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Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

The Murder of Jack Wheeler

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Not Your Mom Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week we are discussing the murder of a highly respected man named Jack Wheeler and the suspicious circumstances that led to his body being found in a landfill in Delaware. You can pre-order Laurah’s book anywhere you get books or get 20% off with code LAYTHEMTOREST at https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Order before October 17 to claim exclusive bonuses! Thank you to this week’s sponsors! Go to Nutrisense.com/MOMS and use code MOMS to save $30 and get 1 month of free nutritionist support. Be sure to tell them you learned about Nutrisense.com from the Moms and Mysteries podcast! Don't wait for the unexpected to happen— join the massive community of pet owners who trust Embrace Pet Insurance to protect their pet. Head to EmbracePetInsurance.com/MOMS and sign up for pet insurance today. Need a new curated podcast, that scratches the true crime itch? Check out True Crime Feed today, wherever you get your podcasts! This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/MOMS today to get 10% off your first month. New merch! Check out Moms and Mysteries Threadless! You can also get new episodes a day early and ad free, plus merch and more at Patreon.com/momsandmysteriespodcast Listen and subscribe to Melissa’s other podcast, Criminality!! It’s the podcast for those who love reality TV, true crime, and want to hear all the juicy stories where the two genres intersect. Subscribe and listen here: www.pod.link/criminality Check-out Moms and Mysteries to find links to our tiktok, youtube, twitter, instagram and more! Make sure you subscribe and rate our show to help others find us! Sources: Livengood, Chad, “Dumped body was…”, The News Journal, 2011 Chase, Randall, “Body of military expert…”, Associated Press, 2011 Bunch, Will and Ransom, Jan, “Ex-USAF aide…”, Philadelphia Daily News, 2011 Livengood, Chad, “Police searching for…”, The News Journal, 2011 Shea, Kathleen Brady and Shifman, John, “Body found in…”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2011 Shea, Kathleen Brady and Shifman, John, “Prominent man, mysterious death”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2011 Lessig, Hugh, “Local ties in Del. homicide…”, The Daily Press, 2011 N/A, “Slain defense consultant…”, Associated Press, 2011 Bunch, Will, “Even with tapes…”, Philadelphia Daily News, 2011 N/A, “Defense expert was…”, Associated Press, 2011 Bunch, Will, “Private eye questions…”, The Philadelphia Daily News, 2011 O’Sullivan, Sean and Parra, Esteban, “New pieces of…”, The News Journal, 2011 Shea, Kathleen Brady, “Wheeler’s death remains…”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2011 Barrish, Cris and Parra, Esteban, “Wheeler was beaten…”, The News Journal, 2011 O’Sullivan, Sean, “Tips on Wheeler…”, The News Journal, 2011 Barrish, Cris, “Police revisit Wheeler…”, The News Journal, 2011 Barrish, Cris, “New clues deepend…”, The News Journal, 2011 Lessig, Hugh, “Who killed Jack Wheeler?”, The Daily Press, 2011 Gaudiano, Nicole, “Wheeler recalled for…”, The News Journal, 2011 Eisler, Peter, “Wife craves answers…”, USA Today, 2011 Barrish, Cris, “Death of Vietnam memorial…”, Gannett, 2011 N/A, “Prominent veteran found…”, UPI, 2011 Beam, Christopher, “Life After Death”, Slate, 2011 Barrish, Cris, “Archives: Random killing or…”, The News Journal, 2011 Volk, Steve, “He helped build…”, The Washington Post, 2017 N/A, “John P. Wheeler III”, Legacy, retrieved 2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast a true crime

0:26.7

podcast featuring myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa hi Melissa

0:30.5

Hi Melissa. Hi M, how are you?

0:32.8

I'm great.

0:33.6

I don't, I want to say something

0:36.2

about how I can't believe it's October,

0:37.7

but I feel like everyone is already expecting me

0:39.6

to say something like that, so I'm really trying not to so let's talk about something else

0:45.1

okay can I tell say something sure I share something my daughter's team they just

0:51.0

won the state championship in their division and they get like

0:54.5

rings it's like so official I'm so excited for them. That's so awesome yeah I know you

0:58.8

text me and told me that I guess over the weekend I feel like I just lose

1:01.6

track of days what day is it even today I know it was just lose track of days. What day is it even today? I know it was just

1:04.4

this past weekend so it wasn't that long ago but it also feels like seven years ago.

1:08.6

Yeah that's so exciting and I know and you have been like the like best volleyball mom like cheering her on for her whole

1:16.8

volleyball journey so like it's so exciting I love it so much it was and all the parents are so

1:21.5

nice so like it was exciting to see each of the girls like how great they all didn't like they played I don't know

1:26.4

It's just like one of those things that like when you're developing like core memories like that will be one for her and I just loved that I got to be there.

1:33.8

Yeah so that's enough sappiness I know I feel like we just get we only really get

1:37.8

happy about our kids like that's like the one thing that both of us were like oh, we just love. Yeah, I started tearing up at the game I was like what's wrong with me like I need to talk to someone? This is a lot but it was amazing. Yeah, so best weekend ever. Yeah yeah congratulations to her and her team that's amazing yeah

1:56.7

so another exciting thing Melissa is that we are going to be delivering our second Bexley box to a local police station soon and we're super super

2:06.4

excited about that. I know we mentioned that we had brought a Bexley box with us to CrimeCon and we were trying to find somebody to give it to.

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