Netflix’s new series of Unsolved Mysteries is tackling the death of John ‘Jack’ Wheeler, whose murder remains an enigma.
The chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Wheeler was apparently killed by ‘blunt force trauma’.
The instrumental military expert’s body was found at the Cherry Island Landfill in Delaware on New Year’s Eve 2010.
Nobody has ever been arrested in relation with his death – and the case gets stranger.
Not only is it unclear what caused his death, but Wheeler was seen looking very disorientated and only wearing one shoe in the final moments of his life.
Wheeler was a top Pentagon aide (Image: AFP/Getty Images)
He was seemingly trying to get into a garage, needing to pay a parking ticket – but his car was parked at another car park at the time.
Wheeler also claimed he had his briefcase stolen.
The mysterious man was last seen alive wandering outside several office buildings looking “confused and disorientated”.
And just 14 hours later, his body was found.
The 66-year-old’s erratic behaviour in the lead up to his murder has prompted a number of theories.
Not least from his distraught widow, who insists a hitman was hired to kill her husband.
She said his work at the Pentagon during a decades-long career could have earned him enemies.
Landfill workers found him on New Year’s Eve when a garbage truck containing his body completed its run at the Cherry Island landfill and threw his body out.
He had been put into a dumpster in Newark, Delaware, 12 miles from his home and 15 miles from Wilmington, where Jack was last seen.
His widow told Slate.Com previously: “I think perhaps no one has been on the reward because they’ve already been paid.
“The way they disposed of his body, it’s a miracle anybody ever found it. That just sounds like a pro to me.
“…A man with that experience, it could have been foul play to get some of the secrets he had.”
Wheeler had been special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force during the presidency of George W Bush.
While working at the Pentagon Mr Wheeler wrote a manual on the effectiveness of biological and chemical weapons and recommended that the US should not use biological warfare.
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