I hesitated posting that but part of her article wound up in Newsweek, so for the sake of presenting everything here - I decided to post it.
I wish his friend whom he was in constant contact who said that John would have the wherewithal to burn that house down and no one would know, if he wanted to.
It seems ‘the friends’ have stopped talking. Never heard an oral word from family which puzzles me. If I were his wife, I would be on every show until the murderer(s) are caught.
The descriptions in this ‘he said she said’ article that I posted are far from what we heard from his buddies early on including General McInerney on Fox News.
New article this morning
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How did it happen?” Maurer asked. “I don’t see how learning what happened could hinder the investigation. They do it all the time. They say he was shot, he was stabbed, he was strangled.”
The absence of information has fueled rampant speculation and conspiracy theories, like the one making rounds on the Internet that claims Wheeler was murdered after threatening to expose a supposed U.S. military test of poison gas that supposedly killed thousand of birds in Arkansas hours after his corpse was discovered.
In part because officials have not released more details, Wheeler’s former classmates in West Point’s class of 1966 who participate in an online forum have been hypothesizing about his disorientation before he died.
Some believe he was stricken by a sudden and severe medical trauma. Others think an enemy drugged him for political or personal reasons, said retired Col. Douglas Thornblom, who monitors the forum and once roomed with Wheeler.
“The theories are going around and around,” Thornblom said.
Thornblom said he believes it might be possible that someone poisoned his old college buddy, thinking he would die, but when Wheeler didn’t succumb to the toxin, an assassin was sent to Wilmington “to finish the job.”
Brown, a former New Hampshire police detective, said he realizes the silence has led many to entertain such scenarios, but stressed that Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Adrienne Sekula-Perlman, who is handling the case, needs time to complete her work.
“I can understand where those concerns lie, but I have checked six or eight times to see if anything can be released ... and she’s not saying a word,” Brown said. “She ruled it a homicide that day. I don’t know what caused her to make that ruling, but it’s obviously something she found.”
Jules Epstein, who teaches criminal law at Widener University School of Law, called it “curious” that authorities won’t reveal more about Wheeler’s death, other than to say they don’t want to compromise the probe.
“Either they are telling the truth and that means there is something interesting and peculiar about the way he died, or they are not telling the truth and there’s something very embarrassing or private” about the nature of Wheeler’s death.
Ralph Begleiter, a former CNN news correspondent and anchor who directs the Center for Political Communication at the University of Delaware, said he’s been surprised by the dearth of information.
“It adds to the mystery,” Begleiter said. “Anytime you have a vacuum of any kind, there’s somebody who will fill that vacuum in a news environment, whether it’s a political story or a criminal case. Somebody is going to come along and speculate.”
In the Wheeler case, and others that captivate the media and the public, law-enforcement officials should consider “filling the vacuum before it gets filled with crazy stuff,” he said.
“Maybe authorities have a responsibility to let the public know which ones are more plausible if they have information that leads them in one direction or the other. It might be helpful to say that there wasn’t an alien landing from the moon and abducting this guy and bringing him to Newark.”