Delawhere Crime Podcast Niki Vella

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Jack Wheeler was last seen by his wife on December 28, 2010, as he left their home in Harlem by train to return to work in Washington DC. After spending the day in Washington, he traveled to New Castle, Delaware, where he owned a house. This coincided with an apparent break-in at Wheeler's home in New Castle and an apparent act of arson at a construction site across the street. The next day, on December 29, Wheeler took a cab to the Hotel du Pont in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, where he notified his employer by e-mail that his phone and briefcase had been stolen. Curiously, Wheeler did not call the police regarding the break-in or the theft. To make matters even more confusing, Wheeler's phone was found by the police at the construction site across the street from his home after his death, as they were investigating the possible arson attempt. On the evening of December 29, Wheeler was seen at his local pharmacy in New Castle, where he asked several people if they could give him a ride to Wilmington. 40 minutes later, he was captured on tape by a security camera at a parking garage in Wilmington, limping and carrying one of his shoes. Reportedly he was rambling about how his briefcase had stolen. After spending the evening and most of the day of December 30 in the basement of the Nemours Building in downtown Wilmington, Wheeler was captured on camera leaving the Nemours building at 8:30 pm and was last seen walking past the valet station at the Hotel du Pont at 8:41 pm.  How could  a 3 time  Administrative Aid in the White House,  A Vietnam Veteran and a  Decorated West Point Graduate with the HUGEST heart,  disappear and then have his beat up  murdered body found in a landfill 2 days later ?? 





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Dr. Caroline Ekong was full of life in the months before her murder. She was newly married and ready to work less and spend more time with family and on nonprofit work, her daughter said. On October 14th, 2015, she had no idea  or even a clue what her former psychiatric patient, Christopher Frick 21 ,  a man with Schizophrenia and psychosis since he was 4 years of age  was planning. He bought a hunting knife, practiced picking locks and fixated on revenge for being placed  in the Rockford Center, a psychiatric facility in Stanton, Delaware  over  3 years earlier when his parents seeked help  when he assaulted his own family  members and threatened to end his life . She had not treated him or even had any contact with him since 2012. The mentally ill Christopher Frick  knew the lunar phases of the moon and under the cover of darkness  Frick  broke into Ekong's home entered the back door, took off his shoes and went to her bedroom.  He used pepper spray and then brutally stabbed the 55-year-old mother, leaving bloody footprints and stained walls and floors.  Ekong's death also changed the course of her children and stepchildren's lives. Her daughter described her sleepless nights and anxiety after finding her mother dead in their foyer.  And having tell her little brother who was 4 years younger that their beloved Mother was murdered.  "Every time I think about this, my stomach drops, and I want to throw up," she added. "I want to help her, but I can't. I want to make her feel better, but I can't." said Ekongs daughter.  We will always have an empty feeling that she will never be able to attend our weddings or the birth of our children !!  Prosecutors and Judge Ferris Wharton  said Frick knew right from wrong, though, and should not hide behind his mental health as an excuse to avoid  his conviction and so did his defense lawyer and parents. Prosperous reason who was full time student at University of Delaware studying Math & Physics qnde on the Dean's Lists for four years as well as living in his own apartment?? If Fricks and his  incompetent  enabling parents had accepted help from Caroline at Rockford Center, she would still be  alive today.

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On  January 26th, 2007, Paula Grossi, 45,  a beloved  dedicated, loving Mom, Grandmother, daughter and friend entered her Rehoboth Beach home at 12:15 pm after taking her grandson Anthony to daycare,  was shot in the head and killed. Police said the apparent motive was a home invasion by two men who are still unidentified, even though there were two eyewitnesses to the crime. The break-in occurred in the quiet Stable Farm development, near the entrance to Rehoboth Beach, where many homes are not occupied during the winter months. The apparent motive is based on interviews of two people, Paula’s son, Rocco, and a female friend, who has never been identified. Both were in the house at the time of the shooting. Police have never named Rocco Grossi as one of the eyewitnesses, but friends and family identified him as being in the house at the time of the crime. Police said the pair told them two intruders shot Grossi, tied them up, ransacked the house, stole several items and left. Police said they were able to get free within a few minutes and call for help. They were able to provide a description of the suspects, but only enough specific information for a sketch of one suspect.  One of the suspects, who has a series of three teardrop tattoos with a greenish tinge under his left eye, is a white male, about 40 years old, 5-feet-6-inches tall, weighing about 200 pounds. The other white male is 20 to 25 years old, unshaven, 5-feet- 7-inches tall, weighing about 170 pounds.  Now 14 years later this case has never been solved??  

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Anne Marie Fahey's disappearance from Wilmington, Delaware on the evening of June 27, 1996,  literally crushed the innocence of the  City of Wilmington, Delaware!!!  Nothing like this had ever happened  and with it being a small town where everyone knows everyone, it hit like a brick ?? Annie wrote in her diary on April 1996 three months  before she was murdered by Thomas J. Capano: " I have finally brought closure to Thom Capano. What a controlling, manipulative, insecure, jealous maniac. For one whole year, I allowed someone to take control of every decision of my life. "Fahey, 30, a scheduling secretary for Delaware Gov. Thomas R. Carper  seemingly vanished into thin air after having dinner with  Thomas Capano   in a Philadelphia restaurant called Ristorante Paramore.  The last person  to see her, besides Thom  was her waitress at the restaurant.  As several hundred of Fahey's friends, family members and others in a search of the park across the street from her residence !! Where was Annie and why was she with Thomas Capano ?? Meanwhile Thomas Capano  knew  the truth  about  her disappearance?? 



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Annie  Fahey 30,  Delaware Governor Carpers Scheduling Secretary  was always  so neat she folded dirty laundry. Her bed was always made and sometimes she put a mint on her own pillow. That’s why the scene at her apartment made no sense because she was referred to lovingly by family and friends as Anal Annie even lining up her spare change perfectly  . Groceries left out. Shoe boxes scattered across the floor. The bedspread pulled back, but the sheets unwrinkled.  Annie would NEVER leave her apartment that way??   Fahey had last been seen June 27, 1996, dining at a Philadelphia restaurant with Thomas Capano, , a 48-year-old former deputy attorney general from one of the wealthiest, most powerful families in Wilmington. The two had been having a three-year secret affair, which  had been over for almost a year,  after Fahey  now in love with a wonderful unmarried man her age named  Michael Scanlan who also was in love with Annie  heading for wedding bells and babies , wanted to finally get through to Thomas Capano  that it was 100% deniably over !! Little did Annie know that Thomas would never take NO for answer!!  “I finally brought closure to Tom Capano,”  Fahey wrote in her diary in April 1996 , her last entry. “What a controlling, manipuFor lative, insecure, jealous maniac.”  She was never seen again after that night?? 

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