Thx for the ping over here Lucy...
THE CABBIE:
Authorities have also taken Athel Scott, a cab driver, in for questioning after finding his phone number on Wheeler’s cell phone.
Scott says he doesn’t know how his number got on Wheeler’s phone, but he says he does remember seeing him.
“I seen him one day by the Hotel du Pont and one day I seen him at the train station going inside that little store, that’s all I know,” Scott said.
Police are still trying to find out how Wheeler got around after returning to Wilmington on December 28th from Washington, D.C.
He somehow made it to New Castle and back again to Wilmington, while his car sat parked in the garage across the street from the train station.
My question is how does he remember seeing him twice at different locations on different days?
The above information was posted by smoothsailing - I didn’t get a link
To me that seems absolutely plausible. A cabbie would be very familiar with all public destinations in his route, and would also have a memory for the faces of the people in his area -- cabbies need to scan people instantly as to whether they would be a danger in the cab, would want to be driven to a dangerous location, would use drugs in the cab oir try to rob them -- or would be a fast, clean fare, a good tipper going to a good location where there would be other fares waiting.
A man of intelligence and energy like Wheeler, with good looks and quality clothing, would emanate intensity and would be memorable even in passing. Plus, the cabbie himself was a veteran, and would unconsciously respond to Wheeler's military bearing.