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WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after authorities in Washington confirmed an autopsy shows blunt force trauma caused the death of a former aide to the Russian president, Russian officials say they've been requesting information about the probe without results. ... Lesin was a media adviser to Putin who helped found the English-language news service Russia Today.

Cabbie drove Wheeler to Hotel du Pont David Henry WILMINGTON - January 25, 2011 (WPVI) -- Action News spoke with a cabbie who says he left John Wheeler off on a corner in downtown Wilmington two days before he turned up dead in a landfill. It fills another gap in the mystery surrounding Wheeler's bizarre behavior in the days before he died... He says John Wheeler got into his cab at the Amtrak station around 9:00 the morning of December 29th. It was a cold day and Wheeler was wearing just a sportcoat and an open collared white shirt. He...

Source: Wheeler's phone found in home across the street January 6, 2011 WILMINGTON, Del. - January 6, 2011 (WPVI) -- There is no indication that police are close to making an arrest in the murder of National Defense Consultant John Wheeler, whose body was found in a Wilmington landfill last week. But it does seem that they're learning more information day by day. Action News has learned that the police now have Wheeler's cell phone. A source tells us they found it in the house under construction across the street from Wheeler's home in New Castle. Police have been looking...

Police in Delaware are slowly piecing together the details surrounding the death of former presidential advisor John P. "Jack" Wheeler III. It now seems Wheeler spent at least two days wandering the streets of Wilmington disoriented. Police say Wheeler traveled from Washington, D.C., where he worked, to Wilmington Tuesday on an AMTRAK train. He was last seen alive at 3:30 p.m. Thursday near the Hotel duPont parking garage at 10th and Orange streets. Iman Goldsborough, the parking lot attendant, encountered a man she believes was Wheeler on Wednesday night near the intersection where he was last officially seen Thursday. Goldsborough...