Ping for those following this case.
How did Wheeler get around? Still too many missing points on his time-line, and indications that maybe the various police agencies are less than communicative between each other.
One more piece to the puzzle, but there still a lot missing.
It's 8:48 AM on the 29th. The cabbie was parked at the Amtrak Station in Wilmington at Walnut and French.
John was going to the DuPont Hotel so I would guess he stayed in DC on the evening of the 28th. Did someone book the DuPont for him?? He complained about the cost.
Did he actually check in??
At 6:00 that same evening, he was near his home.
Some cabbie is like soooooo lying....Which one?? SCOTT
Mitre is saying "0".
Assuming it was a full day meeting...John must have had casual conversations with his cohorts....Something like..."Where are you heading John?"
It's between Christmas and New Years, a time when conversation about "what are you doing" abounds.
I'm betting there were sleeping facilities in DC for any of these folks.
DC Temps-Hi/Lo
1/28 37/29
1/29 45/29
The police have to know when he came through the Amtrak building - they have security cameras everywhere - it doesn’t take 23 days to do that.
They have more than they are telling us for various reasons. If they never release any of it and this isn’t solved, then we can go to the conspiracy theories because of everyone’s silence in this matter.
Everyone in the media has dropped this including Geraldo who had a special hour planned and dropped it only to have a 10 minute rehash of old news on this case. Why?
For those not already pinged; here's your ping to a new Wheeler thread from brityank discussing discrepancies between the stories of two cabbies.
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Wheeler's conversation during the transit from AMTRAK to Hotel du Pont, according to Spence, consisted mainly of stating Hotel du Pont wasn't worth the money it cost to stay there, which resulted in Spence assuming Wheeler might be going to visit someone or eat there instead.
Actually, shouldn't the question be: Did Wheeler stay at the Hotel du Pont that night or ever? And/Or: Did Wheeler have any charges at the Hotel du Pont that night or ever?
ML/NJ
I have not followed this story closely. But I would add a couple of points, speculative at least.
I understand that the family building the house across the road, with an Italian name, ran a garbage collection company, I think in Newark.
Now, I haven’t been in the metropolitan area in some time, but the private carting companies in NYC and nearby New Jersey were run by the Mafia for many years. And the Mafia had many connections with the politicians in the NY/NJ area.
Dumping a body in the trash is an old Mafia custom.
If this were the case, then certainly the police in Newark would be closely connected with the crooked politicians and the Mafia, all scratching each others’ backs. Newark has always been a corrupt place—and probably those other Jersey towns as well.
As I said, this is speculative. But if the Mafia is involved, then the police, the DAs, the politicians, and everyone else is going to be covering for them.
Interesting that this nearly coincides with Eric Holder’s huge raid on the Mafia in that area. Probably a coincidence, but I should think maybe Holder’s raid might shake up politics as usual in the area.
Think the answers here not so mysterious as is made to be, however. Appears the driver, once aware of his pick-up; and less aware or confused by 'time-line' as we all have been somewhere in this story - did go to police and with more referrals to go elsewhere (if true) and eventually shard his info/story. Why would he want to go public - to Media - given that this is a homicide of 'high order' and make himself a link of any kind.
Now his name has been outed and he wants to defend/clear himself as nothing more than a 'driver' who gave Wheeler a ride and nothing more.
That makes more sense to me, than the dramatic colorations and embellishments added, per this story.