Let's be thankful for small favors: at least Wheeler's death - according to the MSM - is being treated as homicide.
As to the dementia aspect, the purported sightings of the victim in a confused and unkempt state suggest the possibility that he was poisoned. But that doesn't seem to go with the way his body was found coming off a trash truck at a landfill.
Now that Wheeler has been linked to “incendiary devices” planted at the house across the street from his, I think the cops are on a new trail.
He could have had a stroke, medication interactions, etc.
Lots hinges on what drove the Newark police to say “homicide”...and what the tox and autopsy say.
And how’d he get to Newark that night?
The police have so much to work from on this, I’d be surprised if they don’t know what went down, but are just building the timeline and other evidence if there’s a case.