Five More Of John Wheeler's Last Hours Filled In; Delaware Death Still A Mystery

No new information in Wheeler death
Delaware police investigating the mysterious death of a prominent former Pentagon aide, John P. Wheeler 3D, said no new developments surfaced Thursday. "We don't have a suspect, and we don't have a crime scene," said Newark Police Lt. Mark A. Farrall. He said Wheeler, 66, of New Castle, was last seen in Surveillance video at the Nemours Building in downtown Wilmington at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 30. Less than 14 hours later, his body fell from a sanitation truck being emptied at the Cherry Islan...

'Confused' Wheeler Seen Hours Before Killing
Surveillance video places ex-Bush aide inside Office Building just before his death. Military expert John Wheeler was caught on video appearing confused inside an Office Building just hours before his Dead Body was apparently put into a trash dumpster, according to police in Delaware. Wheeler, who served in three Republican administrations, was inside the Nemours Office Building in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the surveillance video shows. "On this video, Mr. Wheeler...

Wheeler Seemed Disoriented Hours Before His Alleged Murder
John P. Wheeler III, the former Pentagon employee who was found dead in a Delaware landfill was apparently wandering around the central business district of Wilmington within a few hours of the gruesome discovery of his body. Witnesses said he was acting erratically, but refused offers of help. A Surveillance tape found by police shows Wheeler wandering in a downtown Office Building around 8:30 p.m., just 13 hours before his body was found. Police said Wheeler seemed very confused in the video. Wheele

Slain lawyer may have tried arson
WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- John P. Wheeler, the former presidential aide found dead in a Delaware landfill, may have tried to destroy a house being built across from his, police said. A police source told The Philadelphia Inquirer incendiary devices were found at the house and evidence has been found linking Wheeler to the attempted Arson. Wheeler had unsuccessfully tried to stop construction of the house on the grounds that it would block the view of Delaware Bay from his house in the hi...

Wheeler Seen Disoriented, Shoeless on Surveillance Tape (VIDEO)
In a Surveillance video shot the day before John Wheeler's body was found in a landfill, the former Republican appointee and champion of Vietnam Veterans appears disoriented and shoeless as he walks the halls of a downtown Wilmington Office Building. Police in Newark, Del., who are investigating what they've deemed a homicide, released Surveillance video of Wheeler walking around the building last Thursday, the day before his body was found in a landfill. In the footage, Wheeler is seen in h...

Heartbreaking Surveillance Camera Footage Brings New Details In Wheeler Murder
Some strange and disturbing details have arisen in the death of John P. Wheeler III, former aide to the past three Republican Presidents. Wheeler’s body was discovered in a Delaware landfill on New Years Eve and his death was ruled a homicide. Now, Surveillance camera footage has surfaced showing a disheveled Wheeler acting erratically in the days before his death. To make matters stranger, it also seemed he may have been involved in an Arson attempt on a neighbor’s house. The videos...

Video: Case of former Bush aide found dead in dump gets weirder
John Wheeler’s body was found last week in a Delaware dump, and that may be among the lesser oddities in the case involving the former aide to three Republican presidents. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that police are investigating Wheeler’s possible role in Arson involving a couple with whom he had been feuding in court. Meanwhile, Fox News shows Surveillance video of Wheeler — the last sighting of him — wandering aimlessly through a Wilmington Office Building not ...

Former Presidential Aide's Murder Mystery Deepens
This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," January 5, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, Fox News HOST: Could mysterious new video help solve the Murder of John Wheeler, a man who worked for three Republican presidents before being killed and dumped in a landfill? The video shows Wheeler in a Parking Garage disheveled and apparently disoriented two days before his body was found. Griff Jenkins is in Delaware with the inside story on the vide...

Video footage shows Wheeler wandering hours before his death
Newark police reported Wednesday that John P. Wheeler III was spotted at 8:30 p.m. Thursday as he wandered through a DuPont Co. building, apparently confused and disoriented — filing in five more hours leading up to the discovery of his body in a Wilmington landfill. The former Pentagon official's body was found about 13 hours later, on New Year's Eve, lying in refuse at Wilmington's Cherry Island Landfill. Law enforcement officials also confirmed Wednesday they are looking into a Dec. 28 ...

Bizarre final days and hours of John P. Wheeler 3d
As more becomes publicly known of the final days and hours of John P. Wheeler 3D, an image is emerging of a man coming unglued. Less than 48 hours before the respected former Pentagon aide turned up dead last week in a Delaware landfill, Wheeler limped into a Wilmington parking garage. Coatless and confused, one of his shoes in hand, he bizarrely inquired about the location of his car, then declined offers of help, witnesses said. A day later, police said Wednesday, Surveillance video captured W...

Wheeler Seen Acting "Erratically" Before Death
WILMINGTON, Del. (CBS/AP) Police in Delaware say they are slowly starting to fill in the final days in the life of John Wheeler III, thanks largely to witness accounts and a plethora of Surveillance cameras dotting the route of the garbage truck that dumped Wheeler's body in a Wilmington landfill - but they still don't know how he died or where. Police say Surveillance video shows the prominent national defense expert confused and disoriented in a downtown Office Building hours before his body w...

