We went through the paper five times this morning and this was the only story that held our attention: Sabrina Tavernise’s report of the discovery, over the weekend, of the body of John P Wheeler III, a man of parts who among other things spearheaded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. In a landfill, being dumped from a garbage truck.

Mr. Wheeler had been involved in a dispute over the construction of a home in his neighborhood, said his lawyer, Bayard Marin, but it was not clear whether that was part of the homicide investigation. Since 2008, Mr. Wheeler and his wife, Katherine Klyce, had been involved in civil litigation to stop the construction of a home near the parking lot of Battery Park in Old New Castle, which the Wheelers claimed was too big. The case remains unresolved in Delaware courts.

“This case has all the intrigue of a murder mystery,” Mr. Marin said. “There’s ongoing litigation, but I would put that pretty far down the list.”

That’s because it is a murder mystery.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 at 10:30 am.