From The Christian Science Monitor:
Police: Census worker Bill Sparkman staged his suicide
“Bill Sparkman, the Kentucky census worker found hanged and wrapped in duct tape with the word “FED” scrawled on his chest, concocted the entire scenario as an elaborate ruse to commit insurance fraud, Kentucky police said Tuesday.
Kentucky State Police said the 50-something substitute school teacher and part-time census worker committed suicide. They said he tried to make it look like a murder in an attempt to force two insurance companies to pay out policies that did not cover suicide to his remaining relatives.
Unable to find evidence of foul play and noting that the letters in “FED” were written from the bottom to the top in a way that an assailant would have found difficult to do, police ultimately came to a simple conclusion: “He could’ve stood up, taken the pressure off his neck, and not died,” Kentucky State Police spokeswoman Lisa Durzinski said.”
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Call me a conspiracy nut if you like but I don’t buy this story. I think it’s a cover up. I want to see an autopsy picture to see if the word FED was written or cut into him.
Here’s my theory. An anti-fed type did kill him to send a message. This freaked out the feds who worried it would start a trend. So they faked this suicide story to discourage copycat killers.
Posted by Vixen as News at 10:19 PM CST