The Case of the Murdered Presidential Aide Gets Weirder
It didn't seem like things could get stranger than finding the body of a former presidential aide in a Delaware landfill on New Year's Eve, but appears they have. A police investigation into the Murder of John P. Wheeler, who served in both Bush administrations and the Reagan Administration, revealed that the Vietnam War Veteran exhibited some troubling behavior in the days leading up to his death. "Wheeler appeared increasingly disheveled and disoriented. In various incidents, he was unable to ...

Cops: Former Bush Official Killed, Found in Landfill
© FNC John P. Wheeler III Delaware Police are investigating the apparent Murder of a former Bush official who also championed the fund-raising effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. John P. Wheeler III, 66, was found dead in a Delaware landfill, and his death has been ruled a homicide by Newark, Del., police. They are asking the public for leads in the case. Wheeler's body was found in Wilmington on Friday. According to police, somebody initially r...

Surveillance video shows 'confused' Wheeler
Military expert John Wheeler was caught on video appearing confused in an Office Building just hours before his Dead Body was apparently put into a trash dumpster, police said. Full story Updated 9 minutes ago 1/5/2011 6:54:44 PM +00:00 $380 million jackpot: Winners in Idaho, Wash. A 1966 West Point graduate and Army officer at the Pentagon during the Vietnam War, Wheeler later served the administrations of the last three Republican presidents. During Ronald Reagan's time in the White...

Police: ex-Pentagon official confused before death
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - A prominent national defense expert appeared confused and disoriented as he wandered inside a downtown Wilmington Office Building less than 14 hours before his body was dumped with a load of trash at a nearby landfill, police said Wednesday. John P. Wheeler III refused help from several people who approached him inside the Nemours Building as late as 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Neward Police Lt. Mark A. Farrall said. Wheeler's body was found Friday morning at the Cherry Island ...

Heartbreaking Video of John Wheeler Uncovered
This video that was uncovered of John P. Wheeler is heartbreaking. He was in a Wilmington, Delaware Parking Garage the day before he was found dead. You can see he appears to have been confused, and was limping and holding a shoe in one hand. The attendant who was interviewed said she called the police, but not until the next day when it was too late. She said it seemed like something bad had happened to him. He said he was looking for his car, the woman asked him if he had a parking ticket an...

Bush Official John P. Wheeler Murder Case Deepens
The ex-Pentagon official found dead on New Year's was seen disoriented the day before his body was found. Friends tell Pat Wingert and Christine Pelisek what made them suspect something terrible had happened....

Squatters 'face off' with Sarkozy
French Riot Police have sealed off an Office Building opposite the Elysee Palace where squatters are taunting President Nicolas Sarkozy over housing. A 30-strong group of Students and other Activists moved into the empty Insurance building on the prestigious avenue Matignon late last month. They are calling for more state housing to be built and rents to be capped. The group joke that Mr Sarkozy cannot take a shave now without being reminded by the presence of housing problems. They call themse...

John Wheel murder case becoming stranger by the day
Los Angeles Vietnam Veteran who were saddened by the apparent homicide of one of their own will be surprised to learn that the case is becoming increasingly bizarre. A Parking Lot attendant, Iman Goldsborough, who worked near the New Castle County Courthouse, said she saw John P. Wheeler III last two days before his body was found in a dumpster and that he was unable to find his car. She told Fox News that Goldsborough, who served in three presidential administrations and was a prominent nationa...

Wheeler last seen near lawyer's office (Politico)
A former aide in three presidential administrations who was murdered in Delaware was last seen near the office of a lawyer representing him in a property dispute with a neighbor, police revealed yesterday. John P. Wheeler III, a defense contractor who had worked for presidents George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, was last seen on Dec. 30 at 3:30 p.m. near the Hotel du Pont in downtown Wilmington - about two blocks from the office the lawyer handling his Real Estate case. Informa...

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Ew! After NYC Blizzard Trash Piles Up, Rats Come Out
This is gross. What do people pay taxes for if not the basics like snow and trash removal? Is this part of the union’s Protest? If you’ve walked or driven on many streets in New York City, you know that mountains of snow have been replaced by piles of garbage. As CBS 2′s John Metaxas found out on Wednesday while paroling the stinky streets inside the Mobile 2 Unit, the situation is still pretty bad, a full 10 days after the blizzard hit. “Williamsburg has been forgotten - it&

Video: Tape Shows Bush Aide Before Death
Surveillance video shows an apparently disoriented John Wheeler inside a Wilmington, Delaware office building. The former presidential aide was later found dead in a landfill. Politico Former Bush adviser John P.Wheeler III was behaving erratically and may have tried to set a fire at the home of a neighbor in the days before he was killed, reports Wednesday say . The onetime aide to Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush was found dead on Dec. 31 in a Wilmington, Del., l...

Wheeler spotted on video, reportedly tied to arson
A Delaware Television Station has obtained Surveillance video of former Bush aide John P. Wheeler III two days before his body was found in a landfill. The video shows Wheeler, a Veterans advocate who helped create the Vietnam Veteran Memorial on the National Mall, in a business suit wandering the Parking Lot, searching for his car in a downtown Wilmington Parking Garage. He appeared disoriented and was holding a shoe, an employee told the station. Also, the Philadelphia Inquirer, reported that ...

Video Shows Dead Ex-Presidential Aide Disoriented
New video evidence in the death of Washington defense expert John Wheeler shows a man who was disoriented and disheveled. More Video ...