Parking attendant recounts encounter with former Pentagon official
By the CNN Wire Staff
January 6, 2011 -- Updated 0143 GMT (0943 HKT)
Official's death a mystery
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Police work with Amtrak to determine if John P. Wheeler rode train before his death
Wheeler worked part-time as consultant for MITRE Corp. in cyberdefense
Wheeler walked into a ******** asking for a ride on December 29, media say
Police say Wheeler was recorded by a security camera December 30
Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) -- A parking lot attendant in Wilmington described a strange encounter with a former Pentagon official, just two days before his body was discovered in a Delaware landfill.
Iman Goldsborough told CNN on Wednesday that a man she later recognized as John P. Wheeler wandered into the parking garage where she works on December 29 around 6:40 p.m., disheveled and carrying a shoe in one hand.
"'I'm not *****, I'm not *****,'" Goldsborough quoted Wheeler as saying.
The man, who wasn't wearing a coat despite temperatures in the 30s, couldn't remember where he had parked his car, and said his briefcase had been stolen, she recounted. Goldsborough said she doesn't think his car was parked in that garage, because she had never seen him before and she knows most of her customers.
