicate that he was killed by a professional, as Wheeler’s wife has speculated? And what about the man who fire-bombed the house across from Wheeler’s? Friends who watched the surveillance video taken in Wheeler’s final hours found it disturbing to see a man known for his sharp intellect in such a bewildered state. Jeff Rogers was close to Wheeler for six decades, since grade school. They double-dated together as teens, attended West Point together, and when Rogers married, Wheeler was his best man. When he saw the tape, some of the physical mannerisms rang true — the arm outstretched during a moment of thought. But the man in the video wasn’t the Jack Wheeler he knew.
“The physical disorientation, the lack of control, walking around with one shoe, none of that was Jack,” Rogers says. “It was completely unlike him. I don’t know what happened, but something happened to him.”
In April, Rogers will be among scores of family, friends and admirers who are expected to attend a memorial service for Wheeler in the chapel at Arlington National Cemetery. They’ll remember a life of achievement, a life well lived. By then, they hope these questions might have answers: What happened to Jack Wheeler?
Also, something I read on the Examiner site - “B. Scott Morris (Wheeler’s new next-door neighbor, who allegedly saw Prometheus launching fiery projectiles into the Marini house) and Wheeler didn’t hit it off in their first conversation. When Morris said at the end “I didn’t get your name,” Wheeler replied “Call me Sally” and walked away.
At first, I thought this was a wrinkle on an old joke featuring the words “Call me Sally,” which I took to mean that Wheeler’s a funny guy.
But here’s the thing. B. Scott Morris played/plays percussion in a band called “Cure for Pain.” It’s a “Morphine” tribute band, (long story) started by Morris’ old friend Jon Monck. Jon Monck plays in several other local bands, too, one of which is called...are you ready for this....”I’m not Sally.”
Puts the “Call me Sally” remark in a different light maybe, eh?
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Makes me think he did background checks on everyone.
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He was at the Nemours Building, a historic, 14-story landmark with shops and a cafe in the lobby, apartments and business suites on the upper floors.
In the midafternoon, police say, several people saw him wandering around the lobby, looking disoriented. They asked if he needed help. Wheeler declined. He went to the 10th-floor offices of the Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz law firm and asked to speak to a managing partner. The firm has no connection to the newly hired Wheeler family lawyer Connolly, and it’s unclear why Wheeler stopped there.
Wheeler didn’t stay long. He left before speaking to the partner, stopping to ask for train fare on the way out of the office.
At around 8:30 p.m., surveillance cameras show him leaving the building. By then, he was wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt, clothing that friends and family say they had never seen on him. As he walked out, he pulled the hood over his head.
(Because the person who walked out at 8:30pm wasn't Jack)