December 31, 2010. Wilmington, Delaware. The body of 66-year-old Jack Wheeler is discovered in

a trash heap at a landfill, and his cause of death is determined to be blunt-forced trauma. Days

earlier, Jack had left his residence in New York City to travel to Delaware, and numerous eye

witnesses report seeing Jack wanders through the area and displaying erratic behavior, which

may have been brought on by his struggles with bipolar disorder. It is believed that Jack's body

was transported to the landfill after he wound up inside a dumpster, which was picked up by a garbage

truck. But even though investigators believe his injuries are consistent with the homicide,

the exact circumstances of how Jack died remain unclear. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host

Robin Warder, and on today's episode, we're going to be exploring the case which was the subject

of episode 1 of the second season of the Unsolved Mysteries reboot on Netflix, the unexplained

2010 death of Jack Wheeler. The victim in this story led a particularly interesting life,

as he served as a White House A for no less than three US presidents and was involved in a number

of impressive achievements, including the creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,

D.C. But unfortunately, Jack's life would end in a very tragic fashion, as his body was discovered

in a landfill in Delaware after he had spent the past few days frequenting a variety of different

locations, doing a number of things which did not seem to make much logical sense.

Now, before this case was even featured on Unsolved Mysteries, I'd actually received a couple

of requests to cover it on the trail and cold, and while my knowledge about the story was limited,

I didn't know that Jack's death had officially been ruled a homicide, and because of his government

connections, there were a number of conspiracy theories surrounding his death. However,

once the Unsolved Mysteries episode came out, the consensus from many viewers seemed to be that

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