by Stephanie Boyd -
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- New clues unearthed in the investigation of the alleged murder of former White House aide John Wheeler, whose body was discovered in a Delaware landfill on New Year's Eve, are deepening the mystery surrounding the case. Reviewing CCTV footage of Wheeler's movements in the days before his death, it appears that the former Pentagon aide seemed to have come unhinged.
On the night of December 29th, Wheeler was captured on surveillance tape, looking for his car in a parking garage. He was visibly unsteady and stumbling as he kept searching - although his car was not there. The next day he was seen at a former DuPont Company building in Wilmington, still appearing disoriented.
William Fleisher an ex-cop who founded Philadelphia's murder-solving Vidocq Society, suggested that 66-year-old Wheeler may have suffered a head or brain injury leaving him disoriented in the days before his death.
"He may have crawled into the Dumpster looking for his briefcase, or simply to get warm," said Fleisher, who runs a Center City investigations firm, Keystone Intelligence Network.
Not surprisingly, Wheeler's defense work has already sparked Internet conspiracy theorizing, including a completely unsupported allegation that Wheeler had classified insight information about the mysterious death of birds in Arkansas.
Fleisher speculated the murder case may not be a murder at all.
The plot thickens.
