On the morning of New Year’s Eve, 2010, workers at the Cherry Island Landfill in Wilmington discovered a body that had just been dumped from a garbage truck. It was identified as Jack Wheeler. Investigators traced the garbage truck’s route back to Newark, Delaware—miles from where he was last seen—and determined his body had been picked up from a commercial dumpster . Conflicting Theories
: On December 29, Wheeler was captured on CCTV at a Wilmington parking garage. He appeared disoriented, wearing only one shoe and clutching the other, while repeatedly telling an attendant that his briefcase had been stolen . [S2E1] Washington Insider Murder
: On the evening of December 30, he was spotted wandering through office buildings in Wilmington, looking disheveled and agitated. A Grim Discovery On the morning of New Year’s Eve, 2010,
: Later, he was seen in a pharmacy asking strangers for a ride to another city. Conflicting Theories : On December 29, Wheeler was
However, the days that followed were marked by increasingly erratic behavior.