Dead in the Driveway

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Regan Wheeler was the last person anyone would expect to be gunned down in his driveway, executed at point blank range. His passions were supporting his family, caring for his elderly mother, and ministering to society’s outcasts as a volunteer prison chaplain. The FBI, GBI, and Regan’s son, a Homeland Security agent, are hoping that a $100,000 reward will shake loose leads to help solve this mystery. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whenever I think of the night that my mom and I have found my dad, I just think of it as
0:11.2	very dark, just all the different lights from all of the response vehicles.
0:19.4	It was the chaos and the confusion and fear.
0:25.3	And at the very center of it is just this knowledge of a huge loss that we suffered.
0:35.2	To me, it feels like we've kind of been stuck in that night for almost 20 years now.
0:50.5	It was late afternoon in Dallas, Georgia, a quiet suburb 45 minutes northwest of Atlanta.
0:57.3	54-year-old Regan Wheeler was just returning home after a visit to help his elderly mother
1:02.7	with some chores on the family farm.
1:05.1	He planned to grab a quick shower then head out to work the night shift at Lockheed
1:08.6	Martin, where he was a flight line inspector.
1:11.0	But when Regan pulled into the driveway of his home, he encountered a threat he couldn't
1:15.7	anticipate or imagine.
1:17.4	He was attacked by a volley of bullets and left to die.
1:31.3	I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, Dead in the Driveway.
1:48.9	It was probably around 730.
1:52.5	We arrived home and we were pulling into the driveway.
1:56.2	And our driveway at that house was very steep, so much so that whenever you were standing
2:02.4	at the bottom of it, you couldn't really see the very top of where the garage was.
2:08.4	And we were pulling up and the headlights bounced off my dad's truck.
2:14.6	And I remember I said, what's Dad doing home?
2:20.4	Rachel Wheeler Dempsey will always remember October 13th, 2005, as the worst night of her
2:26.4	life.
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