The Medical Examiner called it a homicide right away but isn't talking anymore. Did he die as a result of something we've never encountered before? I'm not so sure the family has been told and if they have, they were told not to say anything. Or maybe they know as much as we do.
The day after Christmas – five days before his body was found as it was being dumped from a trash truck into the Cherry Island Landfill in Wilmington – Wheeler sent longtime friend Richard Radez an email expressing concern that the US wasn’t sufficiently prepared for “cyber warfare,” according to The Associated Press.
“This was something that had preoccupied him over the last couple of years,” Radez told the news organization.
Wheeler’s focus on computer warfare, and his ties to Mitre, have already attracted conspiracy theories involving the military industrial complex, but there are plenty of other intriguing details that don’t immediately fit into such a plot.
snip (my note :New Castle PD requested initial home search warrant and conducted search of it. AG Biden followed up four days later with request to have that search warrant sealed. THEN, the additional search warrants were sought and obtained by Newark PD for home, car and cell. AG went back to request those be sealed as well, on the 13th.)
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What’s more, the AP has reported that yellow police evidence tape was seen surrounding two wooden chairs in Wheeler’s kitchen, where several wooden floorboards were missing, even though Delaware police have said the victim’s home is not considered a crime scene. A neighbor, according to Examiner.com, said Wheeler’s television blared continuously in the days preceding his death.
Those details, combined with the fact that someone went to considerable effort to hide Wheeler’s body in a trash dumpster in nearby Newark, Delaware, would suggest the homicide wasn’t a random mugging.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/05/cyberwar_expert_homicide/
Note: I hope the police aren’t as confused as I am at this point - clues point in many direction.
If it had been a simple robbery/mugging murder - usually they don’t take the time to dump body in dumpster. More interested in getting away.