New York – It’s been seven weeks since former Pentagon official John Wheeler suffered a fatal blow, his body thrown in a trash bin and trucked to a landfill where his remains were spotted New Year’s Eve.
And as the weeks drag on, Wheeler’s widow Katherine Klyce and their entire family are having a hard time understanding why authorities haven’t been able to solve the case yet.
Klyce spoke briefly by phone with CNN and it was clear she and her family are becoming increasingly antagonized with the investigation.
“The family is frustrated that information hasn’t been shared with them, incredibly frustrated that as of now, there are no answers about what happened to Jack Wheeler,” family attorney Colm Connolly told CNN.
“Everybody is extremely frustrated,” said Wheeler’s former West Point roommate, retired Army Col. Doug Thornblom.
When a medical examiner announced that Wheeler died of “blunt force trauma after being assaulted,” the family didn’t hear about it from authorities, but from the media, Connolly said.
Newark, Delaware, police did not return calls asking for comment Sunday.
Klyce spent Christmas with her husband at their home in New York. He returned to the Washington, D.C., area December 27. He was seen in and around Wilmington, Delaware, near their second home in New Castle, just before New Year’s.
Klyce was unable to reach her husband on his cell phone during that time. “That just made me madder, ” she told the online magazine Slate. She said the couple was supposed to be in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a wedding New Year’s Eve. She went alone.
The family’s attorney says the Wheeler family is troubled over a possible motive.
“They don’t know if this was a random act of violence or a targeted killing. At times, they think it was deliberate, at times, random, ” Connolly told CNN. Why do they go back and forth? “Because there are so many unanswered questions,” he said. (CNN)
