Posted on 04/10/2011 11:18:38 AM PDT by smoothsailing
10:16 PM EDT, April 9, 2011
The final, haunting images of Jack Wheeler come from surveillance cameras in various corners of Wilmington, Del.
He shuffles through a parking garage and a downtown office building. He can't find his car and says someone stole his briefcase. He limps from the picture, holding one shoe, and heads into the cold December night wearing a sport coat.
Hours later, his body falls from a garbage truck into a landfill. Authorities determine that the 66-year-old man had been beaten to death.
More than three months later, police still don't know who killed Jack Wheeler or why, or where the murder happened.
Speculation over his death has become a morbid cottage industry. Enter "John Wheeler conspiracy theories" into Google and see what comes up.
Steve Wright owns a sandwich shop in downtown Wilmington near where Wheeler was last seen. Wright doesn't know what happened – other than the publicity was bad for business – but he succinctly sums up all the Internet chatter.
"He worked for the government and he knew too much," Wright said.
Jack Wheeler was a defense consultant, a respected Pentagon insider, a passionate advocate for Vietnam veterans and a valued member of three presidential administrations. At one point, he published an influential paper on biological warfare and was also an authority on cyber warfare, reports say.
Opinionated and driven, he was successful in almost everything he set out to do.
Peninsula residents — make that Peninsula teenagers — saw this potential early on: The Hampton High School Class of 1962 voted their classmate most likely to succeed. A son in a military family, he spent those high school years living at Fort Monroe....
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An ignominious end for a great patriot. We need to keep the pressure on the authorities to get to the bottom of who or what was responsible for this man’s untimely death. Meanwhile, the silence is deafening.
This has to be one of the strangest deaths of a high-ranking government official I’ve read about. Could it have been a random crime?
They dont want to find the ones responsible.It was ordered and we all know it.
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I’m wondering if the man had a stroke? Sudden onset dementia? Don’t know if there is actually such a thing. I just remember my hubbies grandma and her mind just suddenly went at the age of 102. I mean it was over night.
I sadly suspect that he poisoned himself with the vermin control agents he´d evidently been handling. His behavior seems to have gotten odder and odder. He may have crawled into that dumpster deluded that there was something in there he needed, then, God bless his soul, he finally died in there.
This is truly horrible that so little has been done to uncover the truth of how this honorable man died as he did.
Yes, a stroke can cause sudden onset dementia, but if it's severe enough to do that, it would probably impair other neurological functions as well. In Wheeler's case, when last seen alive, although he may have been confused, apparently he could still see, hear, speak understandable words, and walk with a normal gait. That's more consistent with a toxic drug or a metabolic abnormality.
He had the goods on Obama’s birth certificate. They had to snuff him out.
About as weird as that woman burning up in her car in her garage, that was really strange too eh?
Any one making a list?
His wife is convinced it was a professional hit.
Any new information regarding this murder investigation or is it already under a DC rug?
Hey, mama! How you doin’? :-)
It is pretty horrific no matter what, especially for the family. And I agree at 66 it would be kinda young to have sudden onset dementia set in. If it were poison or some kind of toxicity you’d think they could have picked up something on the autopsy though. It’s all very odd indeed.
and then beat himself to death and crawled into the back of a garbage truck?
Might I suggest you read the story?
It’s painfully sad to believe that it looks as though we’re never going to know what really happened to this fine man.
Correct. I would not believe what the government said one way or the other.
Does anyone know what Wheeler was working on or looking into when he died? Was he about to break a story?
Seems like a strange end to man who such a distinguished career.
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