On Friday, the body of a former Bush administration official who also led the effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., was found in a landfill in Wilmington, Delaware. Police have ruled the death of John P. Wheeler III, 66, to be a homicide.
Newark Police spokesman Lt. Mark Farrall said that Wheeler had not been reported missing before they received a call that a body had been dumped from a garbage truck at the landfill.
Police believe Wheeler's body was dumped into a garbage bin in Newark sometime before the truck arrived to empty it.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Wheeler was last seen traveling on an Amtrak train   from Washington to Wilmington, last Tuesday.Â
Wheeler was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran and served in the Reagan administration as well as both Bush administrations.Â
During the Reagan years, Wheeler served as chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. He went on to found the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program, which helps veterans find jobs. He also helped to create the Earth Conservation Corps during the George H.W. Bush administration. From 2005-2009, Wheeler served as a special assistant to George W. Bush.
Wheeler, a Hampton High School alumnus, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966, and had degrees from both Yale and Harvard.
The Newark Police Department is asking that anyone with information into Wheeler’s murder contact them at 1-800-TIP-3333.
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